Reduce Your Carbon Footprint By Supporting COTAP

Donations by Mail

Please send checks or money orders payable to Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) to:

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP)
1200 Mt Diablo Blvd, Ste 111
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Please include “COTAP Ops & Expansion” in the memo section of your check so we can distinguish your check from a carbon offset donation to COTAP’s projects. To receive an emailed donation acknowledgement letter instead of a mailed one, please be sure to include your email address.

Corporations and Foundations

Please see our Corporate Partnerships & Foundation Challenge Grants page. COTAP is a unique and meaningful way for your company or foundation to demonstrate leadership on climate change while engaging employees, customers, and/or the general public. For companies, campaigns don’t require outlays outside of existing employer matching or marketing budgets.

Notes

Currently, general COTAP donations are not a part of our integrated checkout process and can’t be mixed with offset contributions to projects in the same transaction. You can do both, but currently they must be done separately.

Unless a specific breakdown is included for the project(s) you wish to support, a check received by mail will be considered a general COTAP donation and 100% will be used for COTAP’s startup, operating, and expansion costs.

"1000% Better. Stunned."

"I searched for hours to find a quality carbon offsetting site for individuals. Now that I have found COTAP I'm stunned. This is 1000% better than I dared hope for - for the quality of results you chase, for the wonderful projects you support, for the brilliant information about your projects, and for your accessible ways for individuals to purchase offsets. I've encouraged my friends to use you too. Thanks for all that you do!"

David Rosenfeld
London, United Kingdom

"An Awesome Organization"

"COTAP is an awesome organization and we use them to offset our entire company's carbon emissions every year! They do great work and also help alleviate poverty, I couldn't be more proud of them."

Ben Welch-Bolen
CEO, World Wide Web Hosting
Fayetteville, Arkansas

"Increasing My Impact"

"The issue of global inequality and poverty in the developing world is truly one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. At the same time, the impact that people are having on our environment threatens the longevity not just of humankind, but of our planet. COTAP empowers me to magnify my impact by addressing both issues at the same time."

Louis Perwien
Washington, D.C.

"Truly unique and innovative."

"COTAP is the only organization that I’m aware of that directly connects the climate change and global poverty issues. It is a truly unique and innovative platform."

Ted Holman
San Francisco, CA

Beatrice Ahimbisibwe
Country: Uganda
Community: Bitereko
Trees Planted: 1,400
Total Earnings To Date: $1,831
Livelihood Benefits: New house, furniture, children's school fees, invested in building a new school

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Anastazia Solomon
Country: Malawi
Village: Mkokamwendo
Trees Planted: 467 over 1 ha & 800-meters boundary plantings
Climate Benefit: 193 tonnes of CO2
Earnings To Date: $360
Total Expected Earnings: $600
Livelihood Benefits: Children's school fees, home improvements, pig farming

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"A great way to do the right thing."

"Climate change and poverty are daunting challenges and COTAP is a great way to have a meaningful, measurable impact on both. The IPCC report states that we need to get to 600 lbs/CO2/person/year to keep warming under two degrees. So, I'm taking action towards becoming carbon neutral by driving an electric car, flying less, and offsetting my CO2 to address what I'm unable to eliminate. I choose COTAP because it's more meaningful, transparent, simple, and fun... and because it's a great investment in future generations!"

Matt Hollingsworth
Microsoft Technical Specialist
Santa Monica, CA

"Big Up to COTAP"

"The North American leg of the #FLYRASTA tour will start soon. Big up to Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) for helping us offset our carbon footprint while we're on the road. We still have to do more. #ThankMotherEarth"

Ziggy Marley
Grammy Winning Musician
Earth
More at COTAP.org/Ziggy.

"A Simple, Effective Solution"

"COTAP is the solution for my carbon footprint that I can't erase on my own. Their process couldn't be more simple, and not only am I able to offset my carbon footprint, I am having a direct, positive, measurable impact on reducing poverty. What more could I ask for?"

Paige Hamack
Seattle, Washington

"Real, Measurable Change On Two Fronts"

"COTAP empowers me to make positive change in multiple communities around the world while counteracting my contribution to the long-term, ‘macro’ problem of climate change. It's real, measurable change on two fronts, and that makes COTAP very innovative and unique. COTAP's the wave of the future and I want to see it grow to reach more donors and communities."

Shay O'Reilly
Oakland, California

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Donations by Mail

Employee & Retiree Donation Matching Programs

Grants and Large Gifts

Corporations and Foundations

Notes

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Donor Advised Funds

Testimonials & Beneficiary Profiles

IRS 501(c)3 status & Tax Deductibility

The Types of Projects COTAP Supports

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