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THE FOUNDATION ASPIRES TO FACILITATE THE USE OF SOLAR ENERGY IN POOR COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD WHERE HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE SUN WILL ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES. tHE FOUNDATION HELPS INSTALL SOLAR POWER IN SOME OF THE POOREST PARTS OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA: PLACES THAT ARE RICH IN THEIR ACCESS TO THE SUN BUT LACK FUNDAMENTAL RESOURCES.

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.

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

To provide financial and staffing support to the Nisqually River Council as it implements the Nisqually Watershed Stewardship Plan. The mission of the Nisqually River Council is to create sustainability in the Nisqually Watershed for current and future generations by developing a common culture of environmental, social, and economic balance.

To advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and restoration

The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action.

Unite to Light aims to bring light to people without electricity across the world. The organization focuses on the neediest of the needy: children learning to read, midwives and health clinics, and disaster response. Founded in 2010, Unite to Light has delivered 75,000 lights to 65 countries.

To empower grassroots efforts and build strategic partnerships that preserve, protect, and enhance California's urban and community forests.

The Santa Barbara Zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research and recreation.

WildAid's mission is to end the illegal wildlife trade in our lifetimes by reducing demand through global public awareness campaigns, and by providing comprehensive marine protection.

The Walden Woods Project was founded in 1990 to protect land of ecological and historic significance surrounding Walden Pond. At that time nearly half of the Walden Woods' 2,680 acres remained unprotected from development. Two large tracts of land (a total of 43 acres) were under immediate threat as developers sought to construct an office park and a large condominium complex in close proximity to Walden Pond. In January 1991, the Walden Woods Project raised enough money to buy the 25-acre Bear Garden Hill site. A few years later, the Project acquired a second parcel, known as Brister?s Hill. In 1998, the Walden Woods Project opened The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods containing over 8,000 volumes and 60,000 items of Thoreau-related materials and launched its two trademark teacher education programs, Approaching Walden and Finding Walden.

Working in partnership with the community to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural resources of the Santa Monica Mountains for the benefit of the environment and for present and future generations through: land acquisition and conservation easements; habitat preservation and restoration; and research and education.