We’re honored to be hosting these incredible organizations on tour this year.  Stop by the WaterWheel tables to make a donation in person or donate to the online by clicking the Donate button below. We’ll be updating this list as the tour progresses – keep checking back for more!

1/29-2/1 Riviera Maya, Mexico – Centro Educativo K’iin Beh

K’iin Beh—which means “towards the sun” in Mayan—is a bilingual non-profit school established for local children of the community Cristo Rey in Playa del Carmen. Under the leadership of Principal Raquel Mitre, the school offers full time, bilingual education for over 400 students in Kindergarten, elementary and middle school. Thanks to its scholarship-based enrollment, K’iin Beh is accepting students from all economic backgrounds.

4/18-19 Seattle, WA – Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank

The Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank runs the busiest kitchen in Pike Place Market, serving over 58,000 free, tasty meals in 2024. They are a hybrid agency that combines a food bank, a senior center, and a frontline human services agency that assists people experiencing homelessness and other crises.

4/20 Portland, OR – Tualatin Riverkeepers

Tualatin Riverkeepers is a community-based organization working to protect the Tualatin River watershed through advocacy, restoration work, river access, and education.

4/22-23 San Francisco, CA – Edgewood Center for Children and Families

Edgewood is the premier resource for youth and families in the Bay Area facing mental health challenges, trauma, and family crises. As the first nonprofit in the western United States, they have been transforming lives since 1851, offering over 15 innovative programs across San Francisco and San Mateo counties.

4/25-27 Los Angeles, CA – Southern CA Fire Recovery Fund

MusiCares
NourishLA
Sweet Relief
California Community Foundation
NDLON
Pasadena Community Foundation

6/20 Manchester, NH – Conservation Law Foundation

Conservation Law Foundation forges lasting solutions to environmental challenges for the people of New England. For nearly 60 years, CLF has taken on powerful opponents who would pollute our air and water and squander our resources. By tackling critical issues such as climate change, clean water, and sustainable communities, CLF fights to protect our way of life and ensure vibrant natural landscapes for future generations.

6/22 Manchester, NH – Connecticut River Conservancy

The Connecticut River Conservancy restores and advocates for clean water, healthy habitats, and resilient communities to support a thriving Connecticut River watershed in NH, VT, MA, and CT. They remove dams to restore rivers for fish passage; advocate for habitat-friendly bills, licenses, and permits; remove aquatic invasive species and plant native trees and shrubs; organize many different types of recreational and educational events; engage volunteers in community science; and even have a water quality lab as part of their monitoring program.

6/23 Manchester, NH – General Fund

6/24 Pittsburgh, PA – Allegheny Cleanways

Since 2000, Allegheny CleanWays has been engaging and partnering with community groups to remove more than 5.4 million pounds of debris from vacant lots, wooded hillsides, alleyways, roadsides, streams, and riverbanks. Each year hundreds of their volunteers remove trash from the landscape to improve community health and vitality. They also work on litter and illegal dumping prevention, conduct cleanup coordinator workshops, and advocate for policies to reduce the amount of trash produced.

6/27 Austin, TX – LifeWorks Austin

LifeWorks serves youth and young families, many of whom have experienced homelessness, by providing wrap-around services through their Housing, Counseling, Education & Workforce programs. They meet their clients where they are, and support their pursuit of a life they love. Successes can include finding stable housing, addressing trauma through counseling, earning a high school diploma, and finding employment.

6/28 Austin, TX – General Fund

7/3 Boulder, CO – EFAA

Since 1918 EFAA has served as Boulder’s community safety net, helping thousands of families and individuals navigate through times of economic hardship. They work in collaboration with volunteers, donors, partners, and participants to ensure the community has access to food, housing, and other resources to move toward financial stability and resilience. When families thrive, the community is stronger.

7/4 Boulder, CO – Conscious Alliance

Conscious Alliance is a national nonprofit hunger relief organization that unifies bands, brands, artists, and fans to collectively support communities in crisis. Their alliance comes together to bring food and other essential goods directly to economically-isolated communities across the country. By partnering with schools, pantries, and other organizations working in the hearts of neighborhoods and remote areas including Native American reservations, they’ve been able to deliver 13 million meals and counting to kids, families, disaster victims, and those experiencing homelessness.

7/5 Boulder, CO – General Fund

7/9 Columbus, OH – Local Matters

Local Matters works to create healthier communities through food education, access, advocacy, and rescue. With the impending cuts to programming, they are bracing for unprecedented times. Through Veggie Van pop-ups and repurposing of rescued foods via Ro’s Kitchen, they are working hard to make healthy food accessible to all of their neighbors.

7/11 N Charleston, SC – Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston Waterkeeper’s mission is to protect, defend, and restore the health and integrity of Charleston’s waterways for people and nature. They employ a three-pronged strategy, using science, stewardship, and advocacy to bring their mission for clean water to life.

7/12 N Charleston, SC – General Fund

7/13 N Charleston, SC – General Fund

7/15 Philadelphia, PA – Delaware Riverkeeper Network

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) champions the rights of the community to a Delaware River and tributary streams that are free-flowing, clean, healthy, and abundant with a diversity of life. Since 1988, DRN has grown into a leading environmental organization with the ability to provide effective environmental advocacy, analyze technical studies and agency materials, implement cutting edge scientific studies, and enforce compliance with environmental laws. They work throughout the four states of the Watershed (NY, NJ, PA, and DE) and at the federal level when issues that impact the health of the Watershed play out on a national stage.

7/16 Philadelphia, PA – General Fund

7/18 Chicago, IL – Just Roots

Just Roots envisions caring communities that motivate and support all residents to participate and access food in ways that promote and sustain the holistic health of people and the environment. In pursuit of that vision, they lead regenerative community farms in collaboration with organizations rooted in disinvested communities.

7/19 Chicago, IL – Alliance for the Great Lakes

The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes. For more than 50 years, they’ve been working to protect, conserve, and restore the Great Lakes, ensuring healthy water in the lakes and in our communities for all generations of people and wildlife.

7/20 Chicago, IL – General Fund

7/22 Forest Hills, NY – Queens Community House

Queens Community House provides individuals and families with the tools to enrich their lives and build healthy, inclusive communities. Through a broad network of programs operating out of 40 sites, they offer Queens residents a much-needed support system at every stage of life, helping them to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to change their lives for the better and become active participants in their community.

7/23 Forest Hills, NY – General Fund

7/25 Saratoga Springs, NY – Pitney Meadows Community Farm

Founded in 2016, Pitney Meadows Community Farm’s mission is to celebrate and explore agricultural education, healthy food production, and recreation. Located on 166 acres in the heart of the City of Saratoga Springs and preserved in perpetuity as a working farm, Pitney Meadows is a unique resource. They aim to create a dynamic, inclusive, and resilient community that thrives on a shared commitment to the well-being of the environment and one another. They seek innovative ways to not only sustain agricultural endeavors but to also sow the seeds of a more vibrant, compassionate, and interconnected community.

7/26 Saratoga Springs, NY – LifeWorks Community Action

LifeWorks Community Action works to alleviate poverty at the local level in Saratoga County and the Northern Capital Region. Over the past 50 years, they’ve built a strong network of programs and resources that address the wide range of challenges low-income families face in the community including hunger, utility costs, child care, and language barriers. These programs have helped thousands of neighbors in Saratoga County and beyond meet their immediate needs and work toward economic security.

7/27 Saratoga Springs, NY – General Fund