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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.
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.
Project Bike Trip
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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.
Rooted in Community
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Rooted in Community, a project of Earth Island Institute, prepares young people for leadership positions in neighborhood food security through urban and rural agriculture, community gardening, and related environmental justice work.
Sacred Rok
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Sacred Rok helps under-served young people learn to respect nature by exploring and understanding the beauty of Yosemite National Park and through these experiences, to better respect themselves.
Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN)
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Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) works to protect and restore endangered salmon habitat in the Lagunitas Watershed through monitoring and research, restoration, education, strategic litigation, and grassroots actions.
Taylor Family Foundation
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Taylor Family Foundation offers children with life threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities a therapeutic camp experience designed to enhance their quality of life.
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.
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.
Waterside Workshops
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Waterside Workshops empowers youth through vocational skills instruction, outdoor activities, and organizational and retail experience. Facilities include a wood workshop and a bicycle repair shop, as well as access to nearby Aquatic Park. Waterside Workshops also serves the Berkeley community with a bicycle sales and repair facility, a full-service wooden boat building shop, and the city’s only waterfront coffeehouse.
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.
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.
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.
Watershed Project
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Watershed Project increases awareness of San Francisco Bay, one of the world's greatest estuaries, and the most altered aquatic ecosystem in the United States. The Project demonstrates human impact on the Bay, and inspires community actions to protect and restore it.
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
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Santa Barbara Channelkeeper protects and restores the Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds. Channelkeeper monitors local waterways, repairs aquatic ecosystems, advocates for clean water, enforces environmental laws, and educates and engages citizens in identifying and resolving local pollution problems.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pogo Park
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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.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
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San Francisco Bicycle Coalition promotes the bicycle as everyday transportation. The Coalition offers free Urban Cycling Workshops, distribute hundreds of free bike lights and helmets to adults and children in underserved communities, and provide free, valet bike parking at major city events. The Coalition led campaigns to double the number of San Francisco bike lanes, and between 2006 and 2010, the number of city cyclists increased by 58%.
Save Mt. Diablo
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Save Mt. Diablo works to protect the land on and around Mount Diablo. Currently half of the area is preserved and the other half is at risk of being lost. Save Mt. Diablo conserves land through purchases, gifts, and cooperative efforts with public and private entities. The group also educates the public regarding the history and heritage of the mountain, its surrounding foothills and its watersheds.
Save the Bay
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Save the Bay protects San Francisco Bay from pollution and sprawl; restores habitat; and engages and inspires more than 25,000 supporters annually. For nearly 50 years, it has fought to stop raw sewage flowing untreated into the Bay, to prevent the Peripheral Canal from draining more of the Bay’s fresh water from upstream, and to close the garbage dumps ringing the shoreline. As a result, the size of the Bay has actually increased slightly, and public shoreline access has increased from four miles in 1969 to over 200 miles today.
Seacology
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Seacology preserves the highly endangered and rapidly disappearing biodiversity of the earth’s islands. The nonprofit works closely with islanders to conserve their natural resources and create crucial support systems. To date, Seacology has saved nearly 164,000 acres of island terrestrial habitat and over 1,800,000 acres of coral reef and marine habitat, and built or funded 80 schools, community centers, and other essential facilities.
Slide Ranch
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Slide Ranch is a nonprofit teaching farm located at a historic coastal dairy. The Ranch uses its organic gardens as well as its goats, sheep, chickens, and ducks to teach an appreciation for fresh healthy food, and the farms that grow it. Each year, thousands of Bay Area residents participate in Ranch Programs and learn about growing and preparing nutritious foods, and how to use natural resources sustainably.
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.
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.
Rocky Mountain Fields Institute
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Rocky Mountain Fields Institute addresses critical land preservation and restoration needs in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau. They provide hands-on learning opportunities and integrate education, research, and environmental stewardship into restoration projects for key natural areas.
Save the Poudre
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Save the Poudre works to restore the Cache la Poudre River to a healthy and vibrant condition by stopping destructive water projects, hosting river cleanups, and expanding scientific research about the Poudre’s ecological and economic role in Northern Colorado.
SOS Outreach
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SOS Outreach offers youth the opportunity to build character and self-esteem through outdoor adventure. Students practice an outdoor sport and explore SOS core values: courage, discipline, integrity, wisdom, and compassion.
Thorne Ecological Institute
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Thorne Ecological Institute educates business, government, and professional leaders about the principles of ecology and how they relate to economics, human welfare, and the health of the environment. Currently, the Institute focuses on building earth stewardship by connecting thousands of kids to nature through hands-on environmental education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tahoe Rim Trail Association
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Tahoe Rim Trail Association maintains and enhances the Tahoe Rim Trail system, which passes through three national forests, three wilderness areas, and one state park. The Association encourages environmental stewardship through volunteer programs, educational outreach, and community partnerships, and connects local high school student to the trails through a Youth Backcountry Scholarship Program.
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.
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.
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.
Western Lands Project
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Western Lands Project works to keep public lands public. They monitor federal land exchanges, sales, give-aways, and promote reform in related federal policies.
Wilderness Leadership and Learning
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Wilderness Leadership and Learning helps teenagers improve decision-making and life skills and develop leadership potential through hands-on experiences in wilderness and community “classrooms.” Students study climate change and erosion on Chesapeake Bay, learn U.S. history on the National Mall, and give back to their communities by volunteering with groups like the Anacostia Watershed Society.
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