Donate Your Time
Spend an hour cleaning a shared space, helping a neighbor, supporting an organization, or completing another useful community project.
We do not accept monetary donations.
Improve Your State does not solicit or accept financial contributions from the public. If you want to support our mission, keep your money and use what you have to make something better where you live.
What You Can Give
Your community needs more than money.
Everyone has something they can contribute. A meaningful donation can be an hour of your time, a useful skill, a few supplies, or simply the willingness to notice a problem and do something constructive about it.
Donate Your Skills
Use the abilities you already have to help others or contribute to a project where those skills can make a practical difference.
Donate Resources
When appropriate, provide useful supplies or needed items directly to a community project or organization that has confirmed a need for them.
Donate Your Effort
Notice something that could be better, make a realistic plan, and put in the effort needed to leave your community a little better than you found it.
Our Charitable Mission
Community improvement should begin in the community.
Improve Your State exists to encourage and facilitate voluntary community service and civic engagement and to provide people with information, guidance, and resources that help them identify, plan, perform, and document useful community projects.
That is why our approach to donations is intentionally different. We would rather see your available resources used to buy cleanup supplies, collect items that a local organization actually needs, help someone in your neighborhood, or support another worthwhile project directly.
Ready to make a donation?
Keep your wallet in your pocket. Find a need in your community and donate something even more valuable: your time and your effort.