ELPC develops and leads strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to protect natural resources and the environment with a focus on the Midwest.

LVEJO works for environmental justice in Little Village, seeking self-determination for immigrant, low-income and working-class families.

Rockford Park District Foundation works to provide an exceptional parks and recreation system.

SAFE seeks to prevent fracking and other fossil-fuel extraction, and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in southern Illinois.

This organization works to grow its region’s urban connection to the world of nature and science through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibitions, and public forums.

Operation Endangered Species is working to reintroduce alligator snapping turtles, an endangered keystone species, back into the wild.

This organization builds collective power to eliminate injustice through community organizing, developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.

This organization is restoring nature’s beauty on the Green Bay Trail, an abandoned rail bed next to the METRA commuter Union Pacific North Line. By replacing invasive species with native trees, shrubs and flowers, they create a healthy ecosystem supporting many pollinators.

The Metropolitan Planning Council works to shape a sustainable and prosperous Chicago region.

Groundwork Milwaukee seeks to bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social well-being.

This group works to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.

Friends of the Parks aims to preserve, protect, improve and promote the use of Chicago’s parks and open spaces for the benefit of all neighborhoods and citizens.