Community Action
NBIS - Network for Business Innovation & Sustainability Featured
The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) is a nonprofit organization founded to help businesses and organizations implement sustainable practices that increase revenues, reduce risk and uncertainty, and enhance reputation. NBIS' programs include "Accelerating Sustainability" - an intelligent structure for quick-starting or accelerating business strategies for triple bottom line success; peer networking across industries; workshops, forums and training events; progams to link ...
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1Sky
1Sky is a highly collaborative national campaign to ensure bold federal action to tackle global warming and create a 21st century green economy.
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2012 Time for Change
A new feature documentary presenting an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 heralds the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, wher ...
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Arena Stage
This Spring, Arena Stage presents
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE written and directed by D.W. Jacobs, from the life, work and writings of R. Buckminster Fuller from May 28 - July 4, 2010.
Does humanity have a chance to survive on Spaceship Earth? Explore this question with Renaissance man R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. Join us for an unforgettable journey inside one of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century in a dazzling, virtu ...
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BALLE Seattle
BALLE Seattle is dedicated to connecting, educating and promoting King County businesses supporting Local Living Economies. We are part of an international alliance of 63 independently operated local business networks with more than 20,000 members dedicated to building Local Living Economies.
We are a member-supported organization led by volunteers dedicated to growing sustainable communities.
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Bright Endeavors - Dreambean Candles
It is the vision and mission of Bright Endeavors to break the cycle of poverty experienced by inner city, homeless and at-risk young women and prevent the perpetual cycle of poverty occurring in the lives of older adults and their children. By offering supportive services and work experience through our social enterprise, Dreambean Candles, these at-risk women have an opportunity to create a foundation for healthy, self-sufficient futures.
Dreambean Candles is an eco-friendly and socially res ...
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Casey Trees
Restoring, enhancing, and protecting the tree canopy of the Nation's Capital.
Casey Trees plants trees throughout the District through its Community Tree Planting program, offers year round education and volunteer opportunities, develops interactive online tools, and provides planning and design resources for residents, businesses, developers and policy makers.
To learn more about Casey Trees or to take advantage of its many programs - most of which are free - visit www.caseytrees.org.
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Cass Community Social Services
Cass Community Social Services employs homeless men to pick up tires that have been abandoned on vacant lots in Detroit. They cut the tires into strips and then assemble them with colorful beads into doormats which last a lifetime. This program creates jobs while cleaning up the environment.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, they should be informed about the problems and choices that they face. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options.
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Citizens Climate Lobby
Citizens Climate Lobby is a volunteer organization, which believes that our national policy on climate change should be a match for the science. Toward that end, we offer legislation that will achieve the critical goals needed to avert catastrophic climate change. We believe this legislation can achieve these goals while at the same time shielding Americans from the financial impact of transitioning to a clean-energy economy.
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Community Alliance for Global Justice
Community Alliance for Global Justice is a grassroots, membership-based organization in Seattle that was organized to continue the creative, collective action of the 1999 WTO protests. CAGJ’s dedicated volunteers contribute their skills, time and money to work for a just local and global economy. CAGJ currently has three programs: Food Justice Project, AGRA Watch and Trade Justice.
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Community and Economic Development Association (CEDA) o...
Our Mission Statement
To work in partnership with communities to empower families and individuals to achieve self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life.
Community Action Promise:
Community Action changes people’s lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and makes America a better place to live.
We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.
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Compassionate Cooks
Compassionate Cooks is dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices and to debunking myths about vegetarianism and animal rights through cooking classes, recipes and resources, workshops and lectures, articles and essays, a cooking DVD, the popular Vegetarian Food for Thought podcast, and Colleen's cookbooks, the award-winning The Joy of Vegan Baking and the new The Vegan Table. Compassionate Cooks gives people the tools and resources they need to prevent disease, optimize their ...
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Cool the Earth
Cool The Earth is a ready-to-run program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and inspires them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions. The program is successful because it’s fun and empowering for the kids, and their enthusiasm is contagious!
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Council on Humane Giving
The Council on Humane Giving is administered by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). PCRM promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
The Humane Charity Seal of Approval is the easiest way for donors to spot charities that are committed to providing vital services and care to patients or advancing research without the use of animals. With a rapidly expanding and diversifying list of app ...
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David Brower Center
The nonprofit David Brower Center is a vibrant place that inspires, sustains, and brings together people committed to environmental and social action. The Center offers educational and arts programs, stunning conference and event facilities, and high-quality office space for nonprofits — all in the greenest building in Berkeley.
It is named to honor David Brower, a Berkeley native who many consider the father of the modern environmental movement. One of the Bay Area’s most advanced green ...
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District Department of the Environment
The Mission of the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) is to protect and restore the environment, conserve natural resources, provide energy related policy, planning, direct services, and improve the quality of life in the District of Columbia.
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Earthjustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.
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EarthSave Chicago
We're helping to create a healthier and more compassionate city and region by encouraging a shift toward a plant-based diet. In particular, we're promoting a special event that will be held in Chicago this October called Chicago VeganMania that with showcase Chicago's vegan community, culture, commerce, and, of course, food.
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Ecolocity/TransitionDC
Ecolocity is a grassroots group, organized around sustainability: environmental, social and economic. We're like connective tissue, trying to bind all the existing efforts together into a cohesive whole; or like stem cells which can morph into required structures and functions as the conditions require. Primarily we are interested in stimulating, catalyzing thinking leading to action that addresses specific issues rather than prolonged discussion, waiting on authorities and finding every reason ...
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Environmental, Outreach, & Stewardship (EOS) Alliance
We work to reduce the human impacts of climate change, increase urban biodiversity, and conserve our natural resources. To do this we offer technical trainings for environmental professionals, environmental restoration work parties, environmental awareness events for the general public and after school environmental education lessons to K-12 grade students.
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Friendly Fundraising Inc
We are an eco-friendly green company that specializes in safe and educational fundraising for schools and organizations. We have made this an easy and almost effortless way to fundraise 365 days a year! All purchases are made online, and we carry a wide variety of products including clothing and solar backpacks.
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Great Lakes Forever
Great Lakes Forever connects citizens to the Great Lakes through programs and outreach events. Visit the Great Lakes Forever booth to see what you can do in your home to help improve the health of the Lakes. While you’re there, enter the 6th annual Great Lakes photo contest.
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Green Society
The Green Society is an internet nexus identifying and offering all that is needed for a thriving human experience.
We've created an alternative economy, based on Sacred Commerce, that works for everyone while maintaining a reverence & collective stewardship for Earth.
We are a network of socially-responsible persons and businesses that offer green products and holistic services to each other and the World.
You'll find in our Green Society Marketplace conscious products that can be pur ...
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Green the Capitol
Green the Capitol is working on making the House of Representatives a model of sustainability through energy efficiency, resource conservation and individual awareness and we are using our place to lead by example.
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Greenpeace
Join Greenpeace at the 2010 Greenfest to find out how you can be a part of the movement. Current campaigns include increasing chemical security for a better tomorrow.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Our core values are reflected in our environmental campaign work: We 'bear witness' to environmental destruction in a peaceful, non-violent manner. We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate. In exposing threats to the env ...
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Heifer International
Heifer’s mission is to end hunger and poverty while caring for the earth. For more than 60 years, Heifer International has provided livestock and environmentally sound agricultural training to improve the lives of those who struggle daily for reliable sources of food and income. And since 1944, we have helped 48 million people through training in livestock development and livestock gifts that multiply.
Every gift of an animal provides direct benefits such as milk, eggs, wool, fertilizer, as w ...
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Humane Seal
The Humane Charity Seal of Approval is the easiest way for donors to spot charities that are committed to providing vital services and care to patients or advancing research without the use of animals.
People who donate to charities want to know where their money is going. For many, a key concern is whether their donations might fund animal experiments. In fact, over 65 percent of adults recently surveyed said they would be more likely to donate to a health charity that had a policy of never ...
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Illinois Ballot Integrity Project
The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is a not-for-profit, non-partisan civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies and to ensuring fair, accurate, and completely transparent elections.
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Light Gives Heat
Light Gives Heat is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Light Gives Heat is about choosing and spreading HOPE! Right now we have two sustainable fashion projects: Suubiâ„¢ and Epohâ„¢. Both projects offer weekly consistent incomes to people in Uganda, Africa and utilize recycled materials!
Mission: Empowering Africans through the encouragement of economic sustainability and creative endeavors. Motivating people in the West to “be the change they want to see in the world.â€
Vision: To s ...
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Lights for Learning
The Lights for Learning™ Program is an education-based outreach and fundraising program designed to develop children’s awareness of energy efficiency and its vast resources. Program presentations empower children to make the connection between energy use, environmental degradation, and climate change, clarifying the need for energy efficiency and conservation.
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MoveOn - Chicago 9th District and South Suburban Counci...
MoveOn's local Councils in the Chicagoland area work through petitioning, personal contact, rallies, letter writing and education. We are devoted to bettering the nation -- that includes the environment, our government, the economy, health care, the Supreme Court and promoting a peaceful world. Some 190,000 people belong to MoveOn in Illinois. There are eight active councils.
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Net Impact Seattle Professional Chapter
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world. We offer a portfolio of programs to educate, equip, and inspire more than 10,000 members to make a tangible difference in their universities, organizations, and communities.
Spanning six continents, our membership makes up one of the most influential networks of MBAs, graduate students, and profes ...
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Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBI...
The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS,) is dedicated to enabling professionals and businesses in driving profitable sustainability. NBIS leverages the powerful capacity of business to generate profit while simultaneously acting as a change agent to benefit people and the planet (the triple bottom line). NBIS programs offer business leaders with leading edge implementation strategies, networking and peer learning opportunities.
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Northwest Biodiesel Network
The purpose of the Northwest Biodiesel Network is to promote the use and benefits of Biodiesel, through awareness campaigns, educational programs, and specific initiatives.
We are a 501(c)(3) Educational Nonprofit, that is dedicated to providing information to the public on Biodiesel issues, use & availability. The NWBD Network represents no one Biodiesel supplier or industry sector; Our goal is to get the best and most current information out to the public in the form of Monthly Meetings, Ta ...
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NW Indiana/Chicago Area CodePINK Women for Peace
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. CODEPINK rejects foreign policies based on domination and aggression, and instead calls for policies based on diplomacy, compassion and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and ...
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Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. As a part of our work supporting poor communities worldwide, we are undertaking a campaign to ensure that oil, gas and mining projects respect the rights of poor people and contribute to the long-term reduction of poverty.
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Pacific Environment
Pacific Environment is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities and reforming international policies. For nearly two decades, we have partnered with local communities around the Pacific Rim to protect and preserve the ecological treasures of this vital region. Visit www.pacificenvironment.org to learn more about our work.
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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum inspire people to learn about and care for nature and the environment. The Academy improves quality of life in Chicago and the region by delivering superior environmental and science education programs to students and teachers, by offering Museum exhibitions and conducting public programs that foster green living, and by restoring local ecosystems and advancing scientific knowledge through collections and research.
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People For Puget Sound
We're a citizens' group established in 1991 by Kathy Fletcher to protect and restore the health of our land and waters through education and action. Our members, partners and volunteers are located throughout the Puget Sound basin.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) works to make the world a greener place for all its inhabitants by promoting a sustainable, eco-friendly vegan lifestyle. PETA’s efforts also include campaigns to protect animals exploited for entertainment and experimentation, wildlife, and our animal companions. To learn more, visit PETA.org.
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Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance’s mission is to protect and preserve Puget Sound by stopping the discharge of illegal pollution. To achieve its mission, PSA actively monitors Puget Sound water quality by boat, enforces the Clean Water Act, engages with stakeholders and regulators and implements solution-oriented partnerships with the business community.
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Rebuilding Alliance
The Rebuilding Alliance is dedicated to rebuilding war-torn communities and make them safe. Our Vision is a just and enduring peace in Israel and Palestine, funded upon equal value, security, and opportunity for all.
Come and taste three amassing varieties of Organic Extra Vergin Olive Oil and Za'atar Fair Trade from Palestine.
Global Giving has selected our Rebuilding projects for a Challenge Grant. At Green Festival donate to one of the projects and receive a thank you gift of Organic ...
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Recipe for Change by EnviroFriendly Foundation
Recipe for change is a non-profit greeting card company. We produce recipe greeting cards. We also produce greeting cards featuring the work of local artists and photographers. If you are an artist, photographer or non-profit company, you can donate a recipe or image to the foundation and we will produce a line of fundraising greeting cards just for you. The service will be free to participants meeting our qualification guidelines. Proceeds from the sale of the greeting cards would go toward you ...
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Rocky Mountain Animal Defense
Rocky Mountain Animal Defense (RMAD) works to help eliminate the human-imposed suffering of animals in the Rocky Mountain region. RMAD furthers its mission through public education, investigation and research, the legislative process, direct action, and appeals to reason and compassion.
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Seattle Good Business Network
Seattle Good Business Network is an aspiring network of local businesses, non-profit and municipal organizations, and residents dedicated to building a vibrant, local economy based on shared environmental and community values. Our purpose is to connect, empower, and promote locally-owned, independently-operated businesses in the stewardship of our place.
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Seattle Green Bag Campaign
The Seattle Green Bag Campaign is a local grassroots movement to promote environmental sustainability by reducing the unnecessary use of disposable bags. We encourage the use of reusable bags as an easy way to make a big difference to the environment, reduce waste, decrease the use of environmentally harmful plastics and enhance public health. Plus, you just look cooler carrying a smart reusable bag.
The Seattle Green Bag Campaign supports the City of Seattle’s proposed 20-cent fee for dis ...
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Stewardship Partners /Salmon-Safe
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of Washington State.
We do this by promoting incentive-based programs that encourage landowners to participate in environmental conservation while simultaneously meeting their economic needs through sustainable land management.
Programs include:
Collaborative/community-based conservation, restoration and land management.
Low Impact Development/Green Building to reduce stormwater pollution and e ...
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2002-2010 Green Festival®