It’s a little late in the year for tax-deductible recommendations, but here’s my list anyway. I dropped off one organization that appears to be dormant, and added five new ones.
What organizations are worthy of support? Please give some consideration to this list.
These are the groups and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2024.
- American Association of Community Theatre
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Friends Service Committee (sustaining)
- American Indian College Fund
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Art21
- Bang on a Can
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Bread for the City
- CARE (sustaining)
- The Carter Center (sustaining)
- Casey Trees
- Friends of the Clifton Institute (and volunteer)
- Community of Hope
- Constellation Theatre Company
- Contemporary American Theatre Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Earth Sangha (new)
- Earthwatch Institute
- English Empowerment Center (and volunteer)
- Fairfax Library Foundation
- The 51st (new)
- 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
- Friends of National Arboretum
- Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Huntley Meadows Park (volunteer) as a Fairfax Master Naturalist
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area
- iNaturalist (and volunteer)
- Internet Archive
- Japan Society
- jazz89 KUVO (sustaining)
- The Land Institute
- Longacre Lea
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- Maryland Native Plant Society
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Miami County (Ohio) Park District (special support in memoriam)
- Mount St. Joseph University
- Mycological Association of Washington, D.C.
- Nature Forward (sustaining and special support in memoriam)
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy (sustaining)
- Northwestern University
- Peregrine Fund
- PolitiFact
- Potomac Conservancy
- ProLiteracy
- ProPublica
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
- Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria
- Reporters without Borders
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- Silver Spring Stage (and volunteer)
- SOME: So Others Might Eat (sustaining)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Sun magazine
- Theatre Washington Taking Care Fund
- Trout Unlimited
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- U.S. Lighthouse Society (new)
- Virginia Herpetological Society (new)
- Virginia Mercury (new)
- Virginia Native Plant Society (and board member statewide and for Potowmack Chapter)
- 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