Our Community
We are honored to provide wrap-around support to these programs and organizations that work tirelessly to tackle important social and environmental issues. Our services aim to provide the necessary resources and assistance to help these missions grow, establish sustainable practices, and make a positive difference in their communities and beyond.
Ahab’s Adventures
Ahab’s Adventures chronicles the life of Captain Ahab, an almost-three-foot-tall, forty-ish-pound, not-so-bright-yellow, wooden fisherman/wannabe pirate. We have multiple projects underway that create safe and healthy access to watersheds, address small town development hurdles surrounding abandon infrastructure, and throughout the process incubate the means to educate the local community to steward the projects into the future.
Save Massachusetts Wildlife
The mission and vision of Save Massachusetts Wildlife is to educate the public about the presence and importance of wildlife in the Commonwealth, including in our state’s urban and suburban ecosystems.
Framingham Grows Food
The mission of Framingham Grows Food is to grow food and build community. We cultivate community well-being by connecting people, places, and resources, to increase access to food growing opportunities for everyone in Framingham.
Friends of Natick Trails
The Friends of Natick Trails promotes outdoor recreation and alternative transportation within our community, and we encourage and support collaboration within and between communities to ensure the safe enjoyment of the trail network for all users and neighbors. FoNT provides programs, events, and opportunities to provide joyful and healthy outdoor experiences for people of all ages and abilities.
Scituate Salt Marsh Stewardship Initiative
Scituate Salt Marsh Stewardship Initiative (SSMSI) is a citizens' environmental group dedicated to cleaning up and preserving the Sand Hills Salt Marsh as well as the other 1400 acres of salt marsh in Scituate, MA.
Baltimore Free Farm
An egalitarian collective of farmers, activists, and learners stewarding an urban green space, practicing resource-sharing, and co-creating a peaceful place for all.
Cambridge Volunteers
Cambridge Volunteers (CV) strengthens civic engagement and supports the nonprofit sector by recruiting an effective and inclusive volunteer corps for agencies serving residents of Cambridge, MA.
Framingham Earth Day Festival
This annual family event in Framingham, MA is full of great exhibitors and ideas on ways to live more sustainably.
Kindling Collective
Kindling Collective is a queer-centered gear library and education center supporting people in growing and sustaining relationships with the natural world and each other.
Connecticut Coalition for Economic and Environmental Justice (CCEEJ)
The mission of this coalition is to promote the physical and economic well-being of Connecticut residents and address the waste crisis through donating and recycling organics, fair and equitable unit-based pricing, advancing reuse and waste reduction behaviors, and opposition to all new and existing trash incinerators and landfill-related infrastructure. We advocate for a zero waste, circular economy that will benefit residents and the environment for generations.
Nutag Foundation
Our mission is to provide programs and services to Indigenous Buryat-Mongolian people living as immigrants and refugees in the United States and globally. We aim to help them build their communities, advocate for their rights, develop their culture, assist with resettlement and integration, and support environmental initiatives while recognizing the vital connection to their native lands.
National Vehicle Residency Coalition
The National Vehicle Residency Coalition (“NVRC”) is a network of vehicle residents, social service providers, and legal experts that supports people living in their vehicles. Our goal is to honor and value the voices of vehicle residents, support their policy and service goals, and protect their legal rights. We believe a key component of this work is raising positive public awareness of people living in vehicles and vehicle residency.
Streets Is Watching Community Patrol Program
Our communities are our responsibilities & New Era's "Streets Is Watching" program is the epitome of that. For the first time since 2016, the City of Detroit reported more than 300 homicides in the FBI's annual crime report, with 328 homicides in 2020. That's a 17% increase from 2019, which had 280 homicides.
Rivers & Roads Maine
Creating a path to purpose for young individuals in Oxford county Maine who feel they have none. We are an agricultural, culinary and community based youth program for local teens attending Fryeburg Academy.
Outside Mind
Outside Mind's mission is to provide free, equitable and accessible outdoor opportunities for underserved communities through various recreation programs, all year round.
SGSO Network
The SGSO Network is an open peer-to-peer learning network with the goal of growing, sustaining and elevating a movement of equitable garden-based education.
The Boston Food Access Council (BFAC)
The purpose of the Boston Food Access Council shall be to provide an equitable, community-centered platform for food access, affordability, and economic opportunity.
Emergency Management by Design
We partner with communities and non-governmental organizations to strengthen emergency management resources and capacity by optimizing plans, training and exercising staff, and enhancing resiliency.