Global Links is a medical relief and development organization dedicated to supporting health improvement initiatives in resource-poor communities and promoting environmental stewardship in the US healthcare system since 1989. Global Links captures unused, unexpired surplus medical supplies from healthcare facilities in and around Pittsburgh, keeping them out of landfills and redirecting them to those [...]
In 2017, The Animal Rescue League Shelter & Wildlife Center and Western Pennsylvania Humane Society have become Humane Animal Rescue merged and are now Humane Animal Rescue. Their open door policy ensures that no animal is ever refused shelter. The non-profit provides care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals, including injured, orphaned, or ill [...]
The Co-op Community fund helps East End Food Co-op put cooperative principles into action, specifically education, training, and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community. Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation (TPCF) sponsors the Co-op Community Fund program and donates income earned from the investment principle to local non-profit groups working on issues relating to [...]
PASA works to improve the environmental soundness, social responsibility, and economic viability of food and farming systems in Pennsylvania and beyond. In existence since 1992, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is a diverse network of growers, businesses, and consumers that facilitates and enables viable farming systems to provide healthy food as locally as [...]
Women for Healthy Environment’s (WHE) mission is to educate and empower community members to act as ambassadors about environmental risks, so they can make healthy choices for themselves and their families and advocate for change for a better tomorrow for all. WHE protects children from harmful exposures in the environment and creates healthy places [...]
Student Conservation Association (SCA) exists to create the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of our environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land. SCA teaches underprivileged young people how to take care of parks and green spaces in city parks. Register Round Up funds will [...]
Through the power of the arts, Dreams of Hope provides the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied (LGBTQA+) youth a welcoming environment to grow in confidence, express themselves, develop as leaders, and learn to make positive changes in their communities. Communities Served: City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County Register Round Up [...]
Landforce's mission is to support people and restore land. Landforce invests in people and restores the environment by hiring and training people who are struggling to find and keep employment. Crew Members work on a variety of ecological and community restoration projects throughout the region before moving into the market job economy.Communities Served: Allegheny CountyRegister [...]
The mission of 412 Food Rescue is to prevent perfectly good food from entering the waste stream. The organization was founded as a direct response to the disconnect between food waste, hunger and environmental sustainability. Their food recovery initiatives range from building technology and logistics infrastructure to creating new markets for products that redirect [...]
Building New Hope is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization based in Pittsburgh and Nicaragua that partners with a worker-owned organic coffee cooperative, operates two supplemental schools for at-risk youth, and provides high school scholarships for students in need. Register Round Up Funds will be used to support life-changing education opportunities and provide better education here [...]