What Work Does Help Save the Bees Foundation Do?

Help Save the Bees Foundation (HSBF) is a nonprofit charitable organization that works on bee protection in Nevada and globally. Its site names two main work areas — habitat protection and hands-on education — and says it also supports beekeeping efforts in developing countries and programs that use beekeeping to aid veterans with PTSD. If you want to know where your donation or volunteer time would go, those are the four directions the organization describes.

The two named work areas

The site's navigation lists "Our Work" with two sub-pages:

• Habitat Protection — work aimed at preserving or restoring the environments bees and other pollinators depend on.
• Hands-On Education — educational activity, described as hands-on rather than purely informational.

These are the only two work areas the site names explicitly, so treat them as the core of what HSBF does rather than a complete program list.

Beekeeping as a social tool

Beyond habitat and education, HSBF says it supports beekeeping efforts "across the globe" and frames beekeeping as more than agriculture:

• In developing countries, the site says beekeeping helps lift people out of poverty.
• For veterans, it says beekeeping has been used to aid those suffering from PTSD for over 100 years.

That second claim is the organization's own framing of the practice's history, not a clinical finding — if you are evaluating HSBF as a donation target, read it as a statement of the programs it chooses to support, not as medical evidence.

Scope: not just Nevada

The site describes HSBF as working "in Nevada and across the globe," and its language about protecting bees "across the world" confirms the scope is broader than one state. So a donation is not restricted to local Nevada habitat work as far as the public pages indicate.

Why the organization says this work is needed

HSBF's stated rationale for its programs:

• America's beekeepers have lost 30–40% of honey bee colonies in recent years, according to the site.
• The 2024–25 season saw a record 60% colony loss, per the site.
• Native bee populations worldwide are declining, along with butterflies, moths, bats, and other pollinators.
• The site attributes the decline to improper pesticide use, habitat loss, parasites and diseases, and climate change.
• It notes that more than 4,000 bee species live in the United States.

These figures come from HSBF's own pages; the site does not cite an external source for them on the home page.

What else the site offers

If you want to engage beyond donating, the navigation shows:

The Impact Report is the most direct place to check whether the habitat protection and education work produced measurable results, since the home page describes intent rather than outcomes.

How to decide if this matches your interest

• If you care about pollinator habitat, the Habitat Protection page is the relevant one.
• If you care about education, look at Hands-On Education.
• If you care about international development or veteran support through beekeeping, that work is described on the site but not broken out as its own navigation item — use Contact Us to ask how it is funded and run.
• If you need verifiable outcomes before giving, start with the Impact Report and Our Partners rather than the home page.

The site does not publish pricing, membership terms, or a stated donation minimum on the pages summarized here, so check the Donate page directly for those details.