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Accountability Counsel
Accountability Counsel seeks to use, strengthen, and create accountability systems for local
communities and international entities to ensure that social and environmental standards
are met in international finance and development projects.

Arca de Noe
Based in Costa Rica, where there is no official animal control system in place, Arca de
Noe's mission is to reduce the numbers of unwanted animals in the community through
rescue, castration and adoption.

Ballona Valley Preservation League
Through the utilization of video and electronic media, this group is halting construction on
the Ballona Wetlands. The videotaping of endangered species is an essential component in
preserving this crown jewel of Los Angeles, which developers have coveted for decades.

Beaches Local Food Network
The goal of BLFN is to address the long-term goal of local food security in our beaches
community through connecting farmers to consumers, building community gardens, and
creating educational programs for children and adults.

The Bicycle Tree
Our goal is to create a space where people can fix bicycles for free and explore pleasurable
alternatives to car culture.

Biodiesel Council of California
The Biodiesel Council of California's mission is to inspire social, economical and
ecological sustainable development of the biodiesel industry in California by educating and
organizing the public.

Caring Relationships Involving Book Sharing (CRIBS)
The mission of CRIBS is to get the message out to parents that they should "Start Reading
Now!" by presenting and engaging children in literacy activities that will help them to be
successful in school and to become lifelong readers.

Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
To work toward awareness, act as a watchdog, advocate for policy, and mobilize
communities to create clean air in the San Joaquin Valley. To ensure that all communities,
of all races, cultures, class or creed, have the opportunity to be involved in the policy
development and regulatory processes improving regional health.

C.I.C.L.E.
Cyclists Inciting Change through Live Exchange is a group that seeks to promote the bicycle
as a viable and sustainable choice for everyday transportation.

Coalition for World Peace
Our Coalition is dedicated to working for a world free of violence and war. We work for
communities that respect all people equally, as justice is applied without prejudice and with
compassion. Our work promotes the resolution of conflict without violence and war.

Community, Arts, Recreation and Education Coalition C.A.R.E
C.A.R.E. works with communities, with an emphasis on youth involvement, to provide
facilities and opportunities for the arts, recreation, education and enlightened, sustainable
development.

Conservatree
Conservatree's mission is to shift the pulp and paper industry to environmentally
sustainable production processes through environmental paper market development &
providing tools, strategies, education and technical assistance to paper purchasers and
environmental paper advocates.

Creative Outdoor Recreational Edventures C.O.R.E.
CORE leaders integrate life skills, physical challenges, environmental awareness and
classroom curriculum into experiential learning "Edventure" that students will carry with
them throughout their lives.

CREER
We believe it is our responsibility to create an international bridge that is focused on
education, sustainable contribution and balance integration of cultures. We facilitate this
work by sharing abundance with the native population of Costa Rica in the form of building
libraries and supporting local entrepreneurs.

Desiree Alliance
The Desiree Alliance is a coalition whose focus is on building local and regional leadership
and constructive activism in the sex worker population to advocate for sex workers' human,
labor and civil rights.

Dream of a Nation, SEE Innovation
Dream of a Nation is a public awareness and capacity building initiative designed to raise
awareness for critical social and environmental issues and generate revenue for over 40
leading civil society organizations.

East Yard - Communities for Environmental Justice
An environmental health and justice organization promoting a safe and healthy atmosphere
for communities that are disproportionately suffering the negative impacts of industrial
pollution. We recognize and promote full and authentic community participation in making
policies that affect them directly, encouraging the implementation of environmental justice
guidelines for local governments, state and federal agencies and industry.

Environmental Paper Network
EPN is a diverse group of environmental organizations joined together to support socially
and environmentally sustainable transformations within the pulp and paper industry.

Equal Vision
The mission of this project is to provide education about how protection of cows, a
foundation of social systems in India, can lead to sustainable living practices by using the
cow's milk, dung for fertilizer and fuel, and power to haul grain.

Friends of Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge
The Seal Beach NWR is the only wildlife refuge in the Los Angeles Basin. We are committed
to community stewardship of the refuge through preservation, restoration, and education.
The refuge itself is a 1,000+ acre salt marsh estuary, containing sloughs, ponds, and
upland shrub habitat.

Gateway Mountain Center
The Gateway Mountain Center facilitates spirited, rigorous, and adventurous explorations of
the natural world for 4th -12th grade students to prepare and inspire tomorrow's citizens and
leaders to envision, create, and support a more sustainable relationship between people
and the earth's ecosystems.

Global Pediatric Alliance
Global Pediatric Alliance seeks to promote grassroots empowerment and improve child and
maternal health by providing educational, technical, and financial support for community-
based health projects in Latin America.

Green Press Initiative - SEE Innovation
To catalyze innovations in policy, lifestyle, and awareness that serve to restore social,
environmental, and economic balance.

Green Schools Initiative
The Green Schools Initiative was founded in 2004 by parent-environmentalists who were
shocked by how un-environmental their kids’ schools were and mobilized to improve the
environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools in the U.S.

Green Science Policy Institute
The goal of this project is to protect human health and the environment by educating and
motivating the public, government, academia and industry to base decisions on scientific
data, reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products and to support chemical policy reform.

The Greenhorns
The goal of this small volunteer-driven organization works to recruit, support and promote
the next generation of farmers in America.

Grow Food Organic Volunteers
An online resource of working organic farms where people can volunteer, get their hands
dirty, and promote the growth of organic farming and permaculture. A response to the rising
tide of social and environmental problems and all suffering caused by unsustainable
human existence.

Habitat Works of Southern California
Habitat Works is an environmental stewardship action group producing volunteer projects to
improve the habitats of endangered, threatened and perturbed species in Southern
California.

Independent Media Center
A grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for
promoting social and economic justice in Los Angeles County. It is our goal to give voice to
those people under-represented in the mainstream media. We intend to illuminate and
analyze local and global issues that are affected by the increasing corporate domination of
American society and the subsequent erosion of democracy.

International Accountability Project
The IAP works to bring an end to unjust displacement through hard-hitting campaigns,
critical research and policy analysis, popular education resources, and creative use of
media and arts.

Jayo Foundation
Our mission is to help educate and heal children through the sport of volleyball by
contributing to those organizations that do. Our goal is to utilize the sport of volleyball, via the
Jayo Invitational, the first event of its kind where professional and Olympic players will work
one-on-one with children from various charitable or educational organizations.

Jazmin Flores Breast Cancer Legal Project
This project aims to educate, empower and advocate for breast cancer patients, survivors,
their families and the general public through free legal services and educational programs.

KILL Radio
A collective organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for
promoting social and economic justice. It is our goal to further the self-determination of
people under-represented in media production and content and to illuminate and analyze
local and global issues that impact ecosystems, communities, and individuals.

Le Bateau du Audubon
The primary mission of Le Bateau du Audubon is to provide a safe, low-impact, fun platform
for learning about our estuarine and marsh ecosystems. Secondly, to provide support to US
Fish and Wildlife and CA Dept of Fish and Game personnel.

Local Access Places
The LAP Purpose is to nurture diverse, interwoven sustainable local communities globally
by facilitating and modeling the emergence of computer-empowered, creativity inspiring,
consensus building community communication centers and networks.

The Love Planet Foundation
The Love Planet Foundation, established in 2001, is a non-profit organization dedicated to
launching exciting new fund raising projects and multi-media events which educate and
inspire social & environmental awareness.

Military Association of Athiests and Freethinkers
To support nonreligious members of the military by providing community, education and
advocacy.

Mofilms
Mofilms is an independent media organization dedicated to raising awareness concerning
topics that are ultimately ignored by current mainstream media.

MOMS - Making Our Milk Safe
MOMS is a grassroots movement of mothers, working to restore purity to nature's perfect
food. Toxic chemicals that surround us have made their way into our bodies and are
threatening the purity of mother's milk. This chemical trespass is a violation of every
mother's right to provide pure, toxic-free food for her children.

Of Parrots and People
The purpose of this project is to create a feature length documentary to raise global
awareness of the crisis with parrots, in the wild and captivity. This film will highlight the
connection between the destruction of endangered wild parrot species and the pet trade.

Orang Utan Republik Education Initiative
OUREI's goal is to facilitate conservation education regarding the endangered orangutan
and its habitat so that it might be saved from extinction.

PB&J Campaign
The PB&J Campaign is working to combat environmental destruction by reducing the
amount of animal products people eat.

Poverty Matters
Poverty Matters advocates on behalf of low income communities through legislation
advocacy and by raising awareness of poverty issues in media and popular culture.

Project Bona Fide
Created out of a need to support rural Nicaraguan farming communities and culture gain
self-empowerment and economic stability. In addition to offering farmers financial and
technical support toward gaining organic certification, our focus is on establishing much
needed export market opportunities and preserving native environments.

Resource Center
The Resource Center focuses on research, education and advocacy on issues of foreign
policy, peace, the environment, juvenile justice and politics.

Save Open Space
Our goal is to preserve the Santa Monica Mountains through the halting of development
schemes. Efforts center on Soka University expansion, the Ahmanson Ranch City, Stokes
Canyon and other smaller pockets of proposed development.

Save Our Ring of Green (SOROG)
The mission of SOROG is to protect the designated buffer of land surrounding the City of
Thousand Oaks and affecting other bordering cities such as the Santa Rosa Valley,
Camarillo, Newbury Park, Malibu, Agoura, Oak Park and Westlake Village from development
and human encroachment.

SEE Innovation
The mission of SEE Innovation is to build awareness, capacity, and structures for social and
environmental transformation. Active programs of SEE Innovation include the Green Press
Initiative and Dream of a Nation.

Serpent Sanctuary
The mission of The Serpent Sanctuary is to provide a place for unwanted reptiles to live out
their lives at the sanctuary or with qualified adopters and to help stop the neglect of reptiles
through education.

Tierra Nativa
Tierra Nativa's mission is to enable indigenous communities of Mexico's Sierra Madre to
sustain their biocultural resources and traditions.

The Transit Coalition
This is a broad-based group of concerned citizens whose mission is to conduct education
and outreach activities to support the implementation of programs designed to stimulate
economic development for and continued operation of improved mass transportation.

Tree Walkers International
Our mission is to conserve wild neotropical amphibian populations while promoting
sustainable and ethical neotropical amphibian husbandry. As a coalition of
conservationists, scientists, hobbyists, and breeders, we are an international community
dedicated to the preservation and study of these animals.

U.S. Tour of Duty
U. S. Tour of Duty promotes dialogue about civic issues by organizing public forums,
developing media strategies and producing audio/video content.

The Veterans Project
The Veterans Project supports organizations that help veterans - primarily those who fought
in the Iraq and/or Afghanistan - reintegrate into society when they return home.

Wilder Institute
Conscious permaculture design reweaves the web of fertile and sophisticated landscapes
where humans, plants, animals and our collective spirits belong and are welcome.

Women with Altitude- Bolivia
Our mission is to raise the public's awareness about domestic violence in the US and
Bolivia and to raise resources for the many courageous efforts to end abuse. Our goal is to
demonstrate that ordinary women can do extraordinary things, whether taking one step up a
mountain or one step out the door.

Wright Organic Resource Center
Our goal is to educate and activate people to be creative and environmentally
responsible in all aspects of life. We provide opportunities for people in the Los Angeles
area, especially youth, to experience the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright and Organic
Architecture, encouraging the creative integration of Nature, Art and Community.