Our Partners
Bioneers
The Center for Children's Health and the Environment
Chefs Collaborative
Ecotrust
Environmental Working Group
Farm Aid
Green America
Healthy Child, Healthy World (formerly CHEC)
Heifer International
Holistic Moms Network
Land Stewardship Project
Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
National Gardening Association
The Organic Center
Rodale Institute
Sandra Steingraber
Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance
Wild Farm Alliance
Bioneers
Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Organic Valley sponsors the annual Bioneers conference which cultivates and disseminates environmental solutions to national and global audiences, educating, inspiring and equipping people toward effective action. The Annual Bioneers Conference is held in October in San Rafael, CA.
www.bioneers.org
The Center for Children's Health and the Environment
The Center for Children's Health and the Environment (CCHE) is the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness.
www.childenvironment.org
Chefs Collaborative
Chefs Collaborative works with chefs and the greater food community to celebrate local foods and foster a more sustainable food supply. The Collaborative inspires action by translating information about our food into tools for making knowledgeable purchasing decisions. Through these actions, our members embrace seasonality, preserve diversity and traditional practices, and support local economies.
www.chefscollaborative.org
Ecotrust
Ecotrust’s Food and Farms program endeavors to make sustainability the underlying value of the mainstream food system—the norm, not the exception. Through far-reaching projects, we build the market for locally grown, raised and processed foods in our own community and shorten the actual and perceived distance between eaters and their food sources. In turn, the economic vitality of our region becomes stronger in company with our personal and environmental health.
www.ecotrust.org/foodfarms
Environmental Working Group
Environmental investigations have been our specialty since 1993. Their team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pours over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and their own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.
www.ewg.org
Farm Aid
Farm Aid's goal is to keep family farmers on their land and to restore a 
strong family farm system of agriculture. To that end, Farm Aid brings together the common interests of family farmers, consumers, and people who care about the environment. Organic Valley partners with Farm Aid to build public awareness of the challenges and opportunities faced by family farmers today and in the future.
www.farmaid.org
Green America
Green America (previously "Co-op America") is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Green America works for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come.
Organic Valley sponsors Green America's Green Festivals and Green Business Conferences in cities across the U.S.
www.coopamerica.org
Healthy Child Healthy World
Healthy Child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. 
They educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Organic Valley is proud to support the mission of Healthy Child Healthy World, and their Blue Butterfly Campaign for healthy homes.
Heifer International
Heifer International has been working to give families a source of food rather than short-term relief for over 60 years, and today, 
families in 128 countries around the world have benefited from their aid, creating an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance. Heifer's mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth by "passing on the gift" of their animals' offspring, as well as the knowledge, resources and skills they've gained.
Read about Heifer's partnership with OV, and learn how you can help save American family farms, at www.heifer.org/organicvalley.
Holistic Moms Network
The Holistic Moms Network is a non-profit support and resource organization for parents interested in natural living, holistic health, and positive parenting with local chapters across the U.S. and Canada.
Land Stewardship Project
Since 1988, Land Stewardship Project's Farm Beginnings™ program has been a pioneer in helping new and transitioning farm 
families get established on the land. Organic Valley is proud to support the Land Stewardship Project and their invaluable work to nurture the next generation of organic farmers through education, hands-on training, and mentor and internship opportunities. To learn more about The Farm Beginnings program visit www.landstewardshipproject.org.
Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
MOSES is a farmer education and outreach organization working to promote organic farming. Projects include: the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference and the Organic University, held annually in La Crosse, WI; The Organic Broadcaster, a bi-monthly newspaper; and The Upper Midwest Organic Resource Directory. MOSES also sells books, organizes trainings, and answers farmers' questions on our organic farmer hotline.
www.mosesorganic.org
The National Gardening Association
The National Gardening Association (NGA) works to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the environment through gardening. NGA's programs and initiatives highlight the opportunities for plant-based education in schools, communities, and backyards across the country. Organic Valley has adopted a school garden through the NGA's innovative program. Learn more here.
The Organic Center
The Organic Center generates credible, peer reviewed information and 
communicates the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society, resulting in the conversion of agriculture to organic methods, improved health for the earth and its inhabitants, and greater awareness and demand for organic products.
www.organic-center.org
Rodale Institute
Pioneering organics since 1947, Rodale demonstrates the benefits of organic farming through innovative research. The Institute has trained farmers throughout the country and abroad in methods that replenish the soil and sequester carbon, thereby aiding the environment, and increasing nutrient density and drought resistance. Their soil scientists and a cooperating network of researchers have documented that organic farming techniques offer the best solution to global warming and famine.
More about Rodale
Sandra Steingraber
We are inspired by the work of Sandra Steingraber, the author of Having Faith. "Parents to be or anyone concerned with environmental pollution will want to read and discuss this—and act."
Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance
Founded in December 2006 by biodiesel advocates Kelly King, Annie Nelson and Daryl Hannah, the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA) was created to promote sustainable biodiesel practices, including the harvesting, production and distribution of biodiesel fuels. The SBA is facilitating a multi-stakeholder dialogue involving family farmers, environmental groups, biofuels experts, urban and rural communities and others in order to create a seal that will certify sustainably produced biodiesel. By working with the farmer who grows the feedstock, the producers who process biodiesel, the large fleet biodiesel user and communities seeking cleaner air, green jobs and energy security, the SBA is bringing people together to build a sustainable energy future that benefits all sectors of society.
www.fuelresponsibly.org
Waterkeeper Alliance
Organic Valley works in close partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance, a grassroots organization with individual Waterkeeper programs both nationally and internationally. 
The Waterkeeper Alliance is dedicated to preserving and protecting your water from polluters.
www.waterkeeper.org
Wild Farm Alliance
The Wild Farm Alliance promotes agriculture that helps to protect and restore wild Nature. We envision community-based, ecologically managed farms 
accommodating the full range of native species and ecological processes. In 2005, Organic Valley and Wild Farm Alliance entered into a partnership to create a bridge between the environmental and organic agriculture movements and raise farmer and public awareness about the importance of on-farm biodiversity and conservation strategies. Organic Valley is proud to support the Wild Farm Alliance platform.
www.wildfarmalliance.org
