Charities
If you give us your business, we give back. Literally. Focus Earth donates a portion of every project to a charity of your choosing. For your reference, our favorite charities are listed below.
Environment
Organization Description
Big Cat Rescue provides a sanctuary for abused and abandoned big cats, such as lions, tigers, bobcats, etc., many of which are endangered animals.

Mission Statement
“…to provide the best home we can for the cats in our care, end abuse of big cats in captivity and prevent extinction of big cats in the wild.”
Organization Description
Climate Solutions is a Northwest based company fighting against climate change by influencing local public policy, establishing innovation, and build the “power” of the climate movement.
Mission Statement
“…to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming by galvanizing leadership, growing investment, and bridging divides.”
Organization Description
The Wildlife Conservation Network funds, trains, and supports conservationalists who work with wildlife and preserving their lives and habitats.
Mission Statement
“…protects endangered species and preserves their natural habitats by supporting entrepreneurial conservationists who pursue innovative strategies for people and wildlife to co-exist and thrive.”
Organization Description
350.org aims to create a environmental movement through campaigning, organizing, and coordinating mass public events. They focus on spreading education on climate change.
Mission Statement
to build “…a global grassroots climate movement that can hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice.”
Organization Description
The CRC handles resource conservation issues in communities through education and by offering green alternatives to homes, gardens, businesses, etc.
Mission Statement
They focus on “putting conservation into action” and on building “thriving communities living sustainably.”
Organization Description
The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWAS) is the oldest and largest nonprofit Sanctuary in the US dedicated exclusively to rescuing captive exotic and endangered large carnivores, providing them with a wonderful life for as long as they live, and educating about the tragic plight faced by an estimated 30,000 such animals in America today.
Mission Statement
The Wild Animal Sanctuary, is a state and federally licensed zoological facility and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  The Sanctuary is located on rural, rolling grasslands northeast of the Denver Metro area. Comprising 720 acres and sheltering more than 290 Lions, Tigers, Bears, Leopards, Mountain Lions, Wolves and other large carnivores, it is the first sanctuary of its kind to create large acreage species-specific habitats for its rescued animals.
Education
Organization Description
The Coalition for Engaged Education promotes the idea of engaged education, which aims to ensure that each child is treated with respect and dignity, is able to work toward their passions, can work in the arts, and is able to develop a love for learning.
Mission Statement
“…to bring together other organizations, individuals, educators, academics, and political leaders who believe that the best way to improve education is through Engaged Education, and to inspire them to replicate the programs in their own cities, counties, states, and countries.”
Organization Description
NEEF tries to help all Americans understand the role they play in environmental issues through programs, campaigns, public awareness, and through working with partners.
Mission Statement
To fulfill their vision – “By 2022, 300 million Americans actively use environmental knowledge to ensure the wellbeing of the earth and its people.”
Organization Description
The CEE offers programs to help academically talented high school and college students reach careers such as creators, inventors, scientists and leaders.
Mission Statement
“…to nurture high school and university scholars to careers of excellence and leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and to encourage international collaboration between and among leaders in the global community.”
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FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) focuses on creating programs based in mentoring kids and teens and promoting their interests in the science and robotics – known as the leading, not-for-profit STEM engagement program for kids worldwide
Mission Statement
“…to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting Mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.”
Organization Description
Teach for America aims to recruit and train individuals to become teachers, giving them two-year positions in public schools in low-income neighborhoods.
Mission Statement
“…to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation’s most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.”
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Step Up for Students funds two scholarships to help children in Florida receive an equal opportunity to receive the best education possible.
Mission Statement
“…to help fulfill the promise of equal opportunity by empowering parents to pursue the best learning options for their children.”
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SEO gives underprivileged youths the opportunity to succeed by offering 8 week academic programs, summer internship and training programs for college students of color, alternative investments opportunities and more.
Mission Statement
“…provides superior educational and career programs to young people from underserved and underrepresented communities to maximize their opportunities for college and career success.”
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The Society for Science & the Public aims to spread understanding, appreciation and knowledge of the field of science and the role it plays in human advancement primarily through publications and educational competitions.
Mission Statement
“…to promote the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement: to inform, educate, and inspire.”
Science
Organization Description
The Carnegie Institution strives to learn more in the various scientific fields by sending students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting investigators to conduct research in those fields.
Mission Statement
“…to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind.”