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Category: Environment & Conservation

• 250 List: Alliance for Climate Protection
  Active in persuading the American people — and people elsewhere in the world – of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.
• 250 List: American Forests
  Mission: To grow a healthier world. Vision: To have healthy forest ecosystems for every community.
• 250 List: Arbor Day Foundation
  Arbor Day is a nationally-celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and care.
• 250 List: Conservation International Foundation
  CI is breaking new ground every day in the fight to preserve Earth's biodiversity.
• 250 List: Defenders of Wildlife
  Employs over 150 dedicated professionals and is supported by more than 500,000 members nationwide. Our organization takes on the task of preserving our nation's native wildlife species and habitats.
• 250 List: Ducks Unlimited
  Ducks Unlimited conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people.
• 250 List: Earth Day Network
  Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement.
• 250 List: EarthShare
  EarthShare makes helping our environment as easy as possible by giving support to public health, air, water, land or wildlife with one gift.
• 250 List: Greenpeace
  As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
• 250 List: National Wild Turkey Foundation
  The National Wild Turkey Foundation (NWTF) is a grassroots, nonprofit organization with over 500,000 members in 50 states, Canada, Mexico and 14 other foreign countries. It supports scientific wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands as well as wild turkey hunting as a traditional North American sport.
• 250 List: Nature Conservancy
  The Nature Conservancy protects Earth's most important natural places — for you and future generations — through great science and smart partnerships. Since 1951, we've protected more than 119 million acres of land and with your support, we can do even more.
• 250 List: Ocean Conservancy
  From Baltimore to Bangladesh, the world's most astounding grassroots cleanup effort. Every year more than half-a-million people in 100 countries remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches and waterways all over the world - and collect data on what they find.
• 250 List: Rainforest Action Network
  Protects tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests.
• 250 List: Sierra Club Foundation
  To help educate, inspire and empower humanity to preserve the natural and human environment.
• 250 List: Student Conservation Association
  The SCA is a nonprofit organization that offers conservation internships and summer trail crew opportunities to over 3,000 people each year. SCA is focused on developing conservation and community leaders while getting important work done on the land. SCA members complete projects in every conservation discipline- from archeology to zoology- and everything in between.
• 250 List: WWF - World Wildlife Fund
  WWF is building a future where human needs are met in harmony with nature. Conserving important natural places and significantly changing global forces to protect the future of nature.
• Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living
  Founded in 1994, The Apeiron Institute provides education, advocacy, and green job training to help individuals & institutions create sustainable lifestyles, communities, and institutional practices.
• Breakdown Ministries
  We provide the tools, volunteers, and support for churches to engage their city’s needs. Our mission is to breakdown the walls between the church and their community.
• Carbonfund.org
  Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to reduce & offset their climate impact.
• Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration
  CEMAR uses science in a collaborative approach to develop scientifically credible and politically legitimate solutions for restoration of aquatic ecosystems on the California coast.
• Cheetah Conservation Fund
  CCF is based in Namibia (Africa) and it works to protect the cheetah and ultimately ensuring its future on our planet. We believe cheetahs can co-exist with people and the environment.
• Clean Water Fund
  Protecting water and health, from watershed to water tap. We bring people together to solve health, consumer, environmental and community problems. If you care about clean, safe water, now and for the future, this is your organization.
• EcoViva
  EcoViva -formerly the FSSCA - supports environmental sustainability, social justice and peace for communities in Central America.
• Friends of Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds
  The Friends of Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds is a Public Charity based in the U.S. promoting the conservation efforts of the Bulgarian Society for Protection of Birds in the Americas.
• Groundwork Dallas
  We encourage the Dallas/Ft. Worth community to use, preserve and enhance the natural resources of the Trinity River Corridor.
• National Wildlife Federation
  NWF is America's largest conservation organization. We work with more than 4 million supporters and partners to protect and restore wildlife habitat, confront global warming and connect with nature.
• Nature Abounds
  Nature Abound, a national 501c3 non-profit organization, brings people together for a healthy planet.
• Ohio Environmental Council
  The Ohio Environmental Council is Ohio's most comprehensive, effective & respected environmental advocate for a healthier, more sustainable Ohio.
• ONE DROP
  Fight poverty by supporting access to water and raising individual and community awareness of the need to mobilize so that safe water is accessible to all, in sufficient quantity, today and tomorrow.
• Pheasants Forever
  Pheasants Forever is dedicated to the conservation of pheasants, quail and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education and land management policies and programs.
• Project AWARE Foundation
  Vision: A return to a clean, healthy and abundant ocean planet. Mission: Global force to protect our ocean planet. o Focus area: shark conservation o Focus area: marine debris
• Reef Relief
  Our Mission: Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to Improve and Protect our Coral Reef Ecosystem.
• San Diego Oceans Foundation
  San Diego Oceans Foundation has built a legacy of pioneering volunteer programs which increase our understanding of marine life, protect ecosystems, and provide solutions to environmental challenges.
• San Diego River Park Foundation
  Dedicated to cleaning up the historic San Diego River, conserving open space area and creating a 52 mile long river park system through volunteer programs, on-the-ground projects and education.
• Solar San Antonio
  Solar San Antonio is a non-profit organization established eleven years ago to alert, educate, inspire, and empower local residents and the local solar industry.
• Student Conservation Association Inc.
  SCA's mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of our environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land
• Teton Raptor Center
  Teton Raptor Center helps birds of prey through education, conservation and rehabilitation.
• TreePeople
  TreePeople’s mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the process.
• Wolf Run Wildlife & Spiritual Sanctuary
  WRWSS was started in 2006 as a single event with the idea of bringing people of many faiths together in the spirit of acceptance, understanding and cooperation.