Donate to Orange Environment
For 43 years, we've been the citizen watchdog for Orange County, NY and the Hudson Valley. Your tax-deductible gift funds the hearings, reports, and habitat work that keep this region livable.
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One-time or recurring. Card, bank, or PayPal balance. Every gift goes directly to protecting clean air, clean water, pollinator habitat, and smart growth across Orange County and the Hudson Valley.
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- 501(c)(3) tax-deductible
- No account required
- 100% volunteer board
Three ways your gift protects Orange County.
Native pollinator habitat
Your gift plants milkweed, asters, and native grasses across Orange County — turning lawns into corridors that feed monarchs, bees, and birds from Warwick to Newburgh.
Clean-water monitoring
Donations fund stream-monitoring kits, outfall mapping, and volunteer training on the Quassaick Creek watershed — building the data that protects our Hudson Valley tributaries.
Anti-sprawl advocacy
Every dollar helps OE review warehouse and data-center permits, testify at Town Board hearings, and push back against the speculative development paving over Orange County farmland.
See what your gift does in Orange County.
Pick an amount below. We’ll show real examples of what that gift funds — habitat, monitoring, and advocacy across the Hudson Valley.
A stream monitored, a hearing attended
- Funds one Quassaick Creek water-quality test kit for a volunteer monitor.
- Sends an OE advocate to testify at a Planning Board hearing.
Examples are illustrative — actual allocation follows board-approved program priorities. Orange Environment is a 501(c)(3); gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
What your gift does in the Hudson Valley.
We're a lean, volunteer-led 501(c)(3). Donations don't pay executive salaries — they fund the actual work of defending Orange County's air, water, and land.
Seeds and signage for one pollinator-corridor yard in the Hudson Valley.
One volunteer stream-monitoring kit for the Quassaick Creek watershed.
One hour of expert technical review on a warehouse or data-center permit filing.
Printed materials and outreach for a public-hearing comment drive.
PayPal giving & membership FAQs
Everything you need to know about supporting Orange Environment securely through PayPal — and why it's the best way to help.
PayPal waives processing fees for verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits like Orange Environment. That means 100% of your donation or membership dues reaches our mission — clean air, clean water, pollinator habitat, and anti-sprawl advocacy across Orange County and the Hudson Valley. No processor cut, no hidden overhead.
Correct. Through PayPal's nonprofit donation program, we pay zero transaction fees on qualifying gifts. This is why we ask supporters to use the PayPal link rather than mailing a check or using other payment apps — it keeps more of your dollar working locally.
Yes. Orange Environment, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Both one-time donations and membership dues are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. PayPal will email you a receipt immediately, and Orange Environment will send a dated acknowledgement letter within about two weeks for your records.
A donation is a one-time or recurring gift of any amount. A membership is an annual or monthly dues payment that makes you an official member with voting rights at our annual meeting, advocacy alerts, event discounts, and a tax acknowledgement. Both use the same secure PayPal checkout.
Yes. On PayPal, tick 'Make this a monthly donation' and enter the amount you'd like to give each month. Monthly gifts are our most reliable source of funding — they let us plan hearings, technical review, and pollinator work across the full year.
No. PayPal accepts credit cards, debit cards, and bank transfers without requiring an account. Just click the PayPal link, choose 'Pay with Debit or Credit Card,' and complete your gift in under a minute.
Email us at info@orangeenvironment.org or visit our contact page. We're a volunteer-run organization, so please allow a few business days for a response. We'll make sure your gift is acknowledged and your membership is recorded correctly.
Support a Hudson Valley environmental nonprofit
Orange Environment, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charity founded in 1982 to protect the natural character of Orange County, New York and the surrounding Hudson Valley and NY/NJ Highlands. If you live in Newburgh, New Windsor, Warwick, Goshen, Middletown, Cornwall, Chester, Montgomery, Wallkill, or anywhere between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, this is your local green nonprofit.
Your donation supports on-the-ground work most people never see: reviewing warehouse and data-center permit filings line-by-line, submitting expert testimony at Town Board and Planning Board hearings, mapping outfalls in the Quassaick Creek watershed, giving away native milkweed, and training the next generation of Hudson Valley environmental activists.
If you've been looking for a regional environmental group to give to — one that spends your dollars on advocacy and habitat rather than overhead — this is the place. Donate securely with PayPal in under a minute.