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For over 30 years, NYC Outward Bound Schools has been transforming schools and changing lives by bringing out the best in students, teachers and school leaders throughout the City. We transform schools and change lives by bringing our educational approach to NYC’s young people and their public schools, with a focus on students from educationally underserved communities. Our uniquely powerful approach joins together demanding and engaging learning with an emphasis on community and character. We prepare students for success in college, careers, and citizenship, while simultaneously working to redefine what educational excellence looks like in New York City’s public schools. Every day, we are proving that all students, regardless of background or circumstance, are capable of achieving at high levels and that transformation and innovation can happen within the public school system.  

Our Mission is to engage, educate, and inspire youth from urban and diverse backgrounds through science-based exploration of the ocean and nature, preparing them to be tomorrow's scientific and environmental leaders. Our Vision is to empower these young people to protect our ocean and natural environment, improve the health of our communities, and strengthen the quality of life in our world.

Using the ocean as our classroom, we inspire children to learn.

The mission of the Government Accountability Project is to protect the public interest through promoting government and corporate accountability, advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers and empowering citizen activists. We pursue this mission through our Nuclear Safety, International Reform, Corporate Accountability, Public Health & Safety, Food Integrity, Homeland Security, Climate Science Watch, Litigation, and Legislation programs.

Rocking the Boat empowers young people challenged by severe economic, educational, and social conditions to develop the self-confidence to set ambitious goals and gain the skills necessary to achieve them.  Students work together to build wooden boats, learn to row and sail, and restore local urban waterways, revitalizing their community while creating better lives for themselves. Kids don’t just build boats at Rocking the Boat, boats build kids.

Kentucky Coalition, alongside our sister organization Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, is a community of people inspired by a vision of a thriving society where people are free from oppression and where racial, economic and environmental justice exists for all. Guided by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and others directly impacted by oppression, Kentucky Coalition and KFTC organizes Kentuckians to dismantle racism, strengthen democracy, and transform the future of our Commonwealth.

TreeFolks empowers Central Texans to build stronger communities by planting and caring for trees.

Recover, restore and protect the lower Malibu Creek watershed and historical wetland in the heart of Malibu. Educate the general public about the wetland and riparian ecosystem, promote and restore clean and safe water for purposes of recreation, habitat and food sources.

To partner with our community to inspire stewardship of the Gallatin River Watershed

We are a non profit group that whom's mission is to enhance the lives of pets and their owners. Our biggest goal is to have a dog park built in our city to allow for pets to have a place to train, play, and spend family time.

Founded in 1947 to promote beautification and to maintain and enhance the natural residential attractiveness of the Toluca Lake area, to aid in the protection of plants and trees, and to create an interest in more beautiful gardens.

SaveNature.Org’s mission is to link people to save wildlife and wild places through the purchase and protection of habitat in nature. SaveNature’s goal is to bring educational equality to those underserved in our community increasing the opportunity for real and personal environmental stewardship for this generation and future generations. Our educational outreach programs provide a pathway for children to wonder and develop an anchor of belonging to their natural environment. Ultimately building a foundation to ensure youth take responsibility for creating a positive change in their lives, in their community, and, in the world.