Sites

Plone.org

Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

Plone.net

The Plone Network provides listings of companies that specialize in Plone development, case studies from a variety of industries, media coverage of Plone, and a directory of Plone sites around the world.

Bay Nature Magazine

The Bay Nature Institute, based in Berkeley, California, is dedicated to educating the people of the San Francisco Bay Area about, and celebrating the beauty of, the surrounding natural world. We do so with the aim of inspiring residents to explore and preserve the diverse and unique natural heritage of the region, and of nurturing productive relationships among the many organizations and individuals working towards these same goals.

Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District

The District is authorized to plan, improve and operate a system of public parks, trails, outdoor recreational facilities, and outdoor science and conservation education programs, as well as to protect and preserve natural areas, wildlife habitat and other open space resources within Napa County.

Bay Area Open Space Council

The Bay Area Open Space Council is a collaborative of over fifty-five member organizations actively involved in permanently protecting and stewarding important parks, trails and agricultural lands in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

Great Communities Collaborative

The Great Communities Collaborative brings together residents and local organizations to participate in community planning processes across the San Francisco Bay Area. We want to create a region of vibrant neighborhoods with affordable housing, shops, jobs, and services within convenient walking distance near transit.

Contra Costa Watershed Forum

The Contra Costa Watershed Forum is an open committee of some fifty organizations, including state and local agencies, local non-profit environmental and education organizations, community volunteer groups, and private citizens. The work of CCWF participants is premised on the notion that actions in a watershed are inter-related and, therefore, that broad participation and cooperation is needed to affect change. Members of the CCWF work together to find common approaches to making our water resources healthy, functional, attractive and safe community assets.

San Francisco Foundation

The San Francisco Foundation is a leading agent of Bay Area philanthropy. We rank among the largest of the nation’s community foundations in grantmaking and assets. We cultivate a family of donors who share a commitment to the Bay Area. Together, we give millions of dollars a year to build on community assets, respond to community needs, and elevate public awareness.

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

Our mission is to catalyze, strengthen, and connect local business networks dedicated to building strong Local Living Economies. We envision a sustainable global economy as a network of Local Living Economies. Local Living Economies build long-term economic empowerment and prosperity in communities through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity, and a healthy natural environment.

Local Government Commission - First Stop Shop for Water Resources

The Local Government Commission's First Stop Shop for Water Resources is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to the co-management of land and water resources. The site provides a range of valuable resources to help users navigate and better understand the complex world of water in California. Relevant information is available for different needs and levels of expertise, from news and basic fact sheets explaining the most relevant issues of the day, to in-depth research findings, and specific policy language.

UC Berkeley - College of Engineering

Berkeley Engineering is a community that is dedicated to creating tomorrow's leaders and supporting today's pioneers. Students and researchers from around the world are drawn to Berkeley by its outstanding reputation, its internationally recognized faculty, and its strong tradition of impact in research and teaching.

Washington Trails Association

The Washington Trails Association is the voice for hikers in Washington state. We believe hiking trails are our link to wilderness. We protect hiking trails and wild lands, take volunteers out to maintain trails, and promote hiking as a healthy, fun way to explore the outdoors.

NASA Science Mission Directorate

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) engages the Nation’s science community, sponsors scientific research, and develops and deploys satellites and probes in collaboration with NASA’s partners around the world to answer fundamental questions requiring the view from and into space. SMD seeks to understand the origins, evolution, and destiny of the universe and to understand the nature of the strange phenomena that shape it.

Resource Venture - A Service of Seattle Public Utilities

The City of Seattle’s Resource Venture program provides outreach, education, and technical assistance to businesses to help those businesses conserve resources, reduce or prevent pollution, and become more sustainable. The program is a service of Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and supports SPU’s solid waste, water, and stormwater programs, providing both general outreach services to all Seattle businesses and customized assistance to large, targeted businesses to achieve resource conservation savings and eliminate waste. Services are offered in five program areas: 1) recycling 2) waste prevention 3) water conservation 4) stormwater pollution prevention and 5) green building.Resource Venture

Hiker to Hiker

The mountains of Western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina are a hiker’s paradise—rich with human history, and home to some of the greatest biological diversity in the world. Hikers here are treated to thousands of miles of trails offering fantastic views, stunning wildflower and fall foliage displays, and gigantic trees in old-growth forests.

Global Strategy Watch

Global Strategy Watch is an online magazine that covers economics, finance, public policy and international relations. Our aim is to educate and inform public opinion across a range of issues related to globalization - from international trade and investment to the financial markets, foreign policy and global development.

WNC Nonprofit Pathways

The mission of WNC Nonprofit Pathways is to help build effective organizations through learning opportunities and resources. Whether you are an emerging, growing, or well-established group that is large or small, you will find support here to help you.

Western North Carolina Nature Center

The WNC Nature Center is a living museum of plants and animals native to the Appalachian region. Our purpose is to increase public awareness and understanding of all aspects of the natural environment of Western North Carolina through hands-on and sensory experiences.

Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals

ASAP is the leading global professional association dedicated to the formation and practice of strategic alliances. We provide a forum to exchange alliance best practices and resources. ASAP members may earn the Certification of Achievement in Alliance Management (CA-AM). See "Careers" for details. Our Job Bank contains hundreds of strategic alliance jobs and related positions in channel management, business development, supply chain, research and development, and more.

Mifos Microfinance Initiative

Mifos is an industry-wide initiative to address the microfinance industry's information management challenge. Using the open source paradigm, we are creating a new service model that will increase access to technology for all microfinance institutions, ultimately enabling them to extend their reach to the world’s poor.

Alaska Marine Conservation Council

Founded in 1994, the Alaska Marine Conservation Council is a community-based organization dedicated to protecting the long-term health of Alaska's oceans and sustaining the working waterfronts of our coastal communities. Our members include fishermen, subsistence harvesters, marine scientists, small business owners, conservationists, families and others who care about Alaska’s oceans. Our way of life, livelihoods and economies depend on healthy marine ecosystems.

Earth Island Institute - Restoration Initiatives

Earth Island works to grow environmental leadership by supporting individuals and organizations that take action to protect the environment. By funding the Small Grants Program of the SCWRP, we fund a process that restores wetlands, educates communities, and builds organizational capacity.

Network of Oregon Watershed Councils

The Network supports the work of Oregon’s watershed councils to enhance watershed health and benefit their local communities. We envision strong, resilient watershed councils throughout Oregon sustaining healthy land, water and economies. Oregon watershed councils are the pride of our local communities and a model for our country and the world.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. The CIA was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sightline Daily

Sightline Daily is a news-and-commentary website focused on the Northwest news that matters. It features a daily snapshot of the most important sustainability news affecting Cascadia, combined with expert insight that helps connect the dots on issues and point to solutions. Sightline Daily is a project of Sightline Institute, the Northwest’s sustainability think tank.

Rosetta Collaborative Language Project

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages. Rosetta is a project of the Long Now Foundation, a non-profit organization. We support the Project through public and private grants, and by donations from our supporters. If you like the work that we are doing, please consider making a donation to the project. You will be helping to support the long-term archiving of materials on endangered languages, and will help ensure that these valuable resources remain publicly accessible online.

Sightline Institute

Sightline Institute is a not-for-profit research and communication center—a think tank—based in Seattle. Founded in 1993 by Alan Durning, Sightline's mission is to bring about sustainability, a healthy, lasting prosperity grounded in place. Our focus is Cascadia, or the Pacific Northwest. Since 1993, we've equipped northwesterners with the research and tools they need to make progress on a range of solutions, from banning toxic chemicals that have shown up in our food and our bodies to defeating ruinous land-use ballot measures across the Northwest in 2006 and 2007. Nonpartisan and wholly independent, Sightline's only ideology is commitment to the shared values of community, fairness, responsibility, and opportunity.

Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation is a 501(c)3 donor supported charity founded in 1985 and based in Boston, MA, USA. The FSF has a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.

Connexions Content Commons

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses.

Chicago History Museum

The Chicago History Museum stands at the crossroads of America’s past and its future. If you live in Chicago or visit here and are curious about the city’s past, present, and future, the Museum should be your first stop.

Food And Water Watch

At Food And Water Watch we believe that the public should be able to count on our government to oversee and protect the quality and safety of food and water. We deserve to know that food and water are free of unhealthy chemicals, bacteria and added hormones. We have the right to know where our food comes from with accurate labeling and we have the right to clean, affordable, publicly owned water. Food & Water Watch is dedicated to working on behalf of the public to assert and regain these rights as we lobby for effective government standards and oversight, organize the public to take action, and educate the public and the media on these basic issues.

Washington Toxics Coalition

Washington Toxics Coalition protects public health and the environment by eliminating toxic pollution. WTC promotes alternatives, advocates policies, empowers communities, and educates people to create a healthy environment.

Green For All

Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy – especially for people from disadvantaged communities – Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.

Snow Leopard Trust

Founded in 1981, the Snow Leopard Trust is the largest and oldest organization working solely to protect the endangered snow leopard and its Central Asian habitat.

Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) was established as part of the USDA Forest Service's program under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. The Center is located in Asheville, NC, and is part of a network of early warning activities established by the Forest Service nationwide.