Patagonia funds grassroots environmental activist organizations through corporate, retail and wholesale grant programs focused on local habitats and frontline communities. View Patagonia's website for more information.
Patagonia's mission is to support environmental action by funding grassroots organizations, protecting local habitats, strengthening frontline communities, and advancing responsible business practices.
Patagonia is an outdoor apparel company with a long-running environmental grantmaking program. Its corporate, retail and wholesale grant streams support small grassroots activist organizations with direct-action agendas and strategic campaigns to preserve and protect the environment. Patagonia prioritizes groups working on root causes of environmental problems, local habitats, frontline communities and long-term change, with Canadian organizations generally fitting within the corporate or retail grant pathways depending on scope and location. In the funding ecosystem, Patagonia is distinctive because it funds advocacy-oriented environmental work that many public funders avoid or cannot support. Its grants can help community groups organize campaigns, build public awareness, defend ecosystems, protect watersheds, support Indigenous and frontline leadership and challenge harmful practices. By pledging a portion of sales to grassroots organizations, Patagonia connects consumer revenue to environmental civil society and provides flexible capital for risk-taking campaigns.
