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Mohonk Preserve's mission is to protect the Shawangunk Mountains region and inspire people to care for, enjoy and explore their natural world. With more than 18,000 member households and 300,000 annual visitors, the Preserve provides access to the land while protecting it. In so doing, the organization safeguards for current and future generations natural environments that are increasingly important in a rapidly growing and developing region.

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Manomet's mission: uses science and collaboration to improve the health of flyways, coastal ecosystems, and working lands and seas.

To protect, promote and preserve the unique character of the Sourland Mountain region

The organization promotes awareness of the outdoors to inner-city children ages 13 - 19 through year-round activities such as snowboarding, indoor rock climbing, camping, hiking, and more. Using environmental awareness, writing, and the use of media tools that allow youth to document their outdoor experience to build confidence and facilitate individual discovery.

To offer opportunity, dignity and independence through housing, job training, and community to men and women leaving homelessness.

Triangle Land Conservancy strives to create a healthier and more vibrant Triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms and food, and connecting people with nature through land protection and stewardship, catalyzing community action, and collaboration. We see the Triangle region as an increasingly healthy and vibrant place to live where wild and working lands are protected and everyone has access to open space, clean water, and local food.

Scouting has an important role in the lives of today’s youth. Scouting promotes the importance of values such as integrity, honesty, responsibility, patriotism, courtesy, perseverance, cooperation, tolerance, teamwork, leadership and respect for community, nature and spirituality. In the 2008-2009 Scouting year, for the first time in a quarter of a century, membership in Scouting across Canada has increased. We are working hard so that more youth have the opportunity to benefit from a Scouting experience. As the organization grows, more and more youth in need of financial assistance are identified.

OUR MISSION IS TO RESTORE AND PROTECT BARNEGAT BAY AND ITS ECOSYSTEM. WE ADVANCE OUR MISSION BY BEING A STRONG AND INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR THE BAY THROUGHOUT THE WATERSHED, INCLUDING ALL OF OCEAN AND PART OF MONMOUTH COUNTIES. WE DO THIS THROUGH EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND TARGETED ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS THAT ENGAGE OUR SUPPORTERS WHO CHERISH THE BAY AS A NATURAL, RECREATIONAL, AND ECONOMICAL RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND ALL OF NEW JERSEY. OUR SUPPORTERS GENEROUSLY BACK THE WORK OF SAVE BARNEGAT BAY, GIVING US FLEXIBILITY AND A STRONG FOUNDATION FROM WHICH TO GROW.

Chikaming Open Lands is a local land conservancy that protects and restores native habitats and water quality in southwest Berrien County, Michigan. It permanently preserves ecologically important forests, prairies, wetlands, farmland and other open spaces through land acquisition and conservation easements while managing nature preserves and stewardship programs for public benefit.

The Lakes Region Conservation Trust (LRCT) is an independent, non-profit, member-supported organization founded in 1979 to conserve the natural heritage of New Hampshire's Lakes Region and dedicated to the permanent protection, stewardship, and respectful use of lands that define the character of the region and its quality of life.

The Conservancy works to restore and maintain Walker Lake by increasing Walker River flows and conserving watershed and riparian lands; it acquires water rights and manages land stewardship, native plant restoration, and public access to protect agricultural, environmental, and recreational values in the Walker Basin.