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'''Big Green''' and other monikers such as 'The Group of Ten' and 'Gang Green' are terms that have been used often critically to describe the biggest environmental organizations in the United States. These are heavily-staffed, well-funded non-profit corporations each with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars a year, offices in Washington, DC and other major cities, highly paid executive directors, and a staff of lobbyists, analysts and marketers. Big Green environmental groups together raise and spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, most of it contributed by non-profit foundations and individual donors. Many of the Big Green groups partner with corporations and have representatives of major corporations on their boards of directors. With the exception of the [[Sierra Club]], these groups have no meaningful accountability to the thousands of individual small donors who constitute their marketing lists and who are labeled 'members.'