Social Investing and Consuming
Activist Groups and Organizations
League of Women Voters
Leave No Trace (LNT)
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and inspiring responsible outdoor recreation through education, research and partnerships. LNT builds awareness, appreciation and respect for our wildlands.
Macrocosm USA
A non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing environmental, justice, peace, health issues & solutions for progressives May First/People Link
An organization of progressive people who use the Internet have joined together to pool resources to assure quality equipment and staff support and to improve access to the Internet, enhance its function as a tool for mass communication and organizing, develop new technologies and uses for it, and help social justice movements use it effectively to communicate with each other and with the world. Mercy Corps
Works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $1 billion in assistance to people in 94 nations. Supported by headquarters offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, the agency's unified global programs employ 3,200 staff worldwide and reach nearly 13.5 million people in more than 40 countries. National Association for Socially Responsible Organizations
NASRO was started fifteen years ago to be an advocate for employer groups, self employed members and free agent independent contractors. We assist with humanitarian efforts for the common good and work to provide a fairer way for people and organizations to buy health insurance, reinsurance and third party benefit administration. National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)
Established in 1975, is dedicated to improving the health status of farmworker families by providing information services and products to a network of more than 500 migrant health center service sites in the United States as well as other organizations and individuals serving the farmworker population. National Coalition for the Homeless
Founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission --- to end homelessness. National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Committed to increasing the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities. NCRC is the collective voice for its member organizations to Congress, Bank Regulatory Agencies, the Executive branches of the federal government and the national press. Native American Organizations:
Through a three-pronged strategy of Educating Grassroots Practitioners, Advocating Systemic Change, and Capitalizing Indian Communities, First Nations Development Institute is working to restore Native control and culturally-compatible stewardship of the assets they own --- be they land, human potential, cultural heritage, or natural resources --- and to establish new assets for ensuring the long-term vitality of Native communities.
A community development organization actively promoting the socio-economic sustainability of Oglala Lakota Oyate (people) on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It's culturally appropriate strategies include business loans, technical assistance and targeted community and business development.
To enhance the capacity of Native tribes, communities and peoples to access, control, create, leverage, utilize and retain financial assets; and to provide appropriate financial capital for Native development efforts. New Uses Council
A dynamic and expanding non-profit membership organization dedicated to the development and commercialization of biobased products. These products are made from traditional and new agricultural and forestry crops and residues; rights-of-way, park, yard and garden trimmings; the clean biomass portion of municipal wastes; and, when needed, aquatic biomass grown in an environmentally enhancing manner. Nonviolence.org
News and commentary from a pacifist perspective. Nuclear Information and Resource Service
& World Information Service on Energy
The information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues. Pax World Service
Over thirty years ago, Luther Tyson and Jack Corbett created Pax World Fund Family as an avenue for the socially conscious investor to invest for both financial return and social impact. At the same time, they established Pax World Service, a non-profit philanthropic organization that allows Pax World Balanced Fund investors to support socially responsible activities around the world by designating a portion of their investment earnings (dividends and/or capital gains) or through direct contributions. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
PETA, with more than 1.6 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs. Physicians for Social Responsibility
Goals include: (1) For the prevention of nuclear war, against the development and use of nuclear weapons, and for a reduction in the role of armed force in US foreign and security policy; and (2) to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs is a Federation of State PIRGs)
U.S. PIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, U.S. PIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. U.S. PIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that protects our environment, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government. Rainforest Action Network
RAN protects forests and the rights of their inhabitants by campaigning to break America's oil addiction, promote sustainable logging, and bring green ethics to Wall Street. Rainforest Alliance
Works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. RESULTS
A nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization, committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. Committed to individuals exercising their personal and political power by lobbying elected officials for effective solutions and key policies that affect hunger and poverty. Rocky Mountain Institute
An independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization fostering the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits --- largely by doing what they do far more efficiently. Roberts Environmental Center
A research institute at Claremont McKenna College is the leading analyst of corporate environmental and sustainability reporting, with free online analysis of more than 800 corporate reports. Students from all five of the Claremont Colleges study and work in the Roberts Center and this research is a joint effort among the center's faculty, research associates, and students. All analyses are available online with more added weekly. Social Accountability International
An international non-profit human rights organization dedicated to the ethical treatment of workers around the world. SAI's social standard, called SA8000, functions as a highly effective and expedient system for delivering improved social performance to businesses and their supply chain facilities. The SA8000 solution is designed to ensure compliance with the highest ethical sourcing standards by integrating management tools that serve the needs of workers and businesses alike. Sweatshop Watch
Serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on eliminating sweatshop exploitation in California's garment industry. We believe that workers should earn a living wage in a safe, decent work environment, and that those responsible for the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable. Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
The leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. Wilderness Society
To deliver to future generations an unspoiled legacy of wild places, with all the precious values they hold: biological diversity; clean air and water; towering forests, rushing rivers, and sage-sweet, silent deserts --- by bringing to bear scientific expertise, analysis and bold advocacy at the highest levels to save, protect and restore America's wilderness areas. Helped get The Wilderness Act signed into law in 1964. ZERO WASTE AMERICA
An Internet-based environmental research organization specializing in the field of Zero Waste and providing (through the website, primarily), information on associated legislative, legal, technical, environmental, health, and consumer issues. Specializes in information on U.S. waste disposal issues, particularly the lack a federal "waste management" plan, the use of "disposal bans" to legally stop waste disposal and imports, the long-proposed federal Interstate Waste legislation, waste data collection methodology, and applicable federal case law. An authority on the regulatory enforcement of the State Plan (waste management) provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1976 (otherwise known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - RCRA).
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