Alliance for the Great Lakes works to conserve and restore the world’s largest freshwater resource, using policy, education and local efforts.

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.

Shedd Aquarium works to spark compassion, curiosity and conservation for the aquatic animal world. They are inspired by a vision of a world thriving with aquatic life, sustained by people who love, understand and protect it.

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

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.

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

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

Dunes Learning Center works to inspire lasting curiosity and stewardship with nature.

Chicago Botanic Garden cultivates the power of plants to sustain and enrich life.

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

Illinois Stewardship Alliance cultivates a local food and farm system that is economically viable, socially just and environmentally sustainable.