Everywhere we work and play and wherever you find the Toad, we consider ourselves locals. We support issues and events that locals care about. This is a listing of just some of the groups that we've helped with a combination of product, money and time in the last year.

The Conservation Alliance
www.conservationalliance.com
Outdoor businesses give back with big and growing support of grassroots citizen-action groups to protect wild areas in North America.

Camp Sunshine
www.campsunshine.org
A sweet retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses.

Environmental Defense Center
www.edcnet.org
Legal, educational and advocacy support for environmental quality on California's South Central Coast (home of the Toad).

Heal The Ocean
www.healtheocean.org
The ocean should not be used as a dump, going after the source of ocean pollution.

Leave No Trace
www.lnt.org
A center for outdoor ethics.

Organic Exchange
www.organicexchange.org
A unique resource for anyone interested in organic cotton.

Portland Trails
www.trails.org
Urban conservation in Portland, Maine (home of Toad retail and web ops).

Ripple Effect
www.rippleffect.net
Learning adventures in living classrooms.

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
www.sbiff.org
A world class film fest in our own backyard, celebrating the art of world cinema with film screenings, celebrity tributes, seminars and educational programs.

Telluride Mountainfilm
www.mountainfilm.org
Dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.

Ventura Hillsides Conservancy
www.venturahillsides.org
Working to preserve the hillsides and open space surrounding Ventura, ultimately creating the Ventura Hillsides Preserve (Ventura is home to several Toads).

 

Abused Women's Aid in Crisis www.awaic.org
Appleton Medical Center Foundation www.amcfoundation.org
Bald Mountain Rescue Fund
Berkshire Natural Resources Counsel www.bnrc.net
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston www.bgctc.org
Bristol Animal Shelter
Carmelite Nuns
CASA Project of Lexington www.lexingtoncasa.com
Climbing Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania www.c3pa.org
Food Bank of Santa Barbara www.foodbanksbc.org
Friends of Nepal www.friendsofnepal.com
Meet the Wilderness www.meetthewilderness.org
Missoula Food Bank www.missoulafoodbank.org
National Multiple Sclerosis Society www.nationalmssociety.org
Native Energy www.nativeenergy.com
Neighbor Impact www.neighborimpact.org
Outdoor Industry Women's Coalition www.oiwc.org
Partners in Care Foundation www.picf.org
Amelia Peabody Foundation www.ameliapeabody.org
People Helping People www.phputah.org
Project Joy www.projectjoy.com
Sawtooth Film Festival
St. John's Shelter for Women www.stjohnsshelter.org
St. Jude Children Reasearch Hospital www.stjude.org
The Breast Cancer Fund www.breastcancerfund.org
The Friendship Paddle www.friendshippaddle.org
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
The Upper Ojai Search & Rescue www.ojaisar.org
Wetlands Institute www.wetlandsinstitute.org
Wilderness Youth Project www.wyp.org
Yosemite Cleanup www.yosemiteclimbing.org

 

 

The choices we make are as important as the clothes we create. We try each day to lighten our environmental footprint, be good partners in all of our relationships, pay attention and stay active in our communities and support organizations that improve our world - the source of our daily adventures.