The Mid-Atlantic coast is a soft, shifting edge of barrier islands, bays, and estuaries, where the land trades places with the sea a little more each year. Its beaches and marshes are a crucial waystation on the Atlantic Flyway, and Delaware Bay hosts one of the planet’s great wildlife spectacles: horseshoe crabs spawning by the million, and the shorebirds that fly from South America to feast on their eggs.
The organizations here protect those beaches and marshes, defend the migratory birds that depend on them, and help low-lying communities face rising seas with living shorelines rather than seawalls. Theirs is the patient work of holding a coastline that will not hold still.
Environmental Organizations in This Bioregion
246 organizations working across this landscape.
Acme Smoked Fish Foundation
Foundation of Acme Smoked Fish Corp focused on mitigating and adapting to climate risk within the seafood industry and supporting community building.
A Growing Culture
We have spent years building the collaborative infrastructure to tackle pressing problems. Our global coalition of participatory grassroots organizations is unparal...
AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated
Angels for Mistreated Animals or AMA Animal Rescue is a Brooklyn based, no-kill animal shelter. After obtaining a New York State 501(c)3 status in 2014, the organiza...
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC (ACLU)
American Littoral Society
Caring for the coast since 1961
Andean Cloudforest Foundation
The Andean Cloudforest Foundation supports local foundations in Andean countries that conserve high-diversity and threatened habitats that provide wildlife corridors...
ARK Solves (a.k.a. Advancement for Rural Kids, Inc.)
ARK Solves: an award-winning social impact innovator that secures food, health, income with communities in the developing world's non-conflict zones in 16 weeks
Assateague Coastal Trust (ACT)
The Assateague Coastal Trust’s mission is to promote and encourage the protection of the health, productivity, and sustainability of the coastal bays watershed of De...
Beautyfor, Inc.
Beautyfor is on a mission to make the beauty industry a more sustainable, philanthropic, and community-driven place.
Big Reuse
Big Reuse is a nonprofit whose mission is to fight climate change through community-based zero waste initiatives.
Billion Oyster Project
Billion Oyster Project is a nonprofit organization on a mission to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbor through public education initiatives.
BioBus, Inc.
BioBus helps K-12 & college students discover, explore, & pursue science. We focus on students excluded from science due to race, gender, & more.
Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)
Compost, compostable packaging, food waste, soil health, regenerative agriculture, circular bioeconomy.
BK ROT
BK ROT is New York City's first community-supported, bike-powered, fossil fuel free food waste hauling and composting service.
B Lab Global
B Lab Global is the nonprofit behind the B Corp movement. We are transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
Brick by Brick Partners
What is Brick by Brick? Brick by Brick is a nimble, innovative partnership that develops and tests entrepreneurial, inventive approaches to healthcare, education a...
Broadway Green Alliance
The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is an industry-wide initiative that educates, motivates, and inspires the entire theatre community and its patrons to implement env...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and ...
Brooklyn to Alaska
Reimagining access to the outdoors
Bruckner Chase Ocean Positive
Innovative solutions protecting our coastal communities, individuals and oceans combining initiatives & stories addressing safety, science and conservation
Cafeteria Culture (CafCu)
Reimagining school cafeterias as climate action hubs where students drive equitable, zero-waste solutions
Camping to Connect
We are a BIPOC-led, outdoor mentorship program for underserved young men fostering leadership, brotherhood, and belonging in nature.
Captain Paul Watson Foundation
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation is a public charity whose purpose is to support, intervene, educate, and raise awareness regarding Ocean conservation.
Carabiner Collective
Our goal is to build a stronger, more diverse outdoor community where everyone feels welcome.
CDP
CDP runs the world’s only independent disclosure system for capturing impact from companies, governments, and investors on climate and nature.
Center for Zero Waste Design
Waste is a design flaw. We develop circular strategies for cities.
Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI)
Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with freshwater ecosystems. Based in Princeton, NJ, United State...
Central Park Conservancy Inc.
The mission of the Central Park Conservancy is to preserve and celebrate Central Park as a sanctuary from the pace and pressures of city life, enhancing the enjoymen...
Chamber of Mothers
A collective nonpartisan nonprofit movement for mothers' rights
Charity Navigator
charity: water
charity: water is a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world.
CHiPS (Community Help in Park Slope, Inc.)
We are a soup kitchen, food pantry, and women's shelter.
Choy Commons
Choy Commons is a nonhierarchical cooperative of Asian-led farms engaging AAAPI in building food sovereignty for the Northeast.
CITYarts, Inc.
City Growers, Inc.
City Growers is a youth development nonprofit focused on environmental education and connecting young people to New York City's vibrant urban ecosystem.
City Harvest
City Harvest helped start the food rescue movement in 1982 when a group of New Yorkers saw that New York City had an abundance of excess food even while a large num...
Climate Central Inc.
Climate Central is an independent, nonpartisan organization that equips decision-makers, communities, and businesses with trusted climate science and localized risk...
Climate Mobilization Project
Climate Mobilization Project is catalyzing an emergency response to the climate crisis through research and education.
Climate Town
Climate Town is an online YouTube video series that makes accessible, rigorously researched comedy videos about climate change. For context, we’ve been described as ...
Climate Words, Inc.
Our mission is to promote climate literacy by curating an extensive lexicon of key words submitted by experts on the frontlines. We invite authors, scientists, indig...
Coalition for Healthy School Food (CHSF)
Community Resource Center
No one should go hungry in our community. We freely give fresh vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, and an assortment of canned goods that are generously donated.
Compassion in World Farming Incorporated
Compassion in World Farming campaigns to end factory farming, one of the leading contributors to climate change (responsible for 15.4% of greenhouse gases.)
Confluence Philanthropy
Confluence Philanthropy's community is aligning investment capital with the values of sustainability, equity, and justice.
Custom Collaborative
Custom Collaborative is a 1% for the Planet nature nonprofit partner associated with terrestrial ecosystems. Based in New York, NY, United States of America, it is i...
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is building a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action
Discovery Pathways
Discovery Pathways is a South Philadelphia–based nonprofit that connects youth and families from underserved, immigrant, and refugee communities to the outdoors
Douglaston Garden Club, Inc.
Preserve our natural environment and coastline along with nesting birds.
Down the Road OBX inc
A festival dedicated toto help environmental impacts on our beach , as well as give back to the local community.
Dress for Success Worldwide
D&R Greenway Land Trust
The mission of D&R Greenway Land Trust is to preserve and care for land and inspire a conservation ethic, now and forever. Our mission can be summed up in three word...
Duke Farms
Duke Farms is a 2,700 acre center for environmental stewardship in Hillsborough, NJ, that restores the natural environment, invests in sustainability innovation whil...