Our History
In 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, an independent not-for-profit organization, was created with one simple mission — to allow children living in disadvantaged communities to get away from hot, noisy city streets and enjoy free summer experiences in the country.
When The Fund began, New York City was overflowing with poor children living in crowded tenements. Many of these youngsters were hit by a tuberculosis epidemic, and “fresh air” was considered a cure for respiratory ailments.
More than 130 years ago, the Reverend Willard Parsons, a minister of a small, rural parish in Sherman, Pennsylvania, asked members of his congregation to provide country vacations as volunteer host families for New York City’s neediest children. This was the beginning of The Fresh Air Fund. By 1881, the work of The Fund was expanding so rapidly that Reverend Parsons asked for and secured support from The New York Tribune. By 1888, The Fund was incorporated as “The Tribune Fresh Air Fund Aid Society.” Today, Fresh Air continues to benefit from the support of the media with invaluable assistance from The New York Times.
Click read more to find out how you can sign up your child or help host a child!
About Us
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
What began as a collaboration between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 is now an alliance of more than 250,000 citizens and scientists. UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students. Our achievements over the decades show that thoughtful action based on the best available science can help safeguard our future and the future of our planet.
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 All of EDN’s activities, whether greening schools or promoting green economic policies at home and abroad, inform and energize populations so they will act to secure a healthy future for themselves and their children. With its partner organizations, EDN provides civic engagement opportunities at the local, state, national and global levels. At every turn, EDN works to broaden the definition of "environment" to include all issues that affect our health, our communities and our environment, such as greening deteriorated schools, creating green jobs and investment, and promoting activism to stop air and water pollution.
Over the last 40 years, EDN has executed successful environmental campaigns on issues ranging climate change and drinking water to voter registration and saving the whale. EDN is a recognized leader in creating civically–oriented innovative programs with partners outside of the environmental movement to tackle new challenges...
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H.U.G. It Forward: Humanity Unconditionally Giving it Forward - Hug It Forward is run entirely by volunteers and champions the idea of giving out of pure love, without expecting anything in return...
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As the scale of the disaster in Japan grows, the world has turned its attention to what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has described as the country’s “worst crisis since the Second World War.” Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones and to the hundreds of thousands who are homeless and uncertain.
Click "read more" to find out how YOU can help.
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SPEAK is an all-volunteer organization. Since 1990 SPEAK has been educating people about the conditions of animals and the environment. SPEAK representatives offer presentations to schools at all grade levels and present lectures to civic and community groups. Topics discussed include animal welfare, animal rights, vegetarianism, and the environment.
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Our names are Madi and Rhiannon, and we’re Girl Scouts from Michigan. Are you a Girl Scout cookie fanatic?
We used to be. We sold thousands of cookies with our troop—Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Samoas, you name it—until we discovered one huge problem. Girl Scout cookies are full of rainforest-destroying palm oil, supplied to Girl Scouts USA by Cargill, Inc.
Click "read more" to find out how you can help save the Rainforest!
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A day to celebrate love in the world is a day to sponsor a Farm Sanctuary shelter animal! Adopt in your name or give a gift sponsorship to someone special in your life. Right now, many rescued farm animals living at our sanctuaries are in need of tender loving care.
A farm animal sponsorship is a thoughtful, cute, fun, compassionate, original, and all-around wonderful way to share some love this Valentine’s Day!
Click "read more" to meet Stella, Persia, Riley, and Romeo, just a few of the wonderful farm animals waiting for adoption.
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We're going to need a lot of help over the coming months and years to ramp up our coastal conservation and fisheries work to restore the Gulf Coast to full environmental health. Here are three things you can do right now to provide assistance to our efforts.
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