Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
http://www.pgafoundations.com/default.aspx
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation envisions building healthy communities includes nurturing the arts, engaging children in learning, addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, and advancing scientific/technological discovery through grantmaking.

Vulcan
http://vulcan.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentId=1
Vulcan is a multidisciplinary organization that creates and advances a variety of world-class endeavors and high impact initiatives that change and improve the way we live, learn, do business and experience the world.

Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators place appropriate levels of copyright protection on their creative work.

ePals
http://www.epals.com/
ePals is a global community of collaborative learners, teachers, and academic experts in 200 countries and territories. ePals distributes projects with curricular materials for use in the classroom, and in addition, it socially networks classrooms together so that students can share materials and chat with each other.

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application, focusing on enabling people to share content as well as organize their photos and video.

GOOGLE Earth/Ocean
http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth is a virtual globe program that enables users to see photographs and information about sites around the world. It has recently expanded its coverage to include ocean sites. Google Ocean will be similar to other 3D online mapping applications, and will enable people to be able to see underwater topography; search for particular spots or attractions; and navigate through the digital environment by zooming and panning.

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

IUCN
http://www.iucn.org/
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to the most pressing environment and development challenges. It supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and brings governments, non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practices.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA's mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. The organization was formed in 1958 by then-President Dwight Eisenhower.

NASA GLOBE
http://www.globe.gov/r
NASA GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. Founded in 1995, GLOBE has a network of 40,000 teachers in more than 20,000 schools around the world, and representatives in 110 participating countries.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.noaa.gov /
NOAA is an agency formed to generate understanding and predict changes in Earth’s environment, and to conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation’s economic, social, and environmental needs.

National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. NSDL seeks to serve a vital role as a STEM educational cyberlearning resource for the nation, meeting the informational and technological needs of educators and learners at all levels.

Outhink Media
http://outhink.com/home
Outhink Media provides services and software to connect, inform and inspire a fast growing community of independent video producers and other new media artists. Through website properties like ourmedia.org, SpinXpress.com and other efforts, Outhink Media hosts a friendly gathering place for participants to share ideas, collaborate and market their skills.

PISCO
http://www.piscoweb.org/
PISCO is a large-scale marine research program that focuses on understanding the nearshore ecosystems of the U.S. West Coast. An interdisciplinary collaboration of scientists from four universities, PISCO integrates long-term monitoring of ecological and oceanographic processes at dozens of coastal sites with experimental work in the lab and field. Program participants explore how individual organisms, populations, and ecological communities vary over space and time. PISCO's findings are applied to issues of ocean conservation and management, and are shared through public outreach and student training programs.

Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org/
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All their activities are guided by the core principles of open access, excellence, scientific integrity, breadth, cooperation, financial fairness, community engagement, internationalism, and science as a public resource.