1000 Friends of Maryland supports a new pattern of development that preserves the rich array of Maryland's natural resources, maintains and revitalizes its existing communities and a smart growth plan, and protects historic resources and integrates them into the life of the community.

1Sky was created in 2007 to focus the power of millions of concerned Americans on a single goal: bold federal action by 2010 that can reverse global warming. 1Sky proposes climate change solutions that are grounded in scientific necessity and represent significant economic promise. The 1Sky community brings together a diverse range of individuals and organizations to advocate a clean energy economy, relieve our dependence on foreign oil, unlock the potential of sustainable industry, and usher in a new era of prosperity and green jobs.

350.org is an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action. 350 represents the parts per million carbon dioxide concentration that leading scientists, including Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, have now set as an upper threshold for a safe climate. International climate negotiations are now focused on targets that are scientifically inaccurate and dangerously inadequate. Their mission is to move the goalpost, to make sure that the world is aiming for a target that will actually avert dangerous climate change. In the next two years they want to embed the number 350 deeply in public consciousness"make it ubiquitous across societies, languages, and ideologies.

The Acoustic Ecology Institute works to increase personal and social awareness of our sound environment, through education programs in schools, regional events, and our internationally recognized website, AcousticEcology.org, a comprehensive clearinghouse for information on sound-related environmental issues and scientific research. On public policy questions, we tend toward the precautionary principle (erring on the side of caution while awaiting definitive research). Our over-arching goal is to help find pragmatic ways to bridge the gaps between extreme positions voiced by advocacy-oriented organizations, and so to contribute toward the development of ethical public policies regarding sound.

Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice, was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1998. Our mission is: "To develop, encourage, and widely disseminate innovative ideas, and pioneer models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy!"

The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa,
works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.

The Alaska Coalition is a coalition of over 500 conservation, sporting, and religious groups working to protect Alaska's public lands. We work to safeguard the health of Alaska's public lands, from the tundra of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in far Northeast Alaska to the coastal rainforest of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska's panhandle.

Alaska Conservation Alliance works to protect Alaska 's air, land and water by empowering Alaskans to participate effectively in the civic arena.

The League exists to lead the effort to preserve Alaska’s wilderness by engaging citizens, sharing resources, collaborating with other organizations, educating the public, and providing a courageous, constant and victorious voice for Alaska in the nation’s capital.

The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.

To work with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. It is the only U.S.-based, group dedicated solely to overcoming the greatest threats facing birds in the Western Hemisphere. A growing human population, consuming ever greater resources, is critically impacting bird populations through habitat destruction, direct mortality from such harmful practices as the unwise use of pesticides, and the introduction of destructive species including domestic cats. ABC believes adequate resources exist to overcome these threats, and that unifying people, organizations, and agencies around common approaches to priority issues is the key to success.

American Hiking is the only national organization dedicated to serving hikers and protecting the nation's hiking trails. From the halls of Congress to the backcountry, AHS speaks up for America's hikers and the trails they love.

The American Independent Business Alliance helps organizers start and sustain Independent Business Alliances (IBAs).

The American River Conservancy's mission is to serve our community by protecting and enhancing natural habitats where biodiversity can flourish. Through education we promote a broad ethic of stewardship, assuring healthy ecosystems now and for future generations. The Conservancy acquires critical wildlife and plant habitat by purchasing or accepting donations of land from willing landowners.

American Rivers is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring rivers nationwide. Founded over 25 years ago in a dusty Denver office, today they have offices in Washington, DC and across the country.

Appalachian Voices brings people together to solve the environmental problems having the greatest impact on the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. Our mission is to empower people to defend our region's rich natural and cultural heritage by providing them with tools and strategies for successful grassroots campaigns.

Appalachian Voices' members, donors, volunteers, staff, and board work to fight air pollution, end mountaintop removal mining, protect public lands, and promote private lands stewardship. As the only organization dedicated exclusively to defending the central and southern Appalachians, we believe these four interconnected campaigns represent the major threats to our region. We are member-based and promote individual and community involvement in the important environmental decisions facing our neighbors throughout the region.

Awen Grove’s Mission: Bring the inspiration, wisdom and beauty of
nature to benefit people’s lives and the Earth, resulting in greater
bio-diversity, health and fulfillment for all living things.

The mission of BACH is to educate and build support in the Bay Area and other urban areas for the preservation of a biologically viable redwood forest. BACH connects local environmentalists with forest activists to preserve the old growth redwood ecosystem, with real solutions for forest workers and communities.

Mission Statement: To create opportunities for urban youth to experience wilderness first hand. BAWT exists as a vital, comprehensive and ongoing source of support to agencies that lead youth wilderness trips. We believe that urban youth, once exposed to wilderness, have a broadened sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them. BAWT extends it services to the eight counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. We hope other organizations will take this vision to the rest of the country and the larger world. BAWT's primary strategy for achieving its mission is to provide Bay Area youth agency staff with wilderness leadership training and outdoor equipment so that they, along with the youth they serve, may explore the power and beauty of California's wilderness.

The mission of Baykeeper is to protect and enhance the water quality of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary and its tributaries for the benefit of its ecosystems and human communities.

Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future. Beyond Nuclear advocates for an energy future that is sustainable, benign and democratic.

The Biodiversity Project's mission is to advocate for biodiversity by designing and implementing innovative communication strategies that build and motivate a broad constituency to protect biodiversity.

The Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to outreach and education about the importance of the Boreal Forest region to North America's birds. BSI works to mobilize environmental and birding groups and individuals to influence Canadian government and industry policies.

The California Environmental Rights Alliance is a public interest organization dedicated to achieving environmental justice and improving community health in California. CERA seeks to protect and enhance public health through the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution in California’s most heavily burdened communities.

CLCV's mission is to protect the environmental quality of the state by increasing public awareness of the environmental performance of all elected officials, working to elect environmentally responsible candidates, and holding them accountable to the environmental agenda once elected.

Celebrating its five-year anniversary, the Campaign for America's Wilderness works to protect the nation's remaining wild lands to ensure an enduring legacy of wilderness for future generations. We join with state and local partners to raise public awareness of our special wild lands and to secure dependable, permanent protection for wild lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other federal agencies. Since the Campaign was launched in 2002, Congress has added or expanded 74 wilderness areas across nine state -- boosting the National Wilderness Preservation System by 2.4 million acres.

It is the mission of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation to ensure the survival of sea turtles within the Wider Caribbean basin and Atlantic through research, education, training, advocacy and the protection of the natural habitats upon which they depend.

The Center for a Sustainable Coast was formed in 1997 by a group of public-spirited environmental professionals and concerned citizens. The purpose of the organization is to improve the responsible use, protection, and conservation of this region's resources - natural, historic, and economic. The Center for a Sustainable Coast works to protect, preserve, and sustain coastal Georgia's vital natural, cultural, and economic resources.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) is the only national environmental organization that was founded and is led by a grassroots leader. Lois Gibbs founded CHEJ after winning the nation’s first community relocation of 900 families due to a leaking toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York. Through this effort she also woke up the nation to recognize the link between people’s exposures to dangerous chemicals in the community setting and serious public health impacts.

The goal of Charity Guide is to inspire and facilitate more than one million acts of kindness per year. That means: more blood donated, more trash recycled correctly, more teddy bears for orphans, less drunk driving, less wasted junk mail... In all, ONE MILLION more of the actions that a busy person can do to make a difference.

The Chesapeake Climate Action Network
is the first grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to educate and mobilize citizens of this region in a way that fosters a rapid societal switch to clean energy and energy-efficient products, thus joining similar efforts worldwide to slow and perhaps halt the dangerous trend of global warming.

We are in the business of solving the global warming problem, developing economically efficient and innovative climate policies and mobilizing civic engagement to implement practical climate solutions.

Climate Solutions mission is to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides.
Our regional organizing approach is transforming the global warming debate in the region and laying the groundwork for a successful, multi-stakeholder climate action agenda. We’re generating fresh political momentum for energy and transportation solutions that benefit the region’s economy and quality-of-life.
Global warming is our generation’s greatest challenge and solving it is our greatest opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous future.

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. CODEPINK rejects the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence.

CAFR's purpose is to develop economic, political, and social conditions state-wide that advance and promote the conservation of natural resources through reducing, reusing, and recycling materials which would otherwise become waste.

Colorado Environmental Coalition unites Coloradans to protect our natural heritage and quality of life. Every year, the Coalition mobilizes scores of organizations and hundreds individuals who, like you, care deeply about Colorado. From soccer moms to steelworkers, from students to ranchers, from commuters to backpackers enjoying the world-famous Rocky Mountains, the Coalition's membership is as diverse as our state.

Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.

Common Vision's mission is to cultivate ecological awareness and respect for the Earth while generating social and environmental changes towards sustainable lifestyles. We integrate concepts of ecology with the traditions, music, and art of cultures that live or have lived in harmony with the Earth.
Founded in 1999, Common Vision is a solution-focused nonprofit organization, a project of International Humanities Center.

The Connecticut Farmland Trust is the only private statewide conservation organization dedicated solely to permanently protecting Connecticut's farmland.

Connecticut Fund for the Environment, founded in 1978, is the state’s nonprofit legal champion for the environment. CFE utilizes law, science, and education to better air and water quality, control toxic contamination, minimize the adverse impacts of highways and traffic congestion, protect public water supplies, and preserve the open space and wetlands so crucial to both the state’s citizens and its wildlife.

The Connecticut League of Conservation Voters (CTLCV) is a bi-partisan, statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Connecticut's environment by making it a priority for our elected leaders and holding them accountable for their positions. The Connecticut League of Conservation Voters has three distinct entities, each with unique legal parameters, activities, and fundraising requirements.

Connecticut NOFA is the Connecticut Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Connecticut NOFA is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the practices of ecologically sound farming and gardening, and to the development of local sustainable agriculture. Our efforts give consumers increased access to safe and healthy food. Connecticut NOFA is a growing community of farmers, gardeners, land care professionals, and consumers that encourages a healthy relationship to the natural world.

Conservation Minnesota works with you to protect our lands, lakes and way of life. With dependable information and effective tools, we make it easy for Minnesotans to help their elected leaders make responsible decisions and make a difference that will last for generations.

Since 1989 Conservation Northwest has worked to protect and connect old-growth forests and other wild areas from the Washington Coast to the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia for the benefit of wildlife and people.

The mission of the Conservation Trust for Florida is to protect the rural landscapes of Florida. We focus on farms, ranches, working forests, and natural areas that provide landscape connections.