National Environmental Education Foundation

Overview
Headquarters: 
Washington, DC
Website: 
neefusa.org
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
1990
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Areas of Focus: 
Environment
Education
Healthcare / Public Health
About Us
Mission: 

To make the environment more accessible, relatable, relevant, and connected to the daily lives of all Americans.

Programs: 

Conservation

  • National Public Lands Day: The nation’s largest single‐day volunteer effort for public lands, taking place every year on the fourth Saturday in September.
  • Employee Engagement: NEEF works with organizations on engagement campaigns to increase awareness and support for corporate social responsibility priorities, and encourage team members to take action on sustainability at work, as well as at home and in their communities. NEEF also convenes corporate thought leaders to assess best practices, conduct sustainability surveys, and create tools to measure the return on investment of engaging employees in environmental education and behaviors.
  • Engagement Campaigns: NEEF partners with sports leagues (such as the NBA and the NHL), museums, zoos, and aquaria to prompt fans and visitors to take environmental actions at home. These campaigns are grounded in behavioral science, engage Americans in "learning by doing," and demonstrate that collective actions can create large-scale impacts.

K-12 Education

  • Greening STEM: The outdoors facilitate real-world, project-based STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning. Our online Greening STEM Learning Center provides free materials and educator toolkits tied to standards.
  • National Environmental Education Week: A weeklong, nationwide celebration of environmental education.
  • Climate Superstars: A 10-day online environmental challenge for middle school students that gets kids excited about the environment and how they can take an active role in caring for its future.

Health

  • Asthma: NEEF works with health care professionals to inform the public about environmental triggers and management of asthma. NEEF also offers a free, online accredited eLearning course to help pediatric healthcare providers manage environmental asthma triggers and intervention strategies.
  • Nature Champions: NEEF trains health care providers to prescribe active time in nature to help prevent serious conditions like obesity and diabetes.
  • SunWise: Delivering sun safety education and materials to our nation’s educators and the public.
 
Why Work For Us?: 

NEEF cultivates a lively, supportive work culture based on inclusion, respect, and balance. We are diverse, creative professionals who are motivated to grow and committed to our mission of making the environment more accessible, relatable, relevant, and connected to the daily lives of all Americans. 

 
industry: 
Nonprofit