There not much time before the window closes on tax-deductible contributions for the year. 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 2020. Limited travel and in-person work this year, so my out-of-pocket expenses were down. But, thanks to a mini-windfall, I was able to surge my dollar contributions and generally bump up contribution levels.
- 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
- Bread for the City (new)
- CARE (sustaining)
- The Carter Center (sustaining)
- Casey Trees
- Community of Hope (new)
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Cultural Tourism DC
- DC Vote
- 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
- Friends of National Arboretum
- 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
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Metropolitan Opera Guild (new)
- Mount St. Joseph University
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- 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)
- 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