Animal Charities

These are the animal and nature charities that we support. We admire the work that they do to make this world a better place for animals and for us. We hope you find a few that you didn't know about.

They are in no particular order.

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Wildlife Conservation Society
www.wcs.org

The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks. These activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable interaction on both a local and a global scale. WCS is committed to this work because we believe it essential to the integrity of life on Earth.

Sierra Club
www.sierraclub.org

Inspired by nature, the Sierra Club works to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

Natural Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org

NRDC is one of the nation's most effective environmental action organizations. They use law, science and the support of many members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Humane Society
www.humanesociety.org

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has worked since 1954 to promote the protection of all animals. With nearly ten million members and constituents, The HSUS is theone of the nation’s largest and most powerful animal protection organization, working in the United States and abroad to defend the interests of animals. They celebrate the human-animal bond, and they fight animal cruelty and abuse in all of its forms.


North Shore Animal League
www.nsal.org

North Shore Animal League America has grown to become one of the largest pet adoption agencies in the world. Animal orphans are rescued not only from shelters close-by, but also from animal organizations in near and distant states. The League upholds the mission to help save every homeless orphaned pet and to find each one a loving guardian and a safe place to call home.

Pet Savers Foundation
www.petsavers.org

The Pet Savers Foundation was founded in 1992 to solve a growing national tragedy: the needless suffering and death of homeless companion animals, primarily dogs and cats. They believe that every adoptable companion animal has value and a life worth living.

Friends of Animals
www.friendsofanimals.org

Friends of Animals is an international animal advocacy organization, incorporated in New York in 1957. Friends of Animals works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Their goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.

Fund for Animals
www.fundforanimals.org

The Fund for Animals was founded in 1967 and has spearheaded some of the most significant events in the history of the animal protection movement by employing hard-hitting advocacy campaigns and operating world-famous animal care facilities, such as the Black Beauty Ranch. The Fund's historic victories have saved thousands of animals from cruelty and suffering.

In 2005, The Fund for Animals and The Humane Society of the United States joined together to form an unprecedented partnership for animals. Since then The Fund has expanded its efforts to protect animals in the courts and at five direct animal care facilities.

Guide Dog Foundation
www.guidedog.org

Since 1946, the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. has provided guide dogs free of charge to blind people who seek enhanced mobility and independence.

Their students come from all over the United States and many foreign countries. Their trademark small classes and individualized instruction often attract students who may have special requirements. They have successfully trained hearing-impaired blind people as well as many physically challenged people.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind
www.guiding-eyes.org

Guiding Eyes for the Blind is an internationally recognized guide dog school. Their family of professionals and supporting volunteers and donors are committed to one goal: giving students the gift of greater personal freedom, independence and dignity by providing them the finest bred and trained guide dogs in the world. Guiding Eyes for the Blind provides trained guide dogs for the visually impaired throughout the United States and the entire world.

National Parks Conservation Association
www.npca.org

The National Parks Conservation Association believes that America's National Parks and historical sites embody the American spirit. They are windows to our past, homes to some of our rarest plants and animal species, and places where every American can go to find inspiration, peace, and open space. NPCA plays a crucial role in ensuring that these special places are protected in perpetuity:

• They advocate for the national parks and the National Park Service; 
• They educate decision-makers and the public about the importance of preserving the parks; 
• They help to convince members of Congress to uphold the laws that protect the parks and in support of new legislation to address threats to the parks; 
• They fight attempts to weaken these laws in the courts; 
• They assess the health of the parks and park management to better inform our advocacy work.

Conservation Fund
www.conservationfund.org

The Conservation Fund is one of the nation’s foremost environmental nonprofits dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways. Through its partnership-driven approach, the Fund works across all 50 states to preserve each region's unique natural resources, cultural heritage and historic places. Committed to effectiveness, efficiency and environmental and economic balance, the Fund is pioneering a new environmentalism that is results-oriented and sustainable, agile and inclusive, and one that inspires future generations. Since 1985, The Conservation Fund and its partners have help protect more than 5 million acres of America's outdoor heritage including wildlife habitat, working landscapes, rivers and wetlands and community open space. This conservation legacy ranges from national parks and wildlife refuges to private ranches, state forests and historic sites.

Best Friends
www.bestfriends.org

The mission of Best Friends is driven by the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world for all of us. And the work of Best Friends is supported entirely through the donations of members and supporters. They help ensure that animals who come into the care of Best Friends will never again be alone, hungry, sick, afraid, or in pain.

The sanctuary, at the heart of Southern Utah's Golden Circle of national parks, is home, on any given day, to about 1,500 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, and other animals.

In Utah, Best Friends manages a model No More Homeless Pets campaign with shelters and humane groups statewide to ensure that every healthy dog or cat that's ever born can be guaranteed a loving home.

And Best Friends reaches across the nation, helping humane groups, individual people, and entire communities to set up spay/neuter, shelter, foster, and adoption programs in their own neighborhoods, cities, and states.

Animal Haven
www.animalhavenshelter.org

Animal Haven's mission is to carefully place cats and dogs in loving homes, as well as give lifetime care for those who cannot be placed.

They fulfill a no-kill mission through adoption programs at their shelter in Queens, their Mobile Adoption Program, and upcoming Adoption Center and Boutique in SoHo. Animal Haven University provides courses in positive reinforcement training to help keep dogs in their original homes. Animal Haven Acres Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Center, located in Delaware County, NY is where hard to place dogs and cats can live out their lives in a homelike setting.

Central Park Conservancy
www.centralparknyc.org

Although not necessarily an animal charity, the Central Park Conservancy helps protect the well-being of the "human animal". Their mission is to restore, manage, and preserve Central Park, in partnership with the public, for the enjoyment of present and future generations. The Central Park Conservancy is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1980 that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York/Department of Parks and Recreation. The Conservancy has raised more than $300 million to date and has transformed Central Park into a model for urban parks nationwide. The Conservancy provides more than 85% of Central Park's annual $23 million operating budget and is responsible for all basic care of the Park.

With 25 million visitors each year to its 843 acres, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States. To manage the Park, the Conservancy crews aerate and seed lawns; rake leaves; prune and fertilize trees; plant shrubs and flowers; maintain ballfields and playgrounds; remove graffiti; conserve monuments, bridges, and buildings; and care for waterbodies and woodlands, controlling erosion, maintaining the drainage system, and protecting over 150 acres of lakes and streams from pollution, siltation, and algae.