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Action Sports Environmental Coalition |
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 The Action Sports Environmental Coalition (ASEC), uses the power of celebrity athletes such as extreme skateboarder Bob Burnquist to focus attention on environmental issues, especially ones that are affected by action sports such as skateboarding. Skateboarding uses a lot of wood. More than 200,000 new wooden decks for skateboarding events are built every month. Skateboarders often compete on a 50-foot-high ramp that lets them take flight. Taken all together, that’s a lot of wood and a lot of trees to consider. Action Sports Environmental Coalition recycles the wood used at high-profile events like the X-Games, using it to create new skateboarding parks in urban areas. Stonyfield’s funding in 2005 helped ASEC convert sustainable forested wood into a skateboarding park in Los Angeles.
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American Farmland Trust |
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American Farmland Trust works to protect the more than 1 million acres of American farmland that is at risk of being developed. Some 86 percent of the fruits and vegetables we eat is in the path of oncoming development, according to the Trust. Working with communities, the organization helps them plan for effectively managed growth. The Trust also advocates for publicly funded agricultural conservation easement programs. Landowners are encouraged to conserve and maintain their agricultural land. Stonyfield Farm provided support funding to this organization through its “Bid With Your Lid” program, in which consumers voted on the amount to be donated based on the number of yogurt lids they sent in to Stonyfield Farm.
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Audubon Expedition Institute |
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 At the Audubon Expedition Institute, things really get moving in the classroom. That's because the classroom is a bus, taking 15 to 20 graduate and undergraduate students to where the action is—to "bio-regions" such as Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Four Corners and other Southwest regions, the Gulf Coast area, the Adirondacks, the Atlantic Coast and Hawaii—where they learn ecological awareness through experiential learning. Students live out of and camp with the bus, while visiting new cultures. The program is offered by Leslie University.
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Clean Air-Cool Planet |
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With the support of Stonyfield Farm, Clean Air-Cool Planet reached out to large and small businesses to advise them on energy efficiency, clean electricity and climate-friendly transportation options. The organization also works with farmers in the Northeast United States to help them develop eco-friendly farming practices that can reduce global warming.
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Earth University |
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The United Nations Millenium Project on the Future of the World cited Earth University as "directly contributing to improving the world." Stonyfield Farm helped fund a scholarship for one student to attend Earth University--a 4-year, private, nonprofit school. The University, located in Costa Rica, recruits students from poor, rural areas of the tropics, where sustainable agriculture remains a challenge. The goal is that students will graduate with the skills they need to return to their homes to make lasting change.
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Healthy Food, Healthy Communities |
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Eating fresh, organic produce is often out of financial reach for low-income families, which puts them at risk of poor nutrition. The Healthy Food, Healthy Communities program, based at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts, has been so successful it can now broaden its reach beyond the college campus. The program partners the college with the community to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to 25 to 50 low-income families through the federally funded Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program. Stonyfield Farm funding helped to take this project from the trial stage, to a fixture in the community, and was given to honor Ray and Lorna Coppinger's for 36 years of contributions to the advance of agriculture and food studies at the college.
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Life Lab Science Program |
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The Life Lab Science Program based in Santa Cruz, California, offers science and environmental education curricula and programs, and helps schools develop Garden Classrooms that become "living laboratories". The organization works to train teachers in the skills needed to teach the Life Lab curricula. Students create gardens and use them for the study of the natural world, with more than 1,000 schools across the country participating. Stonyfield Farm funding went to support the Garden Classroom program.
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National Audubon Society |
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Conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems are the goals of The National Audubon Society. The organization’s efforts help to preserve the Earth’s biological diversity, focusing on birds and other wildlife, and their habitats. Through a national network of community-based nature centers, member chapters, and educational and scientific programs, the Society engages millions of citizens in conservation. Stonyfield Farm provided support funding to this organization through its “Bid With Your Lid” program, in which consumers voted on the amount to be donated based on the number of yogurt lids they sent in to Stonyfield Farm.
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Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance |
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The Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance (NODPA) sends farmer representatives to the Midwest and West Coast to network with other organic dairy producers. The organization helps dairy farmers communicate with each other through meetings, field days, a newsletter, and a website, and the funding from Stonyfield Farm contributes to those expenses.
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Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) |
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Stonyfield Farm helped fund scholarships through NOFA to provide technical assistance to farmers who are transitioning from conventional farming to organic. Funds went to the New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire chapters, and helped stage several events for dairy processors and other agricultural groups.
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Organic Farming Research Foundation |
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The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) helped 11 new organic farming research and education projects get underway. Stonyfield’s contribution helped produce a marketing event that led to donations from other organizations. OFRF advocates for organic public policy making at the federal level and works to leverage its funds with other partnerships to advance the science of organic agriculture.
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Rainforest Alliance |
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Stonyfield Farm contributed to the community education efforts of the Rainforest Alliance, which focuses on sustainable agriculture, forestry, and tourism with an eye toward protecting ecosystems. The organization examines land use practices and business practices and attempts to transform them into methods that do not harm ecosystems. The alliance also works to change consumer behavior in the types of products they buy. Stonyfield Farm provided support funding to this organization through its "Bid With Your Lid" program, in which consumers voted on the amount to be donated based on the number of yogurt lids they sent in to Stonyfield Farm.
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The Organic Center for Education and Promotion |
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The Organic Center is striving to build a body of scientific evidence about the benefits of organic food. Stonyfield Farm was a founding supporter of this research-based organization The center's research will lead to evidence-based education that changes consumer behavior and attitudes about organic products, and to smarter production methods, with less polluted soil and water.
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The Soil Association, Bristol, England |
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A primary goal of the Soil Association, based in Bristol, England, is to connect British school children to the farms where organic food is grown. With funding from Stonyfield and the network of 65 organic farms in the U.K. that welcome visitors, nearly every child gets to visit one of the farms at least once before they reach age 11.
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Town of Londonderry |
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In the spring of 2005, the town of Londonderry, which is the home base for Stonyfield Farm’s Yogurt Works production facility, sponsored a town-wide cleanup effort called "Beautify Londonderry". Stonyfield Farm participated in this effort as a member of the "Leadership Team" sponsoring the event, which took place over four consecutive weekends.
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World Media Foundation-Living on Earth |
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 "Living on Earth" with Steve Curwood is a weekly environmental news and information program distributed by National Public Radio, broadcast on 302 National Public Radio stations. Stonyfield Farm funding supported Living on Earth's news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues, with in-depth reports on the science and policy at the heart of the environmental issues. The show explores such questions as what environmental prices are Americans willing to pay for oil? How will changes to the Supreme Court impact our natural world? What is the cumulative cost of Hurricane Katrina?
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