Our mission is to restore the Earth’s essential forest and wetland ecosystems. We envision the Earth in balance–its original vitality and natural abundance available to all, for generations to come.
Our strategy and business model were triggered by a natural disaster–one that only a comprehensive and sustained partnership between the public and private sectors could effectively address.
Our Founders were attending the White House Conference on Conservation when Hurricane Katrina slammed southern states in August 2005. The scale of the storm’s damage and devastation made it clear that no one entity, government, private nor individual, could effectively respond.
Our Founders worked alongside federal and state agencies, private, philanthropic, and community organizations to initiate landscape scale forest restoration, along the Gulf Coast. When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred, Restore the Earth and its partners were the first to employ restoration on oil-soiled wetlands.
Since 2008, Restore the Earth has secured over $40 million in private, federal & state funding to reforest over 50,000 acres along the Gulf Coast damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
ITHACA, NY 14850-1294 | Tax-exempt since Aug. 2010
EIN: 27-2916940
Classification (NTEE) Pollution Abatement and Control Services (Environmental Quality, Protection and Beautification )
Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) Defined as: Organizations for any of the following purposes: religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition (as long as it doesn’t provide athletic facilities or equipment), or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.
Donations to this organization are tax deductible.
Established in 2018 to promote and to support community land trusts and similar strategies of community-led development on community-owned land in countries throughout the world.
Together we speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. We organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of our economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
