The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. Audubon is a nonprofit conservation organization.

Audubon vision statement is “a world in which people and wildlife thrive.” Birds face an unprecedented number of threats—none more acute than climate change, which imperils nearly two-thirds of North American species. Audubon knows that protecting birds today and tomorrow requires substantial investments in the places they need most.  National Audubon is strategically driving three intersecting priorities literally across the hemisphere – we are leading on climate, hemispheric conservation, and ensuring we bring the largest representation of voices from all communities to the table.

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Goal One: Launching The Migratory Bird Explorer - this unprecedented tool tracks millions of point-to-point connections made across our hemisphere by following nearly 500 species of migratory birds.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Two: Implementing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging to create meaningful change both within Audubon and in conservation and birding more broadly.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Three: Audubon Conservation Ranching certifies beef products that are raised using bird-friendly farming and grazing practices. Expanding to 140 ranches encompassing 3.5 million acres of grassland.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Describe an investment in leadership

Internal affinity groups (ag's) are a vital part of our collective commitment to build a culture of inclusion and belonging. AGs are employee-led groups based on shared characteristics, experiences, goals, or interests. AG membership spans geographies and job titles, and as a result, the groups create community across the breadth of the network. AG membership spans geographies and job titles, and as a result, the groups create community across the breadth of the network. In the past year a number of AG's have been launched by staff, including: Audubon’s AGs include the Access Affinity Group, Alianza Latina Affinity Group (ALAS), Black Affinity Group, Caretakers Affinity Group, Community Service Affinity Group (CSAG), Early Career Professionals Affinity Group (ECPAG), LGBTQIA++ (Queer) Affinity Group, People of Color (POC) Affinity Group, and Women’s Employee Resource Group (WERG).

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Audubon environmental policy, education, and science experts guide lawmakers, agencies, and our grassroots in shaping effective conservation plans, actions, and the policies to support them. Additionally, the heart and soul of our organization is our nearly 500 local chapters nationwide that engage members in grassroots conservation. From formal partnerships building conservation coalitions in Latin America (Conserva Aves) to partnering with a dozen leading conservation groups including BirdLife International to launch The Bird Migration Explorer, to working with First Nation indigenous groups to protect the Boreal Forest, Audubon is an essential partner in conservation with a deep legacy among birders. In 2022 we will launch our 123rd annual Christmas Bird Count, the world's largest "Community scientists" effort to collect vital bird population data.

• In October 2019, Audubon published our most in-depth analysis to date of the climate crisis. Survival by Degrees integrated 140 million data points gathered by scientists and birders from across the continent to identify the locations where more than 600 North American bird species nest and breed. We then applied the latest climate models to determine what will happen to these places if current trends persist. The resulting analysis makes for sobering reading: Two-thirds of North American bird species are at risk of extinction if we experience a global increase in temperature of 3 degrees Celsius. To address this crisis, we continue to evolve and aggressively pursue environmental offsets to mitigate climate crisis. audubon is working diligently and effectively to incorporate climate-related factors across our work, and to raise awareness around the impacts of climate change on the places birds and people need across the hemisphere. Our success in sparking U.S.-based bipartisan support is especially critical when engaging policymakers and other stakeholders in conservative-led states. The need for increased donor support is another common theme across our climatedriven endeavors; in the coming years, our ability to help birds and people will depend on our success in building capacity through donor generosity. Many of Audubon’s on-the-ground conservation efforts benefit birds by promoting natural climate solutions that increase carbon sequestration while protecting wildlife habitat. A few examples: Efforts by Audubon Alaska to protect the Tongass National Forest have helped underscore the value of this vital resource, which stores over 50% of the carbon in the U.S. Audubon Dakota is working with ranchers to promote regenerative grazing practices that help store additional carbon in the soil. Audubon California helped lay the groundwork for an executive order that cites natural climate solutions as an essential tool for mitigating climate change.