American Farmland Trust

 

World Wildlife Fund is the largest conservation organization in the world. For 45 years, WWF has worked to save endangered species, protect endangered habitats, and address global threats such as deforestation, over fishing, and climate change. Known worldwide by its panda logo, WWF works in 100 countries on more than 2,000 conservation programs. WWF has 1.2 million members in the United States and nearly 5 million supporters worldwide. For more information on WWF, visit www.worldwildlife.org.

 

CEI: Advancing Liberty—From the Economy to Ecology

 

Tourism and recreation is an ecosystem service which, due to inappropriate or inexistant pricing mechanisms is creating economic imbalances and undermines the functioning of the free-market system. By implementing ecosystem valuation and market-based mechanisms at sites in a broad international alliance with partners including Bank of America, UNESCO, US National Park Service and others, the proposal aims to promote an enabling environment for a free-market solution to this problem so that conservation, community and business benefits result. The proposal focuses on developing initiatives at between three and five sites and their respective systems and supporting a global learning network and publications of case studies to share lessons broadly around the world.

 

Grazing Retirement Project

 

Four-year undergraduate liberal arts college

 

Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Department at UC Davis conducts research and educational programs related to natural resources managment. The Sea Grant Marine Fisheries Specialist is housed within the department.

 

FreedomWorks Foundation is the result of a merger in July 2004 between CSE FreedomWorks Foundation and Empower.org, the 501(c)(3) entities of Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America. Combining more than 30 years of operational experience, FreedomWorks Foundation seeks to identify, educate, and mobilize citizens who are passionate about showing up to support lower taxes, less government, and more freedom. FreedomWorks Foundation is led by two of the most influential political figures of our time: former Majority Leader Dick Armey, and C. Boyden Gray, who served as White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush. Matt Kibbe is the president and CEO and brings over twenty years of leadership experience to the institution.

 

Founded in 1990, Raincoast is a non-profit research and public education organization. We work in partnership with scientists, First Nations, local communities, government and non-governmental organizations to build support for decisions that protect marine and rainforest species and habitat on British Columbia’s central and north coast.

Raincoast accomplishes its goals by:
• Producing public educational materials including books, film documentaries, scientific reports, and other literature.
• Conducting scientific field research on coastal wolves, grizzly bears, and wild salmon to develop science-based conservation plans for BC’s coast.
• On-the-ground monitoring, photography, and videography of threatened valleys.
• Mobilizing public support throughout North America and Europe using lectures, slide shows, films, photography, print, radio, and television media.
• Land acquisition projects that protect key wilderness and culturally significant areas.

 

 

The Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy is a center at Washington University. Washington University is a private teaching and research university offering a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.

To shift the world's economies away from their present emphasis on infinite economic growth and toward a focus on sustainable human wellbeing. To forge fresh and visionary approaches to the economic challenges and opportunities that await us in the 21st century. To blur traditional academic boundaries and bring together experts, teachers, students, and stakeholders from all disciplines in order to pioneer vital new developmental tools and ideas. To guide the way to true global economic sustainability through teaching, research, design, and the practical application of those economic solutions that will generate natural capital even as they create human profit.

 

The Temporary Living Center is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) as a Rule 31 Treatment Center. We have offered services as a Halfway House since it opened its doors June 14, 2001. The Temporary Living Center (TLC) is a private non-profit agency that offers adolescent females ages 13 to 19, a safe and loving, home-like environment in which to recover from drug and /or alcohol addiction. It is a two-story, six bedroom home, it provides a home-like atmosphere that affords its residents the opportunity and resources to learn and practice independent living skills with a family atmosphere while continuing in their recovery from substance abuse.

 

The Entrepreneurship Center is located in the College of Business and Economics on the main campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia and was created in 2002. The Center’s vision is to be the premier educational resource in the state of West Virginia that facilitates, supports, and promotes entrepreneurship and the private enterprise system. The Center actively promotes entrepreneurial thinking among students, supports area entrepreneurs and student business ventures, raises public awareness about the vital role of the entrepreneur in the economy and makes academic contributions to our understanding of entrepreneurship and economic progress.

 

The Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), founded in 1985, is a 501(c)(3) educational and research foundation. FREE conducts seminars and conferences, and produces books and articles. Our programs reach successful and promising people in important fields. We focus on four primary audiences: federal judges, law professors, business leaders, and environmental entrepreneurs.

 

 

Educational non-profit

 

Founded in 1993, the Oregon Water Trust restores surface water flows for healthier streams in Oregon by using cooperative, free-market solutions. Our Water Rights Acquisition Program purchases, leases or in other ways acquires water rights from voluntary sellers, mainly farmers, ranchers and other private landowners. We were the nation’s first non-profit organization to test whether the “market environmentalism” pioneered by The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands could be applied to increasing stream flow for fish conservation, water quality improvements, or recreational use. By balancing the environmental needs of salmon and other threatened species with the economic needs of farmers and other irrigators, we help rural communities maintain their farming or other resource-focused industries, and build community-wide support for river and stream stewardship.

 

 

 

Major state university. Sea Grant Extension does applied research and outreach related to marine fisheries

 

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The Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College includes a group of researchers and faculty that focus on ecological economics and the resolution of environmental problems through market mechanisms (i.e. tradeable emissions permits) and non-market valuation techniques.

Through a case study approach, this project is a behind-the-scenes look at the decision making process involved in the design and construction of a green, multi-family affordable housing project. Two key issues are addressed: 1) how to ensure that the long-term benefits of high-performance green design and construction is recognized in the market so that the current undervaluation of green projects can be corrected, and 2) what are the lessons learned regarding the performance of the green building products, materials, appliances, and processes used in the context of the overall costs and benefits of the project. The results of the project will inform affordable housing developers, financiers, assessors, policymakers, architects, mechanical and civil engineers, contractors, and others in the development process. This will also serve as a national model to correct a market perception that green approaches cost more and are often inappropriate for affordable housing.

 

The Rainforest Alliance was founded in 1987 to develop creative, market-based solutions to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and world poverty. Communities, cooperatives and landowners that participate in our programs meet rigorous standards for protecting the environment, wildlife, workers and local communities.

The Rainforest Alliance is a leader in developing best management practices for sustainable land use, and offers third-party certification and ecolabeling services to farms and forests that are managed in ways that reduce environmental impacts and increase social benefits. As the first organization in the world to utilize market forces to conserve tropical forests, launching our Sustainable Forestry Division in 1989 and our Sustainable Agriculture Division in 1991, the Rainforest Alliance pioneered a worldwide certification movement. Our Sustainable Tourism Division is building awareness of environmentally and socially responsible tourism and promoting certification for tourism operations that are managed sustainably.

Our initiatives are practical in nature, engaging the full range of groups involved in land management, from large multinational corporations to local communities. We find solutions working with, rather than against, these partners. After advocacy and grassroots groups do the important job of bringing the negative environmental impacts of a company to light, it is the Rainforest Alliance that often takes the next critical step with these companies, engaging some of the most extractive industries and helping them begin to move towards sustainability.

 

Food Alliance works to create market incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. We have developed programs to address both the supply and demand side of the market equation. On the supply side, Food Alliance operates a certification and eco-labeling program based on standards we have developed to define environmentally and socially responsible agricultural practices. On the demand side, we develop partnerships and agreements with distributors and retailers (including groceries, restaurants, and food service companies) interested in purchasing and promoting certified products.

 

Established in 1967 by award-winning columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Alternative Foundation is the 501(c)(3) organization that publishes "The American Spectator" magazine, one of the most influential conservative opinion journals currently in circulation. The Foundation has three primary missions:

• To publish "The American Spectator" and host the magazine's companion website, www.spectator.org, which includes news, investigative reporting, opinions, and commentary that provides Americans with a conservative viewpoint on political and economic events, one that challenges the "political correctness" found in so many media outlets today.

• To train aspiring young student journalists who espouse traditional American values and a belief in the free enterprise system for careers in the newspaper and magazine outlets, and at the large television and radio networks.

• To provide seminars and other gathering opportunities for young journalists who espouse these values to gain insights from the experience of senior conservative journalists.

 

The International Center for Economic Growth [ICEG] is a California 501-c-3 non-profit established in 1985 by the U.S. Agency for International Development to promote free-market economics in developing countries. The approach taken to meet that goal was to create indigenous economic policy institutes and build their macroeconomic technical capacity. Today the ICEG has helped create and develop more than 300 "Member Institutes" in 104 countries.

The ICEG Overseers include among others, former Federal Reserve Chariman Paul Volker; former World Bank President and Chair/CEO of Bank of America, Tom Clausen; former Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Roy Ash; Peter Mc Pherson, former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the former President of Panama, Nicolas Arditto-Barletta.

 

Glen Canyon Institute is dedicated to restoring a healthy Colorado River through Glen Canyon.

 

Freelance grantwriter for environmental and other organizations, including those using market-based approaches.

 

Sand County Foundation's mission is to advance the use of ethical and scientifically sound land management practices and partnerships for the benefit of people and their rural landscapes.

Sand County Foundation is setting the standard for cost-effective and long-term solutions to complex habitat management and conservation challenges. The Foundation brings together landowners, scientists, private agencies, businesspeople, and scholars and focuses their collective expertise on one goal: encouraging private landowners to improve natural habitats on their land and assisting them in doing so.

 

 

 

The Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), founded in 1985, is a 501(c)(3) educational and research foundation. FREE conducts seminars and conferences, and produces books and articles. Our programs reach successful and promising people in important fields. We focus on four primary audiences: federal judges, law professors, business leaders, and environmental entrepreneurs.

 

The Fund for Folk Culture is a public charity dedicated to the dynamic conservation of folk and traditional arts and culture throughout the United States. In partnership with our donors, the FFC supports and strengthens local, regional, and national organizations in an immensely diverse field through various programs of grants, gatherings, research, and publications. There is no foundation or service organization in the country with a similar mission. Our constituency is as broad as the general population, ranging from Native American groups to recent immigrants. The nonprofit groups we support are typically small, with half having annual operating budgets under $100,000. FFC grantees generally are driven by and serve lower income communities and both document the knowledge of elders and provide cultural education opportunities for youth.

 

 

Founded in 1935, The Wilderness Society works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nation-wide network of wild lands through public education, scientific analysis and advocacy. Our goal is to ensure that future generations will enjoy the clean air and water, wildlife, beauty and opportunities for recreation and renewal that pristine forests, rivers, deserts and mountains provide.

 

NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation
a 501(c)3 organization committed to educating the public about the effects of the current historically high level of immigration

 

Green Markets International is dedicated to advancing market mechanisms to address global environmental challenges in ways that promote local environmental protection, economic development, and human well-being.

 

PERC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets. PERC's activities encompass three general categories: policy analysis and research, outreach (especially to policymakers and journalists), and environmental education for students and teachers.

PERC pioneered the approach known as free market environmentalism based on the following tenets:

-Private property rights encourage stewardship of resources.
-Government subsidies often degrade the environment.
-Market incentives spur individual initiative to conserve resources and protect environmental quality.
-Liability for pollution holds polluters responsible for harms they cause others.