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Nonprofit Organizations
Through these nonprofit organizations that are Earth Protect’s resource partners, you can connect to others that share a concern about the environmental issues you care about.
You can easily participate in helping them achieve their missions through their programs, volunteering and making donations. We are proud to introduce you to them and encourage you to learn about them. Get involved, it's your world.
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36 Commuting Solutions
www.36commutingsolutions.org
36 Commuting Solutions is one of six transportation management associations (TMA) operating in the Denver metropolitan area. In total, more than 135 TMAs cooperate across the United States, sharing emerging information about transportation issues and rel ...
Africa Bridge
www.africabridge.org
Out of the hearts and minds of a small group of Africans and westerners, Africa Bridge was launched in the summer of 2000. The HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa serves as the foundation upon which a bridge can be built linking the western and African worlds - a b ...
Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
www.sustainablecolorado.org
The Alliance for Sustainable Colorado (“the Alliance”) was founded in 2004 on the belief that habitability of the planet is at risk, and that we need significant and immediate change to restore and protect the biological life support systems on which we a ...
Australia Koala Foundation
www.savethekoala.com
The Australian Koala Foundation is dedicated to protecting the wild koala and its habitat. The Foundation is primarily a scientific organisation and has funded one of the largest bodies of research into a single species in the world.
This research is ...
Australian Youth Climate Coalition
www.aycc.org.au
We're doing something that no-one's ever done in Australia before – bringing together youth organizations and thousands of individual young people to be a political force to be reckoned with on climate change.
Our mission is to build a generation-wide ...
Bermuda Environmental & Sustainability Taskforce (BEST)
www.best.org.bm
BEST is a non-profit, non-governmental,grassroots advocacy organization that promotes and champions sustainable practices for Bermuda's environment,economy and culture.
California Wildlife Center
www.californiawildlifecenter.org
California Wildlife Center (CWC) was founded as a wildlife rescue and rehabilitiation center in 1998. Our facilities are located on 3.5 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, just above Malibu. We have a state-of-the-art wildlife hospital and emergency roo ...
Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
www.caee.org
There is an enormous array of environmental education (EE) programming, and the effectiveness of that collective effort is as important as are the separate results of any individual program or project. The Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education (CA ...
Colorado Carbon Fund
www.coloradocarbonfund.org
The Colorado Carbon Fund, a voluntary carbon offset program, was developed by the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to develop a funding source for community-based clean energy and climate mitigation projects in Colorado.
It also supports Colorado’s clim ...
Earth Charter International Secretariat and Earth Chart...
www.EarthCharter.org
Earth Charter International (ECI) is the formal organization that facilitates and catalyses a number of efforts to promote the use of the Earth Charter in different fields and regions of the world. The Earth Charter International Secretariat is located in ...
Earth Force
www.earthforce.org
Earth Force is a national 501(c)(3) environmental education organization with headquarters in Denver, CO. We are passionate about young people finding their voice and assuming leadership roles in solving local environmental problems.
At the core of ou ...
EarthAction
www.EarthAction.org
Our Mission: Inform and inspire people everywhere to work together and turn their concern, passion, and outrage into meaningful action for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
EarthAction has worked, with much success, to preserve the g ...
Environmental Charter High School
www.echsonline.org
Environmental Charter High School was founded by a coalition of community members in 2000, as an alternative school of choice. It provides students with a personalized and rigorous learning environment where they will successfully prepare for college and ...
Focus the Nation
www.focusthenation.org
In order for us to seize the opportunities of a new era, we must have an educated, engaged and active population dedicated to enacting sustainable change. With the help of thousands of dedicated volunteers, partner organizations and a small staff, Focus t ...
Global Reboot
www.globalreboot.org
Global Reboot aims to stimulate a re-thinking of collective behaviors that we have come to accept as ‘normal’. Our society, as it has functioned and developed in the past 100-odd years, is in urgent need of being reinvented.
Our development model, bas ...
Global Volunteer Network Foundation
Global Volunteer Network Foundation works with community based organizations around the world to assist them in their development goals. Currently we have partner organizations in Peru, Nepal, Vietnam, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and H ...
Goodwill Social Work Centre
www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org
‘Goodwill social work’ is inclusive where children, youth, men and women participate in the social and economic life of their communities. It attempts to treat the symptoms through social protection, remove as far as possible the barriers to better social ...
Greater New Orleans Foundation
www.gnof.org
100 percent of all donations to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund will be granted to organizations working tirelessly in the effected areas. Our focus is to help fishermen and their families in the following parishes: Plaquemines, St. Bernard, lower Jefferson ...
Greening Australia
www.greeningaustralia.org.au
Greening Australia is committed to developing and delivering large scale environmental projects which will transform landscapes. These projects, our Visionary Projects, showcase what Greening Australia does so well.
Each project has a vision t ...
grownupgreen
www.grownupgreen.org.uk
Our formal charitable aims are "to advance public education in the protection and improvement of the natural environment and to raise awareness of activities which enable society to develop in a sustainable way."
We fully support the Brundtland Defini ...
Heal the Bay Featured
www.healthebay.org
In 1985, Los Angeles resident and environmental activist Dorothy Green assembled a group of concerned citizens to ensure that the Hyperion Treatment Plant near El Segundo maintained proper sewage treatment. The new organization pledged to work closely wit ...
HUMANBE
www.humanbe.com
Recognized as an organization working to build a more humane society, HUMANBE makes a real change in making every effort to build awareness of our interdependence. Present on social networks like FACEBOOK and TWITTER, HUMANBE also promotes the em ...
IDEP Foundation
www.idepfoundation.org
IDEP develops and delivers training, community programs and media about sustainable development through Permaculture, and community-based disaster management. For more than a decade IDEP has been delivering practical programs and public education activiti ...
invVEST
www.invvest.org
invVEST stands for: invest in Energy that's Sustainable thru Virtual Teams. invVEST is a politically and technologically neutral nonprofit organization. We need significant investment of our nation's mindshare, resources & time for handing over a vibr ...
Learning Through Doing Adventures
www.ltdanp.org
LEARN, LEARN, LEARN - What? So What? Now What?
–Learning is a life long process validated and reinforced through experience, teaching successes and falling forward.
LEARN – Lazy, Egotistical, Arrogant, Rebellious, Naïve
What?
Lab ...
Northwest Earth Institute
www.nwei.org
Northwest Earth Institute: Inspiring Action, Building Community and Empowering Citizen Leaders Citizens, employers, educators, and government are waking up to the need for rapid and thoughtful change within cultural, operational and technological realms ...
Orangutan Outreach
redapes.org
Orangutan Outreach is a registered US charity based in New York City. The primary goals of the organization are
1) to bring attention to the crisis facing orangutans in the wild due to deforestation and the spreading of palm oil plantations in their ...
Orca Network
www.orcanetwork.org
Orca Network's Whale Sighting Network is a unique and effective way to increase knowledge about Northwest whales. Through the Sighting Network, reports of whales are gathered and emailed to network participants, and posted on our website.
Participants ...
Recycle Hawai`i
www.recyclehawaii.org
Recycle Hawai`i is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization serving Hawai`i Island. We currently offer free public recycling educational services to schools and in the community. The mission of Recycle Hawai`i is to promote resource awareness and ...
Roots and Shoots, A Program of the Jane Goodall Institu... Featured
www.rootsandshoots.org
Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds of thousands of root ...
Sea Turtle Conservancy
www.conserveturtles.org
The Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization based in Florida with offices and projects in several other locations. STC is the oldest and most accomplished sea turtle organization in the world! Since its founding in 1959, STC ...
Social Change Film Festival & Institute
www.socialchangefilmfestival.org
The Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI) is a global community with a local presence, promoting transformative filmmaking & fostering social change. SCFFI features four days of films, panels, workshops, selected shorts and special ev ...
Somali Community Access Network- SomaliCAN
www.somalican.org
About SomaliCAN: Somali Community Access Network-SomaliCAN- is a 501 (c) (3) community-based non-profit organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, which has the second largest Somali population in the United States.
SomaliCAN provides culturally an ...
Stella Nova Dance Company
www.stellanovadance.org
Stella Nova Dance Company has decided to go green, just in time for the rest of the world to also be talking about this crucial concept in our world. The production will tackle issues such as global warming, humans in relationship to the environment, and ...
Sustainable Arizona
www.SustainableArizona.org
Sustainable Arizona is a resource, education and action organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Arizona and the Southwest. We work with businesses, individuals, governments and other organizations to build resilient economies, strong ...
The Colorado Governor’s Energy Office
www.colorado.gov/energy
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., issued an Executive Order on April 16, 2007, re-creating the Governor’s Office of Energy Management and Conservation (originally created in 1977 to promote energy conservation in Colorado) as the Governor’s Energy Offic ...
The Lung Connection, Inc.
www.thelungconnection.org
The Lung Connection is the first lung transplant recovery house in the country. The TLC houses are unique in that each unit is completely separate from neighboring units. Each of these is a 2-bed, 2-bath with full kitchens, fully furnished and provisioned ...
The Trailblazer Foundation Featured
www.thetrailblazerfoundation.org
Having witnessed the difficulty that people in many developing countries have in meeting their basic needs, and believing in the ability for each of us to make a difference, Chris & Scott Coats established The Trailblazer Foundation in 2004.
Scott ...
The Wild Dolphin Project
www.wilddolphinproject.org
The Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) was founded by Dr. Denise Herzing in 1985 after identifying the need for pristine underwater data collection to research dolphins. It is engaged in a long-term scientific study of a specific pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins ...
The World Trust Foundation
www.worldtrust.org
"Mentoring the Future Leaders and Giving Youth a Voice!" The World Trust Foundation has been working since 1994 to create a place for collaboration instead of competition in the nonprofit arena, and, to empower youth around the world to come together, loc ...
Tirimbina Rainforest Center
www.tirimbina.org
TRC is an internationally recognized, non-profit organization created to conserve the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica; provide environmental education to the local community, students and ecotourists; and accommodate scientific research.
Located wi ...
Tree Musketeers
www.treemusketeers.org
Thirteen Brownie Girl Scouts sat around the freshly planted Marcie the Marvelous Tree on May 9, 1987 dreaming up a plan to help the Earth. The third graders set out on a journey that came to be known as Tree Musketeers - a youth environmental organizatio ...
True Media Foundation
www.truemediafoundation.org
True Media foundation assist other non-profits to meet the challenge of getting their message out to their target audiences, and help them generate maximum results through effective story-telling.
Each project varies depending on the specific needs of ...
UCLA Center for Tropical Research
www.ioe.ucla.edu/ctr/IRTC_Ecuador.html
Center for Tropical Research is based at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment. Since 2002, we have been working hand in hand with local residents to save rain forests in Latin America. Although we are active in the Amazon and other areas, the focus of our ...
Unity Through Creativity
www.UnityThroughCreativity.net
Unity Through Creativity trains people in collaboration, conflict resolution and problem solving through systematic action, the creation of powerful visual statements and the dramatic telling of stories that center on themes that are important to communit ...
Village Earth Featured
www.villageearth.org
Background
The roots of Village Earth reach back to 1961, when Dr. Maurice Albertson, cofounder of Village Earth and Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), worked with Sargeant Shriver to establi ...
Visionary Youth Ghana
www.visionaryyouthghana.org
We undertake youth-centered projects that focus on human dignity, sustainable development, social and economic justice, sexual and reproductive health. The projects are most educational and interactive in nature.
At Visionary Youth Ghana, we believe ...
