Did you have a good year this year? Great! Please consider sharing some of that good fortune with one of these organizations. (If you had a bad year, I’m sorry.)
These are the groups and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2018.
- American Association of Community Theatre
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Film Institute
- American Friends Service Committee (sustaining)
- American Indian College Fund
- American Visionary Art Museum (new support this year)
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Audubon Naturalist Society (sustaining)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- CARE
- The Carter Center
- Casey Trees
- Cobscook Community Learning Center (special support this year)
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Cultural Tourism DC (and volunteer)
- DC Vote (increased support this year)
- Earthwatch Institute
- Fairfax Library Foundation
- Film Noir Foundation
- FINCA International
- U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Migratory Bird Hunting & Conservation Stamp and its friends organization (and board member)
- First Book
- Flora of Virginia
- Greater Greater Washington (new support this year)
- Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia (increased support this year)
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Huntley Meadows Park (volunteer)
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area
- Internet Archive
- jazz89 KUVO
- The Land Institute
- Learning Ally (volunteer)
- Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
- Longacre Lea
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust (new support this year)
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mount St. Joseph University
- National Parks and Federal Recreation Lands Pass
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- Northwestern University
- Peregrine Fund
- Poetry Daily
- Potomac Conservancy
- ProLiteracy
- ProPublica (increased support this year)
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
- Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- Silver Spring Stage (special additional support this year)
- SOME: So Others Might Eat (sustaining)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Sun magazine
- Trout Unlimited
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Virginia Native Plant Society (and chapter board member)
- Virginia Natural History Society
- Friends of the W&OD Trail
- WAMU 88.5 FM (sustaining)
- Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (board member)
- Water.org
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia (volunteer)
- Wilson Ornithological Society
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- WPFW (sustaining)
- Xerces Society