Global Links, a nonprofit, grass-roots organization based in Pittsburgh, has been named the best environmental nonprofit in the Northeast by GreatNonprofits, a California organization that rates and reviews nonprofit performance nationwide for volunteers and donors.

A regional winner of GreatNonprofits' first annual Green Choice Award, Global Links refurbishes, sorts and sends donated hospital equipment -- everything from beds and wheelchairs to IV poles and dialysis machines -- to hospitals and clinics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The organization was founded in 1989 and recovers more than 200 tons of medical materials a year.

The Green Choice awards are based on online reviews and ratings submitted to GreatNonprofits during April, when more than 26,000 people visited the GreatNonprofits Web site and 835 reviews were posted about more than 100 environmental organizations.

More information about Global Links can be found on the organization's Web site, www.globallinks.org.