The Estonian Society for the Protection of Animals (ESPA) has been operating since spring 2000. ESPA is a non-profit association comprised of animal friends with a mission to assure and improve animal welfare and prevent animal abusing. The mission is carried out by helping the animals directly, raising public awareness, educating people on the subject, animal protection control and being engaged in legislative drafting.

Asia Society is the leading global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. We seek to enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture.

SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages. SIL’s staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through literacy, linguistics, translation, and other academic disciplines. SIL makes its services available to all without regard to religious belief, political ideology, gender, race, or ethnic background.

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.

Red Rock Center for Independence assists people with disabilities to live and participate independently

Specify is a research software application, database, and network interface for biological collections information. It manages specimen data such as descriptions of collecting locations, participants and determination histories as well as information about collections transactions such as loans, exchanges, accessions and gifts.

Their primary research objective is to investigate the relative importance of land and ocean processes in structuring giant kelp forest ecosystems in the Santa Barbara Channel, California.

The Kriven Research Group do materials research in geopolymers (a form of material that can replace many currently used materials such as cement, certain adhesives, and even high-tech applications such as semiconductors) which have the ability to reduce carbon emissions by 50% in their production over the materials they replace.

Nematodes are the world's most important and ubiquitous multi-cellular parasites, attacking humans, domesticated animals and cultivated crops. They cause untold levels of economic damage and suffering worldwide and are responsible for many severe human diseases that afflict up to half of the world's population.

The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory is engaged in comprehensive long lead-time research fundamental to NOAA's mission. The goal of this research is to expand the scientific understanding of the physical processes that govern the behavior of the atmosphere and the oceans as complex fluid systems. These systems can then be modeled mathematically and their phenomenology can be studied by computer simulation methods.

Since 1995 the Royal Botanic Gardens has led the way in water conservation for large landscapes. RBG Melbourne is recognised as one of the world’s finest botanic gardens. There are over 10,000 species and 50,000 individual plants in the 38 hectare gardens, including trees and plants of great cultural value. Many of these plants are irreplaceable, endangered or even extinct in the wild.

The Alfred Wegener Institute carries out research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as in the high and mid latitude oceans. The institute coordinates German polar research and makes available to national and international science important infrastructure, e.g. the research ice breaker "Polarstern" and research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic.

The Lab is a nonprofit membership institution whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.

Save The Orcas, Inc, is a non-profit organization working to protect Orcas, and other marine mammals, through both conservation and education. At present, we are working with a variety of organizations and government agencies on a recovery plan for the Southern Resident Orca population, which is listed as an endangered species.

They develop cochlear implants to revalidate deaf people and also do research into hearing aids to improve hearing in noise for persons with an hearing aid.

The mission of the Vermont Oxford Network is to improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated program of research, education and quality improvement projects. The Vermont Oxford Network is a non-profit voluntary collaboration of health care professionals dedicated to our mission.

Gigoit is a completely free resource for people to give their unwanted but usable items to neighbors in their communities who can use them. It's a win-win situation!