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Spotlight on nominee Woodwell Climate Research Center

nominee Woodwell Climate Research Center

Next in our series of posts about new Charitocracy nominees, we have nominee Woodwell Climate Research Center, nominated by donor RoamX. They advance scientific discovery and solutions to address the world’s climate challenges. You can find their web site here.

A few words on Charitocracy

Firstly, for newcomers: here's how it works. Donors pool their monthly contributions, as little as $1. The cause with the most votes each month wins the pot. No matter how much or how little you contribute, each donor at Charitocracy gets one vote. This is where charity meets democracy. So please share this post (see social sharing icons at top of post) and ask your friends to join us and vote! That's how we spread the word and, as a result, grow the monthly pot. The bigger the pot, the bigger our positive impact on the world!

About nominee Woodwell Climate Research Center

Rising to the challenge

Three and a half decades since our founding, it seems the world is finally opening its eyes to the mounting crisis of climate change.

In 2020, to better guide policy and decision makers around the world in facing these urgent realities, Woods Hole Research Center became Woodwell Climate Research Center—not only to honor our founder and one of the foremost scientific voices of our time, but to more clearly embody who we are: a group of scientists and a global network of partners singularly devoted to finding societal-scale solutions to the imminent threat of climate change.

Now more than ever before, we are resolved in that pursuit—to bring decades of expertise, discovery, and science-based answers to bear so that, together, we might solve the greatest challenge of our time.

So please visit the page of nominee Woodwell Climate Research Center to vote for, like, or discuss this cause! And check out this introduction to Woodwell Climate and the challenges they're helping the world face:

Spotlight on nominee NAACP Foundation

nominee NAACP Foundation

Next in our series of posts about new Charitocracy nominees, we have nominee NAACP Foundation, nominated by donor OBXCommonGood. They support the mission of NAACP by raising funds and promoting philanthropy to sustain civil rights and social justice advocacy. You can find their web site here.

A few words on Charitocracy

Firstly, for newcomers: here's how it works. Donors pool their monthly contributions, as little as $1. The cause with the most votes each month wins the pot. No matter how much or how little you contribute, each donor at Charitocracy gets one vote. This is where charity meets democracy. So please share this post (see social sharing icons at top of post) and ask your friends to join us and vote! That's how we spread the word and, as a result, grow the monthly pot. The bigger the pot, the bigger our positive impact on the world!

About nominee NAACP Foundation

The NAACP Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) entity, supports our civil rights and social justice work by raising funds and promoting philanthropy. The Foundation Board oversees our Empowerment Programs, generating essential support for NAACP efforts, including ACT-SO, increasing economic opportunity and education, and fighting for environmental climate justice, equitable healthcare, and voting rights.

HISTORY

NAACP General Counsel Robert L. Carter conducted the research, developed the strategy, and crafted the legal documents to establish the NAACP Special Contribution Fund (SCF) in 1957, now known as the NAACP Foundation.

The NAACP Board of Directors approved the creation of SCF to maintain funding for legal and educational work on June 10, 1963, to be directed by a Board of Trustees elected by the Board.

The group's work expanded in 2017, when SCF transition into the NAACP Foundation to help increase our fundraising base and to more effectively pursue and expand our goals for the 21st century and beyond. The Board has played a pivotal role in key fundraising campaigns, including our Founders Week Sustainer Campaign and the 2021 Advancing the Black Agenda campaign. Over the last several years, NAACP Foundation trustees have raised over $30 million dollars.

So please visit the page of nominee NAACP Foundation to vote for, like, or discuss this cause! And check out NAACP's look back at 2020:

Spotlight on nominee American Birding Association

nominee American Birding Association
Flock of Red-winged Blackbirds. Photo © Kerstin Winters, USFWS.

Next in our series of posts about new Charitocracy nominees, we have nominee American Birding Association, nominated by donor wfreund. They provide leadership to birders by increasing their knowledge, skills, and enjoyment of birding. You can find their web site here.

A few words on Charitocracy

Firstly, for newcomers: here's how it works. Donors pool their monthly contributions, as little as $1. The cause with the most votes each month wins the pot. No matter how much or how little you contribute, each donor at Charitocracy gets one vote. This is where charity meets democracy. So please share this post (see social sharing icons at top of post) and ask your friends to join us and vote! That's how we spread the word and, as a result, grow the monthly pot. The bigger the pot, the bigger our positive impact on the world!

About nominee American Birding Association

The ABA is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides leadership to birders by increasing their knowledge, skills, and enjoyment of birding. We are the only organization in North America that specifically caters to recreational birders. We also contribute to bird and bird habitat conservation through our varied programs.

MISSION STATEMENT

The American Birding Association inspires all people to enjoy and protect wild birds.

The American Birding Association represents the North American birding community and supports birders through publications, conferences, workshops, tours, partnerships, and networks.

The ABA’s education programs promote birding skills, ornithological knowledge, and the development of a conservation ethic.

The ABA encourages birders to apply their skills to help conserve birds and their habitats, and we represent the interests of birders in planning and legislative arenas.

We welcome all birders as members.

ABA Code of Ethics

Concern for the welfare of birds lies at the core of ABA and touches everything we do. ABA has developed a code of ethics for birding, provided here in multiple formats for you to download. The ABA encourages all birders to print and follow these guidelines to preserve the welfare of wild birds and the integrity of birding.

ABA Travel

When you travel with the ABA, you help build a better future for birds and birding. The ABA offers a carefully designed program of birding travel experiences that not only let experience and thrill of seeing great birds and travelling with friendly, interesting people, they give you the satisfaction of knowing that you are supporting local on-the-ground conservation efforts as well as the ABA’s ongoing work to inspire all people to enjoy and protect wild birds. We invite you to join us in making a positive difference while enjoying some of the word’s best birding.

So please visit the page of nominee American Birding Association to vote for, like, or discuss this cause! And check out this short video about the importance of birding during COVID: