Earth Island Institute was founded by David Bower in 1982. It is a non-profit, public interest organisation that encourages individual groups and people with innovative ideas in promoting ecological sustainability. Over their 29 years of operation, they have provided over a hundred of these group projects with fiscal help. A couple of projects that can thank their success to Earth Island Institute:
-International Rivers
-Rainforest Action Network
-Bluewater Network.
The organization operates across the U.S. and around the world, providing sponsorship to various groups, such as: Fiji Organic Project, Ethical Traveller and the International Marine Mammal Project. Earth Island Institute serves as an organization that supports individual groups (it supports over 40 grassroots organizations) from all over the world (rather than founding its own groups and sponsoring only them).
The strategy that Earth Island Institute uses is good because this way it can take part in all kinds of projects and groups, all around the world, and not only in those that its own activists plan (which would be much less than the enormous amount of projects and groups it helps now).
Earth Island Institute also provides public education and is basically a meeting place and supporting point for all of those who want to make a difference by working for the restoration of the damaged environment and ecological sustainability.
Link: http://www.earthisland.org/index.php/support/
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