Partners in Environmental Action
Below is a list of supported organizations that actively work on the environmental cleanup, education, and protection front.
Bucks Beautiful
Bucks Beautiful is a nonprofit organization that coordinates events, community projects, and educational programs throughout Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They create partnerships with civic coalitions to develop attractive yet sustainable vistas to foster a healthier environment.
Over the past three decades, they have worked to enhance the local landscape for residents and visitors alike by beautifying towns, schools, parks, roadsides and pathways throughout Bucks County.
Glitter
Glitter is a service that keeps litter and trash off streets, sidewalks, and storm drains in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since launching in 2021, their pay-what-you-can clean block service model brings neighbors together to fund weekly cleaning and was designed as a solution to the persistent trash problem. They give Philadelphia residents an affordable way to support a clean block, while providing a living wage to cleaners who need the work.
What began as a small experiment has grown into a scalable solution: a diverse and growing team of Glitter cleaners help maintain hundreds of city blocks every week. In just a few short years, they have demonstrated the power that a consistently clean block can have on neighborhoods and the cleaners who care for them.
Green Amendments for the Generations
The Mission of Green Amendments For The Generations is to ensure every person and community across the United States is able to experience the health, quality of life, education, joy and economic prosperity provided by a clean, safe and healthy environment; to end environmental racism; and to help ensure that nature itself is able to thrive, by constitutionally empowering all people to secure and enforce their inalienable human right to pure water, clean air, a stable climate, healthy ecosystems and environments.
Green Amendments For The Generations aims to advance a national, state by state, Green Amendment movement and to ensure that governments across the nation at the local and state level honor the rights of all people to pure water, clean air, a stable climate and healthy environments in the laws they enact, the decisions they make, and the actions they take by securing the passage of enforceable environmental rights amendments in the Bill of Rights section of every constitution - state and federal - and ensuring their strong and meaningful enforcement.
As of 2023, three states – Montana, New York, and Pennsylvania – have established constitutional rights to a healthy environment via Green Amendments, while at least nine more states are considering bills in upcoming elections.
Keep Massachusetts Beautiful
Keep Massachusetts Beautiful is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that “beauty matters”. Programs across the commonwealth of Massachusetts include:
Litter prevention & cleanup
Waste reduction & recycling
Beautification & community greening
Environmental education
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful
Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s core programming focuses on improving communities. Their programs aim to prevent litter and illegal dumping, clean and green communities, promote and provide for the proper handling of waste and hard to recycle items, educate youth and the general public about litter, waste, and recycling, foster community stewardship through volunteer engagement and recognition.
They support programming in all 67 counties in Pennsylvania and work with many partnering organizations on the state and grassroots level to accomplish a shared goal of a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania.
Keep Virginia Cozy
Keep Virginia Cozy is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect wilderness and inspire all Virginians to care for our wild places.
They contribute to better protection, stewardship and restoration of our public lands, preserving our rich natural legacy for current and future generations.
Living Lands & Waters
Headquartered in East Moline, Illinois, Living Lands & Waters is an environmental organization that was established by Chad Pregracke in 1998. Since then, Living Lands & Waters has grown to be the only “industrial strength” river cleanup organization like it in the world.
Spending up to nine months a year living and traveling on the barge, the Living Lands & Waters crew hosts river cleanups, watershed conservation initiatives, workshops, tree plantings and other key conservation efforts.
Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy
Since 1964, the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy has worked to conserve and protect the natural resources of the Perkiomen Creek Watershed.
They serve people and communities of the Perkiomen Watershed, Pennsylvania by conserving and protecting land and water resources through commitment to and leadership in environmental education, watershed stewardship, and conservation programs.
Responsible Stewardship
Founded and run by Benny Braden, Responsible Stewardship is an action-based 100% volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in East Tennessee. They are “dedicated to making our outdoor spaces and public lands a better place to recreate and making our communities a better place to live” by leading through example, something they call ‘Education Through Action’.
With a strong focus on integrity, they demonstrate how to be good stewards by exercising the Responsible Stewardship Ethics. “These RS Ethics help us understand our impact (both physically and digitally) on the environment around us and guide us in lessening both our impact and the impact of others.”
Save the Schuylkill
Save the Schuylkill is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the Schuylkill River and its surrounding environment. Their mission is to preserve and enhance the natural beauty and ecological health of the Schuylkill for current and future generations.
They educate the public about the importance of the river, advocating for policies that protect its water quality and wildlife, and organizing community events that encourage people to connect with and appreciate the river. Their ultimate vision is a Schuylkill River that is clean, vibrant, and accessible to all.
Spearhead Project Earth
Spearhead Project Earth is a non-profit foundation created by The Spearhead Group with the purpose of giving back to our global community, preserving nature (including our waterways), and helping to educate people about the importance of being good environmental stewards.
Spearhead Project Earth combines shore clean-up activities on Burlington Island, NJ on the Delaware River with raising awareness through education. Their view is “hat having first-hand experience helping to remove litter from the island in order to be properly recycled is one of the best ways to raise awareness on the environmental impact of our use and misuse of plastics. Volunteer groups have a chance to enjoy nature in this beautiful setting while learning about the rich history of the island and the harms of plastic waste.
Terrill Haigler and his new trash truck
Trash 2 Treasure
A small, and relatively new nonprofit organization, Trash 2 Treasure is founded by Terrill Haigler. Terrill is a young social entrepreneur, former sanitation worker, and has embarked on a mission to clean up neighborhoods in Philadelphia. In 2024 he purchased a garbage truck, and I am happy to report that OneBeautifulPlanet.org will have a logo on it to show our support! Terrill expects to collect 10-12 tons of trash every single day, and plans to hire at-risk youth for workforce development.
I met Terrill a couple of years ago in Philadelphia and was captivated by his enthusiasm and dedication. He has 40K+ Instagram followers under his nickname Ya Fav Trashman, which shows the immense power of community service combined with social media outreach.
TrashMob Eco
TrashMob is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington State that provides a mobile app and website for tracking trash cleanups. Its founder, Joe Beernink, took inspiration from Edgar McGregor in Southern California who spent over 580 days cleaning up a park in his community. After realizing cleaning up would be too much to do on his own, Joe saw potential in connecting others.
Trellis for Tomorrow
Founded in 2003 under the name of Triskeles, Trellis for Tomorrow is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating a better future through growth, community, and sustainable impact. Like a sturdy trellis supporting climbing vines, Trellis for Tomorrow’s purpose and impact grew stronger—and began to flourish in community gardens, preserving green spaces, and feeding the community.
Today, the Trellis for Tomorrow network of 30+ community gardens grows and gives organic food to those who benefit most. Four of these gardens are youth-led—providing the next generation of changemakers with valuable skills such as teamwork, communication, leadership and more. These initiatives represent the positive transformation Trellis seeks to bring about—fostering compassionate and resilient communities, who are equipped to feed and lead themselves.
