Earth's Birthday Project
Description
Celebrate Planet Earth is a nonprofit environmental education organization for children, families, clubs, classrooms and schools. Its mission is to grow children who love and protect the Earth. It was founded in 1989 as Earth’s Birthday Project and rebranded under its current name in 2019. It is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The organization provides teachers with live butterflies, ladybugs and sunflower seeds so children can observe living things and learn about insect life cycles as part of school science curricula. It also runs rainforest conservation programs, in which students raise money through coin drives and other fundraising to help purchase and protect rainforest and other endangered habitat, working with partners such as The Nature Conservancy and World Land Trust. Its current conservation partner, YAKUM, works with native communities in Ecuador to plant trees in the Amazon.
Since its founding, more than 15 million school children have taken part in its butterfly, sunflower, rainforest and river conservation activities.
Latest news
Our Celebrate Planet Earth Annual Report for 2025-2026 highlights the remarkable success of our Butterflies and Sunflowers Program, which reached over 232,000 children in classrooms across the United States. Through interactive classroom activities, students discovered the vital role that...
28 Aug 2026
Supporting the Vital Ecosystem of Bosque del Apache NWR
Celebrate Planet Earth is proud to announce a $500 matching donation for 2025 to the Friends of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. This contribution will directly support efforts to sow native plant seeds throughout the Rio Grande river corridor, an initiative crucial for the...
23 Feb 2026
Celebrate Planet Earth Exploradores Outdoor Classroom Awarded Outdoor Equity Fund Grant
Celebrate Planet Earth is proud to announce that its Exploradores Outdoor Classroom has been awarded a new Outdoor Equity Fund grant. This funding will significantly enhance our mission to provide equitable access to nature-based education for children, particularly in underserved communities...
7 Oct 2025
Announcing our 2025 Photo/Video Contest Winners
We are delighted to announce our Grand Prize and Top Prize Winners for this year’s Photo/Video Contest Winners. We are grateful for all of the photos and videos that were submitted this spring and summer. We love to see glimpses of the children’s and teachers’ experiences with the Painted Lady...
11 Jul 2025
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