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eTown eChievement Award - Brandon Dennison - Coalfield Development

Brandon Dennison – Coalfield Development

coalfield-development.org | Wayne, WV

In 2010, Brandon Dennison founded Coalfield Development Corporation as a community-based non-profit organization providing affordable homes, creating quality jobs, and generating opportunities for a full life for low-income families in southern West Virginia. 

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eChievement Award winner Diane Cohen - Finger Lakes ReUse - eTown

Diane Cohen – Finger Lakes ReUse

ithacareuse.org | Ithaca, NY

Finger Lakes ReUse is a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Ithaca, NY, that currently operates two Community ReUse Centers, expanding reuse of materials through convenience, affordability, and accessibility; creating and supporting job training opportunities and living-wage jobs; and teaching repair and reuse skills.

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eChievement Award - Project Mercy

Paula Claussen – Project Mercy

projectmercy.net | Poway, CA

What is Project Mercy? Project Mercy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency based in San Diego, California. The goal of Project Mercy is the improvement of basic living standards and quality of life for impoverished families who live in conditions precarious to their health in the shantytowns of the colonias east of Tijuana, Mexico.

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Since 1991, eTown has presented the eChievement Award to hundreds of folks from all over the world who are helping to make their communities a better place. 
Winners are nominated by our listeners and interviewed on-air about their extraordinary community work.
Stories range from feeding the hungry to cleaning up the environment to housing the homeless.

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Aiding Those In Need
  • 100 Friends Project
  • A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project
  • Acchord Music
  • Adopt A Grandparent
  • Airline Ambassadors
  • American Jewish JDC
  • Angel Flight
  • Art with a Heart
  • Backpack Buddies Club
  • Bead for Life
  • Bernie Glassman
  • Bike & Build
  • Bike Recycle Vermont
  • Blankets for the Homeless
  • Books for Africa
  • Bridging Inc.
  • Brothers Re-Development
  • Building Goodness
  • Can Do MS
  • Care Free Medical and Dental
  • Caring Closet
  • Centenary College Relief Trip
  • Christmas for Rosebud
  • Christmas Unlimited
  • Common Care Network of Nichols
  • Community Transitional School
  • Crutches for Africa
  • Delancey Street Project
  • Donors Rescue
  • Dr. Jim Hall
  • Dr. Larry Wolk
  • Dr. Randy Robinson
  • DrawBridge
  • Elana Erdstein
  • Engeye
  • Engineers Without Borders
  • Exalted Warrior Foundation
  • Excel, Inc.
  • Eye Health Institute
  • Father Fred Foundation
  • First Descents
  • Free Wheelchair Mission
  • From the Ground Up
  • Frontier Housing
  • Frontline
  • Give an Hour
  • Global Bike
  • Global Volunteers
  • Happy Helpers for the Homeless
  • Helping Everyone Recover
  • Helping Hands Health Education
  • Himalayan Cataract Project
  • Hippie Jack Stoddart
  • Homeless Action Committee
  • Homeless Gear
  • Homeless Sandwich Project
  • Hospitality House
  • Hospitality House
  • Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers
  • Interfaith Hospitality Network
  • Jammin’ at Hippie Jacks
  • Jewish World Watch
  • Karam Foundation
  • KARING Inc.
  • La Penta Home
  • Ladybug Foundation
  • Lava Mae
  • Lost For A Reason
  • Love Hope Strength
  • Mary McCormick
  • MediSend
  • Metro Area Housing Program
  • Mobile Medic / Hope Phones
  • Modest Needs
  • National Center for Family Literacy
  • Native American Connection
  • Net Literacy
  • Network to End Domestic Violence
  • New Directions for Veterans
  • North Country Mission of Hope
  • Northern Friends of Haiti
  • One World Medical Relief
  • Operation Safety Net
  • Oskar Blues Can’d Aid Foundation
  • Pamoja Project
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge
  • Pathways to Spirit
  • Pedal to Possibilities
  • Phoenix Multi-Sport
  • Pies For Peace
  • Playing For Change Foundation
  • Prisoner Express
  • Project Mercy
  • Project REMEDY
  • Rainbow Socks
  • Random Acts of Flowers
  • Ranya & Justin Kelly
  • Remote Area Medical
  • Repair Affair & Prepare Affair
  • Rescue Task Force
  • Ride For World Health
  • Road to Responsibility
  • Ron Kotkins
  • Rotaplast Int’l
  • Ruth Chris Birthday Fundraiser
  • S.T.O.P.
  • Save the Rain
  • Senior Wishes
  • Sewing Machine Project
  • Shalom Free Clinic
  • Share Your Soles
  • Sister Alice Murphy Center for Hope
  • Sit Stay Read
  • Skid Row Access
  • Soles4Souls
  • St. Ambrose Family Outreach Centre
  • St. Michaels Fire & Rescue
  • StandUp For Children
  • Starfish Difference
  • Street School Program
  • Students Advocating Service
  • Sue Abrell
  • Sumba Foundation
  • Survivor Corps
  • Sweet Alice Harris
  • Team Rubicon
  • The 10,000 Hours Show
  • The Bottomless Closet
  • The Empowerment Plan
  • The Healing Place
  • The Joshua Fund
  • The Joy of Sox
  • The Listening Post
  • The Ten Dollar Club
  • Think Humanity
  • Thistle Farms
  • Tropical Healthcare Alliance
  • Universal Giving
  • Village Earth
  • VisionSpring
  • Volunteers for Peace
  • Walden House
  • Warm Winters
  • Washington Works
  • We’re hEAR For You
  • Whitman Walker Clinic
  • Women’s Bean Project
  • Youth Action Int’l

Feeding the Hungry
  • $93 Club
  • Ashland Food Angels
  • Boulder Food Rescue
  • Bounty & Soul
  • Brad’s Lunch Bunch
  • Conscious Alliance
  • David Levitt
  • Dysartsville Food Pantry
  • Empty Bowls
  • F.A.R.M. Café
  • Fans With Cans
  • Feed A Child Yancey
  • FeelGood
  • FoCo Cafe
  • Food Chain
  • Food For Hope
  • Food For Thought Denver
  • Food Gatherers
  • Food to Food Bank
  • Full Belly Project
  • Grant Family Farm
  • Heart of Illinois Harvest
  • Hole Food Rescue
  • Joshua’s Heart Foundation
  • Just the Right Attitude
  • Kau Kau Wagon
  • Kent Senior Center
  • Kentucky Harvest/USA Harvest
  • Le Moyne Sandwich Makers
  • MEANS
  • Monte’s March
  • Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard
  • Move For Hunger
  • One Bistro
  • One Sandwich at a Time
  • Oregon Tuna Classic
  • Rock and Wrap It Up!
  • Salvation Farms
  • SAME Café
  • Sisters of the Road Café
  • Sunshine Pantry
  • The Food Project
  • The Generous Garden Project
  • The Love Kitchen
  • The Potato Project/Gleaning Network
  • The Stenson Family
  • Urban Bicycle Food Ministry
  • We Don’t Waste
  • Western Mass. Food Bank Farm
  • Wheels of Love
  • Whole in the Wall
  • Yoganics

Protecting the Planet
  • 350.org
  • Adopt-A-Stream
  • Alameda Computer Resource Center
  • Alliance for Int’l Reforestation
  • Amani Butterfly Project
  • American Bat Conservation Society
  • Anacostia Watershed Society
  • Anne Oatman-Gardner
  • Artula Institute
  • Aspen Skiing Company
  • Barbara Ingersoll
  • Bay Area Wilderness Training
  • Bear League
  • BioTransformations
  • Birds of Prey Rehab Foundation
  • Black Locust Initiative
  • Blue Ridge Parkway
  • Brother Wolf Animal Rescue
  • Canyon City HS Environmental Club
  • Carl Leopold
  • Carmel Valianti-Smith
  • Casey Golden
  • Center for Environmental Education
  • Chemical Weapons Working Group
  • Chopstix
  • Chris & Cindy Burger
  • Chris Foreman
  • Christian Miller
  • Clean Coast
  • Clean Energy Action
  • Coloradans United for Bears
  • Columbia River Swim
  • Columbia River United
  • Cool School Challenge
  • CU Biodiesel
  • Daryl Hannah
  • Dave Fouts
  • David Beschen
  • David Swartz
  • DAWGS
  • Deja Shoe
  • Dekai Animal Sanctuary
  • Deleware Highlands Conservancy
  • Dogwood Alliance
  • Don’t Be Crude
  • Dr. Stephen Kress
  • Earth Day
  • Ecological Restoration
  • Ecover
  • Elwha Group
  • Environmental Investigation Agency
  • Environmental Learning For Kids
  • FairTrade USA
  • Focus the Nation
  • Foothills Conservancy of NC
  • FoundStuff Paperworks
  • Freecycle
  • Friends of Hudson
  • Friends of the Everglades
  • Friends of the Rogue
  • Friends of Wild Sky
  • Geneseo Bus Program
  • Geo Environmental Tree Program
  • Girdwood Action Team
  • Goodkind Pen Company
  • Gov. Bill Ritter
  • Grassroots Animal Rescue
  • Grassroots Garbage Gang
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness
  • GRID Alternatives
  • Gridcore
  • Gulf of Alaska Keeper
  • Headwaters Institute
  • Heather Bell
  • Hiawatha Purchase Committee
  • High Country News
  • Highlands Nature Sanctuary
  • Honl Tree Care
  • Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
  • Ideal Energy Home Program
  • Int’l Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Int’t Fund For Animal Welfare
  • Interface Inc.
  • Intervale Center
  • Jacksonville Woodlands Association
  • James Brooks
  • James D’Addario
  • Jane Goodall
  • Jim Balog
  • Jim Evanoff
  • John Beal
  • Jon Bowermaster
  • Kelly Ohlson
  • Ken Dawson
  • Kentucky Environmental Foundation
  • Kevin Howard
  • KP Products
  • Lake Champlain Land Trust
  • Larry Warnberg
  • Laura Beth Moore
  • Lents Springwater Habitat Restoration
  • Levi Strauss Company
  • Lisa Morzel Family
  • Living Lands & Waters
  • Louisiana Environmental Action Network
  • Maxine Johnston
  • Midwest Renewable Energy Association
  • Mona Newton & Allison Peters
  • National Mill Dog Rescue
  • National Recycling Coalition
  • Nature Wildlife Refuge
  • New Iberia Beautificaion Committee
  • New Vision Renewable Energy
  • Newman’s Own Organics
  • NextStep Recycling
  • North Carolina Coastal Land Trust
  • Oak Grove Elementary School
  • Paco Wenzel
  • Pauline Schneegas Wildlife Foundation
  • Planet Ink
  • Plates For People & the Planet
  • Project Green Fork
  • R Community Bikes
  • Recycling Program
  • Reis Southworth
  • Remnant Cove
  • ReSource
  • Resource Revival
  • Responsible Cruising in Alaska
  • Rich Messer
  • Riki Ott
  • Rob Messick
  • Robert Kennedy Jr.
  • Robin Young
  • Rocky Mountain Ark
  • Rocky Mtn. Wildlife Conservation CTR
  • Ruth Howard
  • Sally Gurley
  • Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center
  • Sara Cameron
  • Sedgwick County Zoo
  • Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
  • Southwest Wildlife Foundation of Utah
  • Stan Mavis
  • Steve Kelton
  • Stray Rescue of St. Louis
  • Sue Remer
  • Susan Grant
  • Sustainable Harvest Int’l
  • Terry Tempest Williams
  • The Bullitt Foundation
  • The Can Lady Project
  • The Elephant Sanctuary
  • The Marine Mammal Stranding Center
  • The Pelican Man’s Bird Sanctuary
  • The TECHE Project
  • The Turtle Hospital
  • The Wilderness Land Trust
  • Thorne Ecological Institute
  • Tobyhanna State Park
  • Tom Taber
  • Trash Dogs
  • TREX
  • Unique Mobility
  • United Anglers of Casa Grande
  • Upstate Forever
  • Washed Ashore
  • Wayne Hare
  • Wild at Heart
  • Wilderness Workshop
  • Woodworks Alliance for Rainforest Protection
  • Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens
  • YES Club

Social & Environmental Impact
  • 1% for the Planet
  • 20/20 Vision
  • 34 Million Friends
  • Alternative Transportation Department
  • American Forests
  • ANEW
  • Barb Sullivan
  • Bearheart
  • Bicycle Repair
  • Big City Forest
  • Bob Weir
  • Boulder Food Rescue
  • BreakAway
  • Cedar Creek Learning Center
  • Citizens Conservation Corps of WV
  • Citizens For A Better Environment
  • Coffee Kids
  • Colleen Crosson
  • Community Bike Works
  • Crafts with Conviction
  • Cycle Oregon
  • Dallas Read
  • Dan & Pat Shepherd
  • Danny Seo
  • Dave Roberts
  • David Anderson
  • David Prowell
  • Dean Keller
  • Deer Creek Elementary
  • Depave
  • Donate Don’t Dump
  • Doug Thron
  • Eagle Eye Institute
  • Eleanor Stopps
  • Elise Boulding
  • Eugene Pearson (CU)
  • Fighting Whites
  • Finger Lakes ReUse
  • Fixit Clinic
  • Flood Bucket
  • Food For Free
  • Food From the Hood
  • Free Geek
  • Friends of the Bow
  • Friendship Donations Network
  • Ft. Collins ReLeaf
  • Fulton Safe Drinking Water Committee
  • Gene Jones
  • Gibson Guitars
  • Give Something Back
  • GLAAD
  • Glenn Bannerman
  • Global Links
  • Global Soap Project
  • Good News Garage
  • Green Guerillas
  • Greenbucks
  • Guacamole Fund
  • Gudy Gaskill
  • H. Victory
  • Hanna Anderson
  • Heidi & Jim Barrett
  • Hilda Lahti Elementary
  • Himalayan Stove Project
  • Hollie Shaner-McRae
  • Homeboy Industries
  • Hug It Forward
  • Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village
  • Idea Wild
  • Just Label It
  • KickStart Int’l
  • Kids FACE
  • Kids of Coral
  • Kieran Quinn
  • Kokopelli Notes
  • KOPE
  • Kramden Institute
  • Land & Water Fund of the Rockies
  • Lebanon Recycling Center
  • Linda Kantor
  • Longbranch Environmental Ed. Center
  • Lorraine Granado
  • Lovitz School
  • Luann Foty
  • Malcolm Brown
  • Marimed Foundation
  • Mary Spaulding
  • Maya Nut Institute
  • Mother Earth Farm
  • Move For Hunger
  • Music Maker Foundations
  • Nichole Connoly
  • Operation Hope
  • Pam & Tony Rice
  • Patagonia Inc.
  • Pattie Anne Corsentino
  • Patty Wallace & Ruth Colvin
  • Peace Jam
  • Pedals For Progress
  • Peter Brown
  • Play For Peace
  • Post Landfill Action Network
  • President Jimmy Carter
  • Project Helping
  • Project Pooch
  • Puppies Behind Bars
  • Random Acts of Flowers
  • RE-volv
  • Recycle 2000
  • Recycle Bicycles
  • Recycle Our Areas Resources
  • Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center
  • Reverb
  • Rich & Luce Myers
  • Richie Havens
  • Rick Brooks
  • Ruth’s Reusable Resources
  • Salvation Farms
  • Sample Soap
  • SCRAP PDX
  • Seeds of Change
  • Seeds to the World
  • Silk For Life
  • Skip LaPlante
  • SLUG
  • Smoke Free Educational Services
  • SOS – Solve Oil Spills
  • Southern Region EMS Council
  • Spokes For Folks
  • Steve’s Earth Engine
  • SustainAbility
  • Teens as Teachers
  • The Common Cents Penny Harvest
  • The Five Star Garden
  • The Garden Project
  • The Generous Garden Project
  • The Goldman Environmental Prize
  • The ReBuilding Center
  • The Video Project
  • Tim Vaughn & Michael Doten
  • Tim Womick
  • Tree Musketeers
  • Tree People
  • Trees, Water & People
  • University Bicycles
  • Urban Farm at Stapleton
  • Urban Gleaners
  • Waves for Water
  • We Care Solar
  • We Don’t Waste
  • Wellington Urban Gardens
  • Western Folklife Center
  • Western Law Fund
  • Wetlands Preserve
  • Wilderness Inquiry
  • Women’s Environmental Network
  • Youth Build Boston
  • Youth for Environmental Sanity

Supporting Children
  • 100 Classroom Project
  • 2nd Reading
  • 826 Valencia
  • A Gift For Teaching
  • AfricAid
  • Art Road
  • Artists for Humanity
  • Asbury Park Toy Drive
  • Barbara Abouchar
  • Bejot’s Ensemble of Acoustic Troubadours
  • Blue Star Connection
  • Book Worm Angels
  • Books For Keeps
  • Bridge the Gap College Prep
  • buildOn
  • Camp Heartland
  • Camp Sunshine
  • Camp Takumpta
  • Camp to Belong
  • Candy Cane Lane
  • CAPP
  • Care Bags Foundation
  • Central Asia Institute
  • Child-Rite
  • Children Without Shoes Int’l
  • Christmas Unlimited
  • Coat Angels
  • Common Cents Penny Harvest
  • David’s House
  • Denver School of Science & Tech
  • Developing Minds Foundation
  • Dollars for Scholars
  • Donors Choose
  • Earth Angels
  • Educate the Children Foundation
  • Elves & More
  • Ethos, Inc.
  • Evergreen Halfway House
  • Extra-Life
  • Family Giving Tree
  • Feeding Minds Enriching Lives
  • Fine Arts for Children & Teens
  • Fiver Children’s Foundation
  • FKO After School
  • Friends of Disabled Adults & Children
  • Friends of Russian Orphans
  • Girls at Work
  • Girls for a Change
  • Global Education Fund
  • Global Explorers
  • Grandma Rita’s Children
  • Grandma, Please
  • Grassroot Soccer
  • Green Bronx Machine
  • Guitars Over Guns
  • HaitiChildren
  • HarmoniKids
  • HOPE Foundation
  • Hug It Forward
  • Inner City Kids Camp
  • Inner City Youth
  • Janada L. Batchelor Foundation
  • Justice For Children
  • Kenya Connect
  • Kids Can Free the Children
  • Kids On the Hill
  • Lauren Berkoski
  • LEAF Schools
  • Leave a Legacy
  • Little Kids Rock
  • Making A Difference
  • Mali Assistance Project
  • Miracle Marathon
  • Mosaic Project
  • National Indian Youth Leadership Project
  • Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project
  • One Voice
  • Operation Warm
  • PACER Center
  • Pass It Along
  • Peruvian Hearts
  • Project Self Discovery
  • Rainbow Bridge
  • RandomKid
  • Realities For Children
  • Results
  • Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center
  • Samuel Hightower
  • School on Wheels
  • Schools Count
  • Science By Mail
  • Seeds of Grace Book Bus
  • Seeds of Peace
  • Self Enhancement Inc.
  • Signs of Progress
  • Sit Stay Read
  • Tariq Khamisa Foundation
  • Teachers For A Better Belize
  • Teens for Technology
  • Tender Loving Care Ministries
  • The Food Project
  • The Mercy Ride
  • The Summer Camp
  • There With Care
  • Third Way Center
  • TOUCH Project
  • Trips for Kids
  • US-Africa Children’s Fellowship
  • Vitamin Angels
  • Waneta Cooper
  • Warm the Children
  • West Virginia Youth Service Initiative
  • Worth Our Weight
  • YES Club
  • Young Heroes Foundation
  • Youth Emergency Shelter
  • Youth Empowerment Project
  • Youth Garden Project
  • YouthBiz
  • Youthworks
  • Zienzele Foundation