Gathering Waters’ community of supporters is amazing!
When we tallied results from Giving Tuesday, we couldn’t believe it.
On December 2, 2025, you and fellow supporters raised more than $26,500 for land conservation! It marks a milestone as the best Giving Tuesday to date in Gathering Waters’ history!
Gathering Waters’ community came together to support the mission to protect land and work to save state funding for land protection.
We are deeply grateful to the generosity of people like you who want to safeguard Wisconsin’s land, water, and wildlife.
We also want to extend a special “Thank You” to the donors who established the Giving Tuesday matching fund. They challenged others to join them to raise an additional $13,000 to help convince lawmakers to renew state funding. Their leadership inspired others to give and double the impact of every gift.
We are so grateful for your dedication to land protection. It keeps us motivated.
- With your support, we’ll continue to meet with legislators in the Capitol and take them on tours of properties protected by land trusts. We’ll help lawmakers understand how state funding for land conservation benefits their local communities.
- Your support will ensure our elected officials hear how new rules and restrictions added to the state funding program would hinder land protection projects.
- And you will help provide information that allows our legislative champions to stay alert to language changes, so restrictive amendments added to bills at the last minute don’t make it harder to protect land.
Your support will help convince lawmakers to vote for state funding for land protection, which will help protect more land in the future.
As a thank you to our supporters who participated in Giving Tuesday, we gave away three YETI tumblers through a random prize drawing. Congratulations to the following winners:
- Patricia H.
- Scott F.
- Jeff M.
We hope you enjoy your prizes!
The fight for conservation isn’t over. But with your support, we’re stronger than ever.
Together, we’ll keep pushing forward until Wisconsin’s land, water, and wildlife have the protection they deserve.
Whether you volunteered with your local land trust, forwarded Giving Tuesday messages to friends and family, or made a gift to help protect Wisconsin’s land, water, and wildlife—thank you!
You made Giving Tuesday 2025 a success!
If you missed Giving Tuesday, you can still make a difference for Wisconsin’s land, water, and wildlife with a special year-end gift at gatheringwaters.org/donate. Your generosity will help land conservation get off to a strong start in 2026.
We hope you can take some time and get outside to enjoy some of the special places you have helped protect!
If you’d like the latest news about state funding for land protection through the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, visit knowlesnelson.org.