I love ELAW and am honored to be able to contribute to their work. It brings me hope to know there are people fighting the good fight for the planet.

ELAW is a nonprofit that is adamant about promoting environmental justice on a global scale by using science and law. As a volunteer, my career and personal interests were met while completing work for the organization. Volunteering at ELAW exposed me to the importance of science in formulating just, factual, and influential policy.

I worked with ELAW this summer and had an all-around excellent experience in their office! The staff is professional, hard-working, and welcoming. The entire team showed an endless dedication to supporting communities around the world that are fighting for responsible environmental policies. I cannot rate this organization highly enough!

I volunteered at ELAW this year and it was an amazing experience. Everyone who works there is incredibly welcoming, respectful, and intelligent. They make the effort to get to know you and give you the opportunity to get to know them. I was constantly inspired and impressed by all staff members and I am thankful for the opportunity.

As a professor of environmental law for 40 years, I have long been impressed by the dedication and creativity of ELAW. I helped found ELAW more than 25 years ago, with local public interest advocates in 9 countries as the co-founders.

Most notable about ELAW is the concern each staff member shows for support of empowerment of local advocates around the world. The staff is the most stable and caring of any organization I have ever known. And it shows in results. Public interest lawyers and scientists in their home countries are achieving remarkable victories -- all with the support of the ELAW staff.

ELAW is unique. Other environmental law organizations in the United States who try to work internationally do not have the unremitting focus on LOCAL empowerment that ELAW has. ELAW does not dominate; it facilitates. And in the process, environmental law advocates in more than 70 countries grow their expertise and experience. They are the ones who will be available to the citizens in their countries for decades to come. They never leave. ELAW helps them be great.

I have followed ELAW from its inception and I am so impressed with its core mission - an alliance of independently operating public interest attorneys in countries around the world - and the way it meets that mission - with amazing intelligence, integrity, concern for the health of the world's environment (and each other) and good humor

I've always admired ELAW and the work they do for the global environmental community. I started off as a translation volunteer and was offered to intern for them. I have learned so much during my time here, not only about environmental advocacy, but about legal processes, nonprofit administration and grant funding. The staff here love what they do and are very respectful.

It’s been years since I first heard the amazing job that ELAW does to protect the environment around the world. I now have the honor to volunteer as a summer legal intern, and it has been one of the best experiences of my life. The staff is extremely nice, welcoming, and very passionate about environmental protection. I worked with different environmental law issues and it was very inspiring to contribute to support environmental lawyers in their fight for a healthy environment in every corner of the world. Go ELAW!

I am volunteering with ELAW this summer and have been amazed by the work that they do here. The staff is friendly, passionate and dedicated to addressing environmental injustice across the globe. By combining legal and scientific expertise, ELAW successfully helps partners across the globe build stronger cases to protect the environment. This experience has been incredibly educational and inspiring!

I have been interning with ELAW this summer and have experienced first hand, the dedication and passion for environmental protection that each member of the staff holds. I am truly grateful to have this experience with such an important organization that does everything in its power to support grassroots environmental efforts across the globe.

I volunteered with ELAW for their annual meeting and was blown away by how welcoming and friendly all of their staff and affiliates were. They provide an important service to our community, as well as globally by advocating for environmental protection. I feel really lucky to have had the opportunity to help host environmental lawyers and activists from all over the world and to have contributed, albeit minutely, to such an important cause.

I had a great time volunteering with ELAW. Everyone was so kind, helpful, and instructive to me, and I learned a lot while getting involved! The people I met were dedicated and hard working individuals. I would definitely volunteer again in the future. They do amazing and important work.

After spending several years working within tourism and recreation industries abroad, I came back home to Oregon hoping to become involved with a non-profit dedicated to environmental protection.
A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of ELAW, and I have had the privilege to assist a phenomenal group of people who are dedicated in every way to environmental justice for people all over the world. It's truly incredible to see the changes that are taking place throughout the world through legal precedent and activism, and the role that ELAW plays in the movement towards a healthier and safer earth.

I started volunteering with ELAW in early 2017 after recently moving to Eugene. They were enormously welcoming and encouraging, and have allowed me to work on a number of interesting projects. ELAW is able to build productive relationships between the scientists and lawyers they work with, making international efforts to protect the environment all the more effective. ELAW is driven by a group of experienced and hardworking people who are passionate in their advocacy for the environment.

I have been volunteering with ELAW since August 2016, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here so far. Since the very first day, I have encountered countless friendly faces and dedicated, inspiring environmental activists. I can tell that by merely being surrounded by all of the important work being done here at ELAW, my time spent helping out will have been extremely worth while and enriching!

I started volunteering with ELAW in early October 2016. So far, I've already worked on several projects that are different in subject matter, but all have the potential to contribute greatly to addressing environmental issues around the world. I have had a great experience working here and seeing the commitment that everyone has to fostering positive change.

I am a volunteer for ELAW and have been volunteering with them for four years. This is an impressive organization with internal cohesion and productive exchange of ideas. It is an organization that helps to promote conservation advocacy strategies world-wide by means of a productive exchange of ideas with other countries. The aim of ELAW is to help others achieve the skills and means to advocate for environmental change in their respective countries. It is a very dedicated group of people who work hard for environmental change.

I am currently volunteering at ELAW. In the short time I have been here, I can already say that it is one of the best places I have volunteered. Everyone here is so incredibly dedicated to what they do and truly care about their work. In the 25 years ELAW has been around, they have done so many great things helping environmental activists around the world, and I am certain many great things lay ahead in the future!

I first came to ELAW's work while doing due diligence on a funding request. I had the opportunity to visit the staff and meet a number of the international partners, and I was hooked. This organization does a lot with a little, and leverages the peer to peer connections among its members to greatly magnify its impact. A few years back, I was asked to serve on ELAW's board of directors and happily accepted. The more I dive into the work, the more impressed I am.

As an ELAW Director, I know ELAW does great, high impact work. Climate change may be the most pressing issue of our time, and ELAW is on the front lines helping defeat coal around the world.