America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with a mission to: explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth; practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
World Widlife Fund
Directs its conservation efforts toward three global goals: saving endangered species, protecting endangered habitats and addressing global threats such as toxic pollution, over-fishing and climate change. From working to save the giant panda and bringing back the Asian rhino to establishing and helping to manage parks and reserves worldwide, WWF has been a conservation leader for more than 40 years.
Green Party of the United States
US branch of the international third party that believes in progressive values such as grassroots democracy, ecological wisdom, social justice, equal opportunity, nonviolence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, future focus, and sustainability.
American Civil Liberties Union
Founded in 1920 to preserve the priniciples of representational government and individual rights, and to fight for your First Amendment rights (freedom of speech, association and assembly, press, and religion, supported by the strict separation of church and state), your right to equal protection under the law, your right to due process, and your right to privacy.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Donor-funded nonprofit that blends the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists to achieve significant legal victories on behalf of consumers and the general public in the field of digital rights.
Habitat for Humanity
Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action by building and rehabilitating simple decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable loans.
Heifer International
Established in 1944 to fight hunger and poverty all over the world. Instead of just providing relief, they supply families with livestock; a source of food rather than short-term relief.
International Campaign for Tibet
Nonprofit membership organization that works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet, through: monitoring and reporting on human rights, environmental and socioeconomic conditions in Tibet; advocating for Tibetans imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs; working with governments to develop policies and programs to help Tibetans; securing humanitarian and development assistance for Tibetans; mobilizing individuals and the international community to take action on behalf of Tibetans; and promoting self-determination for the Tibetan people through negotiations between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama.
Oxfam International
Worldwide organization that seeks increased public understanding that economic and social justice are crucial to sustainable development. Through development programs, emergency work, research, lobbying, and campaigning, they strive to be a global campaigning force promoting the awareness and motivation that comes with global citizenship while seeking to shift public opinion in order to make equity the same priority as economic growth.
TransFair USA
One of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace.