Clean Ocean Action uses research, education, and citizen action to unite and empower people to protect the ocean. Their mission is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast.
Category: Climate Change
Nonprofit Spotlight: Groundswell
Groundswell builds community power through equitable community solar projects, clean energy programs that reduce energy burdens, and pioneering research initiatives that help light the way to clean energy futures for all. Groundswell has clean energy programs and projects in place in six states, including the District of Columbia, and serves more than 4500 income-qualified customers with more than $1.85 million per year in clean energy savings.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Rewiring America
Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying everything in our communities. We’re all in on electrifying where we live, work, learn, and play. Supported by a world-class research team developing accessible, actionable data, and tools for Americans across the country, Rewiring America is crafting the blueprint for Americans to achieve energy efficiency, tackle nationwide emission goals, improve health, save consumers money, and build the next generation of the American workforce in clean energy.
Nonprofit Spotlight: ReFED
ReFED is a national nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste across the U.S. food system by advancing data-driven solutions.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Mad Agriculture
Mad Agriculture works from head to heart, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf to catalyze a regenerative revolution in agriculture that is beautiful, just and inevitable. We help farmers thrive economically and ecologically.
Nonprofit Spotlight: WE ACT for Environmental Justice
WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Carbon180
Carbon180 is a new breed of climate-focused NGO on a mission to fundamentally rethink carbon. We work with leading scientists, businesses, and policymakers to build a world that removes more carbon than it emits.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
The mission of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization is to organize with their community to accomplish environmental justice in Little Village and achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families. Their vision is to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provides economic justice, and practices participatory democracy and self-determination.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Beyond Plastics
Launched in January 2019, Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, that pairs the wisdom and experience of environmental policy experts with the energy and creativity of college students to build a vibrant and effective anti-plastics movement. Our mission is to end plastic pollution by being a catalyst for change at every level of our society. We use our deep policy and advocacy expertise to build a well-informed, effective movement seeking to achieve the institutional, economic, and societal changes needed to save our planet, and ourselves, from the plastic pollution crisis.