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Sagawau Environmental Learning Center
Mission: Environmental educational center that serves the public by providing high quaility education programs. There are no self-guided nature trails or museum building. All programs are scheduled and accompanied by a naturalist. The only exception is nordic skii...

Salt Creek Greenway Association
Mission: To identify, preserve and promote the natural, historic, cultural and leisure resources of the Salt Creek Greenway and spheres of interest and support expansion and connection of linear trails.

Salt Creek Watershed Network
Mission: The Salt Creek Watershed Network's mission is to seek a common vision and provide coordination and promote communication among the various volunteer groups, citizens, businesses, agencies and others operating and living within the watershed. By facilitati...

Sand Ridge Nature Center
Mission: To provide individuals, families, schools and other organized groups the highest quality education program possible that will promote a better understanding of local natural history as well as ecological and historical relationship to the local community ...

Save the Dunes
Mission: Established in 1952, the mission of Save the Dunes is to preserve, protect and restore the Indiana dunes and all natural resources in Northwest Indiana’s Lake Michigan Watershed for an enhanced quality of life.

Save the Prairie Society
Mission: To protect Wolf Road Prairie, acquire natural areas and wildlife habitat, enhance biodiversity, restore native ecosystems and provide outdoor classroom tours, field trips, special events and conservation education programs through volunteer grassroots act...

SCARCE
Mission: We help people discover how easy it can be to make a meaningful difference for our kids, for our environment, for our future…and often for all three at once.
Volunteer Opportunities

Schaumburg Park District / Spring Valley Nature Center
Mission: Spring Valley's mission is to educate area residents regarding the natural and cultural history of the Schaumburg area and how people have and continue to interact with and upon the landscape.
Jobs & Internships

Severson Dells Nature Center
Mission: To link people of all ages to nature in the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin area. We promote awareness of the natural world, fostering respect, enjoyment and preservation, now and in the future.
Volunteer Opportunities

Shirley Heinze Land Trust
Mission: The mission of Shirley Heinze Land Trust is to preserve and restore natural lands and waters in northwestern Indiana, and to engage people in nature and conservation.
Volunteer Opportunities

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, Chicago Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to...

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, Eagle View Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to...

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, Northwest Cook County Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to...

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, River Prairie Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth, to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment, and to...

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, Sauk-Calumet Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to...

Sierra Club—Illinois Chapter, Woods and Wetlands Group
Mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the Earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to...

Skokie Park District / Emily Oaks Nature Center
Mission: The purpose of Emily Oaks Nature Center is to help people build a sense of relationship with the natural world through feelings and understandings-a relationship that grows to include personal responsibility to the earth.
Volunteer Opportunities
Jobs & Internships

Southeast Environmental Task Force
Mission: Our mission is to inform and educate all members of the southeast Chicagoland community, including residents, businesses, and leaders, in areas related to the improvement of our neighborhood’s environment. We strive for sustainable development of resident...

Spring Brook Nature Center
Mission: The Village of Itasca's Spring Brook Nature Center shall restore, manage, preserve, and interpret its unique resources for the public good and for fostering environmental stewardship.

St. Charles Park District
Mission: To enrich the quality of life of Park District residents by: 1. Providing diverse programs, parks and facilities to promote the well-being of residents. 2. Preserving and protecting open spaces and high quality natural areas. 3. Improving the environmenta...

Stillman Nature Center
Mission: The Stillman Nature Center is a private, not-for-profit center for environmental education located on 80 acres of woods, lake and prairie in South Barrington, Illinois. A former estate, the land was donated by Alexander Stillman for the purpose of establi...
Volunteer Opportunities

Student Conservation Association (The)
Mission: SCA’s mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of the environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land.
Jobs & Internships



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