Take Action
Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences, but another motivation underlies our mission: We want to help promote action toward positive change. One way to do that is to facilitate involvement between Mountainfilm audiences and important causes. Here are some ways you can take action now:
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Camping to Connect
Film: Wood HoodTake ActionCamping to Connect is a Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) led experiential mentorship program that uses nature-based outdoor recreation to address the diverse issues faced by young men of BIPOC communities.
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Take ActionWoodwell Climate Research Center advances scientific discovery and solutions to address the world’s climate challenges. Originally founded as the Woods Hole Research Center in 1985, our world-leading research and education helps individuals, communities, and nations understand the realities of climate change, recognize the impact it is having everywhere on our planet, and embrace the urgent action needed to safeguard the future of life on Earth.
Help keep the Herrera-Lima Family Housed
Film: What You'll RememberTake ActionPlease help keep Elizabeth and her family housed by donating to support the Herrera-Lima Family's housing expenses in their new rental. The first few months is the most critical time for a family during their transition into a new community; without the support of nearby friends and family members, without the supportive relationships we take for granted, the risk of a family becoming unstable and returning to homelessness is extremely high.
Sea Sisters Sri Lanka
Film: We Are Like WavesTake ActionWe are a social enterprise that strives for a more inclusive and responsible surf community in Sri Lanka. SeaSisters was founded on the belief that the ocean is for everybody, and that surfing can serve as a powerful tool of change. Through our SeaSisters Swim & Surf Program, we create a safe space for Sri Lankan girls and women to enjoy the ocean and influence mindsets around gender norms. We also equip them with the skills needed to work within the surf tourism industry.
Sunrise Movement
Film: To the EndTake ActionSunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. They are building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people. Sunrise Movement’s work is grounded in nonviolence, multiracial and cross-class solidarity, and organizing in coalition with other movements for change. The group has over 400 local hubs around the United States, which regularly act at the local, state and federal levels.
Rainforest Connection
Film: Tigre GenteTake ActionRainforest Connection is a nonprofit tech startup focused on using AI-enabled acoustic monitoring for protecting threatened ecosystems from illegal activities and monitoring biodiversity at scale to create conservation action plans.
Kanindé Ethno-environmental Defense Association
Film: The TerritoryTake ActionFounded in 1992 and led by Neidinha Bandeira and Txai Suruí, the Kanindé Ethno-environmental Defense Association has worked with dozens of Indigenous groups on projects ranging from land surveillance and firefighting, reforestation and carbon projects, to education and cultural preservation. Along with Indigenous peoples, Kanindé is leading the the way for the protection and development of the Amazon and its forest communities.
We Love Reading
Take ActionWe Love Reading inspires children to read for fun through our research-backed read-aloud program, training local volunteers to read to children in their neighborhoods. Changing mindsets through reading to create change makers.
Friends For Youth
Film: The HollyTake ActionThe mission of Friends for Youth is to support positive development for at-risk youth in the Denver-area juvenile justice and child welfare systems by providing caring adult mentors, life-enriching experiences, and enhanced community connections resulting in successful life transitions. FFY has four programs designed to help youth succeed once they leave their support systems. These distinct, but interrelated, components include one-to-one mentoring; site-based mentoring at schools; group mentoring activities; and the Success Journey Program, which combines the different mentoring strategies in a unique mentoring model.
Skoll Foundation
Film: Strangers in BoxesTake ActionThe Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
R.E.S.C.U.E | Reteti Elephant Sanctuary
Film: ShabaTake ActionReteti takes in orphaned and abandoned elephant calves with the aim to release them back into the wild herds adjoining the Sanctuary. This is the result of a widely recognized and expanding grassroots movement of community-driven conservation across northern Kenya; a movement that is growing new economies, transforming lives and conserving natural resources.
Iron Light Labs
Film: Free to CareTake ActionIron Light Labs is a nonprofit organization that empowers purpose-driven people to change the world. We bring powerful stories to the forefront through film, podcasts, and photojournalism.
The Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS)
Take ActionThe Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS), was born twelve years ago as a result of the work experience of more than decades of the Network of Sustainable Agricultural Alternatives of Jalisco (RASA), and given the need to have its own space of training, research, demonstration and production in agroecology and eco-techniques that offer quality, flexible and accessible training to farming families, rural youth, women, urban and neo-rural consumers.
Parents For Peace
Film: RefugeTake ActionParents For Peace is a public health nonprofit empowering families, friends, and communities to prevent radicalization, violence, and extremism. We offer a support helpline, community education through Serve2Unite, and rehabilitation with our Trauma and Recovery Program (T.R.P.) program.
The Follow Your Dream Foundation
Take ActionThe Follow Your Dream Foundation tells the stories of courageous women who have overcome physical, racial, geographical and social challenges to achieve their dreams. We bring these stories to life through the creative arts – film, theater, music and art – we hope each woman’s unique story will be a catalyst for another woman’s journey.
Densho
Take ActionDensho is an online archive and public history organization whose mission is to preserve and share the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today. Our public website offers irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with a vast digital archive and educational resources. Founded in 1996, Densho is a trailblazer in the use of digital technology to preserve and share historical materials. Densho views Japanese American history within a longer trajectory of American racism, xenophobia, and scapegoating in order to speak out against injustices both past and present.
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
Take ActionThe Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation works to tell the stories of the over 14,000 Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated in Wyoming during World War II. The Foundation preserves the site of the former concentration camp and operates an award-winning museum, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, on the grounds. We aim to educate about this dark chapter in American history, to emphasize the fragility of democracy, and to inspire the public to fight to uphold liberty and civil rights for all in the present day.
America Remembers Fund
Take ActionIn America: Remember was a public art exhibition conceived and installed by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg on nearly 20 acres of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. At its closing on October 3, 2021, over 700,000 white flags were waving at the base of the Washington Monument, with each flag honoring the life lost in America because of COVID-19. Given its scale, the project was the largest public participatory art installation on the Mall since the AIDS quilt. The visual moment allowed people to reflect on the tragedy suffered by our nation. It provided the community with the opportunity to honor individual lives shortened by COVID-19.
Mission: JOY
Take ActionPeople are hurting. Bring JOY to people at home and abroad who need it most. Donations help fund Mission: JOY screenings for marginalized populations, colleges, and faith communities; a global Social Action Campaign to send a wave of joy around the world; and The BIG JOY Project – the largest JOY-focused citizen science research project in partnership with UC Berkeley, Harvard and other institutions that also teaches people how to create more JOY for themselves RIGHT NOW. Help to carry on Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama's final joint mission to help everyone around the world live with more JOY.
PFLAG National
Film: Mama Has a MustacheTake ActionPFLAG National is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. With nearly 400 chapters and 250,000 members and supporters crossing multiple generations of families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas across America, PFLAG is committed to creating a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed. To learn more, visit pflag.org.
Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
Film: Ma’s HouseTake ActionMa’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. is led by Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis. The project began in June 2020 and serves as a communal art space based on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. The family house, built in the 1960s, features a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), art studio, library, along with hosting an array of art and history-based programs for tribe members and the broader local community. A not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. was chartered in 2021 in the State of New York.
The Rural Changemakers
Film: JanwaarTake ActionThe Rural Changemakers gem. e.V. promotes skateboarding, education, and community building in Janwaar, India. In the small village of Janwaar, India, the skateboard is more than four wheels and a board. Here it is a vehicle for social change, gender equality, and education.
Mountain Bike Afghanistan
Take ActionMountain Bike Afghanistan empowers young Afghans with the joy of riding and competing on mountain bikes, and connects people across culture for their share love of cycling. Currently, Mountain Bike Afghanistan is conducting an ongoing evacuation of 35+ cyclists and their families from living under the Taliban regime.
Restore Hetch Hetchy
Film: Finding Hetch HetchyTake ActionRestore Hetch Hetchy promotes restoring Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley’s lost twin, to its natural splendor; a majestic glacial-carved valley with towering cliffs and waterfalls where river and wildlife run free. Hetch Hetchy can be a new kind of national park, with an improved visitor experience, shared stewardship with Native peoples and permanent protection for future generations. We urge San Francisco to relocate Hetch Hetchy Reservoir; it can be moved without any loss of water supply or electric power production. We urge San Francisco, the State of California and the United States Congress to return Hetch Hetchy to all people.
Justice Outside
Film: ExposureTake ActionJustice Outside is a national nonprofit that is transforming the outdoor and environmental movement by shifting resources to, building power with, and centering the voices and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Programming includes grantmaking, organizational anti-racism training, career pathway development, and capacity building — all aimed at achieving systemic change. By providing individuals, institutions, and communities with resources, training, and space to lead, Justice Outside is working to create the radical change needed to build a stronger and more racially just environmental movement that will allow all people to thrive.
PALAWAN NGO NETWORK INCORPORATED
Film: DelikadoTake ActionThe Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) was organized in November 1991 by mainstream Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and People's Organization (POs) in Palawan with the motivation of presenting a broader NGO consensus that would carry more weight in the policy making process in various local government units in the province.
With its creation, NGOs hope to maximize the impact of their respective programs through consultation and coordination with one another. PNNI believes that by uniting the NGOs and POs towards a common pursuit, it can strongly influence the direction of development for Palawan.
Perpetuo Films
Film: Dani's TwinsTake ActionPerpetuo Films is dedicated to producing provocative and entertaining documentary films that amplify marginalized voices and inspire audiences to engage in positive social change. We believe that by equipping documentary filmmakers to tell more stories more sustainably, together we create a multiplier effect – in perpetuity.
The WILD Foundation
Films: Chasing Coral | Chasing IceTake ActionThe WILD Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, is a fiscal sponsor of Exposure Labs, the film and impact production company that made Chasing Coral.
The Climate Team at Exposure Labs believes that the transformational power of storytelling is one of the greatest tools we have to accelerate climate action at scale. Our work serves as a pathway for climate storytellers, organizers, and the broader storytelling ecosystem; moving away from centering ourselves, to disrupting unjust power structures, and ensuring that both organizers and storytellers have the resources, access, and capacity to do the work.
California Black Women's Health Project
Film: CaliefahTake ActionThe California Black Women's Health Project is the only statewide, non-profit organization that is solely committed to ?improving the health of California's 1.2 million Black women and girls through advocacy, education, outreach and policy. We focus on empowering Black women to take personal responsibility for their own health and to advocate for changes in policies that negatively affect Black women's health status.
Helem
Film: Beirut Dreams in ColorTake ActionHelem, is the first LGBTQIA+ rights organization in the Arab world, officially established in Beirut, Lebanon in 2001. Its mission is to lead the struggle for the liberation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Intersex, Transgendered, Queer (LGBTQIA+) and other people with non-conforming sexualities and/or gender identities in Lebanon and the SWANA region from all sorts of violations of their individual and collective civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Our goal is to empower young LGBTQIA+ leaders to advocate for their own liberation. We seek to create initiatives and spaces where our communities can leverage unity through diversity and build power. We protect and support individuals with the resources to resist the harm caused by homophobia and transphobia. We empower our youth through education and community building, and we mobilize to change the laws, policies, and practices that deny us equality and reduce our quality of life.
River Newe
Take ActionThrough a Newe-centered approach our goal is to increase representation and create spaces of equity through learning experiences on homelands with Shoshone-Bannocks, Indigenous, and minoritized communities on and off river.
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
Film: An Accidental LifeTake ActionMission: We unite and empower the international spinal cord injury community to cure paralysis through advocacy, education, and support for research.
Vision: Every person has equal access to treatments that will restore health and independence after spinal cord injury.
2 Rivers East
Take ActionFounded in 2003 within days of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, 2rivers East is an award-winning nonprofit production and training organization. We work across film, television and online with an emphasis on international collaboration between MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and the rest of the world. We train young filmmakers and storytellers from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds. We bring their skillset up to international standards, offer them mentoring and work placements and empower them to tell their own stories to global audiences.
The Dewayne S Parker One Love Foundation
Take ActionThe Dewayne S. Parker One Love Foundation was established to meet the needs of young children and adolescents, who have experienced the loss of a parent or immediate family member, through a holistic approach by providing counseling services, educational supplement through scholarship and supplies, and additional support as needed throughout the year.
Women Make Movies
Film: JacintaTake ActionDonations through Women Make Movies will help fund Jacinta's social impact campaign which is focused on supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their families.
Wild Europe
Film: Invisible BeautyTake ActionWild Europe team aims to share wild places with people around the world. We encourage you to discover the wild places on your doorstep and to protect wild spaces so that they may be around for generations to come. Through lectures, films, photography and discussion, our aim is to engage people and help them find their purpose and inspire them to take action.
The Whale Sanctuary Project
Film: Whales Without WallsTake ActionWhales and dolphins suffer physically, socially and emotionally while performing for their supper and the public's entertainment. The Whale Sanctuary Project is creating a seaside sanctuary in Nova Scotia for whales being retired from marine entertainment parks, giving them an opportunity to thrive in an environment that is as close as possible to their natural habitat.
Outdoor Outreach
Film: ResilienceTake ActionOutdoor Outreach is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego that connects youth to the transformative power of the outdoors. We provide opportunities and access to outdoor spaces for young people from under-served communities, where they can build trust, resilience, and confidence to face all of life’s challenges. With the opportunity to stand up on their first wave or climb to the top of a rock wall, we’re enabling youth to see what they can do and what they can be.
The Peregrine Fund
Take ActionThe Peregrine Fund was founded in 1970 to recover the endangered Peregrine Falcon in the United States and has gone on to conserve over 140 species in 60 countries. We change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide. By working with communities around the world to protect wildlife and habitats, we create lasting conservation results while benefiting people.
The American Museum of Fly Fishing
Film: Mighty WatersTake ActionThe American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) is committed to uncovering and sharing the history and stories of BIPOC in fly fishing and we are honored to be involved in Mighty Waters. We encourage people to reach out to the AMFF, to introduce us to the people and personalities who share our fly fishing passion – tell us a story about a local fishing legend, or an innovator who never found the spotlight. 100% of donations will contribute to memorializing Ansil Saunders civil and fly-fishing legacy.
Sphinx Organization
Take ActionThe Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level.
South Carolina Humanities
Film: Meltdown in DixieTake ActionSouth Carolina Humanities is a nonprofit organization focused on inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.
Soils, Food and Healthy Communities
Take ActionSoils, Food and Healthy Communities (SFHC) is a non-profit organization that supports rural Malawian families to build sustainable, healthy, just and resilient communities. We use ecological, regenerative approaches to farming, drawing on local and indigenous knowledge, such as intercropping, compost use and diversifying what people grow. We explicitly address unequal power dynamics in our approach, such as gender, using community-led initiatives to change these inequities.
Resolve Crisis Initiative
Film: The Bitter RootTake ActionThe Resolve Crisis Initiative gives people in armed conflict an opportunity to choose peace, dismantling violent armed groups by promoting viable alternatives to conflict.
Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia
Film: Jeff GoddellTake ActionThe Lab supports teaching, facilitates research, and produces stories in many forms on religion, race, and democracy. We bring researchers, students, journalists, and public leaders together to focus on the ways these complex forces are found in and shape our everyday lives. We are committed to the idea that learning more about how religion and race work with democratic societies can help us to live together in today’s pluralistic and increasingly global societies.
Our Children's Trust
Film: Youth v GovTake ActionWe work to protect Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in legal actions to secure enforceable rights to a healthy atmosphere based on the best available science. Our legal work – guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature – aims to achieve science-based climate mitigation remedies at federal, state, and global levels.
Orangeburg County Historical Society
Film: Meltdown in DixieTake ActionThe Orangeburg County Historical Society exists to encourage the study and research of the history of Orangeburg County; to acquire and preserve historical documents and artifacts; to commemorate events and places of significance; to inform and educate the public and make history accessible; unite in fellowship those interested in history; and work cooperatively with other organizations to preserve, protect and promote Orangeburg County’s History.
Nia Tero
Film: Sky AelansTake ActionNia Tero exists to ensure that Indigenous peoples have the economic power and cultural independence to steward, support, and protect their livelihoods and territories they call home. These places are vital to us all.
Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano
Take ActionThe Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (Mesoamerican Migrant Movement) promotes and defends the human rights of migrants. They also organize the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants each year.
Mother Jones Community Foundation
Film: The Both of MeTake ActionMother Jones Community Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life in some of the most impoverished and exploited communities in Appalachia. Our mission is to help people forgotten and ignored by the exploitive industries that profited from our natural resources and moved on.
Memphis Rox
Film: Reel Rock 15: Black IceTake ActionMemphis Rox and One Family Memphis brings rehabilitation, healing and a renewed sense of hope to challenged communities by providing a climbing facility and programs to foster relationships across cultural, racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We exclude no one — regardless of ability to pay.
Gravel Institute
Film: American GadflyTake ActionA crowd-funded organization creating short videos to combat right-wing disinformation and bring progressive ideas to new audiences.
GLOBIO
Film: Hunger WardTake ActionGLOBIO is an environmental awareness nonprofit that provides support to conservation organizations around the world, and shares their stories globally, while educating the public about our shared environmental and one-health issues.
First Descents
Film: The River RunnerTake ActionFirst Descents provides life-changing outdoor adventures for young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions.
Farmer Veteran Coalition
Film: Eric and the BeesTake ActionThe Farmer Veteran Coalition is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization assisting veterans – and currently serving members – of the Armed Forces to embark on careers in agriculture, mobilizing veterans to feed America.
Empowering Women of Nepal
Take ActionEmpowering Women of Nepal is a nonprofit organization based in Pokhara, Nepal that aims to improve the lives of Nepali women and girls through adventure sports and tourism. Empowering Women of Nepal offers practical skill-based training programs free of cost to the trainees. The training is designed to extend educational, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to disadvantaged women from all over Nepal and can be followed by a six-month paid apprenticeship.
Earth Guardians
Film: Youth v GovTake ActionEarth Guardians is an intergenerational organization with youth at the forefront that trains diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate, and social justice movements across the globe — using art, music, storytelling, on-the-ground projects, civic engagement, and legal action to advance solutions to the critical issues we face as a global community.
Duty Free Impact Campaign
Film: Duty FreeTake ActionThe Duty Free Impact Campaign offers accessible screenings for intergenerational communities to facilitate conversations around the themes of care, financial insecurity, and ageism and offer tangible resources for older adults and for caregivers.
Curry Senior Center
Film: Golden Age KarateTake ActionFor over 45 years, Curry Senior Center has been the only organization in San Francisco solely dedicated to helping low income and homeless seniors through a holistic care approach.
Climate Generation
Film: After AntarcticaTake ActionClimate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy empowers individuals and their communities to engage in solutions to climate change.
Big Life Foundation
Film: The TrackerTake ActionUsing innovative conservation strategies and collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOs, national parks, and government agencies, Big Life seeks to protect and sustain East Africa’s wildlife and wild lands, including one of the greatest populations of elephants left in East Africa. The first organization in East Africa with coordinated anti-poaching teams operating on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border, Big Life recognizes that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach.
Aguilas del Desierto
Film: ÁguilasTake ActionAguilas del Desierto/Desert Eagles' mission is to help families whose loved ones are missing in the desert areas near our border. Its goal is to respond immediately to every call for help. At times, Aguilas rescues crossers in distress, at times it searches for the remains of a loved one whose life was claimed by the desert. Since 1996, over 7,000 migrants have died in the deserts along our border. Since Aguilas began in 2012, it has rescued 92 people and recovered the remains of 92 people.
Conservation Colorado
Film: Public TrustTake ActionThis Colorado Public Lands Day, it’s more clear than ever before that our lands, waters, and wildlife are critical pieces of Colorado’s economy and public health. That’s why we’re asking our federal and state leaders to invest in our lands, waters, and wildlife as part of the COVID-19 recovery efforts. The “Great American Outdoors Act” will provide much-needed funding for our national parks and public lands ranging from the desert and mountain backcountry to local parks. Our lands and waters depend on this funding but we need your help to see this bill passed through Congress.
March for Our Lives
Film: Us KidsTake ActionMarch For Our Lives is a movement dedicated to student-led activism around ending gun violence and the epidemic of mass shootings in our schools today. Our mission is to harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives.
Memphis Rox Climbing & Community
Take ActionMemphis Rox brings rehabilitation, healing and a renewed sense of hope to challenged communities by providing a climbing facility and programs to foster relationships across cultural, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. We exclude no one — regardless of ability to pay.
Pacific Climate Warriors
Take ActionWith your help, Pacific Climate Warriors – 350 Pacific can take the cultural strength and warrior spirit of the Pacific Islands and channel it into real, tangible progress on the climate crisis.
Kurils Islands Research & Conservation Initiative
Film: From Kurils With LoveTake ActionVladimir has seen the decades-long changes in the region firsthand and also the sad decline of some important top predators in the area. His vision is to turn large parts of the region into marine protected areas and national parks to safeguard their beauty for future generations, protect biodiversity and improve overexploited coastal and oceanic ecosystems in the Kurils Islands. Our major fundraising goal is to purchase a 65’ research sailboat that Vladimir and other scientists interested in the region can use to make their way across the islands to collect the data needed to inform long-term conservation plans.
Youth Documentary Academy
Film: UnsettledTake ActionYouth Documentary Academy (YDA) trains young people how to direct and produce their own documentary films. For seven weeks, students learn all aspects of documentary filmmaking from professional filmmakers, faculty and guest artists. At the end of the program, students complete a film, receive a certificate, and learn how to distribute their films to film festivals, community organizations and television outlets.
Wild Sheep Foundation
Film: Wild & WoolTake ActionWild Sheep Foundation enhances wild sheep populations, promotes scientific wildlife management, educates the public and youth on sustainable use and the conservation benefits of hunting while promoting the interests of the hunter.
TranSending 7
Film: TransendingTake ActionTranSending is dedicated to the advancement of transgender rights throughout all aspects of society by promoting athletics as a platform of transgender awareness and inclusion. Our goal is to promote rising transgender athletes and help them gain access to athletic programs, with the goal of increasing awareness from team administration, coaches and team staff, trans athletes, fellow athletes and the audiences who support these great sports.
The Workers Lab
Film: The DisruptedTake ActionWorkers are experiencing devastating loss of income due to the COVID-19 epidemic. They need immediate help, especially gig and low-earning contract workers without access to employer-based benefits. In response to this crisis, The Workers Lab launched The Workers Fund which will provide up to $1000 in emergency cash grants to workers who have lost income due to the epidemic.
The Venture Out Project
Films: Venture Out | Miles To GoTake ActionThe Venture Out Project envisions a world where queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ youth and adults create community, develop leadership skills, and gain confidence through the shared experience of outdoor adventure and physical activity.
The Liv Project
Film: LivTake ActionThe goal of The Liv Project is to share information in creative and innovative ways that help others have open conversations, with less fear and without judgement. Everyone can be that person to connect with another and start the needed conversation that can save lives.
PTSD Veteran Athletes
Film: The Long River HomeTake ActionProfessional Transformation Sports Development was established to provide a positive change for veterans of the military struggling with P.T.S.D. and/or depression. PTSD will engage veterans in outdoor sports, using highly-qualified instructors and coaches to assist veterans in gaining the necessary skills to advance and progress in an outdoor sport of their interest and choosing.
Team River Runner
Film: The Long River HomeTake ActionTeam River Runner's mission is to provide all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community purpose, and new challenges through adventure and adaptive paddle sports.
The Door
Film: Five Years NorthTake ActionThe Door aims to help NYC youth discover and achieve their potential by providing comprehensive services to more than 11,000 teens and young adults. We not only offer mental health counseling but also legal assistance, GED classes, emergency housing, and more to vulnerable populations including undocumented immigrants.
Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii
Film: Dear Mother NatureTake ActionSustainable Coastlines Hawaii is a grassroots, local nonprofit organization run by a small team of dedicated staff and supported by passionate volunteers. We inspire local communities to care for their coastlines through fun, hands-on beach cleanups. We also coordinate educational programs, team building corporate cleanups, waste diversion services, public awareness campaigns and help others run their own beach cleanups.
South Texas Human Rights Center
Film: Missing in Brooks CountyTake ActionThe South Texas Human Rights Center is a community based center dedicated to the promotion, protection, defense and exercise of human rights and dignity in South Texas.
Soul Trak Outdoors
Film: Bringing It HomeTake ActionSoul Trak Outdoors is a D.C. based nonprofit organization that connects communities of color to outdoor spaces while also building a coalition of diverse outdoor leaders. We run a variety of programming to serve hands-on, experiential programming.
Skate Like a Girl
Film: Stoke ChasersTake ActionSkate Like a Girl's mission is to create an inclusive skate community by promoting confidence, leadership and social justice through the sport of skateboarding.
Shine MSD
Take ActionAfter every mass shooting, news stations, politicians, and the general public talk about how to address gun violence. But these conversations quickly fade. Shine MSD, a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization created in the aftermath of the Parkland, FL tragedy, is using the healing power of the arts to keep the conversation alive. The Instrument of Hope is a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted trumpet made from spent AR-15 bullet casings. It is touring the country with performances by top players, educators and students as a powerful way to help keep the gun violence conversation on the main stage.
SEE International
Film: Second SightTake ActionSEE International provides essential and transformative eye care and surgery around the world and right here at home. We bring medical volunteers and partners together to care for the people who need it most. Our teams work side-by-side with local doctors and clinics to improve access to high-quality eye care and surgery. Together we break the cycle of hardship that blindness and visual impairment cause, making patients, families and communities healthier and stronger.
Save the Redwoods League
Film: Here We StandTake ActionSave the Redwoods League envisions vibrant redwood forests of the scale and grandeur that once graced the California coast and the Sierra Nevada, protected forever, restored to grow old again, and connected to people through a network of magnificent parks and protected areas that inspire all of us with the beauty and power of nature.
Quail Springs
Film: Shepherd's SongTake ActionQuail Springs is a leading environmental educational nonprofit that empowers students of all ages and backgrounds with knowledge, skills and inspiration essential to cultivating ecological and social health.
Ping Pong Parkinson
Take ActionPing Pong Parkinson's mission is to help anyone with Parkinson's Diagnose through ping pong (primarily) – and to have fun while doing it. We were established with the goal of halting the progression of Parkinson’s Disease by utilizing ping pong as a form of physical therapy. Our model is based on the concept of neuroplasticity – the brain’s capacity to make new neurons and connections through challenging physical exercise. Although medication remains the focus in the treatment for Parkinson’s, there is compelling evidence for the need for a regular exercise program in managing this disease.
Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project
Film: This LandTake ActionThe Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project is a 501(c)3 organization based in Southern New Mexico. Our mission is to ensure that Frontera (border) communities have access to the outdoors and that our history, values and people are reflected in land management decisions through education, advocacy and empowerment. “Cuando conservamos la tierra, conservamos la vida. (When we conserve land, we conserve life.)”
National Park Foundation
Film: Ode to DesolationTake ActionThe National Park Foundation, the official charitable partner of the National Park Service, enriches America’s national parks and programs through the support of private citizens, park lovers, stewards of nature, history enthusiasts and wilderness adventurers. Chartered by Congress in 1967, the Foundation grew out of a legacy of park protection that began over a century ago, when ordinary citizens took action to establish and protect our national parks.
Marine Conservation Cambodia
Film: Current SeaTake ActionMarine Conservation Cambodia offers volunteer and internship opportunities in the fields of marine conservation and marine research. As a fully licensed research facility, we specialize in seahorse research in Cambodia. We also continue to research the surrounding reefs and benthic areas to make sure our data is fully inclusive of all aspects of Cambodia's marine environment.
Mountain State Spotlight
Film: Sustained OutrageTake ActionA nonprofit West Virginia newsroom, providing the last word on government, holding the powerful accountable, and sustaining outrage until wrongs are righted. The nonprofit was founded by two former Charleston Gazette-Mail employees, Greg Moore and Ken Ward.
Mariachi Academy of New England
Film: Día de la MadreTake ActionThe Mariachi Academy of New England serves students, their families, and our teachers by spreading Latino culture throughout New England through music, cultural education, and performances by providing access to information and mentoring to help participants succeed in higher education and in life. We provides lessons in guitar, violin, trumpet, harp and voice to students ages 6-18 from economically challenged and middle-class New England families.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
Take ActionThe Louisiana Bucket Brigade uses grassroots action to create an informed, healthy society that holds the petrochemical industry and government accountable for the true costs of pollution to hasten the transition from fossil fuels.
Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation
Film: BaatoTake ActionThe Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation was founded to fund and implement programs in the Bhot-Khola region of northeast Nepal to develop education, promote health awareness, improve living conditions, foster economic opportunities and promote cross-cultural awareness for all residents of the Bhot-Khola region.
Himalayan Stove Project
Take ActionThe Himalayan Stove Project is dedicated to preserving the Himalayan environment and improving the health of the people living in the trans-Himalayan region.
High Fives Foundation
Films: Day 1 | Full CircleTake ActionThe High Fives Foundation is on a mission to provide hope and resources for athletes from all walks of life. We support our people and help them get back to their outdoor physical activity of choice from snowboarding and skiing to surfing and mountain biking and beyond.
Florida Wildlife Corridor
Film: Chasing GhostsTake ActionThe Florida Wildlife Corridor organization champions the public and partner support needed to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor – a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people.
Conservation Lands Foundation
Film: Public TrustTake ActionPublic lands are the ancestral homelands of Native people, they include our most iconic and treasured parks and wildlands, and they constitute a critical defense in efforts to combat the climate and extinction crises. As we move toward the 2020 elections, we need your voice to remind candidates and elected leaders that public lands and waters are for everyone, and they need to be permanently protected.
Join us in the fight to protect our public lands. Text ‘DEFEND’ to 71333.
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Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
Film: PersonhoodTake ActionColorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) is a community-rooted nonprofit organization that works to enable Latinx individuals and their families to lead safe, healthy, and self-determined lives. Especially now, COLOR works to ensure that Latinx individuals and their families are accessing opportunities and resources for the health of their mind, body, and spirit. COLOR continues its reproductive justice work amid the COVID-19 outbreak and has recently expanded to creating resources and bilingual information on the coronavirus to share with the Latinx, immigrant, and undocumented communities in Colorado.
Casa de Paz
Film: Welcome StrangersTake ActionCasa de Paz began in 2012 as a small, one-bedroom apartment offering hospitality to families separated by immigrant detention. Today, Casa de Paz provides visits and emotional support, shelter and meals, access to phones, WiFi, computers and transportation. Detention is a difficult time that tears families apart and creates a financial burden, so we have always offered our services free of cost. Since we first opened our doors we’ve hosted over 2,800 immigrants from seventy three countries and the need only continues to grow.
Carousel of Happiness
Film: Carving JoyTake ActionCarousel of Happiness' mission is to inspire happiness, well-being, and service to others through stories and experiences. The Carousel has served the Nederland community and visitors from around the world since 2010, providing almost 1 million rides and inspiring at least that many smiles. We think happiness is important and we believe every smile here turns into countless more beyond our doors.
Captains for Clean Water
Film: A Reason to FishTake ActionCaptains For Clean Water is a grassroots nonprofit organization advocating for clean water and healthy estuaries across Florida. We started out as a group of fishing guides that “had enough” of Florida’s poor water management practices. Given the destruction seen firsthand, we were convinced that if everyone knew what we knew, the problem would have been already fixed. We discovered, the solution has been delayed for decades because of a lack of political will and public awareness.
Break Free From Plastic
Film: The Story of PlasticTake Action#breakfreefromplastic is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Since its launch in September 2016, nearly 1,900 organizations from across the world have joined the movement to demand massive reductions in single-use plastics and to push for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. These organizations share the common values of environmental protection and social justice, which guide their work at the community level and represent a global, unified vision.
Birds of Prey NCA Partnership
Film: GoldenTake ActionThe Birds of Prey NCA Partnership's mission is to support the management and conservation of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA) through science, education, outreach, and partnerships. Our organization helps organize education and outreach events, native plant restoration projects, trash clean up activities, as well as field trips to the NCA. We also support conservation efforts in the NCA through undergraduate research internships and by building strong community partnerships.
Amplifier
Film: Strike With UsTake ActionAmplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our time.
We believe that in times of uncertainty art is more than beauty or decoration, it can be a compass that points to the future we want to live in.
American Rivers
Take ActionAmerican Rivers believes a future of clean water and healthy rivers everywhere, for everyone, is essential. Since 1973, they have protected wild rivers, restored damaged rivers and conserved clean water for people and nature.
American Prairie Reserve
Film: Through the BreaksTake ActionAmerican Prairie Reserve's mission is to create the largest nature reserve in the continental United States, a refuge for people and wildlife preserved forever as part of America’s heritage. APR is working to connect and restore more than 3 million acres of grasslands of Montana's Great Plains. By building off existing public land – including the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument – the project seeks to transform into a seamless prairie ecosystem.
Ajo Samaritans
Film: USA v. ScottTake ActionThe Ajo Samaritans is a local humanitarian aid group that works to prevent death in the desert. We are diverse individuals of conscience and faith united to relieve suffering and save lives of people crossing Arizona’s desert. We travel roads and trails of Southern Arizona distributing water and food and providing first aid when necessary. We secure emergency aid and rescue for those in severe distress, and we reinforce migrants’ sense of dignity. By our presence, we witness our commitment to human rights for all, even the stranger among us.
Wings for Life
Film: Any One of UsTake ActionThe Wings For Life Foundation is a nonprofit research foundation with a mission to find a cure for spinal cord injury. All donations directly fund cutting-edge scientific research and clinical trials around the globe aimed at healing the injured spinal cord.
Wildlife SOS India
Film: The King's KeeperTake ActionWildlife SOS actively works towards protecting Indian wildlife, conserving habitat, studying biodiversity, conducting research and creating alternative and sustainable livelihoods for erstwhile poacher communities or those communities that depend on wildlife for sustenance.
Washington To Washington
Film: 17 BlocksTake ActionWashington To Washington is an annual outdoors adventure bringing city kids from Washington, D.C., Detroit, and New Orleans on a week-long camping trip to climb mountains and explore some of the country's most beautiful wilderness areas.
Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Film: Refuge(e)Take ActionSanta Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal services to immigrants to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention. Their work is centered around the belief that supporting immigrants makes our whole community stronger.
The Movember Foundation
Film: A Light in the ShadowTake ActionThe Movember Foundation is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health. They’re addressing some of the biggest health issues faced by men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention. They have one goal: to stop men dying too young.
The Field's Edge
Film: Finding Home in BoomtownTake ActionThe vision of The Field’s Edge is to build a permanent, supportive, tiny-home community for the chronically homeless in Midland, Texas. This village will bring close to one hundred formerly homeless residents of the Permian Basin into The Field’s Edge family.
Teton Adaptive Sports
Film: A Grand JourneyTake ActionTeton Adaptive Sports offers year-round programming in climbing, camping, cycling, mountain biking, hiking, paddling, alpine and cross country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating/sled hockey with a staff committed to improving quality of life for athletes with disabilities from this area and visiting the Tetons.
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
Film: Sacred StridesTake ActionThrough collaboration with groups like Utah Diné Bikéyh, Wings of America, and the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, BEPRA works to create opportunities for Native youth to explore and know their ancestral homelands.
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly
Film: Grizzly CountryTake ActionSave the Yellowstone Grizzly fights for protections for all grizzly bears in the Lower 48 states. Their goal is the establishment of a large-scale grizzly bear recovery area, ensuring the long-term viability of bears in the face of imminent climate change.
Project C.A.T.
Film: TigerlandTake ActionDiscovery has long been committed to telling the stories and protecting the creatures that make our planet extraordinary. With Project C.A.T. - Conserving Acres for Tigers - Discovery is making it their mission to ensure a future for tigers and other endangered wildlife so there will always be stories to tell.
Polar Bears International
Film: Bare ExistenceTake ActionPolar Bears International's mission is to conserve polar bears and the sea ice they depend on. Through media, science, and advocacy, they work to inspire people to care about the Arctic, the threats to its future, and the connection between this remote region and our global climate.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Film: KifaruTake ActionOl Pejeta Conservancy works to conserve wildlife, provide a sanctuary for great apes, and to generate income through wildlife tourism and complementary enterprise for reinvestment in conservation and communities.
No Barriers USA
Film: From My WindowTake ActionThe mission of No Barriers is to fully unleash the potential of the human spirit. Through transformative experiences, tools and inspiration, they help people embark on a quest to contribute their absolute best to the world. In the process, they foster a community of curious, brave and collaborative explorers who are determined to live the No Barriers Life.
The Nature Conservancy
Take ActionThe Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Their mission is to conserve the land and waters on which all life depends. Their vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfill our needs and enrich our lives.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Film: Every Nine MinutesTake ActionThe Monterey Bay Aquarium is not only an aquarium but also a world leader in ocean conservation. They work at local, state, national and international levels to advance policies that protect key species like sea otters, sharks and tuna — and addresses global threats to fisheries and human coastal communities, including overfishing, plastic pollution and climate change.
It Gets Better Project
Film: Changing the GameTake ActionThe It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you are trying to affirm and assert your sexual orientation and/or gender identity. It can be a challenging and isolating process – but, the good news is, no one has to do it alone.
Grist
Take ActionFounded in 1999, Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck.
Friends of the River
Take ActionFriends of the River is dedicated to preserving and restoring California's rivers, streams, and their watersheds as well as advocating for sustainable water management. Friends of the River protects and restores California Rivers by influencing public policy and inspiring citizen action.
The Hill Foundation
Film: Fire on the HillTake ActionThe Hill Foundation’s mission is to rebuild and sustain South Central L.A.’s historic horse riding culture. South L.A. is unique in that it is zoned for agricultural and equestrian use. The Hill Foundation offers an opportunity for youth to learn and carry on the proud heritage of urban equestrian culture in the region.
Sea Shepherd
Film: Sea of ShadowsTake ActionSea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations.
Elephant Action League
Film: Sea of ShadowsTake ActionElephant Action League (EAL) protects wildlife, oceans, and forests by collecting intelligence, investigating and exposing wildlife criminals worldwide, including poachers, traffickers, businessmen, and corrupt government officials. EAL works to merge the worlds of intelligence, investigation, and conservation in the service of wildlife, forests, oceans, and the people who protect them.
Detroit Hives
Film: Detroit HivesTake ActionDetroit Hives is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that transforms vacant lots into bee farms for the conservation of honeybees, to help spread bee awareness, and to educate their communities and local schools of Detroit about bees and their contribution to the environment.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Film: IzembekTake ActionThe Cornell Lab of Ornithology partners with local communities and organizations around the world to create compelling science-based media about pressing conservation issues that are integral to sustaining species, ecosystems, and human livelihoods. By realizing the power of conservation successes to inspire others to act, they spread the stories of the people, communities, and organizations that are dedicated to protecting wildlife.
Colorado Plateau Foundation
Film: Counter MappingTake ActionColorado Plateau Foundation connects the philanthropic community to on-the-ground initiatives by growing a sustainable supply of resources and giving grants that enhance the work of Native-led organizations on the Plateau.
Change.org
Film: ArtifishalTake ActionHatcheries and over-harvest, along with net-pen fish farms and dams, are key contributors to the catastrophic decline of wild Chinook salmon and southern resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest. Tell NOAA Regional Administrator Barry Thom, WDFW Director Kelly Susewind, and our elected decision-makers to invest in science-based solutions: reduce hatchery production, remove dams and change how we harvest salmon.
Baltimore School for the Arts
Film: R.A.W. TubaTake ActionBaltimore School for the Arts is a public, urban high school serving a racially and socioeconomically diverse group of aspiring artists. It prepares the next generation of the creative workforce by offering inspiring arts and academic training to high school students as well as opportunities in the arts to younger children and the greater community through its TWIGS and community outreach programs.
Balkan River Defence
Film: The UndamagedTake ActionBalkan Peninsula is a special place. Ecologically and culturally. Complicated history and politics make this part of Europe very difficult to understand. The Balkan River Defence's intention is to unite Balkan nations against the destruction of their rivers and the attack of neocolonialism in the form of hydropower.
American Whitewater
Take ActionFounded in 1954, American Whitewater is a national non-profit organization representing a broad diversity of individual whitewater enthusiasts, river conservationists, and more than 100 local paddling club affiliates across America. The organization is the primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater rivers throughout the United States and connects the interests of human-powered recreational river users with ecological and science-based data to achieve the goals within its mission.
Alabama Rivers Alliance
Take ActionAlabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama’s water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
Adventure Scientists
Take ActionAdventure Scientists gets scientists the data they need to tackle pressing challenges to the environment and human health. Training a global force of volunteers from the outdoor adventure community we are able to gather data at any scale, from even the most hard-to-access regions.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Take ActionThe mission of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is to empower present and future generations by making the human past accessible and relevant through archaeological research, experiential education, and American Indian knowledge.
Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
Film: Meet the Real WolfTake ActionThe 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 their success: Wolves again roaming the snow-capped peaks, rim rock canyons, and primeval forests of western Colorado.
Okavango Wilderness Project
Film: Into the OkavangoTake ActionThe Okavango Delta is the largest freshwater wetland in southern Africa, the main source of water for a million people, and one of Africa’s richest places for biodiversity. Since 2015, National Geographic Fellow Dr. Steve Boyes and an interdisciplinary team of scientists and explorers have been surveying the river system and working to protect the Okavango watershed.
Utah Diné Bikéyah
Take ActionDiné Bikéyah (pronounced di-NAY bi-KAY-uh) means “people’s sacred lands” in the Navajo language. Utah Diné Bikéyah works toward the healing of people and the Earth by supporting indigenous communities in protecting their culturally significant, ancestral lands.
Sheep Mountain Alliance
Take ActionSheep Mountain Alliance is a grassroots citizen organization dedicated to preserving the natural environment in the Telluride region and southwest Colorado.
EcoAction Partners
Take ActionEcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals.
Outdoor Industry Association
Take ActionThe Outdoor Industry Association is a membership-driven trade organization for the outdoor industry. In collaboration with their members, they are a force for the industry in recreation and trade policy, sustainable business innovation and increasing outdoor participation.
1% For the Planet
Take Action1% for the Planet is a global movement inspiring businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual membership and everyday actions. They collaborate with individual and business members to identify environmental organizations that will make the greatest impact and align with your giving goals.
American Alpine Club
Take ActionEstablished in 1902 by the nation's leading climbers and conservationists, The American Alpine Club promotes and preserves the climbing way of life. Their mission is to provide knowledge and inspiration, conservation and advocacy, and logistical support for the climbing community.
Protect Our Winters
Films: Southwest Scramble | Powder Snow HokkaidoTake ActionPOW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places they live and love from climate change. POW is a community of athletes, scientists, creatives, and business leaders advancing non-partisan policies that protect our world today and for future generations.
Honnold Foundation
Take ActionThe Honnold Foundation envisions a world where all people have equal access to opportunity and live in balance with the environment. They believe in solar as a proven, environmentally sound solution to global energy poverty, and reduce environmental impact by supporting solar energy initiatives worldwide.
Great Old Broads for Wilderness: Northern San Juan Chapter
Take ActionGreat Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.
Woods Hole Research Center
Take ActionThe Woods Hole Research Center's (WHRC) mission is to advance scientific discovery and seek science-based solutions for the world’s environmental and economic challenges through research and education.
Mission: Wolf
Film: Wolf CallTake ActionMission Wolf is a nonprofit educational wolf sanctuary in the remote Colorado mountains which seeks to connect people with nature using hands-on experiential education.
Public Good: Save the Vaquita
Film: VaquitaTake ActionThe Vaquita porpoise is on the brink of extinction. With fewer than 30 left in the wild, scientists say the last Vaquita could die by 2018. Help save this vulnerable marine mammal by supporting these ongoing conservation efforts. Public Good is a Benefit Corporation that accepts donations on behalf of all 1.1 million nationwide nonprofits.
International Rescue Committee
Film: This Is HomeTake ActionThe International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Challenging Heights
Film: The Rescue ListTake ActionChallenging Heights is committed to protecting the rights of children and ending child trafficking. They have about 60 staff members between their office in Winneba and their Hovde House shelter who work in the coastal communities of Ghana and with international coalitions of NGOs dedicated to fighting modern slavery and protecting children’s rights.
Earth Vision Institute
Film: The Human ElementTake ActionEarth Vision Institute (EVI), founded by photographer and scientist James Balog in 2012, is a donor-funded organization that is dedicated to creating, publishing, and sharing world-class visual stories and rich media content, educating global citizens about the impact of environmental change on the world.
No One Left Behind
Film: The InterpretersTake ActionNo One Left Behind is on the ground in airports across the country, welcoming newly arriving interpreters to their new home and connecting them with essential services – housing, food, transportation, and legal counsel. They are also in the halls of Congress to ensure our allies receive the support they deserve.
Wild Horse Education
Film: The Fate of the WildTake ActionWild Horse Education (WHE) advocates for America's wild horses from the ground up, standing between our wild horses and the threats aimed at their destruction.
The International Justice Mission
Film: The Deep PlaceTake ActionThe International Justice Mission is a global organization that protects the poor from violence in the developing world. Their global team includes more than 750 lawyers, investigators, social workers, community activists and other professionals at work through 17 field offices.
Mountainfilm
Take ActionIt is only with your generous contributions that Mountainfilm can continue our mission to use the power of film, art, and ideas to create a better world.
The Bob Brown Foundation
Film: TakaynaTake ActionThe Bob Brown Foundation is all about action with a vision to protect Australia's wild and scenic natural places of ecological and global significance. Their campaign for The Tarkine is calling for its recognition as a National Park and World Heritage Area and is taking strategic and considered action step by step to reach this goal by 2020.
Alfanar
Film: SoufraTake ActionEstablished in 2004, Alfanar’s goal is to ensure that the poor and vulnerable, especially women and children, are able to access the education and opportunity they need to lead productive and dignified lives. They work to help social enterprises improve lives through financial stability, supporting grassroots organizations and helping them achieve lasting social change in their communities.
HawkWatch International
Film: Sky MigrationsTake ActionHawkWatch International's mission is to conserve our environment through education, long-term monitoring, and scientific research on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health.
TIMBY
Film: SilasTake ActionTIMBY (This Is My Backyard) is the result of a collaboration between activists, journalists, technologists, and designers to create a suite of interconnected digital tools to allow teams tackle complex issues quickly and comprehensively. Created to help local communities and organizations understand and maintain the issues affecting their areas.
Buffalo Field Campaign
Film: Our National MammalTake ActionBuffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is the only group working both in the field and in the policy arenas to stop the harassment and slaughter of America’s last wild buffalo. Their primary goal is to create permanent year-round protection for bison and the ecosystem they depend on—including respect for the migratory needs of this long-exploited and endangered species.
Nadia's Initiative: The Sinjar Action Fund
Film: On Her ShouldersTake ActionThe Sinjar Action Fund is taking contributions from governments around the world, as well as NGOs and individuals of the international community to rebuild Sinjar and facilitate the return of the Yazidi's to their ancient homeland.
The Jane Goodall Institute
Film: JaneTake ActionThe Jane Goodall Institute is a global community conservation organization that advances the vision and work of Dr. Jane Goodall. By protecting chimpanzees and inspiring people to conserve the natural world we all share, we improve the lives of people, animals and the environment.
The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation
Film: Hold FastTake ActionThe Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) is dedicated to preserving Alex Lowe's legacy by providing direction and financial support to sustainable, community-based humanitarian programs designed to help the people who live in remote regions of the world.
TentED
Film: Adventure Not WarTake ActionTentED advances education for children displaced by war. When children arrive in transitional communities, they have often lost everything. By funding projects that make returning to school, fun, and friends possible, TentED seeks to improve and normalize their lives, while providing hope for a more stable, successful future.
United We Dream
Take ActionWhen you’re undocumented, you face a lot of discrimination, and that creates a lot of fear. United We Dream transforms that fear into finding your voice by empowering people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and to develop campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people.
dZi
Take ActionMOUNTAINFILM'S EXCLUSIVE NONPROFIT PARTNER
dZi works in partnership with some of Nepal’s most remote communities to create lasting improvements in their quality of life. For over 20 years, dZi has implemented community-driven programs that improve public facilities, public health, income levels, and educational opportunities while preserving community unity, the natural environment, and indigenous culture.
350 Colorado
Take Action350.org's Go Fossil Free campaign launched with Bill McKibben’s Do The Math Tour in 2012. It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. How can you help? Go Fossil Free: Divest-Invest.
Town of Mountain Village
Take ActionPatagonia
Film: FishpeopleTake ActionPatagonia - The Activist Company.
We believe the environmental crisis has reached a critical tipping point. Without commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, defend clean water and air, and divest from dirty technologies, humankind as a whole will destroy our planet’s ability to repair itself. At Patagonia, the protection and preservation of the environment isn’t what we do after hours. It’s the reason we’re in business and every day’s work.
MeWater Foundation
Film: FishpeopleTake ActionOur mission is to educate, inspire and empower youth and families through the magic of mother nature.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power
Take ActionA decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought the climate crisis into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant -- as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
The New Normal
Take ActionAt Mountainfilm, we believe that climate change is the most critical issue of our time. We also believe in grassroots movements and have spent nearly four decades sharing and celebrating their powerful stories.
At this year’s festival, we will join the millions of individuals, groups, agencies and organizations actively working to battle climate change.
This is The New Normal, and we invite you to help shape it. Toward this end, we encourage you to take action on our five key initiatives. Commit to taking these, and we'll celebrate you at this year's festival.
Filmaid
Take ActionFrom the Filmaid website:
Our Mission
FilmAid uses film and other media to bring life-saving information, psychological relief, and much-needed hope to refugees and other communities in need.
Our Vision
FilmAid envisions a world in which all people can lead safe and healthy lives, enjoying full access to information, education and the opportunity for creative expression.
Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
Film: Person of the ForestTake ActionThe Gunung Palung Orangutan Program (GPOCP) was established by orangutan researcher, Dr. Cheryl Knott in 1992, and is now in its 22nd year. The project represents one of the longest running studies of wild orangutans in existence. Since the project’s inception there has been an exponential increase in the amount of land converted to large-scale agriculture, as well as illegal logging and mining within the park. These activities have made immediate conservation action in this area of paramount importance.
Gunung Palung National Park, located in western Borneo, Indonesia, represents one of the most important blocks of orangutan habitat. The Park and the surrounding areas harbor one of the most viable remaining populations of orangutans in Borneo, and the world. A census conducted in 2001, funded in part by the Orangutan Conservancy (OC), estimated there to be 2,500 individual orangutans living inside the park, with an almost equal sized population living in the unprotected areas outside the park.Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre
Film: Fix and ReleaseTake ActionFrom the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre website:
The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre protects and conserves Ontario’s native turtles and their habitat.
We accomplish this by operating a turtle hospital that treats, rehabilitates, and releases injured turtles, by performing extensive research in the field to further conservation initiatives, and by running a comprehensive education and outreach program.
As an organization, we strive to increase awareness of the challenges facing Ontario’s turtles and to inspire individuals to act to help.?We’re big believers that every person truly can make a difference!
New Normal Action Station
Take ActionRoots to Rise
Take ActionTown of Telluride Ecology Commission
Take ActionArctic and Mountain Regions Development Institute
Take ActionApple Core Project
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Kees Brenninkmeyer Foundation
Take ActionTo financially assist alpine guides, patrollers, or instructors who require surgery in order to continue their careers.
Telluride Arts
Our goal is to advance Telluride as a center for extraordinary artists, who infuse our authentic mountain community with world-class ideas. Our programs elevate and promote a culture of the arts in the Telluride Arts District, which is comprised by numerous institutions, events, and artists from around the region and across the globe.Take ActionTelluride Grown
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Water for People
Take Action?Water For People exists to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.
World Bicycle Relief
Film: Comeback GirlsTake ActionWorld Bicycle Relief is a catalyst for change, helping people in need realize their goals by providing access to education, markets, healthcare, and vital services with the tool they need to thrive. Equipped with a purpose-designed Buffalo Bicycle from World Bicycle Relief, students, health workers and entrepreneurs, especially women and girls, in developing regions create opportunities for themselves, their families and entire communities.
Mountain 2 Mountain
Take ActionTelluride Mountain Club
Take ActionWarriors and Quiet Waters Foundation
Take ActionThrough the experience of fly fishing in Montana, WQW is a catalyst for positive change in the lives of post-9/11 combat veterans.
International Climbers Festival
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IOBY
Take Actionioby mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful citizen leaders who plan, fund and make positive change in their own neighborhoods. We are creating a future in which our neighborhoods are shaped by the powerful good ideas of our own neighbors.
Telluride Theatre
Take ActionTelluride Theatre is committed to advancing the performing arts in our region through innovative productions, education programs and community involvement. We create theatre that lives in moments of truthful human connection, promotes joyful celebration and is an open dialogue, accessible to all audiences.
The Rewilding Institute
Take ActionTo develop and promote the ideas and strategies to advance continental-scale conservation in North America, particularly the need for large carnivores and a permeable landscape for their movement, and to offer a bold, scientifically-credible, practically achievable, and hopeful vision for the future of wild Nature and human civilization in North America.
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Extreme Ice Survey
Take ActionExtreme Ice Survey (EIS) is an innovative, long-term photography program that integrates art and science to give a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. We believe that the creative integration of art and science can shape public perception and inspire action more effectively than either art or science can do alone.
Orion Magazine
Take ActionIt is Orion’s fundamental conviction that humans are morally responsible for the world in which we live, and that the individual comes to sense this responsibility as he or she develops a personal bond with nature.
Peaceful Uprising
Take ActionPeaceful Uprising is a nonprofit collective committed to action to combat the climate crisis and build a just, healthy world.
WildEarth Guardians
WildEarth Guardians protects and restores the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and the health of the American West.Take ActionThe Crash Reel - Love Your Brain
The dramatic story of one unforgettable athlete, Kevin Pearce; one eye-popping sport, snowboarding; and one explosive issue, Traumatic Brain Injury. A comeback story with a difference.Take Action
Himalayan Cataract Project
Take ActionThe Himalayan Cataract Project works to eradicate preventable and curable blindness in the developing world.
John Dau Foundation
Take ActionThe John Dau Foundation is fulfilling the dream of the former Lost Boy and genocide survivor John Dau to provide healthcare in the war-torn region of South Sudan by building and sustaining medical clinics and training community health workers.
Choroideremia Research Foundation
Take ActionThe Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to find a treatment or cure for Choroideremia, a rare inherited retinal degenerative disease that causes blindness.
Gregg Treinish - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
Take ActionAdventure Scientists is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that equips partners with data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to unlocking solutions to the world's environmental challenges.
Rainforest Trust
Take ActionRainforest Trust helps protect threatened tropical forests and endangered wildlife by partnering with local and community organizations in and around vulnerable areas.
Through these highly effective partnerships, we can ensure sustainable results necessary for the long-term protection of tropical ecosystems and the wildlife they hold.
Pathfinder International
Take ActionWe expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, going wherever the need is most urgent.
Paradox Sports
Take ActionAs one of the nation’s premier adaptive outdoor recreation organizations, Paradox Sports is dedicated to our mission: Revolutionizing lives through adaptive climbing opportunities that defy convention.
Frack Free Colorado
Take ActionFrack Free CO is a collaborative, grass roots movement that works to raise awareness about the dangers of fracking and enlighten Coloradans on ways that we can accelerate our move to renewable energy and sustainable living today.
Black Canyon Regional Land Trust
Take ActionThe Mission of the Black Canyon Regional Land Trust is to serve as a non-political, non-governmental organization that encourages and assists private landowners in preserving and sustaining the rural heritage, natural, and cultural conservation values primarily in the watersheds of the Uncompahgre, North Fork of the Gunnison, and lower Gunnison Rivers and surrounding areas, for the benefit of the public, today and in perpetuity.??
Western Colorado Congress
Take ActionWestern Colorado Congress is a grassroots, democratic organization dedicated to challenging injustice by organizing people to increase their power over decisions that affect their lives.
Salmon Beyond Borders
Take ActionDefend & Sustain the rivers, jobs & way of life in Southeast Alaska
Trout Unlimited Alaska
Take ActionTrout Unlimited’s Alaska Program collaborates closely with commercial fishermen, anglers, tribes, chefs, and many others who care about trout and salmon. We work to preserve, protect and restore wild salmon and trout populations throughout the country’s largest, wildest and most fish-rich state.
The Fractivist
Take ActionShane Davis is a data-miner, activist, researcher, and the founder of Fractivist.org, an anti-fracking investigative blog about the Colorado Oil and Gas industry and the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
Take ActionChallenge, Inspire, Empower
TASP provides outdoor therapeutic recreation to individuals with disabilities promoting independence and personal growth.
San Juan Independent
Take ActionThe San Juan Independent, a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, aims to elevate journalism in our mountain home. We believe that small towns have big stories but know that small papers don’t always have the resources to cover them deeply. So, in contrast to the traditional community news model, we’re backing away from the day-to-day ballgames and bellwethers to focus on the slower-moving scoops that span our region. The San Juans’ environment, economy and community are more complex than a glimpse of a local council meeting can capture and so, instead, we endeavor to produce rich accounts that analyze the full arc of an issue. We hold journalism to be a public service that fuels debate and democracy, and seek to give our public the best information possible.
Rabbit Island
Take ActionAdvancing the culture of art and science on a remote island in Lake Superior.
The Rabbit Island Foundation provides a platform to investigate, expand and challenge creative practices in a remote environment through the Rabbit Island Residency. By living and working on Rabbit Island residents engage directly with the landscape and respond to notions of conservation, ecology, sustainability, and resilience. With the idea that the intelligent organization and celebration of wild spaces is the most civilized thing we can value as society, the residency reflects on the continent’s four hundred year history of settlement and division of land. The island itself an unsettled and undivided space, enables residents to present commentary on these ideas, creating creative interpretations and solutions to issues of global importance such as climate change and loss of natural habitat and pristine watersheds.
Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation
Take ActionThe Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation's mission is to promote the joys of climbing; secure access and preserve the mountain environment.
Grand Canyon Trust
Take ActionSince 1985, the Grand Canyon Trust has worked to protect and restore the Colorado Plateau.
Ebola Orphan Project
Take Action
San Miguel Watershet Education Program
Take ActionA commitment to contribute to the raising of a generation of informed stewards of place and community
San Miguel Resource Center
Take ActionOur mission is to eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault in our community through intervention services, prevention education and social change.
Project Welcome Home Troops
Take ActionTheir mission is to improve the quality of life for returning veterans and their families. They provide safe and effective techniques for stress relief, greater health and well-being, and empowerment.
Pinhead Institute
Take ActionPinhead Institute is a Smithsonian Affiliate based in Telluride, Colorado that strives to promote science-education both locally & globally. An international network of the world’s leading scientists supports our many educational programs providing unparalleled opportunity to high-level scientific education in rural Colorado. Pinhead Institute educates and inspires children and adults in the greater Telluride region about the wonders of science and technology.
Outdoor Mindset
Take ActionThey strive to enhance quality of life for people affected by neurological challenges by uniting and empowering our members through a common passion for the outdoors. They believe in the power of community and the outdoors to enliven mind, body and soul. They envision a global community of people positively impacted by the outdoors.
National Parks Conservation Assocation
Take ActionProtecting and enhancing America's National Park System for present and future generations.
Great Old Broads For Wilderness
Take ActionGreat Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by elders, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations.
Futaleufú Riverkeeper
Take ActionThe Futaleufú Riverkeeper is a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an international network of clean water advocates working around the world to protect our planet’s waterways and defending our fundamental right to a healthy environment free from pollution and abuse.
Eco Action Partners
Take ActionEcoAction Partners is a sustainability organization focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and tracking our regional progress toward these goals. EcoAction Partners works with the community to reduce waste, increase local food supply and encourage other sustainable practices.
Western Slope Conservation Center
Take ActionThe mission of the Western Slope Conservation Center is to build an active and aware community to protect and enhance the lands, air, water, and wildlife of the Lower Gunnison Watershed.
Telluride Institute
Take ActionThe Telluride Institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. We work with communities, businesses, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of environments, cultures, and economies. We collaborate with leading artists, scientists, and educators to map a progressive future.
Coloradans for Community Rights
Take ActionColoradans for Community Rights (CCR) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization formed in 2014 to pass by ballot initiative an amendment to the Colorado constitution recognizing the people’s right of local self-government and empowering local communities to protect their fundamental rights, free of corporate interference and state preemption. We are Colorado citizens working together on a state-wide campaign to win passage of the Colorado Community Rights Amendment in the November 2016 election.
Chris Klug Foundation
Take ActionChris Klug Foundation advocates for organ and tissue donation, and inspires those touched by transplantation. Through their programs they reach tens of thousands of young people each year, equipping them with facts about organ donation so they can make educated decisions.
Third Act
Take ActionWe are building a community of experienced Americans over the age of sixty determined to change the world for the better. Together, we use our life experience, skills and resources to build better tomorrow.
MoCrazy Strong Inc.
Film: #MoCrazyStrongTake ActionMOCRAZY STRONG, INC. is formed for the charitable and educational purpose of serving persons surviving from traumatic brain injury as well as their family caregivers. MOCRAZY STRONG INC will raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries and teach methods to have a complete recovery
4DWN
Film: 4DWNTake Action4DWN is a service-driven 501(c)3 charitable organization rooted in the culture, camaraderie and global community of professional skateboarding. Our mission is supporting the sustainable health and wellbeing of our kids, families and environment through programs providing recreation, education, cultivation and conservation.
Center for Asian American Media
Film: Angel DoseTake ActionThe Center for Asian American Media is a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. We do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media. For 40 years, CAAM has exposed audiences to new voices and communities, advancing our collective understanding of the American experience through programs specifically designed to engage the Asian American community and the public at large.
Native Movement
Film: ApayauqTake ActionNative Movement is focused on developing community organizing leadership, movement building, and community building centering social justice and healing foundations. Our work focuses on Indigenous and non-Indigenous grassroots mobilization rooted in decolonization and just transition frameworks toward liberation visions.
Native American Journalists Association
Film: Bad PressTake ActionThe Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) represents more than 1,000 members working in mainstream and tribal media outlets, as independent freelancers, with associations, academic institutions and other organizations covering Indigenous communities. Through programs that support newsroom diversity and defend challenges to free press, speech and expression, NAJA promotes accurate media coverage of Indigenous peoples across North America.
Bat Conservation International
Film: BatsiesTake ActionBat Conservation International's mission is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.
People People Media Foundation
Film: Chicken StoriesTake ActionPeople People Media is a farm-based, Emmy-nominated production company / nonprofit. They specialize in personal & unique stories that help increase empathy by amplifying people’s voices. PPMF has produced dozens of projects that have been released through outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ Magazine, PBS, Short of the Week & Vimeo Staff Picks. And festivals like Sundance, Tribeca, Austin, Aspen, DOC NYC, and more. Additionally, they run an artist residency program on the farm, designed to provide space to allow diverse artists to create their work. The PPM team often has production meetings while harvesting crops and planting oak trees.
Human Rights Watch
Film: Die LaughingTake ActionHuman Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 550 plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and carefully review all donations to ensure that they are consistent with our policies, mission, and values. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.
OutRide
Film: High RoadTake ActionOutRide is nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of youth through cycling. Through research, school-based cycling programs and community grants, OutRide harnesses the benefits of cycling for the cognitive, socio-emotional and physical well-being of youth, and helps to cultivate inclusive cycling communities at the same time.
I Cant Keep Quiet Fund
Film: I Can’t Keep QuietTake ActionMILCK's I Can't Keep Quiet Fund generates resources through song proceeds, content, brand partnerships, merchandise proceeds, and public donations. These funds directly benefit grassroots non-profit beneficiaries as well as our work to co-create with and invest in artists to produce social justice-focused work. We do this work through an intersectional lens of Feminism, Black-Asian Solidarity, AAPI Support, LGBTQ Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, and Mental Health.
Indigenous Women Outdoors
Film: Inseparable: MyiaTake ActionIndigenous Women Outdoors helps Indigenous women living on unceded Sḵwx̱ú7mesh, Líl̓wat, səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories connect with the land and each other by creating safe opportunities that eliminate barriers to getting into nature.
NorCal CarciNET
Take ActionOur mission is to help those with Neuroendocrine tumors and carcinoid to share challenges and experiences, learn about prognosis and treatments, and improve communications between the medical community, patient and caregivers. By providing opportunities for our members to connect with others who have these rare illnesses we will enable them not only to get their questions answered, but also to give and receive emotional support. In addition, we aspire to bring greater awareness to the medical community, and the public so as to promote earlier detection and treatment of these often unrecognized illnesses.
Amphibian Reptile Conservancy
Film: Jojo - A Toad MusicalTake ActionWe believe the conservation of amphibians, reptiles, and the habitats they depend on is vitally important. In these important areas, we develop dynamic conservation programs that recover priority species, improve habitats, and ultimately restore ecosystems.
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Film: JoychildTake ActionFounded in 1973, Pacific Center for Human Growth is the oldest LGBTQIA+ center in the Bay Area, the third oldest in the nation, and operates the only sliding scale mental health clinic for LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people and their families in Alameda County.
Hutchings Museum Institute
Film: Kumari: A Father’s DreamTake ActionExploring the Past. Creating the Future.
Every exhibit, every program, and truly everything we do at the museum is driven by our core values:
Preservation | Restoration | Conservation | Exploration | Stewardship | EducationIn 2023, the Hutchings Museum joined the film as the fiscal sponsor. They are the perfect fit because they have deep roots in projects that support the Independent Trekking Guide Cooperative and help the people of KUMARI. All revenue from the film is being donated to the Museum which will then direct the funds directly into humanitarian efforts in KUMARI.
THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
Film: Mama BearsTake ActionThird World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, preservation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.
It supports innovative work of diverse forms and genres made by artists who are intimately connected to their subjects through common bonds of ethnic/cultural heritage, class position, gender, sexual orientation and political identification. TWN promotes the self-representation of traditionally marginalized groups as well as the negotiated representation of those groups by artists who work in solidarity with them.
Ultimately, whether documentary, experimental, narrative, traditional or non-traditional, the importance of the media promoted by the organization is its ability to effect social change, to encourage people to think critically about their lives and the lives of others, and to propel people into action.
Mad Agriculture
Take ActionMad Agriculture is a Boulder-based non-profit helping farmers transition to and thrive in regenerative organic agriculture across the country. We work from head to heart, poetry to science, financing to markets, and soil to shelf to meet farmers where they’re at on their regenerative journeys. Our four core branches ensure that farmers have the financial (Mad Capital), strategic (Mad Lands), connective (Mad Markets), and creative (Mad Media) support that they need to thrive.
Lowest Highest Foundation
Film: No Legs. All Heart.Take ActionLucas, Mohamed, and André have seen the bleak difference between having a disability where you have hope and societal support, versus what it looks like when you don't. Even places where you are seen as cursed or less then human. This is why we created the Lowest Highest Foundation. Beyond expeditions, films, and direct contact with affected communities, the organization is taking a narrow and deep approach - standing up individuals with longitudinal support to help them pursue a fulfilling life. We believe there's no better way to change minds then to see what is possible from local role models.
Rios to Rivers
Film: Paddle Tribal WatersTake ActionThrough cultural exchanges, we connect young people from rural and indigenous communities which are threatened or recovering from reservoir and dam development. These historically underrepresented communities have been left out of traditional top-down decisions for river development that ultimately damage the health of their rivers and communities. Our students do not have the means to travel, nor have they been exposed to opportunities to participate in river recreation, meet people from other cultures, interact directly with scientists, politicians, and community leaders. Students gain a deeper sense of purpose, which extends far beyond individual growth, as they discover that they have the power to be a voice for their communities and their rivers. As we continue to create opportunities, where they can take positive action on issues, students are able to improve their communities for decades.
Path of the Panther Project
Film: Path of the PantherTake ActionAs the last big cat surviving in the eastern United States, the panther is an emblem of our once connected world. An icon of our last wild places. A vision of what could be again. Through impactful storytelling, field programs, and conservation campaigns, the Path of the Panther Project works to inspire the protection and formal recognition of the land the Florida panther needs to survive — the Florida Wildlife Corridor — which serves both humans and wildlife. What began as a moonshot photo and film mission is evolving into a movement. The panther, one of the most elusive and endangered wild cats in the world, has been the catalyst for a visionary idea. In 2021, the passage of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act became the first legislation of its kind - a blueprint for addressing habitat fragmentation and species extinction across the globe. Today, the movement continues to grow. The world stands at a crossroads - and the panther is leading the way.
Re:wild
Film: PatrolTake ActionRe:wild protects and restores the wild. We have a singular and powerful focus: the wild as the most effective solution to the interconnected climate, biodiversity and human wellbeing crises. Founded by a group of renowned conservation scientists together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Re:wild is a force multiplier that brings together Indigenous peoples, local communities, influential leaders, nongovernmental organizations, governments, companies and the public to protect and rewild at the scale and speed we need. Learn more at rewild.org.
SEA LIFE Trust
Film: PufflingTake ActionThe Beluga Whale Sanctuary is home to Iceland's only Puffin Rescue Centre, which takes in pufflings (baby puffins) and puffins found in Vestmannaeyjar which need some extra care. Most of these birds are rescued by the local Puffling Patrol, which works in cooperation with the Sanctuary. Some are brought in by local residents for review, treatment and possibly release if they are fit and ready. Admission to our visitor centre and donation help support the care of injured puffins, as well as those which cannot be released.
Trout Unlimited
Film: School of FishTake ActionWe bring together diverse interests to care for and recover rivers and streams, so our children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon.
Peruvian Society for Environmental Law - SPDA
Take ActionSPDA has played a central role in establishing legal frameworks to protect natural areas, land use planning, and wetlands conservation. The organization has taken on illegal logging and fishing, mining, energy projects, and large infrastructure projects that risk degrading the Peruvian natural environment.
Glen Canyon Institute
Take ActionGlen Canyon Institute is actively working to achieve a huge leap forward in river management and ecosystem restoration for Glen Canyon. The success of our efforts will directly benefit millions of people in the Colorado River Basin who will achieve a more dependable and sustainable water supply. In addition, the wildlife and ecosystems of Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon, which currently suffer due to existing water management policies, will be restored to health. Our generation has been given a miraculous second chance to witness Glen Canyon and take part in the restoration of one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
The Center for Investigative Reporting
Film: The GrabTake ActionFounded in 1977 as the nation’s first nonprofit investigative newsroom, The Center for Investigative Reporting empowers the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling that sparks action, improves lives and protects our democracy. CIR produces the national radio show and podcast Reveal, which appears on nearly 600 stations. Recent awards include an Academy Award nomination, multiple national Emmys, duPont Awards, Peabodys and a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, among others. However, CIR primarily measures success through the impact of its stories. Recent investigations have resulted in new laws, sparked reform and resonated at the highest levels of government.
Pro Infirmis
Film: The Nine WheelsTake ActionPro Infirmis runs advice centers throughout Switzerland and supports people with disabilities and their families. As a non-profit association based in Zurich, Pro Infirmis is politically independent and denominationally neutral. With its services, Pro Infirmis promotes the independent and self-determined life of people with disabilities. We are committed to ensuring that they can actively participate in social life and are not disadvantaged. We want to achieve this goal together with those affected.
ICYOLA
Take ActionFounded in 2009, ICYOLA is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that transforms the lives and minds of young people in Inner City Los Angeles through high quality music education. We teach inner-city youth the great music of the world and provide opportunities for them to perform that music in the most magnificent settings of our community. We prepare our members for advanced study and high caliber success in music and otherwise. We instill the ancillary benefits that music instruction provides: problem-solving skills, critical thinking, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-discipline, and the crystallization and pursuit of meaningful purpose.
HUMEN
Film: The Road of ExcessTake ActionHUMEN is leading a global movement to improve and maintain men’s mental health through The HUMEN Space. 74% of all UK and US suicides are male. The HUMEN Space: the Gym For Your Mind are anonymous and non-clinical spaces across the globe for men to talk, listen and connect on a regular basis. We are striving to change the narrative until a prevention approach over a crisis response is the norm, not the exception. HUMEN is changing the face of what it means to be a man. Providing an accessible solution to prevent men from suffering in silence and dying too young. You are human. I am human. We are HUMEN.
Skate Like A Girl
Film: TransendersTake ActionSkate Like A Girl's mission is to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through skateboarding. Our vision is to empower skaters, especially young women and/or trans people, to grow into strong, confident leaders who promote and implement social equity. We value experiential learning and civic participation, by providing opportunities to be involved in the skateboarding community.
The Treehouse Project
Take ActionA pragmatic initiative to elevate deaf and blind audiences’ access to and participation in theatrical independent film. While personal captioning (for hearing-impaired audiences) and audio description (for vision- impaired audiences) have been impactful accessories in major theatre chains and on streaming platforms, these technologies have largely leapfrogged film festivals and touring programs -- the venues where our society’s most pressing and daring films are curated and find their first audiences.
The Accessibility Lab will also cultivate accessibility as an artistic tool for filmmakers, and provide them financial and practical support to create captions and audio description. We will also work with festivals to showcase films with accessibility assets, integrate accessibility hardware, and to customize best practices for sustainable engagement with more inclusive audiences.
Plan C Pills
Film: Under G_dTake ActionPlan C is a public health meets creative campaign, started in 2015 by a small but mighty team of veteran public health advocates, researchers, social justice activists and digital strategists. Plan C transforms access to abortion in the US by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.
Our Vision: A near future in which the ability to end an early pregnancy is directly in the hands of anyone who seeks it.
Trout Unlimited - Jackson Hole
Film: Wading for ChangeTake ActionFounded in Michigan in 1959, Trout Unlimited is a national non-profit organization with 300,000 members and supporters dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. Our staff and volunteers work from coast to coast to protect, reconnect, restore and sustain trout and salmon habitat on behalf of today’s anglers and coming generations of sportsmen and women who value the connection between healthy, intact habitat and angling opportunity. The Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited was formed in 1983 in Jackson, Wyoming. Their mission is to bring together diverse interests to care for and recover rivers and streams so our children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon.
Preemptive Love Coalition
Film: Waiting, HopingTake ActionPreemptive Love was founded in 2007 to help Iraqi children access heart surgeries. In 2014, ISIS’s reign of terror spread across Iraq and Syria. Preemptive Love pivoted, joining with peacemakers around the world to deliver food, medical care, and winter essentials. In 2019, Preemptive Love listened to migrants and asylum seekers sharing their stories about violence in their communities across Latin America. In response, they provided help for those in need at the US-Mexico border and in Colombia and Venezuela.
350.org
Film: Bill McKibbenTake ActionWe're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. Accelerate the transition to a new, just clean energy economy by supporting community-led energy solutions. Stop and ban all oil, coal and gas projects from being built through local resolutions and community resistance. Cut off the social license and financing for fossil fuel companies — divest, desponsor and defund. We are bold, creative and strategic. The climate crisis is immense –– we must be daring and courageous in response. We embrace experiments and new solutions, recognizing that this crisis requires innovative ways of solving problems.
2021 Participants
- Camping to Connect
- Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Help keep the Herrera-Lima Family Housed
- Sea Sisters Sri Lanka
- Sunrise Movement
- Rainforest Connection
- Kanindé Ethno-environmental Defense Association
- We Love Reading
- Friends For Youth
- Skoll Foundation
- R.E.S.C.U.E | Reteti Elephant Sanctuary
- Iron Light Labs
- The Center for Training in Agroecology and Sustainability (CEFAS)
- Parents For Peace
- The Follow Your Dream Foundation
- Densho
- Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
- America Remembers Fund
- Mission: JOY
- PFLAG National
- Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc.
- The Rural Changemakers
- Mountain Bike Afghanistan
- Restore Hetch Hetchy
- Justice Outside
- PALAWAN NGO NETWORK INCORPORATED
- Perpetuo Films
- The WILD Foundation
- California Black Women's Health Project
- Helem
- River Newe
- Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
- 2 Rivers East
- The Dewayne S Parker One Love Foundation
- Women Make Movies
- Wild Europe
- The Whale Sanctuary Project
- Outdoor Outreach
- The Peregrine Fund
- The American Museum of Fly Fishing
- Sphinx Organization
- South Carolina Humanities
- Soils, Food and Healthy Communities
- Resolve Crisis Initiative
- Religion, Race & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia
- Our Children's Trust
- Orangeburg County Historical Society
- Nia Tero
- Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano
- Mother Jones Community Foundation
- Memphis Rox
- Gravel Institute
- GLOBIO
- First Descents
- Farmer Veteran Coalition
- Empowering Women of Nepal
- Earth Guardians
- Duty Free Impact Campaign
- Curry Senior Center
- Climate Generation
- Big Life Foundation
- Aguilas del Desierto
- Conservation Colorado
- March for Our Lives
- Memphis Rox Climbing & Community
- Pacific Climate Warriors
- Kurils Islands Research & Conservation Initiative
- Youth Documentary Academy
- Wild Sheep Foundation
- TranSending 7
- The Workers Lab
- The Venture Out Project
- The Liv Project
- PTSD Veteran Athletes
- Team River Runner
- The Door
- Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii
- South Texas Human Rights Center
- Soul Trak Outdoors
- Skate Like a Girl
- Shine MSD
- SEE International
- Save the Redwoods League
- Quail Springs
- Ping Pong Parkinson
- Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project
- National Park Foundation
- Marine Conservation Cambodia
- Mountain State Spotlight
- Mariachi Academy of New England
- Louisiana Bucket Brigade
- Karma & Jyamu Bhotia Foundation
- Himalayan Stove Project
- High Fives Foundation
- Florida Wildlife Corridor
- Conservation Lands Foundation
- Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
- Casa de Paz
- Carousel of Happiness
- Captains for Clean Water
- Break Free From Plastic
- Birds of Prey NCA Partnership
- Amplifier
- American Rivers
- American Prairie Reserve
- Ajo Samaritans
- Wings for Life
- Wildlife SOS India
- Washington To Washington
- Santa Fe Dreamers Project
- The Movember Foundation
- The Field's Edge
- Teton Adaptive Sports
- Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
- Save the Yellowstone Grizzly
- Project C.A.T.
- Polar Bears International
- Ol Pejeta Conservancy
- No Barriers USA
- The Nature Conservancy
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- It Gets Better Project
- Grist
- Friends of the River
- The Hill Foundation
- Sea Shepherd
- Elephant Action League
- Detroit Hives
- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Colorado Plateau Foundation
- Change.org
- Baltimore School for the Arts
- Balkan River Defence
- American Whitewater
- Alabama Rivers Alliance
- Adventure Scientists
- Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
- Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
- Okavango Wilderness Project
- Utah Diné Bikéyah
- Sheep Mountain Alliance
- EcoAction Partners
- Outdoor Industry Association
- 1% For the Planet
- American Alpine Club
- Protect Our Winters
- Honnold Foundation
- Great Old Broads for Wilderness: Northern San Juan Chapter
- Woods Hole Research Center
- Mission: Wolf
- Public Good: Save the Vaquita
- International Rescue Committee
- Challenging Heights
- Earth Vision Institute
- No One Left Behind
- Wild Horse Education
- The International Justice Mission
- Mountainfilm
- The Bob Brown Foundation
- Alfanar
- HawkWatch International
- TIMBY
- Buffalo Field Campaign
- Nadia's Initiative: The Sinjar Action Fund
- The Jane Goodall Institute
- The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation
- TentED
- United We Dream
- dZi
- 350 Colorado
- Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently
- Town of Mountain Village
- Patagonia
- MeWater Foundation
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power
- The New Normal
- Filmaid
- Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program
- Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre
- New Normal Action Station
- Roots to Rise
- Buddy Pegs
- Town of Telluride Ecology Commission
- Arctic and Mountain Regions Development Institute
- Apple Core Project
- Kees Brenninkmeyer Foundation
- Telluride Arts
- Telluride Grown
- Water for People
- World Bicycle Relief
- Mountain 2 Mountain
- Telluride Mountain Club
- Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation
- International Climbers Festival
- IOBY
- Telluride Theatre
- The Rewilding Institute
- iMatter/'Trust'
- Extreme Ice Survey
- Orion Magazine
- Peaceful Uprising
- WildEarth Guardians
- The Crash Reel - Love Your Brain
- Himalayan Cataract Project
- John Dau Foundation
- Choroideremia Research Foundation
- Gregg Treinish - Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
- Rainforest Trust
- Pathfinder International
- Paradox Sports
- Frack Free Colorado
- Black Canyon Regional Land Trust
- Western Colorado Congress
- Salmon Beyond Borders
- Trout Unlimited Alaska
- The Fractivist
- Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
- San Juan Independent
- Rabbit Island
- Jeff Lowe Mountain Foundation
- Grand Canyon Trust
- Ebola Orphan Project
- San Miguel Watershet Education Program
- San Miguel Resource Center
- Project Welcome Home Troops
- Pinhead Institute
- Outdoor Mindset
- National Parks Conservation Assocation
- Great Old Broads For Wilderness
- Futaleufú Riverkeeper
- Eco Action Partners
- Western Slope Conservation Center
- Telluride Institute
- Coloradans for Community Rights
- Chris Klug Foundation
- Third Act
- MoCrazy Strong Inc.
- 4DWN
- Center for Asian American Media
- Native Movement
- Native American Journalists Association
- Bat Conservation International
- People People Media Foundation
- Human Rights Watch
- OutRide
- I Cant Keep Quiet Fund
- Indigenous Women Outdoors
- NorCal CarciNET
- Amphibian Reptile Conservancy
- Pacific Center for Human Growth
- Hutchings Museum Institute
- THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
- Mad Agriculture
- Lowest Highest Foundation
- Rios to Rivers
- Path of the Panther Project
- Re:wild
- SEA LIFE Trust
- Trout Unlimited
- Peruvian Society for Environmental Law - SPDA
- Glen Canyon Institute
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
- Pro Infirmis
- ICYOLA
- HUMEN
- Skate Like A Girl
- The Treehouse Project
- Plan C Pills
- Trout Unlimited - Jackson Hole
- Preemptive Love Coalition
- 350.org