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Contact Us

For information about contributing to NRDC's Partnership for the Earth campaign, please contact Jack Murray, director of development, at 212-727-4449 or jmurray@nrdc.org

"Our Partnership for the Earth campaign, unparalleled in size and scope, will sharply focus NRDC's work to solve the most daunting environmental problems now confronting humankind."
—Frances Beinecke

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Campaign Overview

Campaign Overview

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Partnership for the Earth Campaign

Become a part of the most ambitious and important fundraising campaign in NRDC's history.

Campaign Goals & Results

NRDC's Partnership for the Earth Campaign aims to ensure a sustainable future for our planet by:

  • Focusing NRDC's work on six environmental priorities that address the most daunting environmental problems now confronting humankind;
  • Broadening public support and galvanizing action;
  • Building endowment funds to provide reliable, long-term support for our environmental priorities and strategic tools.

Learn more about our goals and objectives.

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Our Supporters

Solving our planet's environmental crisis will take a powerhouse organization with a visionary plan -- but it will also take the support of a dedicated group of donors with the courage, means and foresight to make a world-changing difference. We invite you to be among them.

What will your donation mean? A chance for you to play an indispensable role in the effort to ensure a sustainable future for life on Earth.


Meet our steering committee.

Josie Merck

Featured committee member:

Josie Merck has worked closely with NRDC for nearly two decades.

See Josie Merck's profile.

Our Environmental Priorities

Curb Global Warming

Curb Global Warming

Ten-Year Objective:

Stave off climate upheaval by steadily reducing global warming pollution in the United States and worldwide.

Campaign Goal:

$90 million

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Revive the World's Oceans

Revive the World's Oceans

Ten-Year Objective:

Protect and restore healthy populations of ocean wildlife through the creation of Marine Safe Zones at the state, national and international levels.

Campaign Goal:

$45 million

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Stem the Tide of Toxic Chemicals

Stem the Tide of Toxic Chemicals

Ten-Year Objective:

Begin reducing environmental disease by phasing out ten of the most dangerous families of toxic chemicals now found in consumer products.

Campaign Goal:

$60 million

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Create the Clean Energy Future

Move American Beyond Oil

Ten-Year Objective:

Transform the economy so 20 percent of U.S. energy comes from renewable sources and our buildings, communities and vehicles are 20 percent more energy-efficient.

Campaign Goal:

$45 million

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Save Wildlife and Wild Places

Save Wildlife and Wild Places

Ten-Year Objective:

Win permanent protection of endangered wild regions that surround and encompass NRDC BioGems -- unspoiled ecosystems threatened by development.

Campaign Goal:

$65 million

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Accelerate the Greening of China

Accelerate the Greening of China

Ten-Year Objective:

Avert environmental disaster by cutting China's growth in energy demand, cutting mercury consumption and shifting production to clean energy technologies.

Campaign Goal:

$20 million

Read about our victories

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Simple Steps
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