Amazon Aid Foundation

The Amazon Aid Foundation (AAF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization harnessing the power of multimedia and film to educate about the importance of the Amazon and the implications of its destruction while promoting working solutions to protect it. AAF’s award-winning projects affect global policy change and activate audiences worldwide to engage in sustainable approaches to protect the Amazon and demand responsibly sourced products.‎ Our multimedia, accompanying educational curriculum, and social impact campaigns empower alliances of students, scientists, artists, NGOs, governments, and global citizens, and support stakeholders in the Amazon to further legislation and sustainable methods to protect and revitalize the rainforests.

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Services, Opportunities and Events:

We offer multiple ongoing projects that work with some of the world’s best tropical scientists to create scientifically impeccable multi-media to educate global audiences about the importance of the Amazon, the implications of its destruction, and to promote realistic solutions for protecting it. One of those projects is the Cleaner Gold Network whose primary goal is to protect the Amazon rainforest by creating cleaner gold and a more responsible supply chain from the ground to the consumer. The Cleaner Gold Network’s initiatives include awareness, consumer change and industry engagement. Amazon Aid Foundation’s documentary, River of Gold, sounds the alarm about a dire threat to the Amazon rainforest threatening to push it to a tipping point: illicit gold mining. River of Gold is an important film that has been seen all over world from the UN in Geneva, to the Vatican, to classrooms worldwide educating global audiences about the devastating consequences of illicit and unregulated gold mining in the Amazon. Amazon Aid's Artists for the Amazon program provides opportunities to take action and inspire change through creative expression – be it visual mediums, written word, film or music.

Commitments & Key Aims:

The Amazon Aid Foundation's focus is to create global awareness about the importance of the Amazon, the implications of its destruction, and systemic solutions for protecting it. Amazon Aid Foundation supports and promotes advocacy efforts related to human and indigenous rights, clean water and the protection of species and habitat. One of main missions is to mitigate issues related to illicit and unregulated gold mining in the Amazon, a growing and dangerous threat to the health of this invaluable ecosystem and its peoples.

Information current as of 4 March 2022.