2023 Mighty Partners We’re Grateful For

As the days get shorter in the fall, we slow down to reflect on what the year has brought us so far, and always feel grateful. Entering the upcoming season of giving and celebration, we want to take a moment of gratitude to focus on organizations doing world-changing work—and invite you to learn more about them alongside us. Here are just a few of our Mighty Partners who take on the daily task of making the world a better place, whether by protecting human rights, building new norms for a better climate future, or working to produce food in healthier ways both for humans and the environment. Take a scroll through a few here—and join us as we give to keep their crucial work going.

Spero Justice Center

Mass incarceration defines the U.S. justice system—but it doesn’t have to be that way. Taking on systemic patterns of excessive sentencing, Spero Justice Center reimagines the criminal legal system as an institution that could prioritize meaningful accountability, healing, and dignity for all. Aiming to eradicate unjust and extreme sentencing practices, the Center represents individuals serving extreme sentences, fighting for decarcerative policies, and changing false, dehumanizing narratives about those who are incarcerated. 

Californians for Safety & Justice

Also working at the place where communities and the justice system meet, Californians for Safety and Justice aims to replace prison and justice system waste with common sense solutions that create safe neighborhoods. With the goal of breaking cycles of crime and reducing reliance on incarceration, the organization applies policy advocacy, grassroots mobilization, public education, alliances and support for local best practices. This means working both with crime survivors and people with past convictions to look at what safety and redemption can look like from the ground up.

Southern Center for Human Rights

Equality, dignity, and justice are the pillars Southern Center for Human Rights is working for, focusing on those impacted by the criminal justice system in the South. The organization started in 1976 as a response to the Supreme Court’s reinstatement of the death penalty that year, and poor conditions in Southern prisons and jails. Today the organization continues to work toward the goal of a world free of mass incarceration, criminalization of poverty, and the death penalty. 

Climate Neutral

The goal of Climate Neutral is simple, but big: Eliminate carbon emissions by making climate neutrality a priority for businesses and consumers. The organization provides an independent certified label for a globally recognized standard for carbon accountability—so consumers can know what companies are being accountable for their emissions and make responsible choices. The label focuses on measuring and reducing emissions as well as compensating for them—and includes thousands of products.

Earthworks

Standing with frontline communities, Earthworks opposes fossil fuels and dirty mining while advocating for a clean energy transition. Through education, policy, and holding corporations accountable, the organization advocates to stop pollution from oil, gas, and mining. In the U.S. and around the world, they advance policy solutions that reduce methane emissions to slow climate change, while transitioning to a clean energy economy that doesn’t rely on dirty mining or harm communities.

Project Drawdown

Through science, leadership, and education, Project Drawdown aims to to help the world stop climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. They do science that aims for whole-system solutions; inform and empower business leaders, investors, and philanthropists to take bold, strategic action; and work to shift the conversation about climate change from “doom and gloom” to “possibility and opportunity.”

Stand.earth

Since the organization’s beginning, defending British Columbia’s old-growth forests from clear-cutting, Stand.earth has been focused on large-scale solutions to climate and environmental problems around the globe. Whether it’s pressing the fashion world to be more equitable and sustainable or shifting the coffee industry to produce less waste, Stand.earth joins strategists, researchers, communicators, policy and issue experts with donors, activists, and community members to demand change.

Bionutrient Food Association

The goal is succinct for the Bionutrient Food Association: building a nutrient-dense food supply for a healthier planet. As a membership organization, they seek to support, educate, organize and empower farmers, scientists and leaders in building human and planetary vitality through the principles of life and nature. This means supporting growers as they shift management practices to improve their produce quality, and also collaborating with a network of labs to assess food, crops and management practices. 

Drylands Agroecology Research

Regenerating landscapes is at the heart of the work done by Drylands Agroecology Research. It started when DAR took over a 14-acre swath of deeply degraded land on Colorado’s Front Range, and set about replenishing both its ecosystem and its attending community. DAR now works at the intersection of design, research, advocacy, education, and community to steward agro-ecosystems that sequester carbon, reverse desertification, support biodiversity, and produce abundant food for humans.

Food Connect

The overall goal of Food Connect’s work is to build healthier communities, and they do that by closing gaps in food systems. What does that mean? They streamline the donation processes, to make healthy food more accessible. Using innovative technology and focused collaboration to solve hunger issues sustainably, they also cut down food waste. This helps create a more equitable, sustainable food cycle within the U.S., where 40% of the food supply is wasted, and more than 50 million people face food insecurity.

From land, ecosystems, and food, to the humans who rely on them, our Mighty Partners are working on every aspect to help create a more beautiful, true, and just world for the future. Read more about our diverse network of partners and please give with us as we support their world-changing efforts during this giving season.

We’re in a defining moment—a moment where we can choose to be overwhelmed, disconnected and discouraged, or where we can choose to be positive, embrace change and lift up the work of others seeking a better future together. We’re proud to support the work of the people and organizations out changing this world for the better—for all of us. Some may be small, some large. All are mighty. Each month, we’ll be highlighting one of our Mighty Partners and we encourage you to get to know them, support them, and share their work with your friends, families and colleagues. Let’s get to work.