American Climate Partners

4b streamsweepers - an award-winning, statewide river restoration, training, and work experience program for young adults and veterans. In 2024, streamsweepers continued working to restore the biodiversity of the clinch river while providing meaningful work experience to residents of southwest virginia. Over the past five years, sweepers have removed over 9,100 tires and 103 tons of trash and debris from over 60 miles of the clinch river. In addition, a pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of cleaning the tug fork river in west virginia removed 2,500 tires from that rivers.

Soilkeepers provides regenerative landscape management education, advice, and services for residential, estate, farm, and commercial landowners in central virginia.

The rapidan institute - this program focuses on comprehensive fisheries and floodplain habitat restoration in the rapidan river watershed of virginia and houses a project to modify the old non-functioning rapidan mill power dam on the rapidan river to enable anadromous fish to return to their spawning grounds upstream. American climate partners purchased the rapidan dam in 2022, submitted multiple applications for funding in 2023 and received federal funding for the project in september 2024.