Resource Category: Advocacy, Outreach & Education

Organizational Summary

Our Mission: Connecting and transforming communities through the power of trails.

We drive our mission by fostering positive change in key areas:

• Professional Development and Education: Promoting well-trained trail professionals and volunteers.
• Advocacy: Forming coalitions to shape pro-trail policies at all government levels.
• Data and Research: Cultivating support through partnerships.
• Funding and Resources: Enhancing access for under-resourced organizations and underserved communities.

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Integrated Dance Collaboratory – Mason Gross Dance Department Rutgers University Our Mission: The IDC researches and promotes the role of dance as an effective intervention for public health, wellness, education and the professionalization of integrated dance arts. The IDC accomplishes its mission by fostering research, teaching, creative activity and performance, and community engagement, with a particular interest in integrating people with a variety of disabilities. As an interdisciplinary hub bringing together artists and scientists, the IDC explores the full spectrum of dance’s unique rehabilitative, therapeutic and expressive potential, challenging abled-bodied paradigms to expand thinking and actions toward inclusive and equitable embodiment and personhood. We offer a variety of classes and programs for people with movement disorders, adults with autism spectrum disorders, and other various disabilities. Helping to bridge the gap between dance and disability.

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We create programs and opportunities for sustainable positive impacts on the health, well-being, safety and strength of our oceans and communities. We develop and implement innovative programs and events that build personal, emotional connections between communities and the oceans we share. Our vision is for people to have life-long, personal connections to the water along with the knowledge, skills and tools that will make those experiences safe, empowering and Ocean Positive.

Blue Journey Unified Programs (BJUP) offer adults living with Spinal Cord Injuries, Disorders and Movement Challenges (SCI/D/MC) the opportunities to play, train and compete year around in open water sport disciplines of paddle-boarding, swimming and kayak. The program offers pool training (swimming and prone paddle-boarding) in the winter and open-water prone paddle-boarding, kayak and swimming programming in the summer.

Organizational Summary

The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is a volunteer-powered organization that builds, maintains, and protects more than 2,100 miles of public trails in the Northeast. Together with our partners, we strive to ensure that the trails and natural areas we share are sustainable and accessible for all to enjoy for generations to come.

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Primary mission is to preserve the Pine Barrens ecosystem, promote public engagement in the preservation and enjoyment of natural resources, and advance the acquisition of land and development rights for conservation.

We seek to connect people with nature by promoting universal and equitable enjoyment of the benefits of our natural resources.

With Pinelands Adventures and The Pinelands Is for Everyone, we help people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities explore nature through health-giving recreation – and so develop a genuine devotion to environmental protection.

Through Rancocas Creek Farm, our regenerative vegetable farm, we are developing an array of projects and partnerships to increase sustainable farming and bring healthy food from local farmers to all South Jersey families.

We are dedicated to furthering justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our staff and our work. Everyone should have access to recreation, clean air and water and the scenic beauty the Pinelands provides. Pinelands Preservation Alliance does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in its program or activities. Read our justice, equity, diversity and inclusion vision statement.

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The Watershed Institute is located in Hopewell Township, NJ near Pennington. The Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting clean water and the environment through conservation, advocacy, science, and education. The Institute’s visitor center contains educational exhibits that teach about water and native flora and fauna, as well as rest rooms, a water fountain, and a gift shop. The center is ADA accessible and is situated along an ADA trail system. The Watershed Center’s hours are Weekdays: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sat. & Sun.: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Most Holidays: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The phone number for the site (609) 737-3735