‘Tis the season when we are beset by requests for contributions. What organizations are worthy of support? Consider this list as some recommendations from me.
These are the groups and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2019.
- 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
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Audubon Naturalist Society (sustaining) (special additional support this year)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- CARE (sustaining)
- The Carter Center
- Casey Trees
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Cultural Tourism DC (and volunteer)
- DC Vote
- 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
- Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Huntley Meadows Park and Riverbend Park (volunteer) as a Fairfax Master Naturalist
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area
- Internet Archive
- jazz89 KUVO (sustaining)
- The Land Institute
- Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
- Longacre Lea
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mount St. Joseph University
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy (increased support this year)
- Northwestern University
- Peregrine Fund
- Potomac Conservancy
- ProLiteracy
- ProPublica
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
- Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- Silver Spring Stage
- 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 (increased support this year)
- Wikipedia (volunteer)
- Wilson Ornithological Society
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- WPFW (sustaining)
- Xerces Society