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The Planet

The Planet--The Sierra Club in 1996: A Statistical Portrait

The Planet, January 1997, Volume 4, number 1

  • Sierra Club members: 614,477
  • Life Members: 17,105
  • Members for over 50 years: 175
  • Largest Sierra Club chapter: Angeles, 51,091
  • Smallest Sierra Club Chapter: Dacotah [North Dakota], 361
  • Sierra Club Field Offices: 23
  • Annual Sierra Club budget: $45 million
  • Smallest Donation: book of stamps
  • Number of Wilderness Guardians (Club members who make additional donations once a month): 19,531
  • Sierra Club members who carry the Sierra Club credit card: 65,000 (The Club has earned 1.7 million dollars in royalties since 1993 from our credit card.)
  • Members of the Environmental Rights Network: 9,328
  • Average number of calls received by the Club's Information Center per month: 2,500
  • Percent of independent expenditure campaigns that Sierra Club-endorsed candidates won: 100 (3 of 3)
  • Voter guides distributed before the election: 1.3 million
  • Sierra Club-sponsored outings: 22,000
  • Participants on these outings: 132,000
  • Estimated value of work that Sierra Club service trips contributed to public land agencies: $500,000
  • Number of outing leaders: over 800 nationally, over 4,600 at the local level
  • Kids who participated in the Inner City Outings program: 14,000
  • Copies sold of the book Material World: 100,000
  • Copies sold of the book Women in the Material World since its September release: 40,000
  • Sierra Club calendars sold: 1,000,000
  • Number of "hits" received by the Club's home page on the World Wide Web: over 1.4 million
  • Most requested issue of The Planet off the Web: nearly 40,000 people requested our Nov. '95 issue for an article on Headwaters Forest
  • Number of requests from Zambia to our Web site: 1
  • Number of times we use the word "activist" in this issue: 32

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