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The Coves is a series of 3 ponds that offer a natural refuge in the heart of London, Ontario. In 1998, two friends hiking in the Coves lamented that the ecosystem was progressively degrading. The friends wasted little time in talk and soon turned their lamentations into action. By 2000, they enlisted the support of 6 volunteer board members and established an incorporated, non-profit registered charity called the Friends of the Coves Subwatershed Inc. The Friends of the Coves immediately secured funding to create the Coves Subwatershed Plan. With extensive community consultation they identified common goals and secured widespread support for implementation of the plan. The Friends have installed a native plant butterfly garden, have naturalization projects on a former landfill site and shoreline areas, develop educational programs to promote ecologically friendly practices, and established a water quality monitoring program

Mahone Bay is known throughout the world for its beautiful islands and shorelines. These islands provide: unique habitat to a variety of plants and animals, breathtaking natural landscapes, and traditional access for recreational activities. The islands of Mahone Bay are ecologically significant. These drumlin islands provide unique habitats to support a diversity of species. Yet there is increasing pressure on the ecological integrity of the islands from human activity and development. Such activities can adversely impact and degrade fragile coastal habitats and threaten native wildlife species. MICA has worked since 2003 to bring several of the islands under public ownership. And it has succeeded with the help of many individual donors, the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, and the Long Island Preservation Society. Ten islands are now available for public use in perpetuity.

Erie Wildlife Rescue (EWR) is a volunteer-based registered charity, incorporated in 1979. For over 30 years EWR has been providing rehabilitation services to all species of wildlife native to southwestern Ontario. EWR members are dedicated to the treatment and temporary care of injured or orphaned indigenous wildlife, and the subsequent release of healthy animals into appropriate habitats in the wild. We educate the public, promote the value of wildlife and the environment, and encourage positive interactions between people and wildlife. We serve not just the needs of wildlife, but also the needs of the public who ask for our assistance. EWR volunteers answer thousands of inquiries each year. The concerns expressed by these callers may be for the wildlife itself, for personal safety, or for the safety of property. Over 500 birds, mammals and reptiles received treatment from EWR in 2012.

The Riverwood Conservancy (TRC) is a volunteer and member-based community charity whose volunteers and staff provide nature and environmental education programs and services to children including special needs children, youth, and adults and families. TRC also improves and conserves the natural heritage of Riverwood park though stewardship activities, which includes native tree planting, managing invasive plants and re-establishing animal and plant habitat. TRC designs, plants and beautifies the many Chappell House Gardens. In addition, TRC promotes the further establishment of Riverwood as a public park in Mississauga. This is all accomplished in partnership with the City of Mississauga, local schools, businesses, and service clubs. Our programs contribute to a healthy community, enriching quality of life, and improving the environment. All TRC work occurs at Riverwood, a rare and ecologically diverse 150-acre site in central Mississauga.

Gamiing Nature Centre has an interesting history of indigenous settlement and European colonization. In 1984 the Schipper family purchased the 100 acre abandoned farm on the west shore of Pigeon Lake. To protect the land from development it was put in Trust with the Kawartha Land Trust in 2002 to preserve it in perpetuity to keep it available as an environmental education site for our and future generations. This was the first gift to the Kawartha Land Trust. The family re-established the original forest by allowing the land to revert to its natural state. With planting stock provided by MNR and the help of family, friends and volunteers, hundreds of native trees were planted on the property.Gamiing Nature Centre was established as a charitable organization in 2000,with a Board of Directors to guide the activities on the property. That name was chosen to honour those who lived on the land before us and to indicate our location along the shore.See www.gamiing.org

The mission of Haiti Plunge Inc. is to educate, challenge and empower both American and Haitian youth in social, educational and agricultural sustainable development in rural Haiti. The organization is committed to enabling young people to make a difference with their lives and be of service to others. Eight teams annually participate on-site in one of the nine bush villages they are assisting in sustainable development. HPI provides medical, educational, agricultural, disaster relief and environmental support to the nine village co-operative (pop. 38,000 ) founded by the organization in 1984. Since 2020 the focus of HPI has been building Rainwater Collection Units in all of its villages to provide access to clean water for the village populations.

The Friends have developed programs to help foster community involvement, educate the public about the wonders of the Park and the natural world, and to protect this precious resource. Our programs encourage people to respect the Park and take responsibility for its well-being. We encourage people to enjoy the Park through recreational activities, and provide ways for the community to contribute to an area that means so much to them. Throughout the year we have special one-day events for people to enjoy. Last year, due to the flooding, we had over 750 people pitch in to help out. Our annual events include: Purge-the-Spurge Volunteers help “weed out” leafy spurge, a nasty invasive weed, at this one of a kind event. Tackle-the-Tansy and Battle-the-Burdock are new programs that the Friends are initiating this year. Invasive plants are becoming an increasing problem within the Park, squeezing out native vegetation and wildlife, and reducing biodiversity.

Established in 1992, Quoddy Futures Foundation (SCEP*)is one of the original sites in Environment Canada’s Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP). QFF is unique in that it is located on an international river and represents the interests of both Canadian and American residents of the St. Croix Valley and Passamaquoddy Region of the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine. QFF maintains its office in the Quoddy Learning Centre located at the Ganong Nature and Marine Park near St. Stephen, NB. The organization is a not-for-profit, charity that promotes a sustainable future through its Quoddy Community Initiative and Quoddy Ecosystem Initiative; companion programs that address both environmental and community issues. Currently, QFF operates the 350 acre Ganong Nature & Marine Park, Camp Waweig, a community camp located on the Waweig River. * QFF is the operating name of St. Croix Estuary Project Inc. - SCEP

The primary purpose to join and organize Ecuadorians, their families and friends or other nations that live in California so that jointly we can carry on projects of assistance to those in need in Ecuador and in the United States. AECalifornia carries on its objectives by social activities, intellectual, cultural, sports and events of service to the community. The organization is open to the public at large and welcomes anyone who shares our ideas and not for profit activities, our mission and objectives. We share friendship, typical Ecuadorian food and that of other countries. Together we plan projects to help our brothers and sisters in need in Ecuador and in the United States. We share our friendship, culture, music, singing and dancing and organize activities to raise funds to carry on our charitable activities in support of hospitals, nursing homes, emergency relief, medical missions, for children and the needy. We support the medical missions from American doctors going to Ecuador to perform surgeries on Ecuadorian children and the poor.

The Guatemala Stove Project (GSP) is a group of North American volunteers that began working in response to a request for help from CEDEC, an indigenous non-profit group working in Guatemala's Altiplano (Western Highlands). CEDEC had identified the need for masonry cookstoves in the communities they serve, but residents lacked the material resources to build stoves for themselves. The Guatemala Stove Project was born out of this need. Currently the GSP works with 3 Guatemalan NGO's. Other activities include emergency relief, sustainable projects promoting nutrition, education, and micro-loans. Because the stoves burn more efficiently family wood consumption is reduced by about 50%. Guatemala loses 2% of its forests annually, mainly to the need for cooking fuel firewood. The Guatemala Stove Project documents its work extensively, photographing each stove and the receiving family. It costs CND $225.00 to provide a stove for a Maya family.

The Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance (IPCA) is dedicated to the study and conservation of the native ecosystems of the tropical Indo-Pacific region and support for traditional peoples in their stewardship of these globally significant natural resources. Our current field projects are located in Indonesia and New Guinea. Our main program is with the Asmat community of southwestern Papua, Indonesia, in the lowlands of Lorentz National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the largest and most diverse protected area in the Asia-Pacific Region. Our conservation successes include halting destructive commercial logging and fishing operations. IPCA is based at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Rather than establish in-country offices, which is both expensive and unnecessary, we work with and through local partners to minimize overhead costs and put financial resources into the field where it is urgently needed. IPCA was formed in 1998 in collaborative association with scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, Bishop Museum, and other leading scientific and conservation organizations. Our projects are science-based and driven by our desire to work in authentic collaboration with indigenous communities, in-country scientists, local conservation groups, and other stakeholders. Our geographic focus is on the tropical Indo-Pacific region, a vast area that includes Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia -- by far the most biologically and culturally diverse area of the planet.

The Overseas Press Club Foundation is the 501 (C)(3) charitable organization affiliated with the Overseas Press Club, which was founded in New York City in 1939 by a group of foreign correspondents to improve the profession of international journalism. The Foundation has a broad mandate to improve the media's understanding of international issues and to raise the quality of news-gathering efforts in covering the world. The most tangible expression of this charter is a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students in American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents. The program began in 1992 and every year offers $2,000 scholarships to 14 talented student winners of a national essay competition. In 2006, the OPC Foundation began partnering with media organizations to offer internships. The Foundation pays travel and living expenses for interns in foreign bureaus. Six of this year's winners will have internships with Associated Press (Cairo, Johannesburg, and Bangkok) and Reuters (Singapore, Beijing, and Hong Kong). The Foundation feels it is more important than ever to encourage young correspondents to travel and work abroad particularly at a time when many major news organizations have sharply reduced their networks of experienced correspondents around the world.