Local Organizations

We are a water resources management utility that combines science and nature to clean water and return it to the Tualatin River, so it can be used again.

Our job is to maintain and improve the infrastructure, innovation and efficiency of our water resources to ensure quality of life throughout the Tualatin River Watershed.

We work in partnership with others to safeguard the river’s health and vitality, ensure the economic success of our region, and protect public health for more than 570,000 residents and businesses in urban Washington County.

Keep Chicago Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is a nonprofit organization that works with Chicagoland’s business community, schools, neighborhoods and government agencies to improve our environment through education, public awareness and community involvement.

With a particular emphasis on waste reduction and recycling, we offer educational workshops and coordinate presentations by expert speakers throughout Chicago.

Neat Streets Miami is a County board dedicated to creating beautiful gateways, corridors and connections. Our impact can be seen in efforts such as:

• Educational programs
• Tree plantings
• Roadway landscape projects
• Street tree and aesthetics planning
• Metrorail station enhancements
• Metrorail station landscape enhancements

We sponsor activities, run contests, develop anti-litter campaigns, provide information and more.

Please get in touch of you'd like to know more - or to join in!

Urban GreenWorks (UGW) is a Miami-based not-for-profit organization and a fund of the Miami Foundation. We exist to restore the economic, physical, and social health of underserved communities.

Our focus is community food security and environmental restoration. UGW creates programs for communities plagued by poor access to fresh food, blighted and neglected open space, low urban tree cover, and an under-employed population of young adults.

Women in Sustainable Energy (WISE) offers education, networking, professional development and leadership training for women (and men, too) at all stages of their clean energy careers and lives. WISE members and guests come together to be inspired, share ideas, enhance awareness and build competency.

Membership includes:

Cleantech San Diego is a member-based trade organization that positions the greater San Diego region as a global leader in the cleantech economy and smart cities movement.

As a nonprofit organization, we are uniquely suited to support the cleantech industry by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, and encouraging investment in the San Diego region.

Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center inspires people to develop a lifelong practice of enjoying and protecting nature through educational programs, collaborative alliances, and conservation of our beautiful 76-acre preserve.

A LIVING LABORATORY

Move through hundreds of thousands of years of geologic formations as you hike to the bottom of our canyon. At the head of the canyon is a grotto where you can see how the water cycle works.

The Chicago Community Trust is a charitable organization dedicated to improving our region through strategic grant-making, civic engagement and inspiring philanthropy.

The Trust awards grants for general operating support and responsive grants to address specific community needs or opportunities.

Among other initiatives, we support efforts to create an environment of clean air, water and land, an accessible and high-quality built environment of affordable housing, multi-modal transportation systems and full-service communities.