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5 Gyres Institute
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The 5 Gyres Institute researches the impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and employs communication and advocacy strategies to eliminate plastic accumulation in the five subtropical gyres. Research takes place on location, often in partnership with Pangaea Explorations and Algalita Marine Research Foundations, which carry scientists and journalists on research expeditions through the gyres. The Institute shares its findings through multimedia outlets, peer-reviewed publications, school outreach, and a traveling exhibition.
Abundance Foundation
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Abundance Foundation educates the public on sustainability – renewable energy, local food, clean water, conservation and community – through DIY workshops, a new community garden, and programs such as the amazing Pittsboro pepper festival.
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis
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Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis focuses on hastening a cure for MS by facilitating research that determines the causes and mechanisms of the disease. The Project compiles data about what is known and isn’t known about the origins of MS, facilitates research that’s most likely to reveal the causes of the disease in the shortest time, and compiles data from disparate experiments so that results can be combined and compared.
Alameda County Community Food Bank
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Alameda County Community Food Bank provides nutritious food to people in need, and promotes public policies that address hunger and its root causes. Through 275 food pantries, soup kitchens, child-care centers, senior centers, after-school programs, and other community-based organizations, the Food Bank distributes enough food for 300,000 meals weekly.
Alameda Meals on Wheels
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Alameda Meals on Wheels delivers hot, nourishing meals to Alameda residents since 1973. Seven-day-a-week, volunteers carry mid-day meals to more than 140 local residents of all ages, who are welcome to pay on a sliding fee scale.
Alameda Point Collaborative
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Alameda Point Collaborative provides 200 units of housing to families and individuals who have been homeless. Each year it serves approximately 500 people, including nearly 300 children and youth. The Collaborative also offers employment opportunities, on-the-job training, two playgrounds, an urban farm and community garden, a retail plant nursery (specializing in native and edible plants), and a commercial kitchen.
Alliance for Climate Education
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Alliance for Climate Education supports a generational shift to fight climate change. The Alliance introduces high school students to the basics of climate science through an award-winning multimedia assembly, and encourages them to Do One Thing (DOT) to help the environment and cool the climate. Youth representatives go on to influence their peers, leaders, and politicians.
American Farmland Trust
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American Farmland Trust protects America's fast disappearing farm and ranch land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and works to ensure an economically sustainable future for farmers and ranchers. Through efforts such as the No Farm No Food campaign, the Steward of the Land Award, and the Sustaining Farms on the Urban Edge report, the Trust inspires people to act on behalf of farms, clean water, and local food.
American River Conservancy
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American River Conservancy provides environmental education and outdoor recreation for children and adults; promotes habitat restoration, trail building, and maintenance; and works to build an enduring ethic of stewardship. The Conservancy focuses on the American River and Cosumnes River watersheds. To date, it has protected habitat, native fisheries, and scenic vistas on more than 12,000 acres.
Appropriate Technology Collaborative
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Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) creates sustainable technologies that promote economic growth while improving the quality of life for low-income people worldwide. ATC collaborates with local residents and nonprofits to create market based solutions that are culturally sensitive, environmentally responsible, and locally repairable. To date, the group has served an estimated 4,500 people and its breakthrough designs—including Solar Vaccine Refrigerators, Treadle Pumps, and Bamboo Reinforced Concrete—have been downloaded by over 3,000 people, nonprofits, and governments in 23 countries.
Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program
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Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program provides and promotes accessible sports and recreation opportunities for people with physical disabilities. Through their Adaptive Cycling Program, they loan 65 specially adapted bicycles to disabled riders, who are welcome to cycle solo or as part of a BORP-organized group ride.
Bay Area Wilderness Training
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Bay Area Wilderness Training, a project of the Earth Island Institute, instructs and equips teachers and community leaders wishing to lead wilderness field trips for urban youth, offering students an expanded sense of self and the world around them.
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
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Berkeley Youth Alternatives champions prevention and intervention to help young people and their families address problems before they become crises. Through programs including the Inter-generational Garden Project, Lady Hoops Twilite Basketball League, Video Production, and DJ Training, Berkeley Youth Alternatives supports individuals’ efforts to reach their full potential.
Bikes Not Bombs
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Bikes Not Bombs is a nexus for bicycle recycling and community empowerment in lower income neighborhoods of Boston and overseas. They operate Earn-A-Bike and technical training programs in Boston, and donate thousands of recycled bikes to assist economic development projects (micro-enterprise bike businesses, sustainable technology projects, and youth training programs) in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Calypso Farm and Ecology Center
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Calypso Farm and Ecology Center promotes local agriculture and environmental awareness by providing hands-on education about natural and farming ecosystems to school children and community members. The farm also operates as a CSA to feed local families.
Campus Kitchens Project
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Campus Kitchens Project empowers thousands of college students each year to recycle food from their cafeterias, turn these donations into nourishing meals, and deliver them to those in need. Simultaneously, they cultivate resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses, and schools.
Canopy
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Canopy works on growing the urban forests in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and neighboring communities. Through their Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids program, they’re currently planting 1,000 trees in and around schools.
Cape Ann Farmers’ Market
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Cape Ann Farmers’ Market works to provide fresh, nutritious food – produced with environmentally benign methods and delivered with a smaller carbon footprint – for their entire community, regardless of income. Buying local means food dollars stay local.
Catalyst Commons
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Catalyst Commons works to reform our complex food system. They’re currently developing platforms and networks to organize vast amounts of data about all aspects of the system – from production, processing, and distribution to urban agriculture, restorative production, and food security – in a simple format, so that people can quickly understand the intricacies of the food system, and support smarter business, policy, investment, and environmental decisions.
Center for Early Intervention on Deafness
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Center for Early Intervention on Deafness improves the lives of babies and young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have severe speech and language delays.
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
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Center for Health, Environment, and Justice collaborates with communities nationwide that are facing environmental health threats such as leaking landfills, polluted drinking water, and hazardous waste sites. CHEJ helps local groups research the extent of their problem, break it down into manageable “action steps,” and develop the skills and knowledge they need to bring about positive change and create a healthier environment.
Center for Land Based Learning
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Center for Land Based Learning teaches California’s youth and the next generation of farmers about the importance of environmentally sound farming and watershed conservation. Interns work on a variety of habitat restoration projects and learn about related scientific concepts—why and how each task relates to the productive intersection of agriculture, conservation, and sustainability.
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
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Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center defends water, wildlife, and wild places across 2,000,000 acres in the Northern Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada. CSERC monitors logging, mining, grazing, development, and water projects, and gives nature a voice at local hearings and meetings. Through their clean-up programs, they restore denuded meadows, repair crumbling stream banks, clear litter from rivers, and build new trails for public use.
Ceres Community Project
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Ceres Community Project works to reestablish locally grown, organic food as a cornerstone of health. The Project provides people who are facing life-threatening illnesses with nourishing meals and, at the same time, gives teens the opportunity to grow and prepare healthy food, and educates the larger community about the connection between food, healing, and wellness. To date, Ceres teen chefs have provided 83,000 meals to families in five counties. The Project model is currently being developed in three other states.
Chicago Rarities Orchard Project
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Chicago Rarities Orchard Project supports the establishment of rare-fruit orchards in reclaimed urban spaces. By filling empty lots with orchards, the Project will foster varieties of tree fruit that aren't commonly grown commercially, while creating urban green space, and educational opportunities for local children. Fruit from the orchard will help fund the Project and also will be distributed throughout the local community.
City Slicker Farms
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City Slicker Farms grows sustainable, high-yield, backyard gardens and urban farms that provide West Oakland residents with affordable organic fruits and vegetables, and the tools they need to grow their own food. The gardens empower children and adults who want to learn about the connections between ecology, farming, and the urban environment.
cityWILD
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cityWILD provides tuition-free, experiential outdoor education for at-risk youth. The group assists students between the ages of 10 and 18 in northeast Denver through programs such as Teen Workforce Readiness, Weekend Adventure, Summer Expeditions, and Afterschool. The cityWILD model encourages students to make healthy life decisions by promoting personal empowerment, leadership development, and community participation.
Clark Fork Coalition
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The Clark Fork Coalition works to improve the health of the 22,000-square-mile Clark Fork River basin. The Coalition works with citizens, scientists, landowners, business leaders, and public officials to deliver enduring conservation results that integrate environmental advocacy and community-building. Over the past 25-years, the Coalition has been instrumental in shaping decisions to remove dams and contaminated mining waste, to invest $250 million in cleaning up mining pollution, and to block the Rock Creek Mine proposal.
Clínica Verde
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Clínica Verde (“Green Clinic”) simultaneously supports kids, moms, and the Earth. The clinic provides maternal and infant healthcare in Nicaragua (the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere) in an environmentally friendly building that was designed to improve the health of the local community, save energy, and conserve resources. (The Clínica Verde model also was designed so that it could be replicated in other countries.)
Colorado Mountain Club
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Colorado Mountain Club connects students, explorers, and others who love the Colorado Rockies. The Club seeks to improve people's lives as well as the environment through the preservation and dissemination of information about science, literature, art, and recreation relating to the mountains. Through their Youth Education Program, they offer thousands of young people a comprehensive education program that includes science, math, and hands-on conservation activities.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
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Community Alliance with Family Farmers advocates for California family farmers and sustainable agriculture. Programs include Buy Fresh, Buy Local, which opens new markets for family farmers and educates consumers about the benefits of buying local, and Farm to School, which reconnects children with local food and agriculture in their classrooms and cafeterias.
Community Resource for Science
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Community Resource for Science supports educators working to excite children about science, and promotes critical thinking skills through hands-on experiences that deal with real world problems.
Community Water Center
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Community Water Center seeks to ensure that communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley have access to safe, clean, and affordable water. Water quality in the area suffers due to groundwater pollution, which is linked to decades of intensive fertilizer and pesticide application as well as the influx of animal factories to the region. The Center acts to empower local residents through education, advocacy, and legal assistance.
Connolly Ranch Education Center
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Connolly Ranch Education Center connects kids with nature through farm-based environmental education programs focusing on farm life, organic gardening, the sources and benefits of healthy foods, and an appreciation of how nature sustains us.
Cool the Earth
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A parent- and volunteer-run program that educates K-8 students about climate change. Cool the Earth advocates for “education through action” and empowers kids to take simple, measurable actions to reduce their carbon emissions. Because kids’ enthusiasm is contagious, Cool the Earth (launched in 2007) is now running in over 50 U.S. schools.
Diabetic Youth Foundation
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Diabetic Youth Foundation works to improve the quality of life for children, teens, and families affected by diabetes. Since 1937, DYF has provided educational and recreational programs – such as Bearskin Meadow summer camp in Sequoia National Forest – that encourage personal growth and independence, and create opportunities that might otherwise seem unattainable for individuals and families living with diabetes.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
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Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund advances the rights of people with disabilities. They run a disability rights legal clinic in collaboration with San Francisco Bay Area law schools, and train and educate people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities so that they can challenge discrimination and participate fully in the lives of their communities.
Each One Reach One
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Each One Reach One offers one-on-one mentoring in the creative acts of theatre arts, playwriting, and academic studies to incarcerated youth, supporting their efforts to become positively engaged with society.
EarthDance
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EarthDance focuses on growing and inspiring local FARMS – Food, Art, Relationships, and Music. They operate an apprenticeship program at the historic Mueller Organic Farm that trains local residents in soil fertility principles, organic pest and disease management, proper harvest and post-harvest handling techniques, direct marketing, and CSA operations. Graduates have gone on to farm school gardens, CSA Farms, and backyard gardens.
Ecology Center
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Ecology Center facilitates urban lifestyles that advance ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development. They provide the information and infrastructure that make sustainable practices possible on a large scale. Projects include the Berkeley's Farmers' Markets and residential curbside recycling program, Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, and EcoHouse demonstrations and classes.
Empowered by Light
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Empowered by Light improves rural people’s quality of life and environment by encouraging the use of renewable energy technologies. The current Solar: ZAMBIA project is delivering 5,000 solar-powered LED light/cell phone charge kits to families in Zambia living without electric power. The kits provide inexpensive electric lighting, which encourages nighttime studying; eliminate the need for open-flame kerosene lamps and candles (reducing the hazards of fire and respiratory disease); and charge mobile telephones, which help farmers market their goods.
Explainer Program at the New York Botanical Garden
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Explainer Program at the New York Botanical Garden provides students with the opportunity to strengthen their understanding of science and the environment, gain practical work experience, and develop problem-solving and interpersonal skills. The Garden is located in one of the nation’s most underserved communities, and the Explainer Program provides local youth with a safe environment for learning and professional development.
Exploring New Horizons
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Exploring New Horizons (ENH) provides high quality, affordable environmental education for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The curriculum focuses on environmental awareness and natural history, cooperation and team building, and self-esteem and citizenship. Annually, over 8,000 students from 90 schools participate in ENH programs. Since its inception in 1979, ENH has reached over 80,000 elementary and middle school students.
Family Services of Tulare County
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Family Services of Tulare County helps children, adults, and families to heal from violence and choose healthy relationships. Services include counseling, education, advocacy, and training; programs designed for high school students include the My Strength club for boys and My Voice club for girls, which address dating, and violence prevention.
Farmer-Veteran Coalition
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Farmer-Veteran Coalition helps returning veterans find training and employment on America’s farms. FVC believes that America’s aging farmers, local and regional agriculture, and the sustainable farming movement would all be well served by people accustomed to discipline, dedication, and hard work. In turn, veterans also can benefit – even in these economic times – by helping to grow the green economy.
Focus the Nation
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Focus the Nation creates opportunities for young leaders throughout the U.S. to interface with elected and business leaders about building a clean energy economy.
Food Alliance
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Food Alliance is one of North America's most comprehensive third-party certification organizations for the production, processing, and distribution of sustainable food. They promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, safe and fair working conditions, careful stewardship of ecosystems, and humane treatment of animals.
Food Forward
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Food Forward addresses urban hunger. Volunteers harvest locally grown food from private homes and public spaces and deliver it to local food pantries and organizations serving those in need.
Food Waves
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Food Waves promotes sustainable agriculture as a long-term solution to health and environmental problems. They offer future farmers the technical and financial support they need to learn organic farming practices, supply local food banks with organic fruits and vegetable, and provide low-income families with materials and training so that they can grow their own food.
Four Corners School of Outdoor Education
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Four Corners School of Outdoor Education sponsors hands-on outdoor projects to conserve the natural and cultural treasures of the Colorado Plateau. Programs include outdoor education; repair or rehabilitation of roads, springs, and trails; and protective actions for over 28 archaeological sites.
Friends of the Urban Forest
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Friends of the Urban Forest promote large, healthy forests in San Francisco through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy. The Friends obtain permits; select, purchase and deliver trees; supply tools and materials; remove sidewalk concrete; and volunteer side-by-side with residents. They plant nearly 1,000 trees each year.
Friends of the Wild Swan
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Friends of the Wild Swan support preservation and restoration of water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and road-less areas and wilderness in northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley. Recent efforts include saving the Sprunger-Whitney Nature Trail from clear cutting by leasing the land and turning it into an interpretive nature trail for 30 schools, which use it for botany and science studies and volunteer activities.
Friends of Van Cortlandt Park
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Friends of Van Cortlandt Park was founded by Bronx, New York residents in response to dramatic cuts in New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation’s budget. Over the past twenty years, the Friends have provided high quality environmental education programs for underserved youth in New York City and Yonkers. They’ve also worked to understand and address the Park’s critical needs, raise funds for its restoration, and expand the constituency of those who care about it.
George Mark Children's House
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George Mark Children's House offers comprehensive, compassionate, and leading-edge care to children—and their families—who are facing chronic, life-limiting illnesses. Its programs are intended to relieve suffering while achieving the best quality of life possible, as defined in partnership with the family. George Mark Children’s House is the first and only freestanding residential pediatric palliative care center in the United States.
Giant Steps Equestrian Center
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Giant Steps Equestrian Center offers life-changing experiences to people with a wide range of disabilities through their horse "therapists" (including Snuffles, Scarlet, and Katydid).
Glide San Francisco
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Glide San Francisco offers programs to create a “radically inclusive” community, alleviate suffering, and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization. Programs include Feed the Hungry, Inspire Youth and Children, House the Community, and Green the Tenderloin.
Great River Greening
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Great River Greening conserves critical land habitat, protects clean air and water, and increases urban residents’ access to sustainable open space. Since 1995, it has engaged over 25,000 volunteers; partnered with more than 400 landowners, businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies; planted more than 60,000 trees and shrubs, and restored 4,000 acres.
Green America
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Green America (formerly “Co-op America”) harnesses economic power – from consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace – to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through programs such as Responsible Shopper, Community Investing, Green Business, and Shop & Unshop.
Green Schools
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Green Schools works to catalyze “green” actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of U.S. schools. It acts to leverage the schools’ sector to transform the school environment—and the markets that supply them—to improve health and sustainability by eliminating toxins, using resources sustainably, creating green spaces and buildings, serving healthy food, and teaching stewardship.
GRID Alternatives
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GRID Alternatives installs solar panels for homeowners in low-income communities that are most affected by changing energy prices and least likely to have funds for alternative energy. They also train volunteers and job seekers to install solar electric systems.
Grow Portland
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Grow Portland expands urban gardening and agriculture by connecting diverse populations with knowledge, supplies, and land.
Growers First
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Growers First helps rural farmers in Mexico, Honduras, Indonesia, and Rwanda cultivate sustainable, higher incomes and new jobs in their communities. Through ecologically balanced farming methods, increased crop yields, and organic certification of their coffee (available in Traceable-Transformation™ blends), over 600 families in 24 villages are improving their quality of life.
GrowingGreat
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GrowingGreat addresses the problems of obesity and rising health care costs by helping children and communities reconnect with healthy food. Through elementary school gardens, a Farm-to-School Harvest-of-the-Month tasting program, and nutrition education, GrowingGreat has reached over 30,000 students and families in California and Hawaii.
GRuB
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GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) encourages individual and community food solutions. Since 1993, it has partnered with youth and people with low-incomes to build more than 2,300 backyard and community gardens, host workshops, and provide training and resources to increase healthy food access in Thurston and Mason counties. GRuB in the Schools allows students to earn credits while learning about and contributing to their local food systems through programs such as Farming Self, Farming Land, and Farming Community.
International Development Exchange
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International Development Exchange (IDEX) promotes sustainable solutions to poverty by providing long-term grants and other resources to locally run organizations. IDEX’s international development model, inspired by returning Peace Corps volunteers, centers around small grants targeting grassroots groups that are trusted by their neighbors and that understand the needs of their own communities. IDEX’s initiatives involve entire communities in building local economies, empowering women, protecting the environment, creating food security, and promoting local leadership in Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Kala Art Institute
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Kala Art Institute brings quality art education to the general public and public school children through on-site classes, an Artists-in-Schools program, exhibitions, lectures, and special events.
Kids on Bikes
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Kids on Bikes enables under-served children to experience the benefits (freedom, self-confidence, and a healthy lifestyle) of owning their first bicycle.
Land Stewardship Project
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Land Stewardship Project promotes sustainable agriculture and ethical stewardship of farmland through cultural programs and a farmer-to-farmer network that helps farmers move to more sustainable farming methods. They also help communities stop factory farms, link sustainable livestock producers to potential urban customers, and support federal policies advocating for farming alternatives that benefit farmers and the land.
Land Trust of Napa County
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Land Trust of Napa County preserves agriculture, biodiversity, and scenic open space in Napa County by permanently protecting land. Established in 1976, the Land Trust has completed over 150 land projects and protected more than 53,000 acres – 10% of Napa County – including five permanent preserves.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/San Francisco
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Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/San Francisco is dedicated to funding lifesaving blood cancer research, and providing people with blood cancer access to free information and the services they need to fight and manage their disease.
Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont (LEAF)
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Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont (LEAF) provides local residents with information about sustainable and ecological practices including local food production, organic gardening, waste reduction, green building, and resource conservation. LEAF also collaborates with other community organizations to start neighborhood gardens and to build community among Fremont’s diverse residents.
Loco Bloco
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Loco Bloco provides low-income, minority, and immigrant youth and families access to professional-level arts education – percussion, dance, visual arts, and theater arts – at no cost. They advocate for art as a tool to overcome injustice, promote ethnic and cultural diversity, and contribute positively to community.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
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Louisiana Bucket Brigade works with communities neighboring the state's oil refineries and chemical plants to create informed, sustainable communities free from industrial pollution. Programs include the Fenceline Neighbors Network, the Refinery Efficiency Initiative, and the Oil Spill Crisis Map, which tracks the impact of the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Luna Dance Institute
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Luna Dance Institute promotes dance as a creative practice to heal individuals, families, and communities. Luna brings dance and choreography to children through three programs – Studio Lab, MPACT, and School and Community Alliances – that provide students with knowledge to explore dance through active participation, guided discovery, and critical reflection.
Medic Mobile
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Medic Mobile uses appropriate technologies to create coordinated health systems that allow health care workers in remote areas of developing countries to save lives. By developing and extending existing open-source platforms, Medic Mobile allows health workers traveling to isolated patients to stay connected with central clinics. Advanced communications technologies combined with minimal infrastructure requirements support community mobilizations for vaccination and satellite clinics, logistics and supply chain management, referrals, and routine data collection.
MedShare
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MedShare improves both healthcare and the environment by redistributing surplus medical supplies and equipment to healthcare facilities in the developing world, medical missions, and safety net clinics in the U.S. and abroad. MedShare has delivered over $83 million worth of medical supplies to patients in 88 countries, and provided medical supplies for over 1,500 medical mission teams; at the same time, they’ve saved over two million cubic feet from area landfills, and decreased our carbon footprint.
Mission Graduates
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Mission Graduates aims to increase the number of college graduates from San Francisco’s ethnically mixed, low-income Mission District as a means to achieve economic equity and strengthen the fabric of the Mission community. It offers a range of K-12 after-school, in-school, and summer programs that reach over 1,100 children, youth, and families each year, with college education as an “end goal” that’s woven through all academic enrichment programs.
Movement Strategy Center
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Movement Strategy Center increases the capacity of individuals, organizations, alliances, and sectors to support social and racial justice. Successful movements require that a range of different strategies develop simultaneously, so MSC helps local campaigns operate increasingly collaboratively, strategically, and sustainably, to form powerful alliances that can affect state-level policy.
National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA)
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National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) promotes the development of interscholastic mountain biking leagues for U.S. high school students, along with athletic skills, teamwork, and respect for community and the environment.
National Teach-In/Education for Global Warming Solutions
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National Teach-In/Education for Global Warming Solutions brings students together with policy-makers to discuss positive solutions to global warming and its effects. Through webcasts, teach-ins, climate dialogues, and the 100 Days of Action calendar, the National Teach-In engages student groups in communication with legislators and study groups, and in direct actions.
Native Seeds
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Native Seeds promotes sustainable agriculture and food security by conserving heirloom seeds. The regional seed bank includes 1800 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops, which have been chosen by generations of farmers and gardeners for their genetic adaptations to particular growing conditions. To promote agricultural biodiversity and food security, Native Seeds offers 350 varieties—many of them rare or endangered—to traditional communities and to gardeners worldwide.
New Orleans Food & Farm Network
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New Orleans Food & Farm Network addresses the city’s need for affordable and locally grown fresh produce. The Network focuses on underserved neighborhoods with limited access to fresh food, creates projects specific to each neighborhood’s identity and resources, and emphasizes food-growing gardens in backyards, schools, and churches. By cleaning up spaces, providing jobs, and growing good food, New Orleans’ neighborhoods-in-need can play a key role in revitalizing the city.
North Cascades Institute
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North Cascades Institute works to conserve and restore Northwest environments through education – science, art, literature, and hands-on study of natural and cultural history. They offer school and summer youth programs, teacher internships, volunteer stewardship programs, a M.Ed. in environmental education, and operate the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey
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Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey includes farmers, consumers, retailers, processors, educators, and researchers working to develop a sustainable organic agricultural system. They provide assistance to both organic and progressive conventional farmers, educate diverse audiences about how organic practices affect food and the environment, and provide independent, third-party certification to organic farms and processors.
OBUGS
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OBUGS (Oakland Based Urban Gardens) reaches over 400 children each week through a network of school and neighborhood gardens, green spaces, and farmers' markets. In partnerships with West and North Oakland schools, OBUGS offers in-school, afterschool, volunteer, and internship programs and summer camps at seven gardens that emphasize hands-on educational activities. OBUGS has served more than 2,000 children from preschool through middle school since its inception (and 400 adults through related events).
Organic Farming Research Foundation
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Organic Farming Research Foundation advocates for the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems. Through an integrated strategy of grant making, policy, education, and networking initiatives, OFRF supports organic farmers’ needs for immediate information while moving the public and policymakers toward greater investment in organic farming systems.
Organic Materials Review Institute
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Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) provides an independent review of products intended for use in certified organic production, handling, and processing. OMRI reviews products against the National Organic Standards, determines which inputs are allowed in organic production and processing, and provides guidance to subscribers and certifiers regarding the acceptability of various material inputs. OMRI also helps growers find organic seed.
Organic Seed Alliance
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Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) fosters the ethical development and stewardship of agricultural seed—a living natural resource that’s fundamental to our food security. Through collaborative education, advisory services, and research programs with organic farmers and other seed professionals, OSA works to restore and develop seed varieties for current needs while safeguarding seed as an invaluable genetic resource for future generations.
Outdoor Outreach
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Outdoor Outreach empowers underprivileged youth through comprehensive outdoor education and hands-on learning experiences. Through short trips to local mountains and beaches or more comprehensive multi-year curricula, Outdoor Outreach offers underserved youth the opportunity to develop a passion and joy in the outdoors that can inspire positive changes in their lives. To date, it has provided more than 5000 at-risk youth in San Diego County with the support and relationships they need to become successful adults.
Pedal Power
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Pedal Power helps put the “cycle” in recycle. They provide low cost transportation options to students, micro-businesses, health care workers, and others in developing nations (and in the great state of Texas) by recycling and reusing bicycles and their parts.
Pedals for Progress
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Pedals for Progress rescues bicycles destined for U.S. landfills and ships them to developing countries where they are sold inexpensively and become sorely needed forms of transportation and integral components of micro-businesses. Proceeds from bike sales fund local community programs as well as subsequent shipments of bicycles.
Pedals for Progress
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Pedals for Progress rescues bicycles destined for overburdened U.S. landfills and ships them to developing countries where they’re highly valued as inexpensive transportation. Pedals for Progress donates the first shipment of bicycles to a local nonprofit partner, who sells the bikes far below market value so that the people most in need can afford them. Enough money is raised from those sales to pay both for subsequent shipments and to fund other critical community programs. To date, Pedals for Progress has donated more than 133,000 bicycles in 33 countries.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
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Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. Through a citizens’ action network that includes consumers and labor, health, environment and agriculture groups, they challenge the local and global proliferation of pesticides, and defend public health and environmental quality.
Petaluma Bounty
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Petaluma Bounty helps local residents grow their own healthy food, redistributes surplus food, and provides affordable fresh food to low-income families and seniors. Core programs include the Bounty Hunters food gleaning program, an educational urban farm, weekly boxes of organic fruits and vegetables sold at wholesale prices to low-income families, and custom designed, permaculture-inspired food forests.
Pie Ranch
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Pie Ranch serves as a model of sustainable farming and supports “pie in the sky” idealistic thinking to guide social change. The working farm hosts regional high school students, and collaborates with educators and community leaders from diverse settings to help students apply what they’ve learned to their daily lives in order to create meaningful and measurable change. The Ranch also mentors aspiring farmers through yearlong resident apprenticeships.
Pogo Park
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Pogo Park is a community-based nonprofit group working to rebuild the Elm Playlot, a half-acre park in an inner-city neighborhood burdened by crime and poverty. By engaging local residents in the re-design and re-building of Elm Playlot, Pogo Park works as a catalyst for both child development and community development, and serves as a new model for how to reinvigorate inner-city parks and playgrounds.
Project Bike Trip
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Project Bike Trip provides comprehensive bicycle education and training for youth and adults, introducing the bicycle as alternative transportation, a potent solution for childhood obesity, and an effective way to benefit the economy and environment.
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria advances the health and economies of rural communities in Mexico. Through their Healthy Families and Eco-Amaranth programs, Puente works with subsistence farmers to produce nutritious crops using sustainable, environmentally sound methods; to combat malnutrition; and to raise community awareness about principles of food sovereignty and a healthy diet.
Queens County Farm Museum
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Queens County Farm Museum is the only working historical farm in New York City, and the longest continuously farmed site in New York State – the Farm, which dates to 1697, includes a greenhouse, livestock, farm vehicles, planting fields, an orchard and a herb garden. Through programs and events, they educate the public about Queens County's agricultural and horticultural past, and present-day sustainability practices.
Red Feather Development Group
GRANTEE PROFILE:
Red Feather Development Group partners with American Indian communities to address their severe housing crises. They teach home construction, build straw bale homes, facilitate home ownership, foster environmentally relevant practices, and enable cooperation and understanding among cultures.
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