Editing Rainforest Action Network (section)

== About ==

===Organizational mission===
Rainforest Action Network preserves [[forests]], protects the [[climate]] and upholds [[human rights]] by challenging corporate power and systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns.

===Activities and structure===
RAN drives change through [[grassroots]] organizing, media stunts, the use of non-violent [[civil disobedience]], and inside-the-boardroom negotiations to confront and positively influence industry-leading corporations to publicly adopt environmental policies that address issues ranging from [[deforestation]] to [[climate change]]. Their corporate campaigning strategies have prompted a number of academic case studies reflecting on the relationship between activists and businesses.<ref>{{cite journal  
| last1 = Baron | first1 = David P. 
| last2 = Diermeier| first2 = Daniel
| title = Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy
| journal = Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1909
| ssrn = 791006  | date = August 2005 
}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal 
| last1 = El Eris | first1 = Mona
| title = The Home Depot-Rainforest Action Network dispute: A lesson on issues and stakeholder management
| journal = Corporate Environmental Strategy
| volume = 7  | issue = 2  | pages = 185–193 
| date = 15 August 2000
| doi = 10.1016/S1066-7938(00)00046-4
}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
| last1 = Asmus
| first1 = Peter
| last2 = Cauley
| first2 = Hank
| last3 = Maroney
| first3 = Katharine
| title = Case Study: Turning Conflict into Cooperation
| journal = Stanford Social Innovation Review
| date = Fall 2006
| url = http://www.erb.umich.edu/News-and-Events/MayConferenceReading/Stanford%20Case%20Study%20F500.pdf
| access-date = 2012-12-04
| archive-date = 2012-02-02
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120202102553/http://www.erb.umich.edu/News-and-Events/MayConferenceReading/Stanford%20Case%20Study%20F500.pdf
| url-status = dead
}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last1 = Baron | first1 = David P. | last2 = Yurday | first2 = Erin | contribution = Strategic Activism: The Rainforest Action Network | publisher = Stanford Graduate School of Business | year = 2004 | contribution-url = http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/strategic-activism-the-rainforest-action_network | title = Archived copy | access-date = 2012-06-01 | archive-date = 2010-07-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100718203815/http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/strategic-activism-the-rainforest-action_network | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last1 = Baron| first1 = David P.| last2 = Barlow| first2 = David S.| last3 = Barlow| first3 = Ann M.| last4 = Yurday| first4 = Erin| contribution = Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (A)| publisher = Stanford Graduate School of Business| date = Jun 1, 2004| contribution-url = http://hbr.org/product/anatomy-of-a-corporate-campaign-rainforest-action-/an/P42A-PDF-ENG| title = Archived copy| access-date = June 1, 2012| archive-date = March 6, 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160306134234/https://hbr.org/product/anatomy-of-a-corporate-campaign-rainforest-action-/an/P42A-PDF-ENG| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation| last1 = Baron| first1 = David P.| last2 = Barlow| first2 = David S.| last3 = Barlow| first3 = Ann M.| last4 = Yurday| first4 = Erin| contribution = Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (B)| publisher = Stanford Graduate School of Business| date = Jun 1, 2004| contribution-url = http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=70544&R=P42B-PDF-ENG}}
{{Citation| last1 = Baron| first1 = David P.| last2 = Barlow| first2 = David S.| last3 = Barlow| first3 = Ann M.| last4 = Yurday| first4 = Erin| contribution = Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup (C)| publisher = Stanford Graduate School of Business| date = Jun 1, 2004| contribution-url = http://hbr.org/product/anatomy-of-a-corporate-campaign-rainforest-action-/an/P42A-PDF-ENG| title = Archived copy| access-date = June 1, 2012| archive-date = March 6, 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160306134234/https://hbr.org/product/anatomy-of-a-corporate-campaign-rainforest-action-/an/P42A-PDF-ENG| url-status = live}}</ref> RAN works in close alliance with an increasingly well coordinated movement of NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

The organization's board of directors includes André Carothers; Anna Hawken McKay; Allan Badiner, Anna Lappé of the [[Small Planet Institute]]; and James Gollin, board president and a founding member of the [[Social Venture Network]]. Honorary members of RAN's board include [[Ali MacGraw]], [[Bob Weir]], [[Bonnie Raitt]], [[Chris Noth]], [[John Densmore]] and [[Woody Harrelson]].{{When|date=November 2020}}