Your Gift Helps Save Bees and Educate the Next Generation
Support bee education with a one-time gift. Your contribution can help a school plant a pollinator garden or give a participating beekeeper the tools to show students a living colony.
Choose your one-time gift to support bee education
Choose a one-time gift below. To explore recurring gifts and other ways to give, visit our main donation page. For independent information about our nonprofit, view our Save The Bees USA profile on Candid.
Programs Your Support Can Help Fund
A garden gives students a place to observe native bees. An enclosed hive lets them watch honey bees build comb and care for their colony. These two Save The Bees USA programs give students a way to learn from the bees in their community.
Beekeeping Education for Schools
Through our Observation Hive Program, participating beekeepers use enclosed hives to introduce students to honey bees. Classes can observe a colony up close and ask the beekeeper how it works.
Pollinator Gardens in Schools
Our Pollinator Garden Grant helps schools and communities buy plants and garden materials. For example, fifth graders at St. Anthony Catholic School in San Antonio planted flowers in their campus habitat with support from a garden grant.
School and community projects your support could make possible
These are examples of work a school, youth group, or community partner could propose. Each would depend on local interest, funding, and a plan for delivery.
Youth Beekeeping Equipment Kits
Support for protective gear and basic tools could let a youth group try a supervised introduction to hive care. An educator and participating beekeeper would help decide what the group needs.
Community Beekeeping Workshops
A community workshop could give families a chance to ask local beekeepers about bee behavior, habitat, or hive care. Teaching materials and a suitable meeting space would help a group host the session.
Beekeeping Mentorship Program
A school group could work with an experienced beekeeper over several sessions, giving students time to observe how a colony changes and ask follow-up questions.
Bee Art and Awareness Campaign
Students could sketch the pollinators they observe and display their work alongside the plants those insects visit. Support for art supplies could help students turn those observations into an exhibit for their school.
Bee-Friendly School Gardens
A school with an existing garden could add nesting habitat or flowers that bloom in another season. Support could go toward plants and materials. The school also needs someone to water and look after the garden.
Technology for Bee Education
Digital tools could let students revisit a hive observation or compare garden sightings. A class could use photos and field notes to track what changes from one visit to the next.
Help support bee education in your community
Your gift supports learning, habitat, and hands-on action for bees in communities across the United States.