Mission: "Help empower the people of our planet to work together to save our remaining ecosystems and all of the creatures they contain."
KACF is a Colorado based organization that works on global level conservation through community education and awareness. I have worked and supported KACF since it's founding because I greatly support their mission, goals, and projects.
Mission: "Our mission is to strengthen American Indian economies to support healthy Native communities. We invest in and create innovative institutions and models that strengthen asset control and support economic development for American Indian people and their communities."
Supporting Native communities and culture, and providing resources to ensure the well being of those communities is a mission that I support with all my heart.
Mission: "Inspiring Communities to Save Wildlife for Future Generations".
The Denver Zoo is my local zoo that I have had a strong connection with since I was a child. This is where my passion for global wildlife conservation started at a young age and since then I have done what I can to support them in their wildlife conservation and education efforts around the world. This is also where a group of us study animals from life.
"Expedition Art is a global collaborative of artists who have joined together to raise awareness for wildlife and nature conservation through art. Our company works with other non-profit organizations focused on conservation and helps them educate others through the power of visual communication."
Expedition Art has created some great projects involving artists to raise awareness of conservation and I have supported their efforts in every way I can.
"We protect, preserve, and enhance Yellowstone National Park through education and philanthropy."
Yellowstone Forever has exceptional projects and educational experiences to raise awareness of wildlife conservation and nature/ecosystem preservation. One of their biggest projects is wolf conservation in Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies, which is a project that I have supported and have been invested in since I was a kid.
Mission: "The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project aims to improve public understanding of gray wolf behavior, ecology, and options for re-establishing the species in Colorado. The benchmark of our success: Wolves again roaming the snow-capped peaks, rim rock canyons, and primeval forests of western Colorado."
I have studied wolves my entire life and one of animals I'm most passionate about. Wolf conservation and reintroduction in my home state of Colorado has always interested me from a scientific viewpoint, and now there's the opportunity to put that knowledge to use.
Mission: "We connect people with nature using hands-on experiential education. Through volunteer internships and our education programs, we inspire individuals to become stewards of the earth. While providing a home for rescued wolves and horses, we create opportunities for growth through community service and personal interactions with animals. We value education, sustainability, and improving relationships between people, animals, and the world around them."
Mission: "Our mission is to create an environment where painted dogs can thrive."
"We have put together a conservation model that will really work in the long term, and make a significant difference to the painted dog population in Zimbabwe. We employ more than 60 people from the local villages to run our conservation programs and run our education and outreach programs."
Mission: "The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation."
Mission: "Our mission at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is the conservation of birds and their habitats through an integrated approach of science, education and land stewardship. We envision a future where birds are forever abundant, contributing to healthy landscapes and inspiring human curiosity and love of nature. Our work radiates from the Rockies to the Great Plains, Mexico and beyond. Our efforts are advanced by sound science, achieved through empowering people, realized through stewardship and sustained through partnerships. Together, we are improving native bird populations, the land and the lives of people."
Mission: "Our mission is to conserve and protect vultures worldwide through education, outreach, research, rehabilitation, and advocacy. We focus on raising awareness by providing educational opportunities for people to connect with and learn about vultures and the importance of their preservation. We want to help create a world where vultures are cherished for their importance to the ecosystem and are thriving in their natural habitats."
Mission: "To ensure the survival of rhinos through strategic partnerships, targeted protection, and scientifically sound interventions."
"Throughout its 30-year history, the International Rhino Foundation has supported and managed rhino conservation projects in Africa and Asia. Our core values — integrity, collaboration, adaptability, sound decision-making and commitment — are at the heart of everything we do."
"We’re a community science program that engages volunteers in understanding the impacts of climate change on American pikas (Ochotona princeps) across Colorado. Our goals are: Determine the status of the American pika in Colorado, better understand the impacts of climate change on pikas and the alpine ecosystem they call home, provide accurate, reliable, and useful scientific data for researchers and land managers, engage and educate the general public about pikas, and develop a model that can be used for future collaborative community science programs.
We connect the work of our volunteers (Pika Patrollers) with researchers and land managers to support our vision of a Southern Rockies with healthy alpine ecosystems."
Mission: "Wildlife ACT’s mission is to save our planet’s endangered wildlife and wildlands from extinction."
"We exist because we believe that only by saving our planet’s endangered species and wild places, do we have a chance to save ourselves. Our aim is to develop and implement innovative, ground based and sustainable conservation models that save our wildlife, protect our wilderness, and benefit our local communities."
Mission: "Rocky Mountain Wild is a 501(c)3 that works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the Southern Rocky Mountain region."
Vision: "We envision a biologically healthy future for our region – one that includes a diversity of species and ecosystems, thriving populations of wildlife, and a sustainable coexistence between people and nature. Using research, community science, legal action, and advanced geospatial analysis, we offer solutions for conserving our most at-risk animal and plant species and landscapes."
Mission: "WILD Expands & Empowers Global Coalitions That Defend Earth’s Life-Saving Wilderness".
Vision: "A Wild & Healthy World In Which People & Nature Flourish".
""Unite The Power Of People & Wild Nature. With nearly 50 years global experience mobilizing international coalitions for the protection of wilderness, working in over 40 countries, WILD has substantial reach. Each year we draw on this reach to expand and strengthen to protect and defend our wild Earth."
"Every day, the human rights and dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people around the world are abused in ways that shock the conscience. The stories of the struggles and resilience often remain invisible – or willfully ignored – by those with the power to make change. Since 1990, OutRight Action International has worked alongside LGBTIQ activists and organizations, diplomats and policymakers, and other key partners to advance community-focused solutions to create lasting legal and social transformation. Together, we combat the systemic violence, persecution and discrimination that LGBTIQ people face around the world."
Mission: "
Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America."
"At Planned Parenthood our mission is to ensure all people have access to the care and resources they need to make informed decisions about their bodies, their lives, and their futures. Founded in 1916, Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, educator, and passionate advocate here in the U.S. as well as a strong partner to health and rights organizations around the world. Each year, Planned Parenthood delivers vital sexual and reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people. "
Mission: "The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world."
"The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person."
Mission: "Mission Statement: To empower individuals with disabilities to train a dog as their service dog, transforming both of their lives."
I personally highly suggest Faithfully K9 to anyone who is looking into having a service dog (not emotional support, but actual service). They have helped me through thick and thin, during COVID, to train my service dog and have helped me immensely.
Mission: "TO LEAVE THE WORLD BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT."
"Critical Role Foundation selects and partners with outstanding non-profit organizations that carry the same values as we do and we work closely alongside each of our partners to ensure that every dollar raised is going toward programs and projects that are changing the world for the better."