California Coastkeeper Alliance
Founded in 1999, the California Coastkeeper Alliance (CCKA) began as coalition of Southern California Waterkeepers and has since expanded to the Oregon border and into the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta. CCKA is a non-profit organization that coordinates, supports and enhances the work of local California Waterkeepers in order to ensure Californians enjoy clean water and a healthy coast. CCKA and its member Waterkeepers represent the only statewide-local partnership focused on the health of California’s waters and coastal ecosystems. By coordinating on-the-ground work at the community level and statewide policy work, CCKA protects and expands upon the advances made by local groups by educating state decision-makers about issues important to California communities.

California Trout
Founded in 1971, California Trout was the first statewide conservation group to focus on securing protections for California's unparalleled wild and native trout diversity. Working with local communities, business, partners and government agencies, California Trout employs conservation science, education, and advocacy to craft effective solutions for California's water resources and fisheries. Among its many current initiatives, California Trout is now leading the effort to save the official state fish, which is the California golden trout.

California Water Impact Network
The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) is a new non-profit organization focused on promoting equitable and environmentally sensitive uses of California's water through research, planning, advocacy, public education and litigation. C-WIN relies strongly on a Web presence to further its mission. Organizational goals include protecting in-stream flows, stopping groundwater overdraft and assuring that publicly owned water projects are operated in the public interest, all water transfers are subject to appropriate public review, and development projects have adequate water supplies.

Citizens United for Resources and the Environment
CURE is an action-oriented think tank promoting innovative approaches to water, resource and land development through education, research, and advocacy.  CURE's primary emphasis is in two arenas:

1. the development of safe and healthy communities through effective land use policies;
2. short- and long-term management of natural resources that benefit all sectors of the community, particularly traditionally disenfranchised groups.

CURE assembles multi-disciplinary teams representing a range of interests who work together to identify and fund practical solutions through public/private partnerships.

Community Water Center
Community Water Center seeks to ensure that all communities have access to safe, clean and affordable water. CWC creates community-driven water solutions through organizing, education and advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley. The Center employs three primary strategies in order to accomplish our goals:

• Educate, organize and provide legal assistance to low-income, communities of color facing local water challenges.
• Advocate for systemic change to address the root causes of unsafe drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley.
• Serve as a resource for information and expertise on community water challenges.

Environmental Law Foundation
ELF’s purpose is to improve environmental quality for those most at risk by providing access to information, strategies, and enforcement of environmental, toxics, and community right-to-know laws. ELF complements the approach of other environmental law groups by enforcing existing environmental regulations, providing a bridge of direct service to people in need, and serving as the critical link between at-risk communities and the legal, scientific, financial, and other resources they need to effectively address environmental problems. ELF's goals include:

• The development and implementation of innovative strategies to address environmental problems
• Targeting investigations and assistance to those with the least choice about and who are the most vulnerable to environmental risks
• Ensuring that companies provide complete and accurate consumer information about the environmental impacts of products and practices
• Reducing the risks from toxic exposure

Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
EJCW is a network of more than fifty grassroots and intermediary organizations. EJCW works to empower community members to become strong voices for water justice in their communities. They enable community members to take control of their water resources by participating in water policy, planning and decisions. They ensure policy makers are listening to the concerns of community members and hold policy makers accountable for the heavy impacts water policy has on low-income communities and communities of color. The coalition is building a collective, community-based movement for democratic water management and allocation in California.

Environmental Working Group
Environmental Working Group has specialized in environmental investigations since 1993. EWG’s team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pore over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and laboratory tests to expose threats to public health and the environment and to find solutions. EWG’s analysts, in addition to quantitative skills, have solid environmental backgrounds that help generate powerful, focused reports, which frequently shape national policy.

Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute
At Georgetown University Law Center, the Environmental Law and Policy Institute conducts research and education on legal and policy issues relating to protection of the environment and conservation of natural resources. The Institute brings critical academic thinking to bear on the basic legal and policy questions arising from public efforts to protect the environment. The Institute conducts research on major, cross-cutting issues that concern the philosophical and logical foundations of our nation's environmental policies. The Institute seeks to focus on the root causes of environmental degradation and foster discussion of systematic reforms.

Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national, non-profit organization, founded in 1970, that uses law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's natural resources. NRDC’s purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC works to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life--air, land and water--and to defend endangered natural places. NRDC seeks to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC strives to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations. NRDC works to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. NRDC seeks to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

Planning and Conservation League
The Planning and Conservation League is a statewide, non-profit lobbying organization. It is an alliance of individuals and conservation organizations united to protect California's environment through legislative and administrative action. For more than 30 years, PCL has fought to develop a body of environmental laws in California that is the best in the United States. PCL reviews virtually every environmental bill that comes before the California Legislature. PCL has testified in support or opposition of thousands of bills, working to strengthen California's environmental laws and fight off rollbacks of environmental protections.

POWER - Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights
POWER is a newly formed coalition of active environmentalists, landowners and business owners from Southern California. POWER has come together to protect the Salton Sea’s remaining vestiges and its deteriorating air quality due to the sea’s desertification. In tandem, POWER seeks a sustainable vision for growth and water use in San Diego County, calling for the appropriate and safe uses of recycled water alongside the improved management of groundwater supplies.

The Bay Institute
The Bay Institute (TBI) has been developing and leading model scientific research, education, and advocacy programs to preserve San Francisco Bay and its vast watershed — from the Sierra to the Golden Gate — since 1981. TBI’s mission is "to protect and restore the ecosystems of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and the rivers, streams, and watershed tributary to the Estuary."

Trout Unlimited
Trout Unlimited is the nation's largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization with approximately 130,000 members nationwide, including 10,000 Californians. The organization works to protect and restore California's salmon and steelhead resources in streams along the northern coast. Its members are involved in dozens of on-the-ground restoration projects and partnerships with agencies and stakeholders in the state.