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African development

• Environment Liaison Centre International - ELCI is a Nairobi-based membership organization with members throughout the world, but with a concentration of members within Africa. It currently pursues a number of campaigns locally and regionally in forests, sustainable agriculture, and air pollution. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Hunger Project - The Hunger Project is a global, strategic organization committed to the end of world hunger in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Wangari Maathai won the Hunger Project's Africa prize in 1991.
• Kenyan Community Abroad - The Kenyan Community Abroad (KCA) is a sociopolitical, non-partisan organization, registered in the U.S. KCA was founded in March 1997 with a view to giving Kenyans abroad a platform on which to exchange views and help bring change back home. Wangari Maathai was given the Excellence Award in 2001.
• World Learning for International Development - WLID's programs in education, civil society and social change, and training and exchange are designed to develop the skills of individuals and strengthen the capacities of local organizations as effective advocates and agents of progress and social change. Wangari Maathai is on its board.

Democracy and Civil Society

• Right Livelihood Award - The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honour and support such people. It has become widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" and there are now over 100 laureates from 48 countries. Wangari Maathai won the award in 1984.
• Speak Truth to Power - Speak Truth to Power is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to proactively engage the general public in an ongoing series of issue-related programs and events, concentrating on human rights. Wangari Maathai was featured in the book of the same name.
• World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations - WANGO is an international membership organization uniting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide in the cause of advancing peace and well-being and providing the mechanism and support needed for NGOs to connect, partner, share, inspire, and multiply their contributions to solve humanity's basic problems. Wangari Maathai was given its Environment Award in 2003.

Environmentalism

• Arbor Day Foundation - The US-based Arbor Day Foundation established The J. Sterling Morton, the Foundation's highest individual honor, for those who had performed exemplary work at the national or international level. Wangari Maathai was honored in 2004.
• Center for Environmental Research and Conservation - CERC’s goal of seeding the world with environmental practitioners is propelled by a portfolio of programs led by nearly one hundred natural and social scientists and policy makers drawn from the consortium. CERC honored Wangari Maathai in 2004.
• Environment Liaison Centre International - ELCI is a Nairobi-based membership organization with members throughout the world, but with a concentration of members within Africa. It currently pursues a number of campaigns locally and regionally in forests, sustainable agriculture, and air pollution. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Gaia Foundation - The UK-based Gaia Foundation is committed to cultural and biological diversity, ecological justice and Earth democracy. It works with community, indigenous and other civil society organisations, and policy-makers to strengthen traditional and sustainable livelihoods, and local control over biodiversity protection. Gaia provides funding to the Green Belt Movement through British and European donors.
• Goldman Prize - The Goldman Environmental Prize is given each year to six environmental heroes—one from each of six continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Island Nations, North America and South/Central America. Wangari Maathai won the Goldman Prize in 1991.
• Green Cross International - The mission of the Swiss-based Green Cross is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity’s relationship with nature. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Heinrich Böll Foundation - The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with Germany's Green Party awards the Petra Kelly Environment Prize for those who have promoted democratic involvement, socio-political activism, and environmental protection. Wangari Maathai won the award in 2004.
• Jane Goodall Institute - Founded by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, JGI is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Mia MacDonald's website - Website of a policy analyst and writer who has written extensively about Wangari Maathai.
• Restore UK - Restore UK was established in 2001 as a grant making charity to invest in the protection and restoration of Britains natural habitat. This vision has since expanded to incorporate environmental issues worldwide. Restore are helping GBM to fund a programme to rehabilitate the degraded Aberdares mountain range ecosystem with the aim of planting 5 million trees.
• Small Planet Institute - The Massachusetts- and New York-based Institute supports movements around the world proving it's possible to re-embed economic life in community, ensure we all eat healthfully, and heal our relationship to the earth. Wangari Maathai is featured in the Fund's founders, Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé's book, Hope's Edge.
• Sophie Foundation - The Sophie Prize is established to inspire people working towards a sustainable future. The Prize was established in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig. Wangari Maathai was honored with the prize in 2004.
• United Nations' Environment Programme - The United Nations' Environment Programme aims to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. Wangari Maathai was inducted into its Global 500 Hall of Fame in 1991.
• Windstar Foundation - Windstar is a non profit environmental education organization which promotes a holistic approach to addressing environmental concerns. Wangari Maathai won the Windstar award for the environment in 1988.
• Women's Environment and Development Organization - WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Yale School of Forestry - Wangari Maathai was the McCluskey Visiting Fellow for Conservation at Yale University's School of Forestry in 2002 and 2003. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Yale University in 2004.

Related Organizations

• Lantern Books - Lantern Books is a New York City-based publisher of books on environmentalism, animal advocacy, vegetarianism, spirituality, and social justice. It publishes The Green Belt Movement by Wangari Maathai.
• Marion Institute - Founded in 1992, the Massachusetts-based Marion Institute is dedicated to identifying and promoting programs that seek to enhance life for the Earth and its inhabitants. Wangari Maathai is on its board.
• Marlboro Productions - For the past year, documentary filmmakers Lisa Merton and Alan Dater of Marlboro Productions have been working on a documentary about Maathai, Roots of Change: Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement.
• Nobel Peace Prize - Wangari Maathai won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Optimalprint - Optimalprint makes quality printing affordable for individuals and companies throughout Europe. At the same time, the team behind Optimalprint has a genuine interest to conduct business in a responsible manner and strive for a better environment. As a result, Optimalprint partnered with The Green Belt Movement to donate resources in an effort to preserve a better environment for all of us.
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Religion

• Benedictine College - Benedictine College is the renamed Mt. Saint Scholastica College, at which Wangari Maathai completed a B.A. in natural sciences in the early 1960s. Wangari Maathai won its Offeramus Medal in 1989.
• Temple of Understanding - In 1996, the New York City-based Temple of Understanding established the Juliet Hollister Award to honor its founder and to support those secular and religious people whose life work has helped to create interfaith understanding. Wangari Maathai won the award in 2001.
• Zen Environmental Studies Institute - The Zen Environmental Studies Institute is part of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism and is a not-for-profit religious corporation that exists to provide training, education and practice of Zen Buddhism and its relationship to the environment.

Women's Rights

• International Women's Forum - The International Women's Forum is an organization of preeminent women of significant and diverse achievement. Wangari Maathai was inducted into its hall of fame in 1998.
• Nobel Women's Initiative - The Nobel Women's Initiative was established in 2006 by six Nobel Peace Laureates including Wangari Maathai to help strengthen work being done in support of women's rights around the world.
• Women's Environment and Development Organization - WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all. Wangari Maathai is on its board.