American Farmland Trust - Founded in 1980 to protect American farmland; unites farmers, environmentalists and policymakers.

Center for the Rocky Mountain West - a regional studies center at The University of Montana dedicated to developing a regional awareness for charting the future and understanding the region's heritage and cultural diversity.

Civic Tourism The Poetry & Politics of Place - "provides a forum for communities to decide if and how the individual ingredients of place (cultural, built, and natural) can be integrated to create an appealing, dynamic, and distinctive community identity."

Land Trust Alliance - "promotes voluntary private land conservation to benefit communities and natural systems, services as a national convener, strategist and representative of more than 1,500 land trusts across America."

Grand Canyon Trust - "a regional, non-profit conservation organization that advocates collaborative, common sense solutions to the significant problems affecting the region’s natural resources; focused in the greater Grand Canyon region of northern Arizona, and in the forests and red rock country of central and southern Utah."

Iowa Project on Place Studies - fosters teaching and research in the concept of place, the interconnections between places across the globe, and local, state, and regional studies.

National Trust for Historic Preservation - a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and revitalizing America's communities.

Project for Public Spaces - "a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. Since 1975, PPS has worked in over 1,500 communities in the United States and around the world, helping people to grow their public spaces into vital community places."

Sustainable Communities Network - how citizens are creating safe, livable, healthy communities that are more environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially equitable.

Smart Growth Online - "a web-based catalogue of Smart Growth related news, events, information and resources. Developed and funded through a cooperative agreement between the US EPA and the Sustainable Communities Network, this tool is designed to advance public understanding of smart growth and how growth can improve community livability.

Sonoran Institute - a nonprofit organization that "works with communities to conserve and restore important natural landscapes in Western North America, including the wildlife and cultural values of these lands. The Institute's efforts create lasting benefits, including healthy landscapes and vibrant livable communities that embrace conservation as an integral element of their economies and quality of life."

State Trust Land Joint Venture - "assist diverse communities in improving state trust land administration in the American West. The Joint Venture seeks to assist trust land managers in balancing public values with fiduciary responsibility by promoting improved trust land stewardship, collaborative land-use planning, and efficient and effective trust land asset management.

The Trust for Public Land (TPL) - "a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come. of 150 prominent Arizona citizens twice a year to discuss major concerns about Arizona's future."