Conservation Groups
The Conservation Fund The Conservation Fund is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways for future generations. The Conservation Fund pioneers a balanced, non-advocacy, non-membership approach to conservation, one that blends environmental and economic goals and objectives. Since its founding in 1985, the Fund has helped its partners safeguard wildlife habitat, working farms and forests, community greenspace, and historic sites totaling more than 6 million acres nationwide.
For more information, go to www.conservationfund.org.
The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy's mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
For more information, go to www.nature.org.
The Trust for Public Land The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.
Conservation Initiatives TPL works in cities and suburbs across America to ensure that everyone—in particular, every child—enjoys close-to-home access to a park, playground, or natural area. TPL protects farms, ranches, and forests that support land-based livelihoods and rural ways of life. TPL conserves wilderness, wildlife habitat, and places of natural beauty for our children's children to explore. TPL safeguards places of historical and cultural importance that keep us in touch with the past and who we are as a people. TPL preserves land to ensure clean drinking water and to protect the natural beauty of our coasts and waterways.
Conservation Services TPL helps agencies and communities define conservation priorities, identify lands to be protected, and plan networks of conserved land that meet public need. TPL helps agencies and communities identify and raise funds for conservation from federal, state, local, and philanthropic sources. TPL helps structure, negotiate, and complete land transactions that create parks, playgrounds, and protected natural areas. TPL acquires and shares knowledge of conservation issues and techniques to improve the practice of conservation and promote its public benefits.
For more information, go to http://www.tpl.org/. Contact TPL if you think your community is ready to preserve land – particularly if the community is thinking about using public funding mechanisms like bond issues to make purchases.
Recreation Groups
The Atlanta Bicycle Campaign The Atlanta Bicycle Campaign promotes bicycle transportation and use, including advocacy and rider education, and strives to make it easier and safer to bike around Atlanta.
For more information, go to www.atlantabike2.org.
The Path Foundation The PATH Foundation, is a 501 (c) 3, nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop a system of interlinking greenway trails through metro Atlanta for commuting and recreating.
PATH’s vision is to create... a network of off-road trails in and around Atlanta for walkers, runners, cyclists and skaters; A series of scenic greenways to preserve our region’s forested character and offer opportunities for families to enjoy nature together; A way to connect neighborhoods to each other, to get people out of their cars, to encourage healthier lifestyles and to improve our quality of life.
PATH achieves its vision by forming partnerships with several local governments to build greenway trails. PATH provides a knowledgeable staff to plan, design, build and maintain trail projects. In some cases, PATH will provide matching funds to finance the development of trails. Local governments provide access to state and federal funding, right-of-ways for trails, as well as in-kind services during trail development. PATH and local governments develop linking trail projects to give everyone access to the trail system.
For more information, go to www.pathfoundation.org.
