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Natural Investments donates 1% of its' annual gross revenues to green economy, sustainability, and social justice non-profit organizations. Here are some of our favorite recipients:
Since 1990, Bioneers has served as a fertile hub of leading social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for restoring the natural systems on which all life depends, and healing our human communities. www.bioneers.org
The Calvert Foundations provides capital to organizations worldwide that cannot typically qualify for or afford financing from traditional banking sources. Eight-thousand Calvert Foundation investors have loaned $220 million to 220 organizations that provide affordable housing, microfinance opportunities, environmental sustainability, fair-wage job creation and community development. www.calvertfoundation.org
Daily Acts is a permaculture non-profit organization based in Petaluma, California that works to transform communities through inspired action and education which builds leadership and local self-reliance. www.dailyacts.org
The Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo County (ECOSLO) strives to support and create resilient, healthy natural systems and lifestyles in San Luis Obispo County, California. www.ecoslo.org
Global Greengrants Fund is a public charity that seeds environmental action through small grants. They support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for justice, primarily in the developing world and emerging economies. www.greengrants.org
Green America, founded in 1982, harnesses economic power - the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace - to create a socially just and enviromentally sustainable society. www.greenamerica.org
Holistic Management International educates people to manage land for a sustainable future through its' whole farm/ranch planning system that mimics nature. http://holisticmanagement.org
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace is a non-profit organization concerned with the local dangers involving the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, and with the dangers of nuclear power, weapons and waste on national and global levels. www.mothersforpeace.org
The NFRIA-WSERC Conservation Center works to build an aware and active community that protects, preserves and enhances the natural, human and economic resources of the North Fork of the Gunnison and Lower Gunnison Watersheds. The Conservation Center takes a community-directed, solution-focused approach to watershed restoration and river rehabilitation. http://theconservationcenter.org
The Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) works to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement, both by educating and empowering a diverse network of individuals to act on their campuses, and by fostering a national network for collective action. www.endowmentethics.org
A think tank since 1982, Rocky Mountain Institiute is a leading driver of the business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It focuses on buildings, transportation, and electricity generation. www.rmi.org
Slow Money connects investors, entrepreneurs, and local food systems in order to enhance food security, food safety and food access; improve nutrition and health; promote cultural, ecological and economic diversity; and accelerate the transition from an economy based on extraction and consumption to an economy based on preservation and restoration. www.slowmoney.org
Solar Energy International was founded in 1991 as a non-profit educational organization to help others to use renewable energy resources and sustainable building technologies through education and technical assistance. www.solarenergy.org
Sustain Hawaii sponsors the Hawaii Alliance for a Local Economy, the Hawaii chapter of BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), a network of sustainable individuals' businesses dedicated to producing healthy, self-sufficient communities in the areas of food, energy, and business. http://sustainhawaii.org
Sustainability Association of Hawaii is the voice of green business in Hawaii, educating, promoting and advocating on behalf of businesses, organizations, and green professionals working to grow a thriving local economy. http://sahawaii.org
Sustainable Tompkins is a citizen-based organization working towards the long-term well-being of our communities by integrating social equity, economic vitality, ecological stewardship, and personal and civic responsibility. Based in Ithaca, in Tompkins County, NY. http://sustainabletompkins.org
The Wildlands Network is working to establish four Wildways, (large corridors for wildlife) spanning North America's coasts: The Eastern, Western, Pacific and Boreal Wildways. They created scientifically based planning tools, publish a conservation biology magazine and have launched Wildway and Eastern Wildway programs. www.twp.org
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