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Thompson Island Outward Bound is a not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose is to provide adventurous and challenging experiential learning programs that inspire character development, compassion, community service, environmental responsibility, and academic achievement. Our organization principally serves early adolescents from all economic and social communities of greater metropolitan Boston, and the institutions and adults who serve them.

Founded in 2004, Quail Springs is a leading educational non-profit that resides on a 450-acre permaculture demonstration site on the traditional homelands of the Chumash people in Cuyama Valley, California. Our mission is to empower students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills, and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health in a rapidly changing world. Quail Springs teaches strategies and techniques instrumental for designing and building resilient, affordable, and carbon-neutral housing as well as ecologically sound and sovereign food systems. We are connected to an expansive local and international network of leading-edge practitioners. We envision an equitable global community that shares the bounty of this living planet and the responsibility to tend to its health. We believe the most effective way to foster positive change is through our relationships, both with one another and our ecologies.

NYCHSF introduces plant-based foods and nutrition education in schools to educate the whole school community. NYCHSF – Changing how schools feed kids.

Urban Woodlands Community Gardens, Inc. dba The Lotus Garden is a not-for-profit corporation in the city of New York. It is organized for the following purposes: Creating and maintaining the Lotus Garden for community use and enjoyment. Providing general opportunities for neighborhood residents of the Upper West Side of Manhattan to use and enjoy the garden. Providing for community programs for special interest groups and neighborhood residents to use, enjoy, and participate in garden activities.

Solar Youth’s mission is to empower youth from New Haven’s high-poverty neighborhoods to achieve lifelong success. We do this through our unique program model which includes LONG-TERM supportive relationships, and programs that happen IN their neighborhoods where youth EXPLORE their ENVIRONMENT, become PROBLEM-SOLVERS and practice LEADERSHIP. Founded in 2000, Solar Youth has served over 3,000 children aged 4 to 18+. In the coming years we are looking to expand to serve MORE youth, and serve them BETTER - ensuring they have the on-going strategic supports to (1) graduate from high school; (2) with a post-HS plan; (3) prepared for success.

The Friends of the Public Garden, a parks advocacy organization founded in 1970, has a mission to preserve, protect and enhance Boston's first three public parks: the Boston Common, the Public Garden, and the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in partnership with the City of Boston Parks Department.

The mission of the North Olympic Salmon Coalition is to promote robust wild salmon stocks for families, fishers, and local economies by furthering habitat restoration and education on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Our mission is to respond to individuals' and communities' need for accurate, timely, and trusted public health information and health services associated with natural gas extraction.

We empower people, organizations and communities statewide to create a zero waste lifestyle by building successful models and practices that promote reuse, recycling and resource conservation.

Our “Mission”: To eliminate hunger and food waste while improving nutrition in food insecure communities.Core ValuesCommunityWe share a common goal among our collaborative partners to help feed people in need. IntegrityWe adhere to a strict moral and ethical standard in staying true to our mission.ResponsibilityWe strive to be an example of how to promote social and environmental equity.AdaptabilityWe continue listening, learning, and growing as needs change and opportunities arise

To foster a community spirit of shared responsibility for the stewardship and restoration of public, protected, and ecologically important lands.

Columbia Gorge Earth Center - DBA Gorge Owned (GO!) is a member-supported organization helping people invest in a strong local economy, healthy environment and vibrant community in the Columbia River Gorge. We believe that connecting people to information and resources will lead to citizen empowerment, driving community investment, engagement and positive change.