State / National Organizations

Our mission is to create awareness about the plight of the environment, to educate the public about caring for our planet, humanity and the environment, to run recycling operations and to support environmental projects and programs locally and globally.

Some of our projects:

Collecting Used Clothes and Shoes
Through our green drop off bins we provide a convenient way for people in local communities to drop their unwanted clothes and other items.

Colorado Open Lands is a 501(c)3 nonprofit land trust that works with private landowners to place voluntary conservation easements on their properties – earning financial benefits for landowners, helping keep land in families, and protecting Colorado’s land and water resources.

Our staff has experience in working with all types of landowners and situations, and prides itself on being advocates for landowners. We take a long-term approach, understanding that successful conservation is about more than land and water—it is about people.

The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. For more than 56 years, we've been working in Florida to do just that. The Conservancy owns and manages approximately 55,159 acres in Florida including four preserves that are open to the public.

We focus on the priorities that science shows us are most urgent—and where our innovation and expertise can have the greatest impact. Our priorities include:

Moms Clean Air Force is a community of moms and dads united against air pollution – and climate change – to protect our children’s health. Arm yourself with reliable information and solutions through our online resources, articles, action tools and on-the-ground events.

We currently have chapters in 18 states, including Illinois.

*Our blog keeps you connected with what we’re doing in Illinois.

*We offer a community of local moms and dads who share your clean air concerns.

The Colorado Water Trust is committed to completing projects that put real water back in rivers and streams across Colorado. In our brief history, we’ve restored approximately 9 billion gallons of water to 316 miles of streams and rivers in Colorado.

WHY WE'RE NEEDED

For over 150 years, Colorado’s water allocation system has focused on taking water out of rivers. When the Colorado Water Trust was founded in 2001, our job was to prove that this same system could also restore depleted river flows—bringing back ecosystems and making life better for wildlife and humans both.

At EarthShare Oregon, our mission is to provide a convenient way for Oregonians to support groups working for the environment.

Throughout Oregon and southwest Washington, EarthShare Oregon has engaged thousands of people and raised millions of dollars to support Oregon's environmental legacy of clean water, fresh food, sustainable communities, healthy families, and access to nature.

EarthShare Oregon does this by partnering with workplaces large and small to offer employees several ways to connect with nature.

The Freshwater Trust is an action-oriented not-for-profit that restores rivers and streams throughout Oregon.

With more than 30 years of on-the-ground experience, we are the largest restoration-focused organization in the Pacific Northwest, and the second largest conservation group based in Oregon. We have a unique mix of in-house staff expertise, ranging from fish biologists and hydrologists to GIS experts, business and conservation systems analysts, attorneys and ecosystem services analysts.

Friends of the Everglades was founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1969 as an advocacy group to preserve, protect and restore the only Everglades on Earth.

Our Goals:
• Compel government agencies to comply with existing environmental laws, and resist any efforts to weaken such laws.
• Encourage politicians to recognize the long consequences of their actions.
• Spread awareness of the importance of the Everglades to the South Florida ecosystem.