ECO MURAL PROJECT

The Monarch Joint Venture is a national partnership dedicated to conserving monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Since 2008, the MJV has brought together partners from across the United States in a unified effort to conserve the monarch migration. This diverse partnership includes federal and state agencies, other nonprofits, community groups, businesses, and academic programs that work together to implement science-based conservation actions in the form of education, habitat, and science. These actions are organized in a regularly updated Monarch Conservation Implementation Framework, which serves as a framework to guide conservation planning for individuals, partners, and other interested stakeholders nationally.

North American Land Trust (NALT) is 501c3 conservation charity whose mission is to permanently conserve and steward natural and cultural resources through innovative land preservation partnerships. Since its start in 1992, NALT has proudly preserved more than 139,000 acres of natural land in 24 states, primary through permanent conservation easements. NALT’s Vision is to establish strategic partnerships, creatively engage the community, and promote innovative solutions to permanently conserve and steward land.

We work with individuals all over the country to conserve the land that is special to them, ensuring that the natural, cultural and historic features, scenic beauty and important ecosystems are protected forever. Through our strategic conservation planning services, we offer creative solutions that are both visionary and pragmatic for achieving our conservation partner’s goals. NALTs areas of expertise include: Land Protection, Conservation Management, Monitoring & Stewardship, Planning & Design, and Research & Education.

The Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP) is a nonprofit organization that plants and supports community orchards in Philadelphia, creating beautiful green spaces, connecting neighbors, providing hands-on learning experiences, and growing fresh fruit for generations to come.

POP currently supports 70 orchards in 24 zip codes across the city. Since 2007, we've planted over 30,000 edible and useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, fruiting vines, perennial vegetables, herbs, and pollinator plants. We champion orchards and food forests as a path for long-term community-owned change, driven by a vision of a just and equitable city where everyone has access to fresh food, clean air, and nature. Our model is grounded in partnership with community groups. POP provides partners with guidance, training, resources, and hands-on support. Partner groups own, maintain, harvest, and distribute within their community.

Since our founding in 1997, Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Each day, we work to create a future in which we will have a sustainable and equitable world for people and pollinators, with food production, ecosystems, and economies thriving. Our various programs are centered around habitat creation, creating educational resources and opportunities, and administering research initiatives that seek to fill in the gaps in our knowledge about pollinators and their role supporting our ecosystems.

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is a nonprofit organization that protects our world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. Xerces works throughout North America to conserve pollinators and other invertebrates, protect endangered species, and reduce pesticide use and impacts. Our staff use applied research, policy advocacy, public education and on-the-ground habitat improvement to advance meaningful, long-term conservation. Xerces is the largest invertebrate conservation organization in the world.

For over 50 years, we have been champions of Earth’s most biodiverse and overlooked animals, protecting the life that sustains us. Xerces was founded in 1971 by lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle. After hearing of the impending loss of the large blue butterfly from Britain, he was inspired to begin the first organization in the U.S. dedicated to preventing similar extinctions. Our name (which is pronounced Zer-sees, or /ˈzɚˌsiz/) comes from the now-extinct Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces), the first butterfly known to go extinct in North America as a result of human activities.