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Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences, but another motivation underlies our mission: We want to help promote action toward positive change. One way to do that is to facilitate involvement between Mountainfilm audiences and important causes. Here are some ways you can take action now:

2022 Participants

  • 2 Rivers East

    Ali and His Miracle Sheep

    Founded in 2003 within days of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, 2rivers East is an award-winning nonprofit production and training organization. We work across film, television and online with an emphasis on international collaboration between MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and the rest of the world. We train young filmmakers and storytellers from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds. We bring their skillset up to international standards, offer them mentoring and work placements and empower them to tell their own stories to global audiences.

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    2 Rivers East
  • America Remembers Fund

    not even for a moment do things stand still

    In America: Remember was a public art exhibition conceived and installed by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg on nearly 20 acres of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  At its closing on October 3, 2021, over 700,000 white flags were waving at the base of the Washington Monument, with each flag honoring the life lost in America because of COVID-19.  Given its scale, the project was the largest public participatory art installation on the Mall since the AIDS quilt. The visual moment allowed people to reflect on the tragedy suffered by our nation.  It provided the community with the opportunity to honor individual lives shortened by COVID-19.  

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    America Remembers Fund
  • California Black Women's Health Project

    Caliefah

    The California Black Women's Health Project is the only statewide, non-profit organization that is solely committed to ​improving the health of California's 1.2 million Black women and girls through advocacy, education, outreach and policy. We focus on empowering Black women to take personal responsibility for their own health and to advocate for changes in policies that negatively affect Black women's health status.

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    California Black Women's Health Project
  • Camping to Connect

    Wood Hood

    Camping to Connect is a Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) led experiential mentorship program that uses nature-based outdoor recreation to address the diverse issues faced by young men of BIPOC communities.

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    Camping to Connect
  • Densho

    Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi

    Densho is an online archive and public history organization whose mission is to preserve and share the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today. Our public website offers irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with a vast digital archive and educational resources. Founded in 1996, Densho is a trailblazer in the use of digital technology to preserve and share historical materials. Densho views Japanese American history within a longer trajectory of American racism, xenophobia, and scapegoating in order to speak out against injustices both past and present.

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    Densho
  • Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

    Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi

    The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation works to tell the stories of the over 14,000 Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated in Wyoming during World War II. The Foundation preserves the site of the former concentration camp and operates an award-winning museum, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, on the grounds. We aim to educate about this dark chapter in American history, to emphasize the fragility of democracy, and to inspire the public to fight to uphold liberty and civil rights for all in the present day.

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    Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
  • Helem

    Beirut Dreams in Color

    Helem, is the first LGBTQIA+ rights organization in the Arab world, officially established in Beirut, Lebanon in 2001. Its mission is to lead the struggle for the liberation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Intersex, Transgendered, Queer (LGBTQIA+) and other people with non-conforming sexualities and/or gender identities in Lebanon and the SWANA region from all sorts of violations of their individual and collective civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Our goal is to empower young LGBTQIA+ leaders to advocate for their own liberation. We seek to create initiatives and spaces where our communities can leverage unity through diversity and build power. We protect and support individuals with the resources to resist the harm caused by homophobia and transphobia. We empower our youth through education and community building, and we mobilize to change the laws, policies, and practices that deny us equality and reduce our quality of life.

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    Helem
  • Iron Light Labs

    Free to Care

    Iron Light Labs is a nonprofit organization that empowers purpose-driven people to change the world. We bring powerful stories to the forefront through film, podcasts, and photojournalism.

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    Iron Light Labs
  • Justice Outside

    Exposure

    Justice Outside is a national nonprofit that is transforming the outdoor and environmental movement by shifting resources to, building power with, and centering the voices and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Programming includes grantmaking, organizational anti-racism training, career pathway development, and capacity building — all aimed at achieving systemic change. By providing individuals, institutions, and communities with resources, training, and space to lead, Justice Outside is working to create the radical change needed to build a stronger and more racially just environmental movement that will allow all people to thrive.

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    Justice Outside
  • Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.

    Ma’s House

    Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. is led by Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis. The project began in June 2020 and serves as a communal art space based on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. The family house, built in the 1960s, features a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC),  art studio, library, along with hosting an array of art and history-based programs for tribe members and the broader local community. A not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. was chartered in 2021 in the State of New York.

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    Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
  • Mission: JOY

    Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times

    People are hurting. Bring JOY to people at home and abroad who need it most. Donations help fund Mission: JOY screenings for marginalized populations, colleges, and faith communities; a global Social Action Campaign to send a wave of joy around the world; and The BIG JOY Project – the largest JOY-focused citizen science research project in partnership with UC Berkeley, Harvard and other institutions that also teaches people how to create more JOY for themselves RIGHT NOW. Help to carry on Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama's final joint mission to help everyone around the world live with more JOY.

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    Mission: JOY
  • Mountain Bike Afghanistan

    For the Love of Afghanistan

    Mountain Bike Afghanistan empowers young Afghans with the joy of riding and competing on mountain bikes, and connects people across culture for their share love of cycling. Currently, Mountain Bike Afghanistan is conducting an ongoing evacuation of 35+ cyclists and their families from living under the Taliban regime. 

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    Mountain Bike Afghanistan
  • PALAWAN NGO NETWORK INCORPORATED

    Delikado

    The Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) was organized in November 1991 by mainstream Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and People's Organization (POs) in Palawan with the motivation of presenting a broader NGO consensus that would carry more weight in the policy making process in various local government units in the province.
    With its creation, NGOs hope to maximize the impact of their respective programs through consultation and coordination with one another. PNNI believes that by uniting the NGOs and POs towards a common pursuit, it can strongly influence the direction of development for Palawan.

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    PALAWAN NGO NETWORK INCORPORATED
  • Parents For Peace

    Refuge

    Parents For Peace is a public health nonprofit empowering families, friends, and communities to prevent radicalization, violence, and extremism. We offer a support helpline, community education through Serve2Unite, and rehabilitation with our Trauma and Recovery Program (T.R.P.) program.

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    Parents For Peace
  • Perpetuo Films

    Dani's Twins

    Perpetuo Films is dedicated to producing provocative and entertaining documentary films that amplify marginalized voices and inspire audiences to engage in positive social change. We believe that by equipping documentary filmmakers to tell more stories more sustainably, together we create a multiplier effect – in perpetuity.

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    Perpetuo Films
  • PFLAG National

    Mama Has a Mustache

    PFLAG National is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. With nearly 400 chapters and 250,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed. To learn more, visit pflag.org.

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    PFLAG National
  • Restore Hetch Hetchy

    Finding Hetch Hetchy

    Restore Hetch Hetchy promotes restoring Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley’s lost twin, to its natural splendor; a majestic glacial-carved valley with towering cliffs and waterfalls where river and wildlife run free. Hetch Hetchy can be a new kind of national park, with an improved visitor experience, shared stewardship with Native peoples and permanent protection for future generations. We urge San Francisco to relocate Hetch Hetchy Reservoir; it can be moved without any loss of water supply or electric power production. We urge San Francisco, the State of California and the United States Congress to return Hetch Hetchy to all people. 

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    Restore Hetch Hetchy
  • River Newe

    Ascend: Reframing Disability in the Outdoors

    Through a Newe-centered approach our goal is to increase representation and create spaces of equity through learning experiences on homelands with Shoshone-Bannocks, Indigenous, and minoritized communities on and off river.

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    River Newe
  • Skoll Foundation

    Strangers in Boxes

    The Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

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    Skoll Foundation
  • The Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS)

    Seeds, the Legacy of the Land

    The Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS), was born twelve years ago as a result of the work experience of more than decades of the Network of Sustainable Agricultural Alternatives of Jalisco (RASA), and given the need to have its own space of training, research, demonstration and production in agroecology and eco-techniques that offer quality, flexible and accessible training to farming families, rural youth, women, urban and neo-rural consumers.

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    The Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS)
  • The Follow Your Dream Foundation

    Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest

    The Follow Your Dream Foundation tells the stories of courageous women who have overcome physical, racial, geographical and social challenges to achieve their dreams. We bring these stories to life through the creative arts – film, theater, music and art – we hope each woman’s unique story will be a catalyst for another woman’s journey.

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    The Follow Your Dream Foundation
  • The Rural Changemakers

    Janwaar

    The Rural Changemakers gem. e.V. promotes skateboarding, education, and community building in Janwaar, India. In the small village of Janwaar, India, the skateboard is more than four wheels and a board. Here it is a vehicle for social change, gender equality, and education.

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    The Rural Changemakers
  • The WILD Foundation

    Chasing Coral

    The WILD Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, is a fiscal sponsor of Exposure Labs, the film and impact production company that made Chasing Coral.

    The Climate Team at Exposure Labs believes that the transformational power of storytelling is one of the greatest tools we have to accelerate climate action at scale.  Our work serves as a pathway for climate storytellers, organizers, and the broader storytelling ecosystem; moving away from centering ourselves, to disrupting unjust power structures, and ensuring that both organizers and storytellers have the resources, access, and capacity to do the work.

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    The WILD Foundation
  • The WILD Foundation

    Chasing Ice

    The WILD Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, is a fiscal sponsor of Exposure Labs, the film and impact production company that made Chasing Coral.

    The Climate Team at Exposure Labs believes that the transformational power of storytelling is one of the greatest tools we have to accelerate climate action at scale.  Our work serves as a pathway for climate storytellers, organizers, and the broader storytelling ecosystem; moving away from centering ourselves, to disrupting unjust power structures, and ensuring that both organizers and storytellers have the resources, access, and capacity to do the work.

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    The WILD Foundation
  • Unite 2 Fight Paralysis

    An Accidental Life

    Mission: We unite and empower the international spinal cord injury community to cure paralysis through advocacy, education, and support for research.

    Vision: Every person has equal access to treatments that will restore health and independence after spinal cord injury.

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    Unite 2 Fight Paralysis

2021 Participants

  • Mountainfilm

    Mountainfilm

    It is only with your generous contributions that Mountainfilm can continue our mission to use the power of film, art, and ideas to create a better world.

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    Mountainfilm
  • Aguilas del Desierto

    Aguilas del Desierto

    Águilas

    Aguilas del Desierto/Desert Eagles' mission is to help families whose loved ones are missing in the desert areas near our border. Its goal is to respond immediately to every call for help. At times, Aguilas rescues crossers in distress, at times it searches for the remains of a loved one whose life was claimed by the desert. Since 1996, over 7,000 migrants have died in the deserts along our border. Since Aguilas began in 2012, it has rescued 92 people and recovered the remains of 92 people.

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    Aguilas del Desierto
  • Take Action: American Rivers

    American Rivers

    Can’t Beat This Place For Fun

    American Rivers believes a future of clean water and healthy rivers everywhere, for everyone, is essential. Since 1973, they have protected wild rivers, restored damaged rivers and conserved clean water for people and nature.

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    American Rivers
  • Big Life Foundation

    Big Life Foundation

    The Tracker

    Using innovative conservation strategies and collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOs, national parks, and government agencies, Big Life seeks to protect and sustain East Africa’s wildlife and wild lands, including one of the greatest populations of elephants left in East Africa. The first organization in East Africa with coordinated anti-poaching teams operating on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border, Big Life recognizes that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach.

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    Big Life Foundation
  • Climate Generation

    Climate Generation

    After Antarctica

    Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy empowers individuals and their communities to engage in solutions to climate change.

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    Climate Generation
  • Curry Senior Center

    Curry Senior Center

    Golden Age Karate

    For over 45 years, Curry Senior Center has been the only organization in San Francisco solely dedicated to helping low income and homeless seniors through a holistic care approach.

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    Curry Senior Center
  • Duty Free Impact Campaign

    Duty Free Impact Campaign

    Duty Free

    The Duty Free Impact Campaign offers accessible screenings for intergenerational communities to facilitate conversations around the themes of care, financial insecurity, and ageism and offer tangible resources for older adults and for caregivers.

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    Duty Free Impact Campaign
  • Earth Guardians

    Earth Guardians

    Youth v Gov

    Earth Guardians is an intergenerational organization with youth at the forefront that trains diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate, and social justice movements across the globe — using art, music, storytelling, on-the-ground projects, civic engagement, and legal action to advance solutions to the critical issues we face as a global community.

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    Earth Guardians
  • Empowering Women of Nepal

    Empowering Women of Nepal

    Durga: Forging a New Trail

    Empowering Women of Nepal is a nonprofit organization based in Pokhara, Nepal that aims to improve the lives of Nepali women and girls through adventure sports and tourism. Empowering Women of Nepal offers practical skill-based training programs free of cost to the trainees. The training is designed to extend educational, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to disadvantaged women from all over Nepal and can be followed by a six-month paid apprenticeship.

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    Empowering Women of Nepal
  • Farmer Veteran Coalition

    Farmer Veteran Coalition

    Eric and the Bees

    The Farmer Veteran Coalition is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization assisting veterans – and currently serving members – of the Armed Forces to embark on careers in agriculture, mobilizing veterans to feed America.

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    Farmer Veteran Coalition
  • First Descents

    First Descents

    The River Runner

    First Descents provides life-changing outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions.

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    First Descents
  • GLOBIO

    GLOBIO

    Hunger Ward

    GLOBIO is an environmental awareness nonprofit that provides support to conservation organizations around the world, and shares their stories globally, while educating the public about our shared environmental and one-health issues.

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    GLOBIO
  • Gravel Institute

    Gravel Institute

    American Gadfly

    A crowd-funded organization creating short videos to combat right-wing disinformation and bring progressive ideas to new audiences.

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    Gravel Institute
  • Memphis Rox

    Memphis Rox

    Reel Rock 15: Black Ice

    Memphis Rox and One Family Memphis brings rehabilitation, healing and a renewed sense of hope to challenged communities by providing a climbing facility and programs to foster relationships across cultural, racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We exclude no one — regardless of ability to pay.

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    Memphis Rox
  • Mother Jones Community Foundation

    Mother Jones Community Foundation

    The Both of Me

    Mother Jones Community Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in some of the most impoverished and exploited communities in Appalachia. Our mission is to help people forgotten and ignored by the exploitive industries that profited from our natural resources and moved on.

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    Mother Jones Community Foundation
  • Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano

    Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano

    Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me

    The Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (Mesoamerican Migrant Movement) promotes and defends the human rights of migrants. They also organize the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants each year.

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    Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano
  • Nia Tero

    Nia Tero

    Sky Aelans

    Nia Tero exists to ensure that Indigenous peoples have the economic power and cultural independence to steward, support, and protect their livelihoods and territories they call home. These places are vital to us all.

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    Nia Tero
  • No Barriers USA

    No Barriers USA

    From My Window

    The mission of No Barriers is to fully unleash the potential of the human spirit. Through transformative experiences, tools and inspiration, they help people embark on a quest to contribute their absolute best to the world. In the process, they foster a community of curious, brave and collaborative explorers who are determined to live the No Barriers Life.

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    No Barriers USA
  • Orangeburg County Historical Society

    Orangeburg County Historical Society

    Meltdown in Dixie

    The Orangeburg County Historical Society exists to encourage the study and research of the history of Orangeburg County; to acquire and preserve historical documents and artifacts; to commemorate events and places of significance; to inform and educate the public and make history accessible; unite in fellowship those interested in history; and work cooperatively with other organizations to preserve, protect and promote Orangeburg County’s History.

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    Orangeburg County Historical Society
  • Our Children's Trust

    Our Children's Trust

    Youth v Gov

    We work to protect Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in legal actions to secure enforceable rights to a healthy atmosphere based on the best available science. Our legal work – guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature – aims to achieve science-based climate mitigation remedies at federal, state, and global levels.

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    Our Children's Trust
  • Outdoor Outreach

    Outdoor Outreach

    Resilience

    Outdoor Outreach is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego that connects youth to the transformative power of the outdoors. We provide opportunities and access to outdoor spaces for young people from under-served communities, where they can build trust, resilience, and confidence to face all of life’s challenges. With the opportunity to stand up on their first wave or climb to the top of a rock wall, we’re enabling youth to see what they can do and what they can be.

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    Outdoor Outreach
  • Protect Our Winters

    Protect Our Winters

    Southwest Scramble

    POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places they live and love from climate change. POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.

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    Protect Our Winters
  • Protect Our Winters

    Protect Our Winters

    Powder Snow Hokkaido

    POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places they live and love from climate change. POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.

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    Protect Our Winters
  • Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia

    Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia

    Jeff Goddell

    The Lab supports teaching, facilitates research, and produces stories in many forms on religion, race, and democracy. We bring researchers, students, journalists, and public leaders together to focus on the ways these complex forces are found in and shape our everyday lives. We are committed to the idea that learning more about how religion and race work with democratic societies can help us to live together in today’s pluralistic and increasingly global societies.

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    Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia
  • Resolve Crisis Initiative

    Resolve Crisis Initiative

    The Bitter Root

    The Resolve Crisis Initiative gives people in armed conflict an opportunity to choose peace, dismantling violent armed groups by promoting viable alternatives to conflict.

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    Resolve Crisis Initiative
  • Soils, Food and Healthy Communities

    Soils, Food and Healthy Communities

    The Ants & The Grasshopper

    Soils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC) is a non-profit organization that supports rural Malawian families to build sustainable, healthy, just and resilient communities. We use ecological, regenerative approaches to farming, drawing on local and indigenous knowledge, such as intercropping, compost use and diversifying what people grow. We explicitly address unequal power dynamics in our approach, such as gender, using community-led initiatives to change these inequities.

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    Soils, Food and Healthy Communities
  • South Carolina Humanities

    South Carolina Humanities

    Meltdown in Dixie

     South Carolina Humanities is a nonprofit organization focused on inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.

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    South Carolina Humanities
  • Take Action: South Texas Human Rights Center

    South Texas Human Rights Center

    Missing in Brooks County

    The South Texas Human Rights Center is a community based center dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas.

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    South Texas Human Rights Center
  • Sphinx Organization

    Sphinx Organization

    Los Hermanos/The Brothers

    The Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level.

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    Sphinx Organization
  • Sustaio

    Sustaio

    Sustaio, makes sustainability an easy daily practice. We help people transition their habits to be climate-smart by providing a guided experience on how to reduce one's ecological footprint. Sustaio recognizes that the little changes of the many can make a big difference, we are all part of something bigger.

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    Sustaio
  • The American Museum of Fly Fishing

    The American Museum of Fly Fishing

    Mighty Waters

    The American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) is committed to uncovering and sharing the history and stories of BIPOC in fly fishing and we are honored to be involved in Mighty Waters. We encourage people to reach out to the AMFF, to introduce us to the people and personalities who share our fly fishing passion – tell us a story about a local fishing legend, or an innovator who never found the spotlight. 100% of donations will contribute to memorializing Ansil Saunders civil and fly-fishing legacy.

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    The American Museum of Fly Fishing
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    Izembek

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology partners with local communities and organizations around the world to create compelling science-based media about pressing conservation issues that are integral to sustaining species, ecosystems, and human livelihoods. By realizing the power of conservation successes to inspire others to act, they spread the stories of the people, communities, and organizations that are dedicated to protecting wildlife.

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    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • The Dewayne S Parker One Love Foundation

    The Dewayne S Parker One Love Foundation

    Grab My Hand: A Letter to My Dad

    The Dewayne S. Parker One Love Foundation was established to meet the needs of young children and adolescents, who have experienced the loss of a parent or immediate family member, through a holistic approach by providing counseling services, educational supplement through scholarship and supplies, and additional support as needed throughout the year.

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    The Dewayne S Parker One Love Foundation
  • The Peregrine Fund

    The Peregrine Fund

    Aguilucho: Dance of the Harpy Eagle

    The Peregrine Fund was founded in 1970 to recover the endangered Peregrine Falcon in the United States and has gone on to conserve over 140 species in 60 countries. We change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide. By working with communities around the world to protect wildlife and habitats, we create lasting conservation results while benefiting people.

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    The Peregrine Fund
  • The Whale Sanctuary Project

    The Whale Sanctuary Project

    Whales Without Walls

    Whales and dolphins suffer physically, socially and emotionally while performing for their supper and the public's entertainment. The Whale Sanctuary Project is creating a seaside sanctuary in Nova Scotia for whales being retired from marine entertainment parks, giving them an opportunity to thrive in an environment that is as close as possible to their natural habitat.

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    The Whale Sanctuary Project
  • Wild Europe

    Wild Europe

    Invisible Beauty

    Wild Europe team aims to share wild places with people around the world. We encourage you to discover the wild places on your doorstep and to protect wild spaces so that they may be around for generations to come. Through lectures, films, photography and discussion, our aim is to engage people and help them find their purpose and inspire them to take action.

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    Wild Europe
  • Women Make Movies

    Women Make Movies

    Jacinta

    Donations through Women Make Movies will help fund Jacinta's social impact campaign which is focused on supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their families.

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    Women Make Movies
  • World Bicycle Relief

    World Bicycle Relief

    Comeback Girls

    World Bicycle Relief is a catalyst for change, helping people in need realize their goals by providing access to education, markets, healthcare, and vital services with the tool they need to thrive. Equipped with a purpose-designed Buffalo Bicycle from World Bicycle Relief, students, health workers and entrepreneurs, especially women and girls, in developing regions create opportunities for themselves, their families and entire communities.

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    World Bicycle Relief

2020 Participants

  • Take Action: Ajo Samaritans

    Ajo Samaritans

    USA v. Scott

    The Ajo Samaritans is a local humanitarian aid group that works to prevent death in the desert. We are diverse individuals of conscience and faith united to relieve suffering and save lives of people crossing Arizona’s desert. We travel roads and trails of Southern Arizona distributing water and food and providing first aid when necessary. We secure emergency aid and rescue for those in severe distress, and we reinforce migrants’ sense of dignity. By our presence, we witness our commitment to human rights for all, even the stranger among us.

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    Ajo Samaritans
  • Take Action: American Prairie Reserve

    American Prairie Reserve

    Through the Breaks

    American Prairie Reserve's mission is to create the largest nature reserve in the continental United States, a refuge for people and wildlife preserved forever as part of America’s heritage. APR is working to connect and restore more than 3 million acres of grasslands of Montana's Great Plains. By building off existing public land – including the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument – the project seeks to transform into a seamless prairie ecosystem.

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    American Prairie Reserve
  • Take Action: American Rivers

    American Rivers

    Can’t Beat This Place For Fun

    American Rivers believes a future of clean water and healthy rivers everywhere, for everyone, is essential. Since 1973, they have protected wild rivers, restored damaged rivers and conserved clean water for people and nature.

    Take Action
    American Rivers
  • Take Action: Amplifier

    Amplifier

    Strike With Us

    Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our time. 
    We believe that in times of uncertainty art is more than beauty or decoration, it can be a compass that points to the future we want to live in.

    Take Action
    Amplifier
  • Take Action: Birds of Prey NCA Partnership

    Birds of Prey NCA Partnership

    Golden

    The Birds of Prey NCA Partnership's mission is to support the management and conservation of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA) through science, education, outreach, and partnerships. Our organization helps organize education and outreach events, native plant restoration projects, trash clean up activities, as well as field trips to the NCA. We also support conservation efforts in the NCA through undergraduate research internships and by building strong community partnerships.

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    Birds of Prey NCA Partnership
  • Take Action: Break Free From Plastic

    Break Free From Plastic

    The Story of Plastic

    #breakfreefromplastic is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Since its launch in September 2016, nearly 1,900 organizations from across the world have joined the movement to demand massive reductions in single-use plastics and to push for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. These organizations share the common values of environmental protection and social justice, which guide their work at the community level and represent a global, unified vision.

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    Break Free From Plastic
  • Take Action: Captains for Clean Water

    Captains for Clean Water

    A Reason to Fish

    Captains For Clean Water is a grassroots nonprofit organization advocating for clean water and healthy estuaries across Florida. We started out as a group of fishing guides that “had enough” of Florida’s poor water management practices. Given the destruction seen firsthand, we were convinced that if everyone knew what we knew, the problem would have been already fixed. We discovered, the solution has been delayed for decades because of a lack of political will and public awareness.

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    Captains for Clean Water
  • Take Action: Carousel of Happiness

    Carousel of Happiness

    Carving Joy

    Carousel of Happiness' mission is to inspire happiness, well-being, and service to others through stories and experiences. The Carousel has served the Nederland community and visitors from around the world since 2010, providing almost 1 million rides and inspiring at least that many smiles. We think happiness is important and we believe every smile here turns into countless more beyond our doors.

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    Carousel of Happiness
  • Take Action: Casa de Paz

    Casa de Paz

    Welcome Strangers

    Casa de Paz began in 2012 as a small, one-bedroom apartment offering hospitality to families separated by immigrant detention. Today, Casa de Paz provides visits and emotional support, shelter and meals, access to phones, WiFi,  computers and transportation. Detention is a difficult time that tears families apart and creates a financial burden, so we have always offered our services free of cost. Since we first opened our doors we’ve hosted over 2,800 immigrants from seventy three countries and the need only continues to grow.

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    Casa de Paz
  • Take Action: Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

    Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

    Personhood

    Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable Latinx individuals and their families to lead safe, healthy, and self-determined lives. Especially now, COLOR works to ensure that Latinx individuals and their families are accessing opportunities and resources for the health of their mind, body, and spirit. COLOR continues its reproductive justice work amid the COVID-19 outbreak and has recently expanded to creating resources and bilingual information on the coronavirus to share with the Latinx, immigrant, and undocumented communities in Colorado.

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    Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
  • Conservation Colorado

    Conservation Colorado

    Public Trust

    This Colorado Public Lands Day, it’s more clear than ever before that our lands, waters, and wildlife are critical pieces of Colorado’s economy and public health. That’s why we’re asking our federal and state leaders to invest in our lands, waters, and wildlife as part of the COVID-19 recovery efforts. The “Great American Outdoors Act” will provide much-needed funding for our national parks and public lands ranging from the desert and mountain backcountry to local parks. Our lands and waters depend on this funding but we need your help to see this bill passed through Congress.

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    Conservation Colorado
  • Take Action: Conservation Lands Foundation

    Conservation Lands Foundation

    Public Trust

    Public lands are the ancestral homelands of Native people, they include our most iconic and treasured parks and wildlands, and they constitute a critical defense in efforts to combat the climate and extinction crises. As we move toward the 2020 elections, we need your voice to remind candidates and elected leaders that public lands and waters are for everyone, and they need to be permanently protected.

    Join us in the fight to protect our public lands. Text ‘DEFEND’ to 71333.
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    Conservation Lands Foundation
  • Florida Wildlife Corridor

    Florida Wildlife Corridor

    Chasing Ghosts

    The Florida Wildlife Corridor organization champions the public and partner support needed to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor – a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people.

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    Florida Wildlife Corridor
  • Take Action: High Fives Foundation

    High Fives Foundation

    Day 1

    High Fives focuses on preventing life-changing injuries and provides resources and hope if they happen.

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    High Fives Foundation
  • Take Action: Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region.

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    Himalayan Stove Project
  • Take Action: Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation

    Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation

    Baato

    The Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation was founded to fund and implement programs in the Bhot-Khola region of northeast Nepal to develop education, promote health awareness, improve living conditions, foster economic opportunities and promote cross-cultural awareness for all residents of the Bhot-Khola region.

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    Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation
  • Take Action: Kurils Islands Research & Conservation Initiative

    Kurils Islands Research & Conservation Initiative

    From Kurils With Love

    Vladimir has seen the decades-long changes in the region firsthand and also the sad decline of some important top predators in the area. His vision is to turn large parts of the region into marine protected areas and national parks to safeguard their beauty for future generations, protect biodiversity and improve overexploited coastal and oceanic ecosystems in the Kurils Islands. Our major fundraising goal is to purchase a 65’ research sailboat that Vladimir and other scientists interested in the region can use to make their way across the islands to collect the data needed to inform long-term conservation plans.

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    Kurils Islands Research & Conservation Initiative
  • Take Action: Louisiana Bucket Brigade

    Louisiana Bucket Brigade

    Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

    The Louisiana Bucket Brigade uses grassroots action to create an informed, healthy society that holds the petrochemical industry and government accountable for the true costs of pollution to hasten the transition from fossil fuels.

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    Louisiana Bucket Brigade
  • Take Action: March for Our Lives

    March for Our Lives

    Us Kids

    March For Our Lives is a movement dedicated to student-led activism around ending gun violence and the epidemic of mass shootings in our schools today. Our mission is to harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives.

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    March for Our Lives
  • Take Action: Mariachi Academy of New England

    Mariachi Academy of New England

    Día de la Madre

    The Mariachi Academy of New England serves students, their families, and our teachers by spreading Latino culture throughout New England through music, cultural education, and performances by providing access to information and mentoring to help participants succeed in higher education and in life. We provides lessons in guitar, violin, trumpet, harp and voice to students ages 6-18 from economically challenged and middle-class New England families.

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    Mariachi Academy of New England
  • Take Action: Marine Conservation Cambodia

    Marine Conservation Cambodia

    Current Sea

    Marine Conservation Cambodia offers volunteer and internship opportunities in the fields of marine conservation and marine research. As a fully licensed research facility, we specialize in seahorse research in Cambodia. We also continue to research the surrounding reefs and benthic areas to make sure our data is fully inclusive of all aspects of Cambodia's marine environment.

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    Marine Conservation Cambodia
  • Take Action: Memphis Rox Climbing & Community

    Memphis Rox Climbing & Community

    Malik & Demond: A Memphis Rox Story

    Memphis Rox brings rehabilitation, healing and a renewed sense of hope to challenged communities by providing a climbing facility and programs to foster relationships across cultural, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. We exclude no one — regardless of ability to pay.

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    Memphis Rox Climbing & Community
  • Take Action: Mountain State Spotlight

    Mountain State Spotlight

    Sustained Outrage

    A nonprofit West Virginia newsroom, providing the last word on government, holding the powerful accountable, and sustaining outrage until wrongs are righted. The nonprofit was founded by two former Charleston Gazette-Mail employees, Greg Moore and Ken Ward.

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    Mountain State Spotlight
  • Take Action: National Park Foundation

    National Park Foundation

    Ode to Desolation

    The National Park Foundation, the official charitable partner of the National Park Service, enriches America’s national parks and programs through the support of private citizens, park lovers, stewards of nature, history enthusiasts and wilderness adventurers. Chartered by Congress in 1967, the Foundation grew out of a legacy of park protection that began over a century ago, when ordinary citizens took action to establish and protect our national parks.

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    National Park Foundation
  • Take Action: Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project

    Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project

    This Land

    The Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project is a 501(c)3 organization based in Southern New Mexico. Our mission is to ensure that Frontera (border) communities have access to the outdoors and that our history, values and people are reflected in land management decisions through education, advocacy and empowerment. “Cuando conservamos la tierra, conservamos la vida. (When we conserve land, we conserve life.)”

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    Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project
  • Take Action: Pacific Climate Warriors

    Pacific Climate Warriors

    Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds

    With your help, Pacific Climate Warriors – 350 Pacific can take the cultural strength and warrior spirit of the Pacific Islands and channel it into real, tangible progress on the climate crisis.

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    Pacific Climate Warriors
  • Take Action: Ping Pong Parkinson

    Ping Pong Parkinson

    Nenad, Who Plays Ping Pong

     Ping Pong Parkinson's mission is to help anyone with Parkinson's Diagnose through ping pong (primarily) – and to have fun while doing it. We were established with the goal of halting the progression of Parkinson’s Disease by utilizing ping pong as a form of physical therapy. Our model is based on the concept of neuroplasticity – the brain’s capacity to make new neurons and connections through challenging physical exercise. Although medication remains the focus in the treatment for Parkinson’s, there is compelling evidence for the need for a regular exercise program in managing this disease.

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    Ping Pong Parkinson
  • Take Action: PTSD Veteran Athletes

    PTSD Veteran Athletes

    The Long River Home

    Professional Transformation Sports Development was established to provide a positive change for veterans of the military struggling with P.T.S.D. and/or depression. PTSD will engage veterans in outdoor sports, using highly-qualified instructors and coaches to assist veterans in gaining the necessary skills to advance and progress in an outdoor sport of their interest and choosing.

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    PTSD Veteran Athletes
  • Take Action: Quail Springs

    Quail Springs

    Shepherd's Song

    Quail Springs is a leading environmental educational nonprofit that empowers students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health.

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    Quail Springs
  • Take Action: Save the Redwoods League

    Save the Redwoods League

    Here We Stand

    Save the Redwoods League envisions vibrant redwood forests of the scale and grandeur that once graced the California coast and the Sierra Nevada, protected forever, restored to grow old again, and connected to people through a network of magnificent parks and protected areas that inspire all of us with the beauty and power of nature.

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    Save the Redwoods League
  • Take Action: SEE International

    SEE International

    Second Sight

    SEE International provides essential and transformative eye care and surgery around the world and right here at home. We bring medical volunteers and partners together to care for the people who need it most. Our teams work side-by-side with local doctors and clinics to improve access to high-quality eye care and surgery. Together we break the cycle of hardship that blindness and visual impairment cause, making patients, families and communities healthier and stronger.

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    SEE International
  • Take Action: Shine MSD

    Shine MSD

    Shine (Instrument of Hope)

    After every mass shooting, news stations, politicians, and the general public talk about how to address gun violence. But these conversations quickly fade. Shine MSD, a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization created in the aftermath of the Parkland, FL tragedy, is using the healing power of the arts to keep the conversation alive. The Instrument of Hope is a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted trumpet made from spent AR-15 bullet casings. It is touring the country with performances by top players, educators and students as a powerful way to help keep the gun violence conversation on the main stage.

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    Shine MSD
  • Take Action: Skate Like a Girl

    Skate Like a Girl

    Stoke Chasers

    Skate Like a Girl's mission is to create an inclusive skate community by promoting confidence, leadership and social justice through the sport of skateboarding.

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    Skate Like a Girl
  • Take Action: Soul Trak Outdoors

    Soul Trak Outdoors

    Bringing It Home

    Soul Trak Outdoors is a D.C. based nonprofit organization that connects communities of color to outdoor spaces while also building a coalition of diverse outdoor leaders. We run a variety of programming to serve hands-on, experiential programming.

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    Soul Trak Outdoors
  • Take Action: South Texas Human Rights Center

    South Texas Human Rights Center

    Missing in Brooks County

    The South Texas Human Rights Center is a community based center dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas.

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    South Texas Human Rights Center
  • Take Action: Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii

    Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii

    Dear Mother Nature

    Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii is a grassroots, local nonprofit organization run by a small team of dedicated staff and supported by passionate volunteers. We inspire local communities to care for their coastlines through fun, hands-on beach cleanups. We also coordinate educational programs, team building corporate cleanups, waste diversion services, public awareness campaigns and help others run their own beach cleanups.

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    Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii
  • Take Action: Team River Runner

    Team River Runner

    The Long River Home

    Team River Runner's mission is to provide all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community purpose, and new challenges through adventure and adaptive paddle sports.

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    Team River Runner
  • Take Action: The Door

    The Door

    Five Years North

    The Door aims to help NYC youth discover and achieve their potential by providing comprehensive services to more than 11,000 teens and young adults. We not only offer mental health counseling but also legal assistance, GED classes, emergency housing, and more to vulnerable populations including undocumented immigrants.

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    The Door
  • Take Action: The Liv Project

    The Liv Project

    Liv

    The goal of The Liv Project is to share information in creative and innovative ways that help others have open conversations, with less fear and without judgement. Everyone can be that person to connect with another and start the needed conversation that can save lives.

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    The Liv Project
  • Take Action: The Venture Out Project

    The Venture Out Project

    Venture Out

    The Venture Out Project envisions a world where queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ youth and adults create community, develop leadership skills, and gain confidence through the shared experience of outdoor adventure and physical activity.

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    The Venture Out Project
  • Take Action: The Workers Lab

    The Workers Lab

    The Disrupted

    Workers are experiencing devastating loss of income due to the COVID-19 epidemic. They need immediate help, especially gig and low-earning contract workers without access to employer-based benefits. In response to this crisis, The Workers Lab launched The Workers Fund which will provide up to $1000 in emergency cash grants to workers who have lost income due to the epidemic.

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    The Workers Lab
  • Take Action: TranSending 7

    TranSending 7

    Transending

    TranSending is dedicated to the advancement of transgender rights throughout all aspects of society by promoting athletics as a platform of transgender awareness and inclusion. Our goal is to promote rising transgender athletes and help them gain access to athletic programs, with the goal of increasing awareness from team administration, coaches and team staff, trans athletes, fellow athletes and the audiences who support these great sports.

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    TranSending 7
  • Take Action: Wild Sheep Foundation

    Wild Sheep Foundation

    Wild & Wool

    Wild Sheep Foundation enhances wild sheep populations, promotes scientific wildlife management, educates the public and youth on sustainable use and the conservation benefits of hunting while promoting the interests of the hunter.

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    Wild Sheep Foundation
  • Take Action: Youth Documentary Academy

    Youth Documentary Academy

    Unsettled

    Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) trains young people how to direct and produce their own documentary films. For seven weeks, students learn all aspects of documentary filmmaking from professional filmmakers, faculty and guest artists. At the end of the program, students complete a film, receive a certificate, and learn how to distribute their films to film festivals, community organizations and television outlets.

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    Youth Documentary Academy

2019 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

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    dZi
  • 1% For the Planet

    1% For the Planet

    1% for the Planet is a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual membership and everyday actions. They collaborate with individual and business members to identify environmental organizations that will make the greatest impact and align with your giving goals.

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    1% For the Planet
  • Adventure Scientists

    Adventure Scientists

    Adventuring in the Name of Science

    Adventure Scientists gets scientists the data they need to tackle pressing challenges to the environment and human health. Training a global force of volunteers from the outdoor adventure community we are able to gather data at any scale, from even the most hard-to-access regions.

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    Adventure Scientists
  • Alabama Rivers Alliance

    Alabama Rivers Alliance

    The Accidental Environmentalist: Catherine Flowers

    Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama’s water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

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    Alabama Rivers Alliance
  • American Whitewater

    American Whitewater

    You Can’t Dam Your Way to Paradise

    Founded in 1954, American Whitewater is a national non-profit organization representing a broad diversity of individual whitewater enthusiasts, river conservationists, and more than 100 local paddling club affiliates across America. The organization is the primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve the goals within its mission.

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    American Whitewater
  • Balkan River Defence

    Balkan River Defence

    The Undamaged

    Balkan Peninsula is a special place. Ecologically and culturally. Complicated history and politics make this part of Europe very difficult to understand. The Balkan River Defence's intention is to unite Balkan nations against the destruction of their rivers and the attack of neocolonialism in the form of hydropower.

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    Balkan River Defence
  • Baltimore School for the Arts

    Baltimore School for the Arts

    R.A.W. Tuba

    Baltimore School for the Arts is a public, urban high school serving a racially and socioeconomically diverse group of aspiring artists. It prepares the next generation of the creative workforce by offering inspiring arts and academic training to high school students as well as opportunities in the arts to younger children and the greater community through its TWIGS and community outreach programs.

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    Baltimore School for the Arts
  • change.org

    Change.org

    Artifishal

    Hatcheries and over-harvest, along with net-pen fish farms and dams, are key contributors to the catastrophic decline of wild Chinook salmon and southern resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest. Tell NOAA Regional Administrator Barry Thom, WDFW Director Kelly Susewind, and our elected decision-makers to invest in science-based solutions: reduce hatchery production, remove dams and change how we harvest salmon.

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    Change.org
  • Colorado Plateau Foundation

    Colorado Plateau Foundation

    Counter Mapping

    Colorado Plateau Foundation connects the philanthropic community to on-the-ground initiatives by growing a sustainable supply of resources and giving grants that enhance the work of Native-led organizations on the Plateau.

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    Colorado Plateau Foundation
  • Detroit Hives

    Detroit Hives

    Detroit Hives

    Detroit Hives is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that transforms vacant lots into bee farms for the conservation of honeybees, to help spread bee awareness, and to educate their communities and local schools of Detroit about bees and their contribution to the environment.

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    Detroit Hives
  • Elephant Action League

    Elephant Action League

    Sea of Shadows

    Elephant Action League (EAL) protects wildlife, oceans, and forests by collecting intelligence, investigating and exposing wildlife criminals worldwide, including poachers, traffickers, businessmen, and corrupt government officials. EAL works to merge the worlds of intelligence, investigation, and conservation in the service of wildlife, forests, oceans, and the people who protect them.

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    Elephant Action League
  • Florida Wildlife Corridor

    Florida Wildlife Corridor

    The Last Green Thread

    The Florida Wildlife Corridor organization champions the public and partner support needed to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor – a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people.

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    Florida Wildlife Corridor
  • Friends of the River

    Friends of the River

    You Can’t Dam Your Way to Paradise

    Friends of the River is dedicated to preserving and restoring California's rivers, streams, and their watersheds as well as advocating for sustainable water management. Friends of the River protects and restores California Rivers by influencing public policy and inspiring citizen action.

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    Friends of the River
  • Grist

    Grist

    Founded in 1999, Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck.

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    Grist
  • It Gets Better Project

    It Gets Better Project

    Changing the Game

    The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you are trying to affirm and assert your sexual orientation and/or gender identity. It can be a challenging and isolating process – but, the good news is, no one has to do it alone.

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    It Gets Better Project
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium

    Monterey Bay Aquarium

    Every Nine Minutes

    The Monterey Bay Aquarium is not only an aquarium but also a world leader in ocean conservation. They work at local, state, national and international levels to advance policies that protect key species like sea otters, sharks and tuna — and addresses global threats to fisheries and human coastal communities, including overfishing, plastic pollution and climate change.

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    Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • No Barriers USA

    No Barriers USA

    From My Window

    The mission of No Barriers is to fully unleash the potential of the human spirit. Through transformative experiences, tools and inspiration, they help people embark on a quest to contribute their absolute best to the world. In the process, they foster a community of curious, brave and collaborative explorers who are determined to live the No Barriers Life.

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    No Barriers USA
  • Ol Pejeta Conservancy

    Ol Pejeta Conservancy

    Kifaru

    Ol Pejeta Conservancy works to conserve wildlife, provide a sanctuary for great apes, and to generate income through wildlife tourism and complementary enterprise for reinvestment in conservation and communities.

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    Ol Pejeta Conservancy
  • Polar Bears International

    Polar Bears International

    Bare Existence

    Polar Bears International's mission is to conserve polar bears and the sea ice they depend on. Through media, science, and advocacy, they work to inspire people to care about the Arctic, the threats to its future, and the connection between this remote region and our global climate.

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    Polar Bears International
  • Project CAT

    Project C.A.T.

    Tigerland

    Discovery has long been committed to telling the stories and protecting the creatures that make our planet extraordinary. With Project C.A.T. - Conserving Acres for Tigers - Discovery is making it their mission to ensure a future for tigers and other endangered wildlife so there will always be stories to tell.

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    Project C.A.T.
  • Santa Fe Dreamers Project

    Santa Fe Dreamers Project

    Refuge(e)

    Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal services to immigrants to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention. Their work is centered around the belief that supporting immigrants makes our whole community stronger.

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    Santa Fe Dreamers Project
  • Save the Yellowstone Grizzly

    Save the Yellowstone Grizzly

    Grizzly Country

    Save the Yellowstone Grizzly fights for protections for all grizzly bears in the Lower 48 states. Their goal is the establishment of a large-scale grizzly bear recovery area, ensuring the long-term viability of bears in the face of imminent climate change.

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    Save the Yellowstone Grizzly
  • Sea Sheperd

    Sea Shepherd

    Sea of Shadows

    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations.

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    Sea Shepherd
  • Seventh Generation Fund

    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples

    Sacred Strides

    Through collaboration with groups like Utah Diné Bikéyh, Wings of America, and the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, BEPRA works to create opportunities for Native youth to explore and know their ancestral homelands.

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    Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
  • Team River Runner

    Team River Runner

    Feel of Vision

    Team River Runner's mission is to provide all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community purpose, and new challenges through adventure and adaptive paddle sports.

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    Team River Runner
  • Teton Adaptive Sports

    Teton Adaptive Sports

    A Grand Journey

    Teton Adaptive Sports offers year-round programming in climbing, camping, cycling, mountain biking, hiking, paddling, alpine and cross country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating/sled hockey with a staff committed to improving quality of life for athletes with disabilities from this area and visiting the Tetons.

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    Teton Adaptive Sports
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    Izembek

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology partners with local communities and organizations around the world to create compelling science-based media about pressing conservation issues that are integral to sustaining species, ecosystems, and human livelihoods. By realizing the power of conservation successes to inspire others to act, they spread the stories of the people, communities, and organizations that are dedicated to protecting wildlife.

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    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • The Field's Edge

    The Field's Edge

    Finding Home in Boomtown

    The vision of The Field’s Edge is to build a permanent, supportive, tiny-home community for the chronically homeless in Midland, Texas. This village will bring close to one hundred formerly homeless residents of the Permian Basin into The Field’s Edge family.

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    The Field's Edge
  • Fire on the Hill

    The Hill Foundation

    Fire on the Hill

    The Hill Foundation’s mission is to rebuild and sustain South Central L.A.’s historic horse riding culture. South L.A. is unique in that it is zoned for agricultural and equestrian use. The Hill Foundation offers an opportunity for youth to learn and carry on the proud heritage of urban equestrian culture in the region.

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    The Hill Foundation
  • November Foundation

    The Movember Foundation

    A Light in the Shadow

    The Movember Foundation is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health. They’re addressing some of the biggest health issues faced by men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention. They have one goal: to stop men dying too young.

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    The Movember Foundation
  • The Nature Conservancy

    The Nature Conservancy

    The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Their mission is to conserve the land and waters on which all life depends. Their vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfill our needs and enrich our lives.

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    The Nature Conservancy
  • Washington to Washington

    Washington To Washington

    17 Blocks

    Washington To Washington is an annual outdoors adventure bringing city kids from Washington, D.C., Detroit, and New Orleans on a week-long camping trip to climb mountains and explore some of the country's most beautiful wilderness areas.

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    Washington To Washington
  • Wildlife SOS India

    Wildlife SOS India

    The King's Keeper

    Wildlife SOS actively works towards protecting Indian wildlife, conserving habitat, studying biodiversity, conducting research and creating alternative and sustainable livelihoods for erstwhile poacher communities or those communities that depend on wildlife for sustenance.

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    Wildlife SOS India
  • Wings for Life

    Wings for Life

    Any One of Us

    The Wings For Life Foundation is a nonprofit research foundation with a mission to find a cure for spinal cord injury. All donations directly fund cutting-edge scientific research and clinical trials around the globe aimed at healing the injured spinal cord.

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    Wings for Life
  • Woods Hole Research Center

    Woods Hole Research Center

    The Woods Hole Research Center's (WHRC) mission is to advance scientific discovery and seek science-based solutions for the world’s environmental and economic challenges through research and education.

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    Woods Hole Research Center

2018 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

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    dZi
  • 1% For the Planet

    1% For the Planet

    1% for the Planet is a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual membership and everyday actions. They collaborate with individual and business members to identify environmental organizations that will make the greatest impact and align with your giving goals.

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    1% For the Planet
  • 350 Colorado

    350 Colorado

    350.org's Go Fossil Free campaign launched with Bill McKibben’s Do The Math Tour in 2012. It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. How can you help? Go Fossil Free: Divest-Invest.

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    350 Colorado
  • Alfanar

    Alfanar

    Soufra

    Established in 2004, Alfanar’s goal is to ensure that the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children, are able to access the education and opportunity they need to lead productive and dignified lives. They work to help social enterprises improve lives through financial stability, supporting grassroots organizations and helping them achieve lasting social change in their communities.

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    Alfanar
  • American Alpine Club

    American Alpine Club

    Established in 1902 by the nation's leading climbers and conservationists, The American Alpine Club promotes and preserves the climbing way of life. Their mission is to provide knowledge and inspiration, conservation and advocacy, and logistical support for the climbing community.

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    American Alpine Club
  • Buffalo Field Campaign

    Buffalo Field Campaign

    Our National Mammal

    Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is the only group working both in the field and in the policy arenas to stop the harassment and slaughter of America’s last wild buffalo. Their primary goal is to create permanent year-round protection for bison and the ecosystem they depend on—including respect for the migratory needs of this long-exploited and endangered species.

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    Buffalo Field Campaign
  • Challenging Heights

    Challenging Heights

    The Rescue List

    Challenging Heights is committed to protecting the rights of children and ending child trafficking. They have about 60 staff members between their office in Winneba and their Hovde House shelter who work in the coastal communities of Ghana and with international coalitions of NGOs dedicated to fighting modern slavery and protecting children’s rights.

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    Challenging Heights
  • Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

    The mission of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is to empower present and future generations by making the human past accessible and relevant through archaeological research, experiential education, and American Indian knowledge.

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    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
  • Earth Vision Institute

    Earth Vision Institute

    The Human Element

    Earth Vision Institute (EVI), founded by photographer and scientist James Balog in 2012, is a donor-funded organization that is dedicated to creating, publishing, and sharing world-class visual stories and rich media content, educating global citizens about the impact of environmental change on the world.

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    Earth Vision Institute
  • EcoAction Partners

    EcoAction Partners

    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals.

    Take Action
    EcoAction Partners
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness​: Northern San Juan Chapter

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.

    Take Action
    Great Old Broads for Wilderness​: Northern San Juan Chapter
  • HawkWatch International

    HawkWatch International

    Sky Migrations

    HawkWatch International's mission is to conserve our environment through education, long-term monitoring, and scientific research on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health.

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    HawkWatch International
  • Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Stove Project
  • Honnold Foundation

    Honnold Foundation

    The Honnold Foundation envisions a world where all people have equal access to opportunity and live in balance with the environment. They believe in solar as a proven, environmentally sound solution to global energy poverty, and reduce environmental impact by supporting solar energy initiatives worldwide.

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    Honnold Foundation
  • International Rescue Committee

    International Rescue Committee

    This Is Home

    The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

    Take Action
    International Rescue Committee
  • Mission: Wolf

    Mission: Wolf

    Wolf Call

    Mission Wolf is a nonprofit educational wolf sanctuary in the remote Colorado mountains which seeks to connect people with nature using hands-on experiential education.

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    Mission: Wolf
  • Nadia's Initiative

    Nadia's Initiative: The Sinjar Action Fund

    On Her Shoulders

    The Sinjar Action Fund is taking contributions from governments around the world, as well as NGOs and individuals of the international community to rebuild Sinjar and facilitate the return of the Yazidi's to their ancient homeland.

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    Nadia's Initiative: The Sinjar Action Fund
  • No One Left Behind

    No One Left Behind

    The Interpreters

    No One Left Behind is on the ground in airports across the country, welcoming newly arriving interpreters to their new home and connecting them with essential services – housing, food, transportation, and legal counsel. They are also in the halls of Congress to ensure our allies receive the support they deserve.

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    No One Left Behind
  • Okavango Wilderness Project

    Okavango Wilderness Project

    Into the Okavango

    The Okavango Delta is the largest freshwater wetland in southern Africa, the main source of water for a million people, and one of Africa’s richest places for biodiversity. Since 2015, National Geographic Fellow Dr. Steve Boyes and an interdisciplinary team of scientists and explorers have been surveying the river system and working to protect the Okavango watershed.

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    Okavango Wilderness Project
  • Outdoor Industry Association

    Outdoor Industry Association

    The Outdoor Industry Association is a membership-driven trade organization for the outdoor industry. In collaboration with their members, they are a force for the industry in recreation and trade policy, sustainable business innovation and increasing outdoor participation.

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    Outdoor Industry Association
  • Protect Our Winters

    Protect Our Winters

    Southwest Scramble

    POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places they live and love from climate change. POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.

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    Protect Our Winters
  • Protect Our Winters

    Protect Our Winters

    Powder Snow Hokkaido

    POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places they live and love from climate change. POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.

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    Protect Our Winters
  • Public Good

    Public Good: Save the Vaquita

    Vaquita

    The Vaquita porpoise is on the brink of extinction. With fewer than 30 left in the wild, scientists say the last Vaquita could die by 2018. Help save this vulnerable marine mammal by supporting these ongoing conservation efforts. Public Good is a Benefit Corporation that accepts donations on behalf of all 1.1 million nationwide nonprofits.

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    Public Good: Save the Vaquita
  • Rocky Mountain Wolf Project

    Rocky Mountain Wolf Project

    Meet the Real Wolf

    The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project aims to improve public understanding of gray wolf behavior, ecology, and options for re-establishing the species in Colorado. The benchmark of their success: Wolves again roaming the snow-capped peaks, rim rock canyons, and primeval forests of western Colorado.

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    Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
  • Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance is a grassroots citizen organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado.

    Take Action
    Sheep Mountain Alliance
  • TentEd

    TentED

    Adventure Not War

    TentED advances education for children displaced by war. When children arrive in transitional communities, they have often lost everything. By funding projects that make returning to school, fun, and friends possible, TentED seeks to improve and normalize their lives, while providing hope for a more stable, successful future.

    Take Action
    TentED
  • The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation

    The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation

    Hold Fast

    The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) is dedicated to preserving Alex Lowe's legacy by providing direction and financial support to sustainable, community-based humanitarian programs designed to help the people who live in remote regions of the world.

    Take Action
    The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation
  • The Bob Brown Foundation

    The Bob Brown Foundation

    Takayna

    The Bob Brown Foundation is all about action with a vision to protect Australia's wild and scenic natural places of ecological and global significance. Their campaign for The Tarkine is calling for its recognition as a National Park and World Heritage Area and is taking strategic and considered action step by step to reach this goal by 2020.

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    The Bob Brown Foundation
  • The International Justice Mission

    The International Justice Mission

    The Deep Place

    The International Justice Mission is a global organization that protects the poor from violence in the developing world. Their global team includes more than 750 lawyers, investigators, social workers, community activists and other professionals at work through 17 field offices.

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    The International Justice Mission
  • The Jane Goodall Institute

    The Jane Goodall Institute

    Jane

    The Jane Goodall Institute is a global community conservation organization that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. By protecting chimpanzees and inspiring people to conserve the natural world we all share, we improve the lives of people, animals and the environment.

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    The Jane Goodall Institute
  • TIMBY

    TIMBY

    Silas

    TIMBY (This Is My Backyard) is the result of a collaboration between activists, journalists, technologists, and designers to create a suite of interconnected digital tools to allow teams tackle complex issues quickly and comprehensively. Created to help local communities and organizations understand and maintain the issues affecting their areas.

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    TIMBY
  • United We Dream

    United We Dream

    When you’re undocumented, you face a lot of discrimination, and that creates a lot of fear. United We Dream transforms that fear into finding your voice by empowering people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and to develop campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people.

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    United We Dream
  • Utah Diné Bikéyah

    Utah Diné Bikéyah

    Diné Bikéyah (pronounced di-NAY bi-KAY-uh) means “people’s sacred lands” in the Navajo language. Utah Diné Bikéyah works toward the healing of people and the Earth by supporting indigenous communities in protecting their culturally significant, ancestral lands.

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    Utah Diné Bikéyah
  • Wild Horse Education

    Wild Horse Education

    The Fate of the Wild

    Wild Horse Education (WHE) advocates for America's wild horses from the ground up, standing between our wild horses and the threats aimed at their destruction.

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    Wild Horse Education
  • Woods Hole Research Center

    Woods Hole Research Center

    The Woods Hole Research Center's (WHRC) mission is to advance scientific discovery and seek science-based solutions for the world’s environmental and economic challenges through research and education.

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    Woods Hole Research Center

2017 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

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    dZi
  • Apple Core Project

    Take Action
    Apple Core Project
  • Arctic and Mountain Regions Development Institute

    Take Action
    Arctic and Mountain Regions Development Institute
  • Buddy Pegs

    Free-Range Program: Memorial Day Ride with Rebecca Rusch

    A Children's Media Company Empowering Kids Through the Power of the Bicycle. 

    Take Action
    Buddy Pegs
  • Buddy Pegs

    Free-Range Program: B is for Bicycle Group Ride

    A Children's Media Company Empowering Kids Through the Power of the Bicycle. 

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    Buddy Pegs
  • New Normal Action Station

    Take Action
    New Normal Action Station
  • Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently

    City of Ghosts
    Take Action
    Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently
  • Roots to Rise

    Take Action
    Roots to Rise
  • Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Take Action
    Sheep Mountain Alliance
  • Town of Mountain Village

    Take Action
    Town of Mountain Village
  • Town of Telluride Ecology Commission

    Take Action
    Town of Telluride Ecology Commission

2016 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

    Take Action
    dZi
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    Chris Klug Foundation

    Chris Klug Foundation advocates for organ and tissue donation, and inspires those touched by transplantation. Through their programs they reach tens of thousands of young people each year, equipping them with facts about organ donation so they can make educated decisions.

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    Chris Klug Foundation
  • Coloradans for Community Rights

    Coloradans for Community Rights

    Coloradans for Community Rights (CCR) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization formed in 2014 to pass by ballot initiative an amendment to the Colorado constitution recognizing the people’s right of local self-government and empowering local communities to protect their fundamental rights, free of corporate interference and state preemption. We are Colorado citizens working together on a state-wide campaign to win passage of the Colorado Community Rights Amendment in the November 2016 election.

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    Coloradans for Community Rights
  • Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

    The mission of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is to advance and share knowledge of the human experience through archaeological research, education programs, and partnerships with American Indians.

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    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
  • Eco Action Partners

    Eco Action Partners

    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.

    Take Action
    Eco Action Partners
  • Futaleufú Riverkeeper

    Futaleufú Riverkeeper

    The Futaleufú Riverkeeper is a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an international network of clean water advocates working around the world to protect our planet’s waterways and defending our fundamental right to a healthy environment free from pollution and abuse. 

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    Futaleufú Riverkeeper
  • Great Old Broads

    Great Old Broads For Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.

    Take Action
    Great Old Broads For Wilderness
  • Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is a humanitarian & philanthropic program. It is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region. We donate and distribute, free, clean-burning, fuel-efficient Envirofit cook stoves, transforming the lives of individuals and families who now cook with traditional, rudimentary stoves or over open fire pits inside their homes, consuming excessive amounts of precious fuel and polluting the indoor air to dangerously unhealthy levels.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Stove Project
  • NPCA

    National Parks Conservation Assocation

    Protecting and enhancing America's National Park System for present and future generations.

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    National Parks Conservation Assocation
  • Outdoor Mindset

    Outdoor Mindset

    They strive to enhance quality of life for people affected by neurological challenges by uniting and empowering our members through a common passion for the outdoors. They believe in the power of community and the outdoors to enliven mind, body and soul. They envision a global community of people positively impacted by the outdoors.

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    Outdoor Mindset
  • Patagonia

    Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

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    Patagonia
  • Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute is a Smithsonian Affiliate based in Telluride, Colorado that strives to promote science-education both locally & globally. An international network of the world’s leading scientists supports our many educational programs providing unparalleled opportunity to high-level scientific education in rural Colorado. Pinhead Institute educates and inspires children and adults in the greater Telluride region about the wonders of science and technology.

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    Pinhead Institute
  • Welcome Home Troops

    Project Welcome Home Troops

    Their mission is to improve the quality of life for returning veterans and their families. They provide safe and effective techniques for stress relief, greater health and well-being, and empowerment.

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    Project Welcome Home Troops
  • San Miguel Resource Center

    Our mission is to eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault in our community through intervention services, prevention education and social change.

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    San Miguel Resource Center
  • Telluride Institute

    San Miguel Watershet Education Program

    A commitment to contribute to the raising of a generation of informed stewards of place and community

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    San Miguel Watershet Education Program
  • Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance is a 27-year-old grassroots citizen organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado. We strive to protect and educate people about the regional ecosystems, wildlife habitats and watersheds.

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    Sheep Mountain Alliance
  • Telluride Institute

    Telluride Institute

    The Telluride Institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. We work with communities, businesses, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of environments, cultures, and economies. We collaborate with leading artists, scientists, and educators to map a progressive future.

    Take Action
    Telluride Institute
  • Western Slope Conservation Center

    Western Slope Conservation Center

    The mission of the Western Slope Conservation Center is to build an active and aware community to protect and enhance the lands, air, water, and wildlife of the Lower Gunnison Watershed.

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    Western Slope Conservation Center

2015 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

    Take Action
    dZi
  • American Rivers

    American Rivers

    American Rivers combines national advocacy with field work in key river basins to deliver the greatest impact.

    Take Action
    American Rivers
  • Ebola Orphan Project

    Take Action
    Ebola Orphan Project
  • Eco Action Partners

    Eco Action Partners

    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.

    Take Action
    Eco Action Partners
  • Grand Canyon Trust

    Grand Canyon Trust

    Since 1985, the Grand Canyon Trust has worked to protect and restore the Colorado Plateau.

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    Grand Canyon Trust
  • Great Old Broads

    Great Old Broads For Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.

    Take Action
    Great Old Broads For Wilderness
  • Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is a humanitarian & philanthropic program. It is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region. We donate and distribute, free, clean-burning, fuel-efficient Envirofit cook stoves, transforming the lives of individuals and families who now cook with traditional, rudimentary stoves or over open fire pits inside their homes, consuming excessive amounts of precious fuel and polluting the indoor air to dangerously unhealthy levels.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Stove Project
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    Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation

    The Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation's mission is to promote the joys of climbing; secure access and preserve the mountain environment.

    Take Action
    Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation
  • Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute is a Smithsonian Affiliate based in Telluride, Colorado that strives to promote science-education both locally & globally. An international network of the world’s leading scientists supports our many educational programs providing unparalleled opportunity to high-level scientific education in rural Colorado. Pinhead Institute educates and inspires children and adults in the greater Telluride region about the wonders of science and technology.

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    Pinhead Institute
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    Protect Our Winters

    Protect Our Winters is a passionate crew of diehards, professional athletes and industry brands mobilizing the outdoor sports community to lead the charge towards positive climate action. We focus on educational initiatives, political advocacy and community-based activism.

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    Protect Our Winters
  • Rabbit Island Logo

    Rabbit Island

    Advancing the culture of art and science on a remote island in Lake Superior.

    The Rabbit Island Foundation provides a platform to investigate, expand and challenge creative practices in a remote environment through the Rabbit Island Residency. By living and working on Rabbit Island residents engage directly with the landscape and respond to notions of conservation, ecology, sustainability, and resilience. With the idea that the intelligent organization and celebration of wild spaces is the most civilized thing we can value as society, the residency reflects on the continent’s four hundred year history of settlement and division of land. The island itself an unsettled and undivided space, enables residents to present commentary on these ideas, creating creative interpretations and solutions to issues of global importance such as climate change and loss of natural habitat and pristine watersheds.

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    Rabbit Island
  • sbb

    Salmon Beyond Borders

    Defend & Sustain the rivers, jobs & way of life in Southeast Alaska

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    Salmon Beyond Borders
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    San Juan Independent

    The San Juan Independent, a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, aims to elevate journalism in our mountain home. We believe that small towns have big stories but know that small papers don’t always have the resources to cover them deeply. So, in contrast to the traditional community news model, we’re backing away from the day-to-day ballgames and bellwethers to focus on the slower-moving scoops that span our region. The San Juans’ environment, economy and community are more complex than a glimpse of a local council meeting can capture and so, instead, we endeavor to produce rich accounts that analyze the full arc of an issue. We hold journalism to be a public service that fuels debate and democracy, and seek to give our public the best information possible.

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    San Juan Independent
  • Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance is a 27-year-old grassroots citizen organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado. We strive to protect and educate people about the regional ecosystems, wildlife habitats and watersheds.

    Take Action
    Sheep Mountain Alliance
  • TASP

    Telluride Adaptive Sports Program

    Challenge, Inspire, Empower

    TASP provides outdoor therapeutic recreation to individuals with disabilities promoting independence and personal growth.

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    Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
  • Telluride Institute

    Telluride Institute

    The Telluride Institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. We work with communities, businesses, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of environments, cultures, and economies. We collaborate with leading artists, scientists, and educators to map a progressive future.

    Take Action
    Telluride Institute
  • fractivist

    The Fractivist

    Shane Davis is a data-miner, activist, researcher, and the founder of Fractivist.org, an anti-fracking investigative blog about the Colorado Oil and Gas industry and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

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    The Fractivist
  • Trout Unlimited

    Trout Unlimited Alaska

    Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program collaborates closely with commercial fishermen, anglers, tribes, chefs, and many others who care about trout and salmon. We work to preserve, protect and restore wild salmon and trout populations throughout the country’s largest, wildest and most fish-rich state.

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    Trout Unlimited Alaska
  • WCC

    Western Colorado Congress

    Western Colorado Congress is a grassroots, democratic organization dedicated to challenging injustice by organizing people to increase their power over decisions that affect their lives.

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    Western Colorado Congress

2014 Participants

  • dZi

    dZi

    MOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

    Take Action
    dZi
  • American Rivers

    American Rivers

    American Rivers combines national advocacy with field work in key river basins to deliver the greatest impact.

    Take Action
    American Rivers
  • Black Canyon Regional Land Trust

    The Mission of the Black Canyon Regional Land Trust is to serve as a non-political, non-governmental organization that encourages and assists private landowners in preserving and sustaining the rural heritage, natural, and cultural conservation values primarily in the watersheds of the Uncompahgre, North Fork of the Gunnison, and lower Gunnison Rivers and surrounding areas, for the benefit of the public, today and in perpetuity.



    Take Action
    Black Canyon Regional Land Trust
  • Eco Action Partners

    Eco Action Partners

    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.

    Take Action
    Eco Action Partners
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    Frack Free Colorado

    Frack Free CO is a collaborative, grass roots movement that works to raise awareness about the dangers of fracking and enlighten Coloradans on ways that we can accelerate our move to renewable energy and sustainable living today.

    Take Action
    Frack Free Colorado
  • Great Old Broads

    Great Old Broads For Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.

    Take Action
    Great Old Broads For Wilderness
  • Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is a humanitarian & philanthropic program. It is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region. We donate and distribute, free, clean-burning, fuel-efficient Envirofit cook stoves, transforming the lives of individuals and families who now cook with traditional, rudimentary stoves or over open fire pits inside their homes, consuming excessive amounts of precious fuel and polluting the indoor air to dangerously unhealthy levels.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Stove Project
  • PSports

    Paradox Sports

    As one of the nation’s premier adaptive outdoor recreation organizations, Paradox Sports is dedicated to our mission: Revolutionizing lives through adaptive climbing opportunities that defy convention.

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    Paradox Sports
  • PAthfinder INtl

    Pathfinder International

    We expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, going wherever the need is most urgent.

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    Pathfinder International
  • Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute

    Pinhead Institute is a Smithsonian Affiliate based in Telluride, Colorado that strives to promote science-education both locally & globally. An international network of the world’s leading scientists supports our many educational programs providing unparalleled opportunity to high-level scientific education in rural Colorado. Pinhead Institute educates and inspires children and adults in the greater Telluride region about the wonders of science and technology.

    Take Action
    Pinhead Institute
  • Rainforest Trust

    Rainforest Trust helps protect threatened tropical forests and endangered wildlife by partnering with local and community organizations in and around vulnerable areas.

    Through these highly effective partnerships, we can ensure sustainable results necessary for the long-term protection of tropical ecosystems and the wildlife they hold.

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    Rainforest Trust
  • San Miguel Resource Center

    Our mission is to eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault in our community through intervention services, prevention education and social change.

    Take Action
    San Miguel Resource Center
  • fractivist

    The Fractivist

    Shane Davis is a data-miner, activist, researcher, and the founder of Fractivist.org, an anti-fracking investigative blog about the Colorado Oil and Gas industry and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

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    The Fractivist

2013 Participants

  • American Alpine Club

    A United Community Of Competent Climbers And Healthy Climbing Landscapes

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    American Alpine Club
  • Choroideremia Research Foundation

    The Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to find a treatment or cure for Choroideremia, a rare inherited retinal degenerative disease that causes blindness.

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    Choroideremia Research Foundation
  • Eco Action Partners

    Eco Action Partners

    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.

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    Eco Action Partners
  • Extreme Ice Survey

    Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) is an innovative, long-term photography program that integrates art and science to give a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. We believe that the creative integration of art and science can shape public perception and inspire action more effectively than either art or science can do alone.

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    Extreme Ice Survey
  • Great Old Broads

    Great Old Broads For Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.

    Take Action
    Great Old Broads For Wilderness
  • Gregg Treinish - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation

    Adventure Scientists is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that equips partners with data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to unlocking solutions to the world's environmental challenges.

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    Gregg Treinish - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
  • Himalayan Cataract Project

    The Himalayan Cataract Project works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the developing world.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Cataract Project
  • Himalayan Stove Project

    Himalayan Stove Project

    The Himalayan Stove Project is a humanitarian & philanthropic program. It is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region. We donate and distribute, free, clean-burning, fuel-efficient Envirofit cook stoves, transforming the lives of individuals and families who now cook with traditional, rudimentary stoves or over open fire pits inside their homes, consuming excessive amounts of precious fuel and polluting the indoor air to dangerously unhealthy levels.

    Take Action
    Himalayan Stove Project
  • IOBY

    ioby mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful citizen leaders who plan, fund and make positive change in their own neighborhoods. We are creating a future in which our neighborhoods are shaped by the powerful good ideas of our own neighbors.

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    IOBY
  • John Dau Foundation

    The John Dau Foundation is fulfilling the dream of the former Lost Boy and genocide survivor John Dau to provide healthcare in the war-torn region of South Sudan by building and sustaining medical clinics and training community health workers.

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    John Dau Foundation
  • Kees Brenninkmeyer Foundation

    To financially assist alpine guides, patrollers, or instructors who require surgery in order to continue their careers.

    Take Action
    Kees Brenninkmeyer Foundation
  • Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance

    Sheep Mountain Alliance is a 27-year-old grassroots citizen organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado. We strive to protect and educate people about the regional ecosystems, wildlife habitats and watersheds.

    Take Action
    Sheep Mountain Alliance
  • Telluride Arts

    Our goal is to advance Telluride as a center for extraordinary artists, who infuse our authentic mountain community with world-class ideas. Our programs elevate and promote a culture of the arts in the Telluride Arts District, which is comprised by numerous institutions, events, and artists from around the region and across the globe.
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    Telluride Arts
  • Telluride Grown

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    Telluride Grown
  • Telluride Institute

    Telluride Institute

    The Telluride Institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. We work with communities, businesses, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of environments, cultures, and economies. We collaborate with leading artists, scientists, and educators to map a progressive future.

    Take Action
    Telluride Institute
  • The Crash Reel - Love Your Brain

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    dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.

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    EcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.

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    Great Old Broads For Wilderness

    Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.

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    Pathfinder International

    We expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, going wherever the need is most urgent.

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    Peaceful Uprising is a nonprofit collective committed to action to combat the climate crisis and build a just, healthy world.

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    Challenge, Inspire, Empower

    TASP provides outdoor therapeutic recreation to individuals with disabilities promoting independence and personal growth.

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    Telluride Arts mission is to elevate and promote a culture of the arts in the Telluride Arts District, comprised by numerous institutions, artists, and events, which engage artists from around the region and across the globe.

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  • The Rewilding Institute

    To develop and promote the ideas and strategies to advance continental-scale conservation in North America, particularly the need for large carnivores and a permeable landscape for their movement, and to offer a bold, scientifically-credible, practically achievable, and hopeful vision for the future of wild Nature and human civilization in North America.

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  • Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation

    Through the experience of fly fishing in Montana, WQW is a catalyst for positive change in the lives of post-9/11 combat veterans.

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    World Bicycle Relief

    Comeback Girls

    World Bicycle Relief is a catalyst for change, helping people in need realize their goals by providing access to education, markets, healthcare, and vital services with the tool they need to thrive. Equipped with a purpose-designed Buffalo Bicycle from World Bicycle Relief, students, health workers and entrepreneurs, especially women and girls, in developing regions create opportunities for themselves, their families and entire communities.

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