Together, we can make a difference in our communities. Join one of our upcoming events to connect with Madre Tierra and other Earth Protectors.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 – 8:00am This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). LCW is an initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation, a national organization focused on strengthening Latinx communities and building Latinx leadership in conservation and other areas. This year’s theme is “Rooted in Nature, Thriving in Community.”
Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 7:00am This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). Join the Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter with Protectors of the Salt River and AZ(LAND) for a collaborative morning of service at the Rio Salado to celebrate Latino Conservation Week. We’ll be working together to remove invasive species […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 8:00am This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). Join the Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter for a cafecito celebrating Latino Conservation Week! We’ll be at Tres Leches Cafe in Phoenix to talk about some of the conservation issues impacting our communities in Arizona, the meaning of […]
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 6:00pm This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). Join Mi Familia en Acción for a hands-on day of community, creativity, and conservation! We’ll kick things off by helping clean up the Acre 51 Community Garden in Phoenix, giving this neighborhood space some love and making our community […]
Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 6:00pm This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). LCW is an initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation, a national organization focused on strengthening Latinx communities and building Latinx leadership in conservation and other areas. This year’s theme is “Rooted in Nature, Thriving in Community.”
Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 6:00pm This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). Join Chispa Arizona’s Clean & Green Comite in the Chispa Garden, in honor of Latino Conservation Week. The comite invites you to help beautify our garden beds and create signage for our compost area. During our time in the […]
Friday, September 18, 2026 at 7:00pm This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). LCW is an initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation, a national organization focused on strengthening Latinx communities and building Latinx leadership in conservation and other areas. This year’s theme is “Rooted in Nature, Thriving in Community.”
Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 11:00am This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). LCW is an initiative of the Hispanic Access Foundation, a national organization focused on strengthening Latinx communities and building Latinx leadership in conservation and other areas. This year’s theme is “Rooted in Nature, Thriving in Community.”
Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 7:00am This event is in celebration of Latinx/é Conservation Week (LCW). Join Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter and Chispa AZ at the Salt River to enjoy a morning of kayaking the river’s water, learn about the conservation issues affecting our local rivers & forests, do some birding and enjoy […]
This year, we are thrilled to celebrate the Sunnyside’s Foundation’s 30th Anniversary, thanks to the community, partners, and donors who have stood with us every step of the way.
We are Earth Protectors! We share values and a commitment to Madre Tierra, our communities and our democracy. Become a member today and join our Public Lands, Clean Air and Energy or our Democracy Comité to make a deeper impact in the issues that get us closer to Environmental Justice.
Everyone should have access to safe streets and mobility options, regardless of their income level or car ownership status. By investing in free and electric public transit and infrastructure, we can improve our air quality by having less vehicle emissions. By investing in urban green spaces, cool corridors, and complete streets, we will mitigate the urban heat island effect, and provide more transit equity and options for our most impacted communities.
We have been fighting for years to have easy access to the ballot. Voting is one way to use our collective power towards Environmental Justice. This election season, voting is an opportunity to be seen, heard and empowered about issues affecting our health, environment and future generations.
Chispa AZ
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to