Since 1989, SORBA has worked to create, enhance, and preserve great mountain experiences in the Southeastern United States.

Since 1989, The Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) has worked to ensure that our public lands offer fun, challenging and sustainable mountain biking for all mountain bikers. As the leading mountain biking organization in the southeast, we believe everyone should have access to the social, physical, and mental benefits that mountain biking provides.

Through advocacy, education and resource sharing, SORBA and its forty-seven chapters envision a future where mountain biking is at the center of healthy, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable communities throughout the Southeast, with well-planned, accessible, and progressive trail systems.

SORBA relies on our generous members to carry out our mission. Our volunteers donate thousands of hours each year to advocate for trail access, raise funds for trail development, build trails, and maintain trails.

SORBA and its Chapters are 501c organizations. SORBA has chapters in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. All contributions are tax deductible.

Our Mission
We believe everyone should have access to the social, physical, and mental benefits that mountain biking provides.

Our Vision 
We envision a future where mountain biking is at the center of healthy, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable communities throughout the Southeast, with well-planned, accessible, and progressive trail systems.

Our Values
Stewardship; Partnerships; Education; Inclusiveness

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA)

SORBA Orlando is the Orlando/Central Florida chapter of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association.

Founded in 2013, SORBA Orlando has grown to include six distinct and fun trails in and around Orlando and its suburbs, with more trail miles on the way!  SORBA Orlando trails offer everything from family-friendly places to ride, endurance bike races and time trials, skills-building sections, and opportunities to give back to the community.

By partnering with the community SORBA Orlando builds and maintains our local trails. Your support goes directly to materials, work day essentials, and training needed to keep the area rolling in a fun, sustainable and safe environment.

We bring several events to the community including the annual Bring a Kid Mountain Biking Day and have sponsored The Battle of Snow Hill and Markham Woods Masher endurance races for several years.

Build! Ride! Learn! Engage! Get involved!

SORBA Orlando

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Birmingham, AL. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

ABOUT BUMP

Turning Interest Into Action

The mission of BUMP is to BUILD, PRESERVE, MAINTAIN and RIDE trails in the Birmingham and surrounding area. Our members, riders like you, help keep trails in great shape and open to mountain bikers. We are actively engaged in finding and acting on new trail building opportunities.

Think back to your last great ride. Surfing a ribbon of winding dirt in pristine woods, successfully navigating that rock garden, climbing that lung burning hill for the first time, squeezing between tight trees or simply enjoying the thrill of “big air.” That is why BUMP exists.

Since 1994, BUMP has gained and maintained access to Oak Mountain State Park, Tannehill State Park, and Trussville Sports Complex, built miles of new trail, and maintained the relationships with land managers and state and local governments necessary to maintain this trail access. BUMP, a non-profit 501 (3) c organization, gets most of its income from sponsors, race proceeds and contributions, but the backbone of our success is individual members like you who support us with their dues and volunteer hours. Our power comes from our numbers and our goal is to build even more trails of increasing variety for you to enjoy.

BUILD

BUMP members have a passion for riding and the wisdom to know you can not take it all for granted. Thus, BUMP volunteers have spent over 100,000 hours in the design and construction of new trail for over twenty years. Projects include the awesome trails at Oak Mountain State Park, Trussville Sports Park and Tannehill Historic Ironworks State Park. In addition, BUMP is all about building relationships with land managers, Sponsors, other trail user groups and other off road cyclists. Participation in BUMP activities builds new friendships and a healthy respect for the trail. So, grab a tool and volunteer! You will be glad you did!

MAINTAIN

BUMP is about maintaining what we build. BUMP volunteers spend over 1000 hours each year maintaining what we build. Not only does this mean good trails, but the good will and good relationships that allow us to maintain trail access. All of our trails are on public lands and thus we must maintain good relations with land managers, the public and other user groups so as to guarantee our continued trail access. It means speaking out when trail access is threatened as well as seeking new trail opportunities. It also means supporting cycling as a healthy lifestyle and thus maintaining our health and promoting the good health of others.

PRESERVE

BUMP is dedicated to the preservation of natural resources. To this end, we work with local land owners, managers, governments and other user groups to reach consensus on trail locations, routes and designs. Our trail designs and maintenance procedures are based on the sustainable design principles promoted by the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA), and thus are low maintenance, low erosion and low environmental impact. BUMP trails preserve access to nature for not only cyclists but other trail users as well. In addition, we promote safe and responsible riding that keeps trails pristine and open while showing respect for other users, the land, and wildlife.

RIDE

BUMP is about celebrating the sport of mountain biking and teaching the sport to others! Our monthly group rides are open to riders of all abilities and give new members a chance to learn from more experienced riders. BUMP members range from the beginner to the expert racer and include people from all walks of life, creeds, races and occupations.We host two cross country mountain bike races each year, one of which, the BUMP ‘N GRIND, is one of the largest mountain bike races in the Southeastern United States, and we work with other promoters to stage other great race events in the area. We have one thing in common though that unites us: a passion for mountain biking that at the end of the day is all about great rides!

Birmingham Urban Mountain Pedalers (BUMP)

ICFC conserves nature in priority areas worldwide, partnering with local conservation groups and Indigenous and local communities.

The International Conservation Fund of Canada (ICFC) was founded in 2007 to support conservation in the tropics and other priority areas in Latin America, Asia and Africa.  Our mission is to conserve the world's irreplaceable biodiversity.  Our work provides striking co-benefits in climate mitigation and adaptation and benefits for local and Indigenous communities (livelihoods, environmental, and social benefits).

ICFC finds opportunities for outstanding conservation returns and partners with capable local conservation organizations.  Our field partners know best what needs doing and how to go about it.  They excel at engaging local communities and government relations.  Our work is science based, and the collective experience of our small staff adds value.

ICFC has the capacity to quickly expand its work to take advantage of excellent opportunities in the more than 30 countries in which we work.  With your help, we can do more.  Because ICFC’s administrative and fundraising costs are covered by a core group of donors, **100% of your support is applied to projects**.

In one of the world’s most important conservation efforts, ICFC works with the Kayapo Indigenous people to protect an area of the Brazilian Amazon larger than almost half the world’s countries.  We conserve large (hundreds/thousands of square kilometers) protected areas in Peru, Costa Rica, Kenya and elsewhere and have participated in land acquisitions for more than a dozen private reserves of high conservation value.  In Cambodia we have shown that marine protected areas can restore fisheries and the marine ecosystem.  We have been instrumental in securing a future for several endangered species; our projects protect hundreds of officially threatened species; and we’re safeguarding important wintering sites of Canada’s shorebirds.

**Why the tropics?**  Tropical nature has astonishing biodiversity—the Amazon alone is home to 7,000 tree species (vs. 180 species indigenous to Canada) and a single rainforest reserve in Peru has more bird species than the entire United States. Tropical forests are crucial for addressing climate change, and they generate rainfall and supply water for agriculture and other human needs.  Coastal ecosystems prevent storm damage and are vital to fisheries.  Canada's migratory species depend on tropical wintering areas.  Yet tropical ecosystems are being lost and degraded (95% of deforestation is happening in the tropics).  Conservation works but it is under-funded.

**AWARDS & RECOGNITION**:  ICFC was the top ranked conservation charity in Canada in the Financial Post’s 2017 charity ratings (the last done by FP); is rated five out of five stars by Charity Intelligence Canada; and was a winner of the Canadian Museum of Nature’s 2020 Nature Inspiration Awards.  Our Mali Elephant Project was awarded the prestigious Equator Prize in 2017 by the United Nations.  Our project in Cambodia received the National Geographic Society’s Marine Protection Prize and is a Mission Blue “Hope Spot”.  Project field personnel have received the Disney Conservation Hero Award, the Whitley Award (two individuals), and the Indianapolis Prize.

International Conservation Fund of Canada

SORBA Chattanooga has been creating amazing mountain biking experiences in Chattanooga and its surrounding areas since 2003.

Since the organizations inception in 2003, SORBA Chattanooga has been focused on improving and maintaining trail access opportunities for local outdoor athletes. In 2004, SORBA Chattanooga developed the Singletrack Mind Initiative and set out to increase access from the 7 miles of mountain bike accessible trails in our community to a total of 100 miles within the greater Chattanooga area, a lofty goal indeed. 

Over the years, SORBA Chattanooga and area land managers have worked hard to complete that goal and it has recently been achieved. In 2023, there are 160+ miles of mountain bike accessible trails within 30 minutes of downtown Chattanooga thanks to the efforts of SORBA Chattanooga and area land managers!

In addition to expanding area trails, SORBA Chattanooga contributes thousands of hours of trail work each year to maintain and expand area trails, with an average year exceeding 1,000 volunteer hours. 

All of this effort has made the Chattanooga region recognized as one the premier destinations for mountain biking in the Southeast, driving significant tourism dollars into our area and helping to generate economic growth for the community by attracting new business and community members.

SORBA Chattanooga

Southern Off Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Roswell, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 1901.

Roswell Alpharetta Mountain Biking Organization (RAMBO)

International Mountain Bicycling Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Auburn, AL. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

Central Alabama Mountain Pedalers (CAMP)

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Anniston, AL. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Northeast Alabama Bicycle Association (NEABA)

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in St Johns, FL. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

SORBA Jax

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Evans, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

This is your chance to support more trails close to home.  Help our dedicated volunteers maintain, protect, preserve, and promote over 100 miles of trails in the Central Savannah River Area!

SORBAcsra (Augusta Aiken Central Savannah River Area)

South Mississippi Trail Alliance is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Petal, MS. It received its nonprofit status in 2016.

South Mississippi Trail Alliance (SMTA)

Earth Friends is an environmental awareness program designed for young children.

Earth Friends sees a world of stewards who are moving our planet and its people in every direction of good for all beings. We approach learning about our world through positivity, possibility, and play.

The Earth Friends program empowers young children by providing a foundation of education, love, and understanding for our planet and everything it provides us. Children gain a deeper connection to nature, understand their impact on the world around them, and become empowered to make decisions. Educators receive the materials, resources, and support to positivity impact young children, engage their families, and creative positive impact in their communities.

Our values are:

**curiosity:** We approach our work at Earth Friends with an open and curious mind. When we limit ourselves to what is right and what is wrong and only what has been done before, we are restraining the future creators and innovators who can lead us to a better world. We are here to live in a new way and ready to embrace different ideas.

**sustainability**: As Earth Friends builds the foundation for the future stewards of our planet, we model behaviors and practices that create positive human impact. Sustainability is at the core of our connection with nature and the understanding of how we impact our world. As we teach young children, we as adult, schools, and centers will walk the talk.

**equity:** We recognize that not all young children have access to early education resources, and we aim to create a greener and brighter future for every human and being through Earth Friends Outreach. Our lessons, materials, trainings, and supports cannot be specific to any one school or community but will be accessible to all children in their formative years, which is the goal of Earth Friends Outreach.

Earth Friends Incorporated

Southern Off Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Jackson, MS. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Tri-County Mountain Bike Association

The official nonprofit partner to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. 

Sequoia Parks Conservancy (SPC) is built on decades of support for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. This legacy demonstrates a longstanding commitment and contribution to the parks and their surrounding communities, including the US Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Kaweah. ​

SPC is a key connection point with park visitors and provides important services, educational programs, and funding in support of park priorities including sequoia conservation, wildlife management, trails and accessiblity, education and outreach, resource management and science, and search and rescue. 

Our efforts have been critical in the conservation of wild, beautiful landscapes for the enjoyment and inspiration of generations of visitors.

Sequoia Parks Conservancy

We're bringing the Next Generation of Parks™ to life. http://mplsparksfoundation.org

Minneapolis Parks Foundation

Parcs et Demeures de France.


Preserving unique treasures of French heritage as well as their natural environment.

The Mansart Foundation aims to revive heritage of outstanding interest, whether historical or contemporary: natural and landscaped sites (parks, botanical gardens), architectural buildings (monuments, residences, industrial establishments), collections and museums.

These places are our heritage and have shaped our art of living, the French Art de vivre. These sites all deserve to be preserved in a sustainable way to be passed on to future generations. This is the purpose of the Mansart Foundation. 

The Foundation focuses on a strong social mission. It aims to open its doors to less privileged visitors and enable them to discover and appreciate legacy buildings, art history and natural environments, thereby helping them develop both their understanding, curiosity, and creativity. 

The Mansart Foundation supports a variety of projects within different sheltered foundations. 

Already owner of the  Chateau de Maintenon , the Foundation is also restoring the  Chateau de Bagatelle to open it to the public. This chateau - listed as a historical monument since 1978 - is exceptional, both for its own history and the one of its owners, and for its location in the heart of Paris and its great architectural quality. 

Under the aegis of the Mansart Foundation, the  Amici Terrae Sanctae Foundation  was created to support the Terra Sancta Museum project in Jerusalem. This museum will present the roots of Christianity and the Treasures of the Holy Sepulchre, composed of unique pieces. Through a rare collection of paintings, sculptures, archival documents and sumptuous gifts from European courts, the works revealed will attest to the centrality and splendor of Jerusalem throughout the centuries. 

To sustain the actions in favor of  Parisian museums , the Mansart Foundation associated with the Friends of the Pompidou Center and the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris to create under its aegis respectively the Foundation of the Friends of the Pompidou Center and the Foundation of the Friends of the MAM Paris. By donating to these foundations, you will support exceptional cultural projects and contribute to the development of the collections of these museums. 

To safeguard heritage and bring it back to life, while acting in favor of local development and regional planning, the Mansart Foundation provides support to  the Rempart construction sites  through the creation of the Union Rempart sheltered Foundation. These workcamps are not only places to discover heritage and restoration techniques, but also places to learn how to live together and to exercise citizenship.  

The Mansart Foundation is involved in the promotion and animation of the Vauban Citadel in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, a listed historic monument, and the  Vauban sites of Belle-Ile-en-Mer and Morbihan . For this purpose, the sheltered foundation of the Vauban sites of Belle-Ile-en-Mer and Morbihan was created under the aegis of the Mansart Foundation.  

The sheltered foundation for the Preservation of the  Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay and the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse  was created to support the project to restore and develop the remarkable heritage of the former Vaux de Cernay Abbey. The Vaux de Cernay Abbey, a 12th century Cistercian abbey, is a unique, fascinating, and mysterious place located in the heart of the Chevreuse Valley in the state forest of Rambouillet. 

The  Hortus Botanica Foundation  was created to develop an action in favor of gardens and botanical heritage. Its purpose is to help preserve, restore, create, animate, develop, and share to the public the plant heritage, the heritage built or unbuilt, and the gardens existing or to be created, in connection with it. It participates in the cultural dynamization of the living and historical heritage in order to perpetuate extraordinary places. 

Fondation Mansart

EnrichLA: An edible garden in every Los Angeles school!

To establish a working edible garden in every Los Angeles school.

EnrichLA

A local land trust serving Sheridan County, WY. We focus on land conservation, historic preservation, and recreation projects.

With your help we strive to preserve our heritage of open spaces, healthy rivers and creeks, working ranches, wildlife habitat, and vibrant history, while expanding recreation opportunities to connect people with the places they love.

Sheridan Community Land Trust

Washington’s National Park Fund is the official philanthropic partner to Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks

We raise private support to preserve and protect Washington’s cherished national parks: Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic. With your help, we fund youth and family experiences, scientific research, and projects that will keep our parks strong and vital now and forever, for everyone.

Here's how it works: Each year, the three park superintendents and their staff identify critical projects in need of support. With our community, WNPF raises the funds to make these projects a reality. Together, we sustain between 30 and 40 projects and programs each year that would otherwise go unfunded.

But we can't do it without your help.

Washington's National Park Fund

We are a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and advocating for California's 280 state parks. CSPF is your voice for parks.

With over 130,000 members, CSPF is the only statewide independent nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting, enhancing and advocating for California’s magn…ificent state parks. Since 1969, CSPF has raised more than $223 million to benefit state parks. CSPF is committed to improving the quality of life for all Californians by expanding access to the natural beauty, rich culture and history, and recreational and educational opportunities offered by California’s 280 state parks—one of the largest state park system in the United States.

California State Parks Foundation

We capture and store carbon by preserving, regenerating, and planting more than one million trees in Patagonia, Argentina. 

Almahué Forest is a NGO aiming at capturing and storing carbon by preserving, regenerating and planting trees.

Axel de Meeûs’ objective is to plant 1 million tree in the Almahué Valle by 2042. Our project in Patagonia aims at capturing and storing carbon through ecosystem conservation and restoration, and the planting of new trees. A project built on collaboration with the Argentinian National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA).

1. Protect and regenerate the Patagonian cypress

An endangered species

The Patagonian cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis) is a native conifer with a wide geographic distribution in northern Patagonia in Argentina and Chile, covering over 1200 km. It is valued for its landscape and environmental services, as well as its timber quality. The area has dozens of old cypress trees (+500 years old) and hundreds of young cypress trees (1-20 years old), which have been slowed down by animal attacks. The plan includes inventorying and protecting them for survival.

Collect seeds in the cypress Sanctuary

We have a 300 ha cypress Sanctuary with old and young cypresses, some burned in a forest fire over 100 years ago. This area will be preserved and protected. In March 2023, over 1 kg of mountain cypress seeds were collected. Planting with those seeds will begin in 2026.

2. Assist in the preservation and planting of native species

Patagonian native species are in danger

Ñire, Lenga, Araucaria, are essential in the Patagonian region as they contribute to the formation of forests, providing shelter and food for various flora and fauna species, and playing a crucial role in ecosystem conservation.

However, these three species are threatened due to deforestation and climate change.

Indiscriminate logging and the expansion of cattle ranching and agriculture have reduced their natural habitat, endangering their survival.

3. Plant of mixed forests, native introduced and resilient species.

Planting mixed forest with natives and introduced species allows to enrich the ecosystem, make it resilient, encounter water-scarce conditions and minimize fire risks

Indeed, we select species adapted to survive in water-scarce conditions, in line with our desire to optimize the use of water resources.

We will plant forests that are exclusively composed of diverse species!

4. Rewild more than 1000 Ha through capturing and distributing rainwater as well as protecting young species.

 Almahue-Forest

SEEDS fosters community resilience with practical disaster solutions, combining innovative technology and traditional wisdom.

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SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society, www.seedsindia.org) is a 30+ years experienced humanitarian organisation that enables community resilience through practical solutions in the areas of disaster readiness, response and rehabilitation.

Since 1994, the organisation has worked extensively on every major disaster in the Indian subcontinent – grafting innovative technology on to traditional wisdom. SEEDS is recognized as one of the important humanitarian actors in India and Asia. It has reached out to families affected by disasters and climate stresses; strengthened and rebuilt schools and homes; and has invariably put its faith in skill building, planning and communications to foster long-term resilience. SEEDS is also India’s first agency to be certified for the global Core Humanitarian Standards – an international certification system for quality and accountability in humanitarian response.

We extend our commitment to voluntarily contribute to the goals set for 2030 in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Agreement.



SEEDS RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK

- Use AI to assess vulnerabilities (climate, social, economic, ecological) and identify needs.

- Onboard and train volunteers, SHGs, CBOs to enhance crisis response and resilience.

- Collaborate with hazard-prone communities on adaptation strategies.

- Equip vulnerable communities with climate-resilient infrastructure (homes, water, sanitation, health facilities).

- Ensure inclusive capacity building, leaving no one behind.

- Empower community leaders for improved crisis anticipation and response.

- Identify vulnerable households via the National Loss Register.

- Track post-crisis losses with a state and district dashboard.

- Integrate AI for sustainable community impact.

- Empower communities with the SEEDS Resilience Framework and amplify actions.

- Develop climate-resilient infrastructure for families, students, and enterprises.

- Enhance community advantages using existing resources (social, economic, health, sustainability).

- Promote local innovation for adaptable, resilience-driven solutions.

- Focus on rebuilding to help communities thrive beyond crises.



SEEDS VISION​

Transforming the vulnerable into resilient and thriving communities​



SEEDS MISSION​

Equipping the most vulnerable with appropriate tools and technologies, sharing knowledge and skills and promoting linkages among stakeholders to prevent loss of life and suffering.​



SEEDS has been awarded the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction.​ SEEDS has been awarded the prestigious Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar by the Honarable Prime Minister in 2021.​

Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society

Ozark Natural Science Center’s mission is to enhance understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the Ozark natural environment.

Our History...
 
Beginning in 1989, a small group of individuals guided by Ken and RuAnn Ewing of Rogers started meeting with the single purpose of developing a concept plan for a residential field science center in the Arkansas Ozarks. Those early planning sessions resulted in The Ozark Natural Science Center incorporation in 1990 and subsequent non-profit, 501 (c)(3) status in 1993.
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In 1992, the Center hosted its first residential program: a two-week Wet’n Wild camp, part of the Arkansas Enrichment for the Gifted in Summer (AEGIS) program of the Arkansas Department of Education. Since the science center was under construction, campers stayed in platform tents and dined in a partially completed dining room. By 1994, the Ewing Centre was complete and housed administrative offices and the kitchen and dining hall. That same year, ONSC began offering residential school-based programming for 700 Rogers and Bentonville fifth grade students.
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Today...
 
Currently, the central campus includes three lodges, an education building, guest housing, faculty housing, the Stewart Springfield Memorial Outdoor Classroom, an observation deck, and almost eight miles of maintained hiking trails. ONSC’s school-based programming now offers hands-on, experiential field science opportunities to more than 3,000 students from northwest and central Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma..
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Ozark Natural Science Center

We invest in the land around Harmony Montessori to keep the legacy of outdoor education alive for preschoolers & their families.

Harmony Land Caretakers invests money and time in following three areas. 

1. Safe access for all ages that ensures preschooler exploration and educational experiences 
2. Preschool-friendly exhibits
3. Outdoor education programs tailored for preschoolers or their educators 

Our initial focus is to improve safe access to the land at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary for the preschool community which includes a range of ages — from the littlest ones to our community’s elders. 

As safe access improves, we will add educational exhibits that preschoolers and their family can use to learn about the nature around them. We also envision hosting outdoor education programs, to build on the deep legacy of naturalists who have taught on this land. 

Harmony Land Caretakers

We work to conserve, protect and restore Klickitat County's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.

Trout Unlimited Klickitat Chapter

We aim to provide epic and meaningful travel experiences and events that incorporate volunteerism.

Have Fun Do Good is more than Instagram-worthy backdrops (although, those are plentiful) like other boutique travel packages. Instead, we provide you with a transformative adventure that will leave a lasting impact on communities and your life.

We hope this experience inspires participants to continue doing good on their own, long after the trip is over.

Have Fun Do Good

DIP is a non-profit organization creating a state-of-the-art, community space for all people to explore the benefits of aquatics.

Denver Indoor Pools (DIP), a 501 (c)(3) (DBA Aquatics @ Altitude) has laid the groundwork for an extraordinary project in Aurora, Colorado.  Their goal is to build an indoor swimming complex to serve the aquatics community at the individual and team level in swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming and other water activities.  The volunteer board and fundraising cabinet are embarking on a multi-million-dollar capital campaign. 

We need your support.

The founding board of DIP came together around shared interest and support for accessing water, and desire to share aquatics with more of the community. We feel strongly about how aquatics benefits our lives and wish it were more accessible. 

Most of us can remember the first time we tried out for the swim team or attempted a new underwater sport. DIP wants to serve as that invitation for everyone in the Denver region to see what aquatics are all about. 

We are thrilled for the opportunities the DIP facility will bring to our community: teaching water safety for Colorado families, and offering healing spaces for individuals looking to rehabilitate with the benefits of aquatic therapy. The facility has the potential for the Denver region to host regional and national competitions, providing high-elevation training for international athletes. 

Everyone, of all ages and ability, are truly welcome. 

Consider yourself invited.


Denver Indoor Pools Inc

iNaturalist's mission is to connect people to nature through technology and advance science and conservation.

iNaturalist has reached millions of people who have documented hundreds of thousands of species around the world. 

iNaturalist supports websites and mobile apps used worldwide to learn about and share records of biodiversity. These include:
- iNaturalist.org website
- localized websites for members of the iNaturalist Network
- iNaturalist iOS & Android apps
- Seek by iNaturalist iOS & Android apps

iNaturalist

Join us in exploring and building AI for the common good.

Check out what your support makes possible at allenai.org. 

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a leader in the field of AI, and our mission is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research, engineering, and applied technologies. Transparency, accessibility, and collaboration are at the core of our work. As a nonprofit organization, we are able to take on research endeavors that universities can’t and private corporations won’t. 

Founded in 2014, AI2 is the largest 501c3 nonprofit AI2 research organization in the world. Our team is composed of 200+ world class AI researchers and engineers from around the globe, centered around our Seattle offices where collaborative problem solving drives our impact-related efforts. 

From making AI more accessible to underrepresented communities to protecting wildlife and our oceans, we have several teams at AI2 taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Aristo: Building systems that can successfully interact with users and demonstrate a deep understanding of the world

AllenNLP: Improving natural language processing systems’ performance and accountability, developing state of the art models, datasets, and tools

Mosaic: Defining and developing common sense and ethics for AI systems to go beyond the narrow and brittle AI applications available today

PRIOR: Seeking to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world

Semantic Scholar: A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, accelerating scientific breakthroughs by providing a better way to discover new knowledge and key insights

Climate Modeling: Creating faster, more efficient, modernized open-source models to advance the important research into global climate model projections

EarthRanger: A free software solution that aids protected area managers, ecologists, and biologists in making more informed operational decisions for wildlife conservation

Skylight: A platform that helps improve maritime transparency and combat illegal fishing by surfacing suspicious events and providing actionable intelligence to protect our oceans

Wildlands: Delivering AI-backed tools that improve the health and resilience of our wildlands by supporting fire management


Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

Provides opportunities for underrepresented communities of color to experience the natural world & learn outdoor skills.

The Bronze Chapter is a Black woman founded and led 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides opportunities for underrepresented communities of color experience nature and the natural world in ways that lead to curiosity, joy, deep listening, and life-long learning about wild spaces and environment. 

Through cultivating connections with nature and outdoor spaces, we hope to instigate discovery, imagination, creativity, and wonder that may inspire some to be future environmental scientists, outdoor industry educators, climate researchers, teachers, rangers, artists, trip leaders, wildlife or marine biologists, musicians, and compassionate policy makers committed to protecting where the wild things are.

The construct of racism limited access to land, parks, pools, and beaches. Limited access means limited opportunities for learning. Our programs support the movement towards a more racially-just outdoors and help Community get back outside to rest, play, and learn. Community is centered in outdoor skill sharing, knowledge sharing, and recreation. Every program supports another, creating layers of opportunity to learn how to be safe and responsible friends of nature.

We view camping as a gateway activity that opens doors to the outdoors. Learning to camp well in a variety of seasons and terrain allows us to safely sustain ourselves outside overnight. When we’re able to do that, we can travel and experience the world in nearly infinite ways. Basic camping skills easily translate to backpacking, kayak camping, bicycle and motorcycle camping, etc.

We view safety as an essential element of outdoor recreation. Offering wilderness first aid certification and self-defense for the outdoors and beyond help us keep ourselves safe and provide aid to others who may need assistance.

We support families and increase access to the health, physical, cultural, and inspirational benefits of the outdoors by decreasing barriers that block us from it.

From Marian Wright Edelman: “You can’t be what you can’t see” and this is why Representation Matters. The Bronze Chapter is a place to rewrite outdoor narratives. 

Although Black and brown people helped build much of the infrastructure of parks and public lands, outdoor leisure was not made or meant for our use or enjoyment. Until the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Black people in many states were legally barred and/or subject to segregation at state and national parks and on other public lands. That was just 55 years ago. This is current history.

The Bronze Chapter

Green Team Academy empowers everyday people to #BeTheChange! Help us host the 2024 Intl Climate Action Challenge.

Help us launch the 2024 International Climate Action Challenge and empower everyday leaders around the world!

Scientists tell us that we need to transform our energy, food, transportation, and entire economy quickly to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. But how can regular people go from eco-anxiety to actually making a difference? We train people to #BeThe Change with our annual 90-Day International Climate Action Challenge!

Green Team Academy has a proven system that works for youth, faith communities, schools, and community groups of all ages and skill levels. We have coached nearly 200 teams from over 30 countries. Our teams of regular people like you have planted trees, started school eco-clubs, started recycling programs, changed city policies, cleaned up beaches, helped get out the vote, and so much more.  

We host an annual International Climate Action Challenge. Challengers get access to the acclaimed Climate Action Challenge book, workbook, and video course. We provide coaching and community. And we provide a structure with the inspiration and motivation to help teams get real results by launching their initiative in 90 days. 

Go from worry and anxiety to action and solutions with Green Team Academy. Support our work and join our community to help create the world we want. 

Green Team Academy is a program of YTB Global, (YTBNJ Org A NJ Nonprofit Corporation), a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization, EIN 84-3685123. 

Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable under the law.



GreenTeamAcademy

We preserve, develop, and promote the assets comprising the Domaine national de Chambord which is on Unesco's world heritage list.

Chambord has aroused admiration and fascination to the world for over 500 years. Placed on France’s first list of historical monuments in 1840, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, it is one of the most breathtaking construction of the Renaissance. Far from being a residential palace or a hunting lodge, Chambord embodies the values of humanism, inventiveness and human genius.

Preserving this heritage means constantly questioning how it can be made accessible to the widest possible audience. With this objective in mind, each year new developments and innovative projects are presented to visitors, a rich program of events punctuates the life of the estate, and ecological actions are implemented. The estate is also developing a strategy to diversify its own resources, notably by reviving its vocation as a food-producing farm.

Chambord’s projects are structured around four development priorities: Chambord cultural and artistic, Chambord educational and social, Chambord sustainable and agricultural, and Chambord innovative. To support us in this approach, we are looking for partners who share our values and wish to promote them.


American Friends of Chambord

We use the latest science to identify important marine ecosystems around the world, and then advocate for their protection, for us and future generations.

Marine Conservation Institute

Advancing excellence in education, research, exhibition and conservation of desert plants of the world.

In 1939, a small group of passionate local citizens saw the need to conserve the beautiful desert environment. One was Swedish botanist Gustaf Starck, who found like-minded residents by posting a sign that read “Save the Desert.”

With the support of social influencers of the time such as Gertrude Divine Webster, the Garden’s presence grew. Nearly eight decades later, thanks to leadership and investments from many individuals, Desert Botanical Garden has blossomed from a dream into a living museum.

The Garden’s vision is to be the premier center in the world for the exhibition, research and conservation of desert plants. The Garden strives to be an indispensable resource for learning about cactus, agave and other desert plants of the Sonoran Desert and the world. Every element of the Garden reflects excellence, beauty and inspiration to transform the guest experience into one of discovery. The Garden is here to help everyone enjoy the beauty of the desert and to help them care about protecting and sustaining the natural world for the benefit of future generations.

Desert Botanical Garden

Southern Off Rd Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Oak Ridge, TN. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Clinch Valley Trail Alliance

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Columbia, SC. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Midlands SORBA

The way western North Carolina chapter of SORBA.

The Nantahala Area SORBA (NAS) is a mountain bike trail advocacy group.  The NAS membership is around 50 dedicated mountain bikers.  NAS maintains and advocates for mountain biking opportunities in the North Carolina counties of Jackson, Swain, Graham, Cherokee, Clay, and the EBCI Qualla Boundary.  NAS assists the USFS in maintaining the mountain biking trails at Tsali Recreation Area on the banks of Lake Fontana.

Nantahala Area SORBA

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Athens, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

SORBA Athens

Southern Off Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Knoxville, TN. It received its nonprofit status in 1901.

Appalachian Mountain Bike Club (AMBC)

Dedicated to the education, promotion, and enrichment of sustainable mountain biking trails and the communities they serve. 

The Piedmont Fat Tire Society is dedicated to the education, promotion, and enrichment of sustainable mountain biking trails and the communities they serve. Nonprofit, 501(c)3.

Our Vision: Via an organized and highly inclusive effort, we strive to foster a positive attitude in the community toward mountain biking in general. Our vision includes maintaining the existing trails, developing new trails, offering educational and social programs to help build a strong sense of community that reaches the Triad community and beyond.

Piedmont Fat Tire Society (Greensboro FTS)

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Cary, NC. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Triangle Off-Road Cyclists (TORC)

Southern Off Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Lenoir, NC. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Northwest North Carolina MTB Alliance

Upstate SORBA is a nonprofit in Greenville, SC, that promotes recreation and outdoor advocacy. Established in 1991.

Upstate SORBA

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Woodstock, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

SORBA Woodstock

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Dalton, GA. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Northwest Georgia SORBA (NWGAS)

Based in Tallahassee, FL, TMBA is a nonprofit organization focused on bike trail advocacy, community building and education. 

Tallahassee Mountain Bike Association

Affiliated with the Southern Off-road Bicycle Association (SORBA) and the International Mountain Bike Association, this local, member-driven club exists to protect access to trails, advocate for new trail development, host events large and small, and in general have a good time doing what we love, riding mountain bikes. In addition to regional trail advocacy efforts, TMBA partners with the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) to grow and support the cycling community and future leadership and advocacy. 

Trail Work

TMBA volunteers, in cooperation with land managers (COT, Leon County, State and Federal government) manage and maintain our trails according to best practice guidelines developed and taught by IMBA. 

Group Rides

From standing weekly rides to audacious annual events, TMBA is rolling out from somewhere and welcomes riders of any skill level to get involved.

Tallahassee Mountain Bike Association

HAMR is a nonprofit organization focused on mountain biking and trails access. It is based in Huntsville, AL.

HAMR is a volunteer-run non-profit organization which was founded in 2005 in Huntsville, AL. Our mission is to promote land access, trail preservation, and new trail development in order to enhance mountain bike touring, racing, fun, and fellowship for all mountain bicyclists in Huntsville and North Alabama.


We have a vision to create a community-wide system of sustainable mountain bike trails which challenge experts and welcome riders of all skill levels, elevating Huntsville and North Alabama to a world-class mountain bike destination.

To achieve our mission and vision, HAMR works with local land managers including Monte Sano State Park, the Land Trust of North Alabama, the city of Huntsville, Redstone Arsenal MWR, and the Space and Rocket Center. We have an MOU in place with our youth mountain bike team program, Alabama Cycling Association, to promote trails education and mountain biking amongst our next generation, as well! 

Huntsville Area Mountainbike Riders (HAMR)

Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association is a nonprofit organization focused on recreation, sports, leisure, or athletics. It is based in Cookeville, TN. It received its nonprofit status in 2001.

Upper Cumberland SORBA

To restore, protect, and enhance the Rouge River watershed through stewardship, education, and collaboration.

Friends of the Rouge was founded in 1986 by a group of concerned citizens to address the health of the Rouge River watershed, one of the most polluted river systems in the country. Friends of the Rouge works to actively empower community to achieve the vision of a clean and vibrant Rouge River in the heart of Metro Detroit.

Program areas include:
Restoration
Each year, hundreds of volunteers take part in building a clean water future with Friends. Rain gardens, bioswales, stormwater parks, and tree plantings create green solutions across Metro Detroit to combat neighborhood flooding, water pollution, heat, and habitat loss. One small rain garden may capture and absorb as much as 10,000 gallons of water every time it rains! The gardens, planted with Michigan native plants, create a sense of place and provide a beautiful oasis for butterflies, songbirds, and people! They also bring cleaner water to Rouge River fish, frogs, plants, and you. A recently tree planting project reforested a branch of the Rouge River with 14,000 new, native Michigan tree saplings. The Restoration program area is growing the most rapidly to meet the needs of a changing climate. To date, hundreds of rain gardens have been planted at schools, community centers, parks, in the front yard of neighbors homes across Metro Detroit.

Water Trail
The Lower Rouge River Water Trail is made up of 29 continuous river miles of adventure to explore by kayak or canoe. The Water Trail program is creating kayak launches, trailheads, and a built environment to allow access to a river that has been historically walled off from its surrounding community. Programming includes curated paddling trips and community outreach to build a trail that best fits the 10 communities that stretch along the ribbon of blue - the Lower Rouge River.
Rouge Education Project
The Rouge Education Project is an environmental education program involving elementary, middle, and high schools from across Metro Detroit. Students engage in the lifechanging experience of hands-on
scientific exploration, in waders, at the Rouge River. Students conduct real science, that they see the meaning of, and evaluate chemical, biological, and physical parameters of water quality to determine
the overall health of their “bend” of the River. And in turn, they forge connections with nature, their River, and science that last a lifetime.
“You have a lot of kids who come in and say ‘I don’t like science.’ ‘I am not a scientist.’ I have never even been to the river.’ The Rouge Education Project changes them.” –Tracy Ortiz, participating Rouge Education Project teacher at Clippert Academy in Detroit.

Biological Monitoring
The collection of year-round biological data, thanks to the incredible efforts of volunteer scientists, allows the measurement and tracking of Rouge River health over time. Working alongside trained team leaders, these volunteer are part of a citizen scientist movement. Their efforts have resulted in the most comprehensive, long-term fish and bug data set on the Rouge River system. In fact, the Rouge River is the most sampled river in the state of Michigan for fish!  And, a recent study by University of Michigan found that data collected by Friends of the Rouge citizen scientists is on par with professionally collected data. Data, analysis and findings are with the public, Rouge River watershed communities, and state agencies for use in local decision making.
Monitoring participants become active, engaged, and committed stewards of the River. 



Friends of the Rouge

Chambord has aroused admiration and fascination to the world over for over 500 years. Placed on France’s first list of historical monuments in 1840, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, it is one of the most breathtaking construction of the Renaissance. Far from being a residential palace or a hunting lodge, Chambord embodies the values of humanism, inventiveness and human genius.

Preserving this heritage means constantly questioning how it can be made accessible to the widest possible audience. With this objective in mind, each year new developments and innovative projects are presented to visitors, a rich program of events punctuates the life of the estate, and ecological actions are implemented. The estate is also developing a strategy to diversify its own resources, notably by reviving its vocation as a food-producing farm.

Chambord’s projects are structured around four development priorities: Chambord cultural and artistic, Chambord educational and social, Chambord sustainable and agricultural, and Chambord innovative. To support us in this approach, we are looking for partners who share our values and wish to promote them.

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