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Welcome to the official website of the
Group for the East End!
In celebration of our 35 years of accomplishments and the opening of a North Fork office, we are proud to announce that we have changed our name from Group for the South Fork to Group for the East End. Join our Action Team today! |
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OVERVIEW The Group for the East End is a volunteer-directed, professionally staffed, not-for-profit environmental advocacy organization established in 1972. The Group is dedicated to protecting the environment, rural character and quality of life across the East End through public advocacy and public education. The Group is the only professionally-staffed, not-for-profit organization dedicated to using public advocacy to protect our region's diverse wetlands, bays and harbors, forests, coastlines, farmlands and historic community character. See our current newsletter for our most recent activities. The Group derives its support from 2,500 individuals, family members, foundations and local businesses. The Group does not rely on government funding to operate its programs, so we can serve as an objective watchdog of local and regional governmental decisions that ultimately determine the future protection of the local environment and the quality of life of everyone who enjoys the resources of the East End.
The Group's full-time staff of professional planners, ecologists
and environmental educators bring more than 75 years of collective land use, education
and public advocacy experience to the local community. The Group has an impressive
record of convincing local governments to rethink major development proposals; overhaul
local zoning codes; adopt new wetlands, open space and farmland preservation laws;
and to invest their resources in projects that clean up local waters, conserve our
beaches and protect wildlife habitats.
In response to community
need, the Group has greatly expanded its public and classroom environmental education
programs over the last ten years. Each year, the Group reaches more than 1,000 local
students through its school-based education
programs, and sponsors a wide range of environmental action and outdoor educational
programs [explorations] for the entire community.
These programs have succeeded in providing the public with a heightened understanding
of the natural world and the importance of public participation in accomplishing
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In response to the intensive
pressure for development across the region, the Group is expanding its work in the
arena of community and environmental planning for multi-town issues, such as coastal erosion,
local airport expansion, natural gas terminals, groundwater protection and open
space preservation. Although the Group must remain vigilant in the environmental
review of individual development projects, it has become clear that a strong and
informed environmental voice must be part of the community planning process if long-term
environmental protection is to be assured for the future.
Letters and donations can
be sent to:
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Privacy Policy:
Group for the East End will not sell or trade a donor's personal information to
any other entity
in existence without their written permission. For a complete copy of our privacy policy, please see literature. If you would like a copy of our latest annual report or IRS Form 990, please see literature, call (631) 537-1400, ext. 20, or write to the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. |
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