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Natural Resources Defense Council

non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City
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Summary

Natural Resources Defense Council is a nonprofit organization[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of nonprofit organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (655 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: environmental protection[3], climate change mitigation[4]
  • Award received: Rose-Walters Prize[5]
  • Member of: Digital Right to Repair Coalition[6], Alliance for Justice[7], International Union for Conservation of Nature[8]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New York City[9]
  • Country: United States[10]
  • Instance of: environmental organization[11]
  • Founder: John H. Adams[12], John Bryson[13], James Gustave Speth[14]
  • Movement: environmentalism[15]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[16]
  • Commons category: Natural Resources Defense Council[17]
  • Industry: environment[18]
  • Inception: 1970[19]
  • Official website: https://www.nrdc.org[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Natural Resources Defense Council[21]
  • Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization[22]
  • Short name: NRDC[23]
  • Total revenue: 177,129,164 US dollars[24], 197,585,835 US dollars[25], 181,821,968 US dollars[26], 182,319,651 US dollars[27], 186,185,838 US dollars[28], 273,728,385 US dollars[29], 193,144,386 US dollars[30], 97,057,964 US dollars[31], 98,701,707 US dollars[32], 115,962,571 US dollars[33], 121,617,764 US dollars[34], 155,192,637 US dollars[35], 129,809,261 US dollars[36], 204,253,182 US dollars[37]
  • Total assets: 602,252,452 US dollars[38], 675,576,177 US dollars[39], 576,913,705 US dollars[40], 248,951,243 US dollars[41], 241,823,296 US dollars[42], 268,165,564 US dollars[43], 293,669,408 US dollars[44], 306,293,488 US dollars[45], 301,556,189 US dollars[46], 366,746,425 US dollars[47], 411,463,366 US dollars[48], 442,841,915 US dollars[49], 467,259,503 US dollars[50], 600,593,128 US dollars[51]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[52]
  • Donations: 187,061,454 US dollars[53], 178,965,564 US dollars[54], 267,144,118 US dollars[55], 179,134,072 US dollars[56], 90,868,193 US dollars[57], 92,736,241 US dollars[58]

Why It Matters

Natural Resources Defense Council has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

FAQs

What awards did Natural Resources Defense Council receive?

Honors received include Rose-Walters Prize[5].

Related Entities

environmental protection New York City United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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