Greenpeace's bold fundraising strategies echo its aggressive, cutting-edge approach to protecting Mother Nature's greatest gifts.

By Abny Santicola

“We’ve been taken to court by Homeland Security, we’ve had an IRS audit that was politically motivated … ,” he says, adding that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security case was deemed without merit and thrown out of court by the judge, and Greenpeace passed the IRS audit with flying colors.

Regardless of these challenges, compromising its mission has never been an option for the organization, a quality that makes it even more of a diamond in the rough for its supporters.