Miki for the Everglades

Last year I shared what the Everglades means to me — a place of stillness and strength. This year, I’m asking you to help protect it for all who find peace in its waters. 

The Everglades connects us — through water, through wonder, through our shared responsibility to care for it. Every gift keeps its story flowing.

I give because the Everglades gives back — peace, beauty, and belonging. Let’s protect it, together.

An Everglades haiku by Miki: 

River of grass breathes,
each droplet a promise kept —
we give, it endures.

While our offices are in Stuart, our work extends across the Greater Everglades, a vital ecosystem that spans from the Kissimmee River to Florida Bay. Participating in Give Miami Day allows us to highlight the significance of the Greater Everglades and invite a larger community to take part in preserving this critical ecosystem.

— Miki Blumenthal, Office Manager/Bookkeeper at Friends of the Everglades

Friends of the Everglades is a grassroots, nonprofit organization founded in Miami in 1969 by Marjory Stoneman Douglas that advocates for the protection of Florida's precious natural ecosystems. When pollutants and toxic algae plague our waters, when sugarcane burning harms air quality in the Glades communities south of Lake Okeechobee, and when the health of the Everglades' unique ecosystem is threatened, we educate and activate the public so we can collectively have a positive impact on environmental policy. We walk in the footsteps of our founder, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, by promoting a greater understanding of the importance of protecting, preserving, and restoring the only Everglades in the world.