Get Involved : Help the Great Lakes - Alliance for the Great Lakes

We can't protect the Great Lakes without your help. Each year, tens of thousands of volunteers and advocates join together to keep the lakes healthy and safe for all. Find out how you can get involved today!

Adopt-a-Beach™

Working together to protect the Great Lakes through clean-ups and community projects.

Help keep our beaches beautiful

Great Lakes Action Center

Your voice, when combined with thousands of advocates around the lakes, can make a difference!

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Ways to Give

There are many ways businesses, foundations, and individuals can donate.

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H.O.M.E.School

The Alliance for the Great Lakes is happy to announce H.O.M.E.School, a new series of online lessons about the Great Lakes for kids in grades K-8. The eight online sessions will begin April 6, with a new lesson premiering on our website and Facebook every Monday at 9:30 a.m. CT.

Alliance Ambassadors

Become an Ambassador and help us spread the word about how people can help the lakes.

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Young Professional Council

The next generation of Great Lakes leaders joined together to give back to the lakes.

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Great Blue Benefit

Every year we hold the lakeside event of the season in Chicago!

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Great Lakes in Your Classroom

Give students a hands-on, emotional connection to nature and science with curriculum and activities for your school or student groups.

Teach the Great Lakes

Aveda Earth Month

Aveda salons and stylists support the Alliance every Earth Month with fundraising events all around the Great Lakes.

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Events

Find an event in your area. Get involved in protecting the lakes in your community.

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