Collaborative
Join the Save Ohio Bees™ collaborative. We welcome Ohio artists, makers, beekeepers and other pollinator partners. We believe in the power of creativity and hopeful action to change the world.
Join our collaborative
Who Can Join?
We welcome all Ohio artists of all mediums offering handmade artwork, handmade natural products, responsible hive products, and more.
How Does the Collaborative Work?
Participants are featured on the Marketplace with a free, optimized listing. Your marketplace listing is linked directly to your URL (website, Etsy, or Square) for purchase and fulfillment. The marketplace is promoted by The Buzz Maker® and Save Ohio Bees. April through June is the most active promotional period including Earth Month, Earth Day, Arbor Day, World Bee Day (May 20) through the last week of June, National Pollinator Week. We also promote special celebrations like Butterflies Day (March) and Bat Week (October).
Eligibility Requirements
Active online sales capability (website or Etsy, website preferred)
Active Instagram and/or Facebook profile/s
Willingness to help promote your listing (we are all-volunteer)
Ability to contribute a portion of your proceeds
Venmo or Zelle account (for donation processing to @saveohiobees)
What We Need from You
Select an artwork, product, or bee-benefiting service for feature
Provide image/s, a brief description, pricing, and direct URL for your listing
Agree to donate a minimum 15% of net proceeds; during the period of May 20 through June 25, this increases to 50% of net proceeds during a matching gift campaign.
Add a brief statement to your landing page with back-link to the marketplace: 15% net proceeds supports the Save Ohio Bees™ initiative. (link to saveohiobees.org)
How We Support You
Promote through community partners
Maintain and optimize the website
Manage and develop the Save Ohio Bees™ Instagram and Facebook presence
Collaborate and communicate with all artists, community partners, and sponsors
Attend and present outdoor education events on behalf of the initiative
Distribute funds to beneficiary partners
Non-compete
Each Party agrees that it shall not directly or indirectly compete with the Save Ohio Bees initiative. Participating Parties will not (i) engage or assist in the unauthorized copying, distribution, sale, exhibition and/or other exploitation of any Party’s Confidential Information, (ii) remove or misappropriate any property of any Party, and (iii) or employ, or help others to employ, any employee of another Party without prior written consent.
How is the Charitable Donation Made?
Funds are aggregated from all sources along with the matching gift. The total net funds raised are evenly distributed to participating beneficiaries. To date, Ohioans have helped us restore 107,776 sq. ft. of habitat, fund two conservation programs through the Wilderness Center, fund the nonprofit arm of the OEC, and fund the 63-acre Oberlin Preserve.
How is this Promoted?
The initiative is promoted through a variety of channels including Instagram, Facebook, email campaigns, special events, community partners, and social media advertising.
The Official Hashtag is #saveohiobees
JOIN US
We believe in the power of small actions to make a big difference.
We believe in the power of creativity to transform the world.
We believe in the power of empowered people.
We love Ohio.
Email us at saveohiobees@gmail.com to join the Collaborative and get listed on the Marketplace.
Beneficiaries
The Pollinator Partnership is the world's largest nonprofit dedicated to protecting pollinators. The P2 mission is to promote the health of pollinators critical to food and ecosystems through conservation, education and research. A few of its initiatives include Ohio Project Wingspan, North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, National Pollinator Week, and the U.S. Bee Buffer Project.
The Wilderness Center connects our community to conservation through education. It protects 3,380 acres in seven Ohio counties including 500 acres of wetland, and 13 miles of freshwater streams. TWC serves more than 14,000 individuals, and 110 local schools annually, and is home to Foxfield Preserve conservation burial ground.
We support the Western Reserve Land Conservancy’s 63-acre Oberlin Preserve. With few prairie areas in the region, the preserve provides a haven for pollinators. Since its initial restoration planting, nearly 600 native wildflower plants, more than 50 native trees and 30 acres of prairie seed have been successfully planted. The preserve also includes diverse fields, woodlands, wet sedge meadows, and forested vernal pools providing habitats for birds, amphibians, mammals, and other wildlife.
SAVE OHIO BEES™ Supporters BADGe
This badge is available to participants upon request to promote our collaboration.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Intersectionality
We strive to be active champions for diversity, equity, inclusion and intersectionality. We encourage and foster diversity in our workforce and community, and are welcoming of all races, gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and cultural heritage including Indigenous peoples. We are open to having the difficult conversations about the needs and lived experiences of others. We welcome open and civil dialogue that helps us recognize and transform implicit bias. We seek to help amplify these important narratives. Inequality anywhere is inequality everywhere. We are all connected.
We strive to help all people rise while stewarding the land with wisdom and love.
Together we rise.