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Al!ve (Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement)
http://www.volunteeralive.orgAL!VE serves to enhance and sustain the spirit of volunteering in America by fostering collaboration and networking, promoting professional development, and providing advocacy for leaders in community engagement. AL!VE is the essential professional resource and advocate for those who engage, motivate, and celebrate volunteers and their vital contributions to our society.
The Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.orgThe Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
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Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.comDictionary.com LLC’s online and mobile properties are destinations for learning. Our goal: to empower word discovery and learning. We provide resources that create success for users in their schoolwork, careers, relationships, and life.
Lost at E Minor
http://www.lostateminor.comLost At E Minor is an online publication of inspiring art, design, music, photography and pop culture: low brow sensibilities mashed up with the grittier elements of high brow culture.
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.orgNRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.
Earthjustice
http://earthjustice.orgEarthjustice is a non-profit environmental law firm that protects our natural world and defends the right of all people to a healthy environment. We’ve represented more than a thousand client groups in court – from large national organizations like the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association to small community groups. We do it for free and we win. Earthjustice – because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Environmental Defense Fund
http://www.edf.orgEnvironmental Defense Fund’s mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science and economics, we find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.
Population Media Center
http://www.populationmedia.orgPopulation Media Center works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change. PMC’s programs encourage positive behavior change among the audience.
Ashoka
http://www.ashoka.orgAshoka envisions an Everyone A Changemaker™ world: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change. Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.
The Energy Collective
http://theenergycollective.comThe Energy Collective is an independent, moderated community of professionals focused on the complex challenges of meeting the world's energy needs sustainably. Our members are our content contributors, and include leading scientists, activists, policy makers, executives and entrepreneurs.
Pop Tech
http://poptech.orgWe convene this community in intimate, peer-level gatherings where participants can share their most provocative questions and their most promising new ideas, and begin to work together on new approaches to some of the world’s toughest challenges.
Earth911
http://earth911.comEarth911 is a privately owned, for-profit company that specializes in providing consumers with accessible and actionable recycling information across the US. Our Earth911 Recycling Directory is the most accurate and comprehensive directory of its kind and contains recycling information for over 300 materials. We have collected over 1 million ways to recycle that people can search for to find their nearest recycling options and resources.
Donors Choose
http://www.donorschoose.orgDonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires you. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school.
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.orgOur vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.