It’s too late for tax season, but I still encourage you to support the good work that these organizations are doing.
These are the groups and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2016.
- American Association of Community Theatre (and volunteer)
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Film Institute
- American Friends Service Committee (sustaining)
- American Indian College Fund
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Audubon Naturalist Society (sustaining)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- CARE
- The Carter Center
- Casey Trees
- Computer History Museum
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and NestWatch
- 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
- Friends of Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge (new this year)
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (increase over 2014)
- Home of the Brave
- Huntley Meadows Park (volunteer)
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area (new this year)
- Internet Archive
- jazz89 KUVO
- The Land Institute
- Learning Ally: I volunteer in the Washington studio
- Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
- MassGeneral Hospital for Children
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice (increased support this year)
- Rebuilding Together
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- SOME: So Others Might Eat (sustaining)
- Southern Poverty Law Center (new this year)
- The Sun magazine
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Virginia Native Plant Society
- Friends of the W&OD Trail
- W3C Validators
- WAMU 88.5 FM (sustaining)
- Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (volunteer)
- Water.org
- West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (special support this year)
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia (volunteer)
- Wilson Ornithological Society
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- WPFW (increased support this year)
- Xerces Society