Aprovecho Research Center (80574 Hazelton Rd., Cottage Grove, OR 97424; www.efn.org/~apro) Located on a forty-acre land trust and focuses on researching and designing alternative technologies that help people in the U.S. and developing countries conserve precious resources and teaches organic farming.

Attitudinal Healing Network of the Peninsula (1799 E. Hamilton Ave., Suite 205, San Jose, CA 95125) Primarily a volunteer organization and serves as a link to community services such as hospice care or respite service, following patients and families from diagnosis through difficult treatment to recovery or death.

Center for a New American Dream (6930 Carroll Ave., Suite 900, Takoma Park, MD 20912; www.newdream.org) Helps individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the environment by offering a wide variety of services and educational tools.

Community Cycling Center (2407 NE Alberta, Portland, OR 97211) Provides opportunities for at-risk youth to learn bike repair and safe riding skills through various program initiatives.

Cottonwood Foundation (Box 10803, White Bear Lake, MN 55110; www.pressenter.com/~cottonwd/) A funding organization that promotes empowerment of people, protection of the environment and respect for cultural diversity. The foundation funds grassroots organizations that rely strongly on volunteer efforts.

Crabgrass (3181 Mission St. #30, San Francisco, CA 94110; www.crabgrass.org) Helps displaced people in Kosova, supplying medicines to a clinic in Pristina built by Albanian women who are a force for peace and nonviolence.

E. F. Schumacher Society (140 Jug End Rd., Great Barrington, MA 01230-9007) Promotes the values of small-scale, place-based approaches to restoring economic, social, and environmental vitality to our communities.

EarthLight (1558 Mercy St., Mountain View, CA 94041; www.earthlight.org) Seeks a renewed earth and humanity and works to ensure a future for our children that is rooted in an earth-based, creation-centered spirituality; publishes an excellent newsletter.

Ecology Action (5798 Ridgewood Rd., Willits, CA 95490-9730) Promotes and teaches sustainable agriculture to help reverse hunger, malnutrition and soil erosion. Our grant supports the Kaisagat Environmental Youth Project in Kenya.

EcoStewards Alliance (5765-F Burke Centre Parkway, Suite 321, Burke, VA 22015-2233) An all-volunteer and membership organization, focusing on heightening awareness of humanity's interrelationship with all of creation and supporting individual choices aligned with holistic personal and environmental health.

Foundation for Global Community (222 High St., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1040) Works to bring together the knowledge of science and traditional wisdom to launch a new story of the unfolding universe and its evolutionary implications.

Friends of Women's World Banking, India (G-7, Sakar-1, Opp. Gandhigram Railway Station, Ahmedabad-380 009) Promotes direct participation of women in the economy through access to financial services.

Friends of Peace Pilgrim (43480 Cedar Ave., Hemet, CA 92544) Offers free, to those who ask, publications with the words of Peace Pilgrim that relate her many examples of dealing lovingly and fearlessly with violent and confused persons, as well as her unique solutions to problems.

Genesis Farm (41A Silver Lake Rd., Blairstown, NJ 07825-9524) Offers Earth Literacy programs, focusing on connections between the health and sustainability of the earth and the health of human communities; program topics include organic gardening, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technology, nutrition, simplicity, ecological ethics and global ecological security.

The Giraffe Project (PO Box 759, 197 Second St., Langley, WA 98260) Honors "Giraffes," people who stick their necks out to make the world a better place. Their strategy is to overcome apathy, cynicism and feelings of powerlessness by showing what a courageous, caring person can achieve.

Global Living Project (Gr 4 Comp 17 RR #1, Winlaw, BC, V0G 2J0, Canada) Explores the measurement of Ecological Footprint and supports the evolution of low-consumption lifestyles.

Harvest Moon (14363 Oren Rd. N., Scandia, MN 55073; www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3226/) A sustainable living education center based at a family farm that assists people in search of meaning, balance and community while nurturing the environment and animals through responsible gardening, agricultural practices and animal husbandry. Programs include farm school, workshops, community action and gardens.

Journey Into Freedom (4620 S.W. Caldew St., #E, Portland, OR; www.journeyintofreedom.org) Offers a radically fresh expression of the Gospel of Jesus to a people addicted to convenience, materialism, comfort and power.

Lost Valley Educational Center (81868 Lost Valley Lane, Dexter, OR 97431; www.efn.org/~lvec) Offers a Deep Agroecology Apprenticeship program, open to applicants from around the world, to focus on permaculture and creative models of sustainable agriculture and sustainable culture.

Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition (2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 136, Washington, DC 20006) Works to protect Maasai environment, wildlife and habitat, as well as Maasai indigenous land rights.

The Millennium Project (1213 E. Shelby St., Seattle, WA 98102) Using mass media, educates and awakens the American public to the unsustainability of our current situation and provides a clear and simple vision of what a sustainable society might look like.

The Mississippi 2020 Network (PO Box 13506, Jackson, MS 39236-3506) Primary goals include incorporating the Our World program in elementary schools in Mississippi, supporting courses in their Earth Literacy Learning Center and gathering participants in the Year 2000 Environmental Wake-Up Challenge project.

Mitraniketan (Vellanad Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695543, India) A volunteer non-governmental organization that has pioneered people-centered holistic rural development for improving the quality of life and living of village communities.

The Natural Step (PO Box 29372, San Francisco, CA 94129-0372) An international network of non-profit educational organizations that works to accelerate the movement toward a sustainable society and provides a planning framework grounded in natural science that serves as a guide for businesses, communities, academia, government entities and individuals undertaking the path of sustainable development.

Northwest Environment Watch (1402 3rd Ave., Suite 1127, Seattle, WA 98101-2118) Serves as both a vigilant monitor of the region's environmental conditions and a pathfinder towards an environmentally sound economy.

One Less Car (PO Box 1027, Edgewater, MD 21037-7027; www.onelesscar.org) An all-volunteer organization dedicated to promote a healthier economic and social climate by advancing bicycling and walking as viable modes of transportation and as integral parts of the overall transportation system.

Peace Between People and AVP/WA (5751 33rd Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98105-2320) A nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching nonviolent conflict resolution skills through workshops in the community, including schools, social service organizations and the Washington State prison system. These workshops help participants develop skills, attitudes, processes and techniques vital to resolving the conflicts that all of us struggle with in our daily lives.

Peaceworks' Center for Sustainable Living (804-C E Broadway, Columbia, MO 65201; www.peaceworks.missouri.org) Provides outreach and education for earth-friendly lifestyle choices.

Phinney Neighborhood Association (6532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103; www.poppyware.com/pna/) Provides a wide range of speakers and programs related to voluntary simplicity and study circles.

Plenty (PO Box 394, Summertown, TN 38483; www.plenty.org) Works to demonstrate that if we protect, manage wisely and share the abundance of the earth, there will be enough for all. Their projects are in Latin America and the U.S.

Positive Futures Network (PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110; www.futurenet.org) Publishes "Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures" quarterly to help shape and support the evolution of sustainable cultures and communities.

Puget Sound Network for Compassionate Communication (PO Box 15353, Seattle, WA 98115) An all-volunteer organization that lives and promotes a compassionate way of communicating to create empathic connections and win-win resolutions to conflicts.

RESULTS Education Fund (236 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20002) Creates the will to end hunger through public education, research, media outreach and other charitable activities.

Simply Living (200 Crestview Rd, Columbus, OH 43202; www.simplyliving.org/sl) Teaches people to live responsibly and joyfully in relation to the earth and each other.

Spirit in Nature (Box 253, East Middlebury, VT 05740) Created in 1998 in response to the environmental crisis with the goal to transform consciousness through religion and spirituality in ways that lead to environmental action.

Sustainable Community Roundtable (2129 Bethel St. NE, Olympia, WA 98506) An all-volunteer organization that helps create sustainable community in the South Sound region by facilitating a process of dialogue, vision, action and celebration.

Ta S'ina Tokaheya Organization (PO Box 199, Oglala, SD 57764) Builds healthy, sturdy houses for Pine Ridge people using local building materials such as clay, sand, straw bale and rammed earth and provides legal services so participants can secure clear title to land.

Vermont Population Alliance (PO Box 466, Norwich, VT 05055) Focuses on reducing natural resource consumption by motivating individuals to examine and transform their values and habits and accept responsibility for the care of the Earth.

Wilderness Volunteer Corps (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. #242, Seattle, WA 98103; www.wawild.org/youthvolunteer) A conservation and service learning program that seeks to instill an ethic of volunteer service, environmental stewardship and self-respect in youth from the Puget Sound Region.

Women's World Summit Foundation (PO Box 2001, 1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland; www.woman.ch) A humanitarian, international, non-governmental organization working for the rights of rural women and children. They honored thirty women from all over the world for creativity in rural life this past year.

Youth for Environmental Sanity/YES! (420 Bronco Rd., Soquel, CA 95073; www.yesworld.org) Sponsors summer camps for young people from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds who desire to make our world a better place. The camps foster a sense of community, team spirit and a commitment to living simply.

The Power of Hope (PO Box 57, Clinton, WA 98236) An arts-based program that empowers teens to live positive, engaged lives through discovering their own sense of purpose and creative potential.