Introducing the Perennial Giving Fund
This new fund is your opportunity to have a direct and immediate impact on our ability to build a team of agroforestry experts, adapt to changing conditions, and improve our operations to continue transforming agriculture now and into the future.
Learn More About the Perennial Giving Fund
The Perennial Giving Fund is our most flexible fund that supports Savanna Institute’s greatest needs.
Your support helps us:
Build and Retain a Team of Experts
Attracting top tree crop breeders, ecosystem scientists, technical service providers, and other agroforestry professionals to accelerate research and support more farmers.
Adapt and Respond
Optimize Core Operations
Other Ways to Give
Gifts of Land/Property
We’re honored to be considered in this type of giving and are uniquely qualified to steward such gifts in ways that honor your legacy and longstanding commitment to the land. Contact our Executive Director to learn more about how to arrange your gift of land and what that entails.
Planned Giving/Bequests
Gifts of Stock
If you would like to donate by check, please make checks payable to:
The Savanna Institute
2453 Atwood Ave.
Suite 209
Madison, WI 53704
Giving FAQ
SI lays the groundwork for widespread agroforestry – one of the most hopeful solutions for drawing down carbon. In addition to carbon drawdown, agroforestry practices help farmers diversify and increase income, restore natural habitats for wildlife, produce healthier crops, and restore water and soil quality.
Through interdisciplinary efforts of research, education, outreach, and commercialization we’re working to transform agriculture in the midwest and addressing the climate crisis.
Our work is rooted in the Midwest, because our knowledge is rooted in the midwest. We believe agriculture should learn from and reflect the land its practiced on, not the other way around.
When we look at the most problematic agricultural practices globally, many of them can be traced back to midwestern practices like monocropping – which depletes soil, pollutes water, and increases insects and pests (thus increasing the need for pesticides and fertilizer) – being forced into other environments.
If we can fix what went wrong here, in one of the major breadbaskets of the world, we’re hopeful we’ll be able to share that knowledge beyond the midwest in ways that help repair and restore land, air, water, and profitability for farmers the world over.
Unless otherwise specified, your gifts to the Savanna Institute support the Perennial Giving Fund, which funds our greatest needs and provides flexibility so we can adapt to changes in government and other institutional funding.
The Perennial Giving Fund helps us run a more efficient and effective organization, and allows our specialized scientists and technical service providers to focus on research and direct support for farmers instead of finding and managing grants.
When you give to the Perennial Giving Fund, you’re supporting our entire organization, not just a specific project, and there’s nothing that has a greater impact or further reach!
We developed the Perennial Giving Fund with input from our supporters, and are always happy to hear your feedback and talk more about why this fund is so vital to our work. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact our Development Department.
Of course! Many of our donors choose to fund projects or programs directly and we’re happy to honor those requests. To make a restricted gift, contact our Development Department.
Great question! Many companies will match employees’ philanthropic giving, doubling or even tripling your impact at no added cost to you! To find out whether your company has a matching gift program and how to take advantage of it, talk with your HR department and then be sure to let us know when you give that you’re enrolled in matched giving.
Yes! As a 501(c)3 organization, all gifts made to the Savanna Institute are tax deductible to the full extent as determined by the IRS. Learn more here.
The Savanna Institute relies on a combination of private donations, grants, government funding, and program generated revenue. You can see more about our funding in our Perennial Report.
You can contact our Development Department with any giving related questions.
