It is not easy to choose among the hundreds of nonprofits today that are working on environmental issues ranging from global warming to animal protection to biological diversity. For help, we consulted with Charity Navigator, a rater of nonprofits.
Charity Navigator rates nonprofits in terms of how efficiently they use their resources. In other words, how a nonprofit measures up in how it husbands its resources and uses your donations.
Consulting Charity Navigator's listings of nonprofits, we came up with a list of 10 groups that earned a top ranking.
Brings people together to create local solutions that enhance the natural environment.
Conserves biodiversity through development of new scientific understanding, sustainable resource management and rational land-use policy for the Amazon Basin.
Uses biological data, legal expertise, and the citizen petition provision of the powerful Endangered Species Act to obtain sweeping, legally binding new protections for animals, plants, and their habitat — first in New Mexico, then throughout the Southwest, next through all 11 western states and into other key areas across the country.
Aims to protect life on Earth. The organization says it has saved some of the most critical sites – more than 200 million protected hectares on land and at sea.
Partners with business, government, and communicties to find practical environmental solutions.
Works on climate change, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, and providing clean, safe drinking water to people around the globe.
Seeks to safeguard the integrity of Southeast Alaska’s unsurpassed natural environment.
Provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring the planet's tropical forests.
An environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.
Conserving the world’s most important natural places and significantly changing global forces to protect the future of nature.
