Here’s the first of my year-end roundup posts.
The spirit of Giving Tuesday doesn’t have to die at the end of November. These are the organizations and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2014. Please join me in supporting their work.
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Friends Service Committee (converted to monthly sustaining support)
- American Indian College Fund
- American Red Cross
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Audubon Naturalist Society
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (new)
- CARE
- The Carter Center
- Casey Trees
- Center for Celiac Research & Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- Computer History Museum
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and NestWatch
- Cultural Tourism DC (increased support this year) (volunteer)
- DC Vote
- Friends of Dyke Marsh
- Earthwatch Institute
- Film Noir Foundation
- FINCA International
- U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Migratory Bird Hunting & Conservation Stamp and its friends organization (volunteer)
- First Book
- Flora of Virginia
- Girls Who Code (special support this year)
- Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Huntley Meadows Park and its friends organization (volunteer)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (special support this year for the Experimental Lakes Area)
- Internet Archive
- jazz89 KUVO
- The Land Institute
- Learning Ally: I volunteer in the Washington studio
- Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany (volunteer)
- National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Pass
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- North American Bird Phenology Program (volunteer)
- Northwestern University
- Peregrine Fund
- Poetry Daily
- Potomac Conservancy
- ProLiteracy
- ProPublica
- Raptor Conservancy of Virginia
- Rebuilding Together
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- SOME: So Others Might Eat (special capital campaign support this year; converted to monthly sustaining support)
- The Sun magazine
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Virginia Native Plant Society
- Friends of the W&OD Trail
- W3C Validators
- WAMU 88.5 FM
- Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (volunteer)
- Washington National Cathedral
- Water.org
- Wikimedia DC (special support this year)
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia (volunteer)
- Wilson Ornithological Society
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- WPFW
- Xerces Society