Abundant Beginnings is a community education project focused on growing children rooted in trust and blossoming in independence. We work to build respect and instill trust on multiple levels: the individual level, the community level, and the environmental level. We educate our children through a queer and feminist theory lens. Read more [...]
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Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Permaculture
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Achieva Climbing
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur vision, mission and goal is to build climbing walls in inner city schools, providing at- risk youth, the opportunity to learn about healthy alternatives to obesity and gang violence. ACHIEVA CLIMBING is the brain child of Chris Bellizzi, whose exploits in the climbing world are well known and documented. Chris Read more [...]
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AgriLiving (EA) Ltd
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, WaterCategory: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Water, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Finance & Grant, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsAgriLiving is a guild of commercial farmers who work on innovative methods to improve the life of the smallholder farmer. The main themes are commercial hi-tech agriculture, with excellent on-farm production coupled with quality, constant innovation in cultivation practices. These are derived from hard practical experience in Africa working with Read more [...]
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AgriLiving (EA) Ltd
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, WaterCategory: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Water, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Finance & Grant, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsAgriLiving is a guild of commercial farmers who work on innovative methods to improve the life of the smallholder farmer. The main themes are commercial hi-tech agriculture, with excellent on-farm production coupled with quality, constant innovation in cultivation practices. These are derived from hard practical experience in Africa working with Read more [...]
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American Herbalist’s Guild
Bioregion: All United StatesThe shared vision of an herbalist guild was first verbalized in the mountains of Breitenbush, Oregon, where each year a large group of professional herbalists from all parts of the nation gathered to teach, walk together in ancient forests, soak in mineral-rich hot springs and discuss issues important to herbalism. Read more [...]
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Racial Justice, Resistance, Transportation, Women EmpowermentCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Resistance, Racial Justice, Transportation, Women Empowerment, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsAPEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities. Read more [...]
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAPEN currently works on three levels: Direct Organizing in local communities Building a Network of Asian-Pacific Islander organizations Working in multiracial Alliances to affect regional and national social change. Our Mission and Vision All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, Read more [...]
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Awareness School
Bioregion: WA: Puget SoundA school that helps people live beyond their habitual, conditioned existence. We are are beginning to explore permaculture principles, aiming to incorporate them into our practice as we develop our retreat property.
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Barefoot Holisitc Healing
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoI practice bodywork inspired by the styles of barefoot shiatsu, jin shin jitsu, medical qi gong and craniosacral. I combine the work with theraputic use of plant based medicines including chinese herbology, aromatherapy and fermented foods.
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Bay Area Wilderness Training – Oakland
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) is a nonprofit that strives to help youth of color and low income youth get outdoors by supporting the people who work with them. We provide inexpensive Leadership Training courses to give educators and youth workers the confidence to take groups of youth on backpacking, camping, Read more [...]
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Bay Area Wilderness Training – Oakland
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Schools & Youth, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) is a nonprofit that strives to help youth of color and low income youth get outdoors by supporting the people who work with them. We provide inexpensive Leadership Training courses to give educators and youth workers the confidence to take groups of youth on backpacking, camping, Read more [...]
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Black Women’s Media and Wellness Project
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Women EmpowermentCategory: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and MediaThe Black Women’s Media Project now renamed the Black Women’s Media and Wellness Project provides leadership opportunities for women who participate in the Community Advisory Board. The quarterly community driven Be Still retreat promotes stress-reduction/relaxation and a healthy lifestyle even while living under oppressive situations. The Dynamic-Woman portion of the Read more [...]
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Bloom Network
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and MediaBloom Network is a global collective of local chapter networks which produce events and media about regenerative culture. We connect the dots between regenerative agriculture, appropriate technology, social justice, community health and the arts. Events in person and online gather people to share tools and resources, as well as form Read more [...]
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Bone Valley Natural Botanical Society
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Zero WasteCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Zero Waste, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThis group is devoted to a different, more conscious style of living. Chief topics of study are permaculture gardening, and medicinal herbalism. Other concerns are local foods & products, clean & ethical business practices, and of course eating and living as organically as possible. Lakeland Public Library 100 Lake Read more [...]
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Bread and Roses Collaborative
Bioregion: CascadiaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Permaculture, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityBread and Roses Collaborative is a membership association of skilled creatives, care workers, and hospitality professionals. We offer hosting, facilitation, arts and other staffing services for your special event, business retreat or gathering at the location of your choosing. We also welcome you to join us on the land we Read more [...]
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Brown Girl Surf
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/Monterey, CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthBrown Girl Surf works to build a more diverse, environmentally reverent, and joyful women’s surf culture by increasing access to surfing, cultivating community, amplifying the voices of women of color surfers, and taking care of the earth. OUR VALUES ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH OUR BROWN GIRL SURF WOMANIFESTO: PLAY – We play Read more [...]
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Cascadia Edible Landscapes Division of Edible Landscapes Inc
Bioregion: CascadiaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Mass incarceration, Media, Online Resources, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Transition US, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, Transition US, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Farms, Finance & Grant, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Media, Online Resources, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur Mission We are a design-build edible landscape and neighborhood company that creates customized solutions for diverse clientele. We assist individuals, communities, governments and developers transform spaces into places of food production and community growth. Vision: We see a bio-region full of empowered Edible Neighborhoods free from agribusiness and other Read more [...]
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Center for Environmental Health
Bioregion: CA: East BayThe Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is an American non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) organization working to protect children and families from harmful chemicals in air, food, water and in everyday products. Its vision and mission are “(A) world where everyone lives, works, learns and plays in a healthy environment; we protect Read more [...]
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Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)
Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Schools & Youth,Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Schools & Youth, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsCUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture) is dedicated to cultivating a sustainable food system through the operation of farmers markets and educational programs. CUESA is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to educate urban consumers about sustainable agriculture and to create links between urban dwellers and local farmers. Read more [...]
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Chickadee Gardens
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Farms, Finance & Grant, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Finance & Grant, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityChickadee Gardens Outreach Incorporated: A note from our Farm Manager: We are a brand new NFP on the Far Eastside of Indianapolis. We are designing and implementing permaculture designs currently. We have completed our demonstration garden and are preparing to host 150 teen interns in the fall with no budget Read more [...]
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City of Dreams
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsCity of Dreams is dedicated to helping youth living in low-income housing build brighter futures through mentorship and youth development. What sets our program apart is its ability to expand kids’ perspectives and empower them to be the architects of their own future. We work to expand their perspectives and Read more [...]
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Climate Compassion
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsWhat is Climate Compassion? Climate Compassion is a way of responding to the socioecological challenges of our time with compassionate action. Through community events, workshops and trainings, Climate Compassion inspires widening circles of compassionate action, through self-compassion to taking action for the benefit of our human family and the web Read more [...]
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Climate Workers
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights,Category: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsClimate Workers is building a worker-led, grassroots labor movement for climate justice. Through multilingual popular education, we connect the lived experiences of thousands of union members with the roots, scale, and urgency of the climate crisis. Workers engage in hands-on projects to foster climate resilience; mobilize their local and national Read more [...]
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CLOSED – Common Ground Garden
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are sad to say that Common Ground Garden is CLOSED. 🙁 Common Ground Garden is a project of Ecology Action: We teach people worldwide to better feed themselves and the soil using GROW BIOINTENSIVE farming method both locally and internationally. Classes in organic gardening and sustainable living Youth Education programs for Read more [...]
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Creative Liberation Network
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Media, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Media, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe Creative Liberation Network (CLN) is a community of facilitators, artists, and activists creating alternative educational experiences through collaborative projects. CLN’s projects (i.e. workshops, online galleries, interactive liberation art, books, music, podcast, community action, organizational and personal consulting, etc.) provide a synthesis of cross cultural information to help people get clear Read more [...]
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Daily Acts
Bioregion: CA: Napa/SonomaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Online Resources, Permaculture, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Online Resources, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityDaily Acts is a sustainability non-profit that inspires action to create more nourishing, connected, and resilient communities. Grounded in the core belief that every choice you make matters, we take a heart-centered approach to personal and community transformation. Our education programs, action campaigns, and strategic alliances connect people to each Read more [...]
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Destiny Arts Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthMission and Vision our mission Destiny Arts Center exists to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young people. We accomplish our mission by: Offering skills training to youth, ages 3-18, through after-school, weekend and summer programs in the performing and martial arts, and violence prevention at our Read more [...]
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Doshe Healing Arts
Bioregion: CA: East BayDoshe Healing Arts has been providing sound practices and a 21st century approach to Self-defense in the community for over 10 years. At Doshe we are committed to creating safe spaces, raising awareness, supporting authentic expression and building community for the wellness and safety of women, girls, queer, and transgender Read more [...]
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East Oakland Collective
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe East Oakland Collective (EOC) is a member-based community organizing group invested in serving the communities of deep East Oakland by working towards racial and economic equity. With programming in economic development, civic engagement and leadership, homeless services and solutions, we help amplify underserved communities from the ground up. We Read more [...]
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Emeryville Center Of Community Life
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Health and Wellness, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Health and Wellness, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesEmeryville’s school district has had its troubles in the past and is dealing with plenty of challenges today. In September 2016, it celebrated the completion of a project it hopes will make for a better future. Officials joined parents and students at the opening of the Emeryville Center for Community Read more [...]
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Energy Democracy National Tour 2018
Bioregion:Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Leadership, Online Resources, Racial Justice, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Leadership, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Online Resources, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe Energy Democracy National Tour 2018 is an effort to promote work being done by communities around the United States, especially by low income communities and communities of color, to develop and control renewable energy resources to meet pressing human needs and empower their communities. The Tour seeks to shift Read more [...]
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Fellowship for Intentional Community
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsVision: We believe that community is an essential building block for creating a cooperative and sustainable world. The structures and wisdom of community are both a means and an end to meeting the needs of all people and the planet, and must be available, understood, appreciated, and developed. We envision Read more [...]
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Forest Center – Personal Growth for a Flourishing Planet
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Permaculture,Category: Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and PermacultureForest Center offers workshops to support forms of inner work that uphold the well-being of self, culture and nature as interconnected aspects of one whole – unique work that is sensitive to the needs of these unsettling times.
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Freedom Farmers Market
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Health and Wellness, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice,Category: Food, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsOur mission is to bring traditional legacy foods from Black farmers and other underserved farmers to the Bay Area with the goal of making regionally fresh organic or pesticide free produce and nutritional information accessible in areas devoid of supermarkets. In 2013, at the invitation of the restaurant owner of Read more [...]
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Full Circle Fund
Category: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Racial Justice, Reproductive Freedom, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Reproductive Freedom, Racial Justice, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, and Finance & GrantFull Circle Fund is an active network of professionals who leverage their time, talent and connections to help nonprofit organizations launch new initiatives, make a greater impact and accelerate positive change in our community. We’re made up of incredibly passionate, motivated and talented people who want to play a more Read more [...]
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GROW Incubator
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women EmpowermentCategory: Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Farms, and Jobs & EmploymentGrassRoots Oakland West (GROW) Incubator is a community space that supports community-driven solutions. The mission of GROW Incubator is to “identify and develop opportunities for the marginalized members of our community to become key stakeholders in the production of a healthy, just and equitable future.” Why this work is important Read more [...]
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Healing Ecosystems
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Permaculture,Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and PermacultureHealing Ecosystems’ mission is to support individuals and communities in experiencing the transformative effects of connecting to local ecology & giving back to the planet. SmartScapes As we transition into our rainy season in the Bay Area, we also move into the best planting time for most native plants, fruit Read more [...]
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Healthy Black Families, Inc.
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityAbout Us If you are black and pregnant or have just had a baby, HBF is here to support you. We can help you to have a healthy baby. HBF will connect you with the Black Infant Health program and the Sisters Together Empowering Peers program. (Click on our Programs Read more [...]
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Homeless Garden Project
Bioregion: CA: Santa Cruz/MontereyCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Farms, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Human Rights,Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and FarmsOur program offers homeless trainees an opportunity to rebuild and develop basic life & work skills to gain employment and to re-enter and give back to the local community. Our Mission: In the soil of our urban farm and garden, people find the tools they need to build a home Read more [...]
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HOPE Collaborative
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Immigration, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Immigration, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Policy & Legal AssistanceHOPE Collaborative is a non profit that fights for the Food Justice in the communities within East and West Oakland. The HOPE Collaborative envisions vibrant Oakland neighborhoods that provide equitable access to affordable, healthy, locally grown food; safe and inviting places for physical activity and play; sustainable, successful, local economies—all Read more [...]
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Humboldt Area Foundation
Bioregion: CA: North CoastCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Finance & Grant, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership,Category: Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Finance & Grant, and Jobs & EmploymentHumboldt Area Foundation is the community foundation of and for the citizens of the Redwood, Trinity and Wild Rivers Region. Humboldt Area Foundation was founded on May 3, 1972 by Vera Perrott Vietor. Since 1972, Vera’s vision has been echoed by literally thousands of neighbors committed to building a better Read more [...]
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Idle No More SF Bay
Bioregion:Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights,Category: Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsIdle No More SF Bay is for clean air, water, and soil, and for a vibrantly healthy future. Inspired by the First Nations Idle No More movement, we are a group of Native Americans and allies working together to create positive change concerning Indigenous rights, the rights of Mother Earth, Read more [...]
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Important Media Network
Category: Businesses, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Media, Online Resources, Transportation, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Women Empowerment, Businesses, Media, and Online ResourcesA premier new media company focused on making the world a better place. Important Media is a decentralized, niche blog network, dedicated to covering those issues which are important to our collective and individual well-being, from humanity’s survival to human happiness. Important Media is home to the world’s biggest and best Read more [...]
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Lava Mae
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityLava Mae is transforming the way Communities see and serve people moving through homelessness. We do this by bringing critical services — delivered with an unexpected level of care that we call “Radical Hospitality” — to the street through programs such as our mobile hygiene service and our new Pop-Up Care Read more [...]
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New Energy Economy
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Policy & Legal Assistance, WaterCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Policy & Legal AssistanceNew Energy Economy is a Santa Fe, New Mexico based organization working to address climate disruption with bold solutions. Our mission is to build a renewable energy future for our health and the environment. OUR PLEDGE: To build a fossil-fuel and nuclear-free economy that stewards both the health of our Read more [...]
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Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Energy, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthThe Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC) is a cross-sector coalition leading the effort to further climate justice in Oakland and build a thriving green economy in the face of climate change. Since 2009, the OCAC has provided research, policy expertise and most, importantly advocacy and organizing efforts for the needs Read more [...]
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Oakland Peace Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesThe Oakland Peace Center is a community of artists, activists, cultural workers, educators and non-profits collaborating to bring about a city of hope, justice, nonviolence and compassion. The Oakland Peace Center provides needed space, hosts collaborative events and trainings, and creates a network of emotional and spiritual support for the Read more [...]
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Oakland Public Library
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, LGBT rights, Oakland Peace Center, Online Resources, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Transportation, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Leadership, LGBT rights, Racial Justice, Transportation, Women Empowerment, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Jobs & Employment, Online Resources, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur Mission Your Oakland Public Library empowers all people to explore, connect, and grow. Our Vision The Oakland Public Library will be celebrated locally and nationally as an indispensable partner in transforming lives. Our Values The Oakland Public Library values… Diversity Equity Community Responsive Service Adaptability Empowerment Joy About Us Read more [...]
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Oasis Community Farm
Bioregion: CA: Napa/SonomaCategory: Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, Water, With Internship OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Water, Event Spaces, Farms, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and PermacultureOasis is a hybrid/permaculture food forest on several acres that will include comprehensive water recycling , serene water features & meditative space, pasture raised chickens, no till vegetable bed, fruit trees. Future construction of a large barn/hall to house over a hundred people for community events and educational programs is Read more [...]
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Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, Transportation, Water, Women EmpowermentCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Farms, Jobs & Employment, and PermacultureThe Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is an 80-acre research, demonstration, education, advocacy and community-organizing center in West Sonoma County, California that develops strategies for regional-scale community resilience and the restoration of biological and cultural diversity. OAEC trains and supports “whole communities” — schools, public agencies, Native American tribes, Read more [...]
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OCCUR
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Interfaith, Racial Justice,Category: Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Interfaith, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsOCCUR is an intermediary and public service policy organization that provides critical services and programs in community technology, nonprofit capacity building, consumer education, equitable development/drill down and civic engagement. OCCUR is committed to positively and effectively design and implement programs and services that improve the lives and conditions of low Read more [...]
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Omni Commons
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Resistance, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and With Volunteer OpportunityWhat if one of the largest community centers and venue spaces in the Bay Area was run in a spirit of radical generosity, by a volunteer collective where everybody is a leader? We’re trying to do just that, at the omnicommons.org. We are an event space which can host up to 250 Read more [...]
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Onchenda Open Global Food Cooperative, B.Corp
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Online Resources, Permaculture, Transition US,Category: Affiliated with, Transition US, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Online Resources, and PermacultureCooperative social enterprise facilitating movement of local food to the cloud globally to fix the broken food production & distribution system, proliferate regenerative methodologies, eliminate food deserts, and mitigate hunger and poverty. About Our Co-Op Assisting ecologists in restoring ecosystem functionality, or transitioning their farming clients to regenerative agriculture, through collaborating with Read more [...]
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OneLife Institute
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityOneLife Institute is a community based organization working at the intersection of spirituality and social action. Through classes, retreats, publications, events, counseling and consultation services we support and empower individuals and groups in personal healing and the creation of a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world. Since 2004, OneLife has Read more [...]
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Our Road Prison Project
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Mass incarceration, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice,Category: Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Jobs & Employment, and Policy & Legal AssistanceBuilding a Bridge from Prison to the Community for men and women serving Life with the Possibility of Parole Mission We believe in second chances. Everyone should have a fair shot at building a new life, with a job, a home, and full participation in the community. We work to Read more [...]
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Outdoor Afro
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: North Bay, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/MontereyCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthOutdoor Afro is where black people and nature meet. We are a community that supports reconnecting African-Americans with natural spaces and one another through recreational activities such as camping, hiking, biking, birding, fishing, gardening, skiing — and more! In the news – Outdoor Afro: Busting Stereotypes That Black People Don’t Hike Read more [...]
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Pachamama Alliance
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth, Transportation, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityPachamama Alliance is a global community that offers people the chance to learn, connect, engage, travel and cherish life for the purpose of creating a sustainable future that works for all. Pachamama Alliance has created the Up to Us engagement pathway to educate, inspire and engage a critical mass of Read more [...]
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Pachamama Alliance Tampa Bay
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, Transportation, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Resistance, Racial Justice, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityWho We Are and What We Do Our group encompasses a large geographic area we call Tampa Bay. We are a diverse community from all paths of life. We are interested in taking actions with other local organizations that are aligned with the vision of the Pachamama Alliance for sustaining Read more [...]
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People United for a Better Life in Oakland (PUEBLO)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityPUEBLO (People United for a Better Life in Oakland) is a multi-issue nonprofit community organization whose mission is to address the most pressing needs of marginalized communities in Oakland by creating healthy, economically self-sufficient and peaceful neighborhoods where local development and employment can start, grow and become an integral part Read more [...]
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Permaculture Magazine
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Media, Online Resources, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, WaterCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Media, Online Resources, and PermacultureFor the past 24 years our mother magazine, Permaculture Magazine, has been a bestselling green magazine in Britain and around the world. Maddy and Tim Harland co-founded it in 1992 and have since then built it into an incredibly influential reserve of practical permaculture information. With the ever-growing interest in sustainable living, we Read more [...]
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Phat Beets Produce
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Jobs & Employment, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsAbout Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic-based farmer’s markets, one youth-led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden Read more [...]
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Phoenix Garden
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and FarmsThe Phoenix Garden is a permaculture garden converted from a barren and degraded seven-acre site at San Mateo County’s Youth Services Center (YSC). The overarching goal of the Phoenix Garden is to transform the site into a resilient and regenerative permaculture oasis serving youth and families participating in court-ordered probation Read more [...]
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PLACE for Sustainable Living
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Health and Wellness, Permaculture, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Water, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are a public-serving, experiential learning center to showcase and foster sustainable living practices, urban homesteading, community resiliency & preparedness, social justice and artistic expression. Our goal is to incubate a local sustainability hub to allow people to see solutions in practice; to gain access to the knowledge and resources Read more [...]
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Planting Justice
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunitySince 2009 Planting Justice has built over 400 edible permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with five high-schools to develop food justice curriculum and created 20 green jobs for men transitioning from prison in the food justice movement. FOOD JUSTICE We work to address the structural Read more [...]
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Pleasant Hill Cohousing
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land,Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsWe are a residential condominium development designed to maximize the neighborly relationships of the people who live here. We live in individual homes, but join together to share maintenance work, gardening, some food, and some childcare. We watch out for each other’s homes, children, and pets. Our Vision: To create Read more [...]
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Ploughshares Nursery
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Youth, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityPloughshares Nursery trains and employs residents of the Alameda Point Collaborative supportive housing community. Ploughshares Nursery is a non-profit social enterprise of the Alameda Point Collaborative supportive housing community. 100% of our sales support housing and services for formerly homeless families and individuals living on the old Alameda Naval Base in Read more [...]
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POOR Magazine
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Media, Racial Justice, Resistance, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and MediaPOOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe. All of POOR’s programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with Read more [...]
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Pop-up Village
Bioregion:Category: Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityWhat is a Pop-Up Village? The Pop-Up Village is a site activation project that harnesses the power of design to catalyze the magic that emerges when people and programs come together in public space. Its mission is to create a village of civic resources for under-resourced communities so they can Read more [...]
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Project Homeless Connect
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience,Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe mission of Project Homeless Connect is to connect San Franciscans experiencing homelessness with the care they need to move forward. Project Homeless Connect strengthens and utilizes collaborations with city agencies, businesses, and organizations to provide comprehensive holistic services, both at service events and through continued care, for those who Read more [...]
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Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice,Category: Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Event SpacesIn the Swahili language, Rafiki means friend. Rafiki Coalition is a friend in the San Francisco African American community that represents health, healing and wholeness. Rafiki Coalition provides an environment that affirms our wholeness and health as a culture and supports us in mind, body and spirit. Rafiki Coalition offers Read more [...]
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Rancho Sol y Mar
Bioregion:Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Zero Waste, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Farms, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityRancho Sol y Mar is a working, off-grid ranch and Permaculture/sustainability education center, located on one of the most beautiful, pristine, beaches in Mexico (on the Pacific coast near Puerto Vallarta). We have many regenerative initiatives going such as natural building, extensive solar, food forest, organic gardening, aquaponics, etc. RSM Read more [...]
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Redding Permablitz Collective
Bioregion:Category: Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Water, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Water, Youth, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsPermablitz (n): An informal gathering involving a day on which a group of at least two people come together to achieve the following: *create or add to edible gardens *share skills related to permaculture and sustainable living *build community *have fun *Permablitzes are free events, open to the public, with Read more [...]
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Resilient Wellness
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Finance & Grant, Food, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Food, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and Finance & GrantThe purpose of Resilient Wellness is to end multigenerational trauma and advance holistic health and ways of living and being through education, service delivery and advocacy. We focus our efforts on every level of the ecological model, including research, organizational health, community health and individual /interpersonal health.
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Rooted in Resilience
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Energy, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityRooted in Resilience inspires and supports community leaders in building equitable, resilient communities. We confront the challenges of climate instability, rising energy costs, and recession by boosting regional capacity to provide for everyone’s needs, sustainably and equitably. We achieve this by equipping local leaders with flexible tools, models, and policies Read more [...]
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RSF Social Finance
Bioregion: All United States, CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: North Bay, CA: San Francisco, CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Resistance, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Resistance, Racial Justice, Transportation, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Zero Waste, and Finance & GrantRSF has been an innovator in social finance for over 30 years. Since 1984, we have focused on developing innovative social finance tools that serve the unmet needs for investors, donors and social enterprises. We have also cultivated long-term partnerships with a variety of pioneering organizations – through board engagements, Read more [...]
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Sivananda Yoga Farm
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Permaculture, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityWelcome to your Yoga retreat in the beautiful Sierra foothills of Northern California! Since 1971, the ashram has been an oasis of peace and tranquility for people from all walks of life to come and find themselves. We are happy to announce a variety of new programs and courses developed Read more [...]
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Sivananda Yoga Farm
Bioregion:Category: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Permaculture, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Farms, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityWelcome to your Yoga retreat in the beautiful Sierra foothills of Northern California! Since 1971, the ashram has been an oasis of peace and tranquility for people from all walks of life to come and find themselves. We are happy to announce a variety of new programs and courses developed Read more [...]
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Slow Food East Bay
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsWe strive to connect people with their local food communities — whether that be by working on community gardens in urban areas, visiting & purchasing food at local farmers markets, supporting legislation that protects our food sources, learning new (old!) kitchen skills such as food preservation, or just sitting down Read more [...]
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Slow Food Russian River
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Immigration, Racial Justice,Category: Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Immigration, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsSlow Food Russian River is part of the global Slow Food network of over 100,000 members in more than 150 countries. Through a vast volunteer network of local chapters, youth and food communities, we link the pleasures of the table with a commitment to protect the community, culture, knowledge and Read more [...]
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Sogorea Te Land Trust
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women EmpowermentCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship. Sogorea Te creates opportunities for all people living in Ohlone territory to work together to re-envision the Bay Area Read more [...]
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The Bridge
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth,Category: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Jobs & EmploymentThe Bridge is a non-profit organization promoting ecocentric living, social justice, personal development and creativity. We offer educational events and unique gatherings that heighten awareness and build community. The matters addressed are forward-thinking and designed to unlock personal growth and social change. Issues are explored through the perspectives of visionaries, scholars, experts, artists, and concerned Read more [...]
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The Butterfly Movement
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Earth Activist Training, Energy, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, Earth Activist Training, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe Butterfly Movement is pollinating the planet through our camps, circles, training, experiential workshops and retreats that contain culturally enriched exercises, tools and activities designed to activate a deeper connection with themselves and the earth. Our Mission The Butterfly Movement is committed to re-framing, reconnecting, regenerating and reactivating, women and Read more [...]
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The Hummingbird Urban Children’s Farming Collective
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Mass incarceration, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe Hummingbird Urban Children’s Farming Collective is dedicated to creating deep connections to land and community for children of color. The name is inspired by a folk tale told by Warangari Maathai about the mighty power of even the smallest among us. We are building a land project in the Read more [...]
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Transition Albany
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transition US, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityInviting all of Albany, California to create a positive transition from fossil fuel dependency to vital, engaged, resilient and interdependent community. Transition Albany was started by a group of Albany residents as part of a worldwide grassroots movement dedicated to getting local communities together to create a resilient future. The Read more [...]
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UC Gill Tract Community Farm
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Resistance, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Farms, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are a joint project of the University of California at Berkeley and the central East Bay community located in Albany, CA. The existing farm came to fruition after years of struggle to establish sustainable urban agriculture and food system research on the Gill Tract (the remaining land from a Read more [...]
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Unity of Yucaipa Spiritual Center
Bioregion: Can't Find My BioregionCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Interfaith, Permaculture, With Volunteer Opportunity, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Interfaith, Youth, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityUnity Church of Yucaipa offers a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer. Unity honors the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual’s right to choose a spiritual path.
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Valley Verde
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Immigration, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Immigration, Youth, Businesses, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsOur vision is a more productive and sustainable community where people can enjoy a healthier lifestyle through daily access to fresh, affordable organic vegetables. To achieve this, our mission is to promote the widespread cultivation of organic home vegetable gardens, in order to encourage healthier eating and address food insecurity—that Read more [...]
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Western Service Workers Association
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Energy, Food, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, and With Volunteer OpportunityWestern Service Workers Association (WSWA) is a free and voluntary membership association built by and for our membership of low-income service, domestic, in-home care, part-time and temporary workers since 1975. WSWA is entirely volunteer run, without a dime of government or other “strings attached” funds. WSWA’s self-help 11-point membership benefit Read more [...]
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Winter-On-Maui
Category: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, Water, With Internship OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Health and Wellness, Water, Schools & Youth, Farms, and PermacultureWINTER-ON-MAUI PERMACULTURE DESIGN AND SUSTAINABLE FARMING COURSE ONE-MONTH PROGRAM JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 8 $3,000 COMPLETE PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE The month-long course will take place at four locations across Maui. Each week we will travel to a different farm so students have the opportunity to experience a range of Read more [...]
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Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Food, Health and Wellness, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe House That Cares. The Women’s Daytime Drop-in Center (WDDC) offers free services to any homeless woman and her children. Women can access WDDC services by dropping in Monday through Friday between the hours of 8am and 4pm. Please see the schedule below for specific service hours: Breakfast: 8:00am-10:00am Lunch: 12:00pm-12:30pm Read more [...]
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Word Sculptures
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Schools & Youth, Women EmpowermentCategory: Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthGlobally networked with other conscious people.
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World Institute on Disability (WID)
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance,Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Health and Wellness, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, and Policy & Legal AssistanceWID’s mission in communities and nations worldwide is to eliminate barriers to full social integration and increase employment, economic security, and health care for persons with disabilities. WID creates innovative programs and tools; conducts research, public education, training, and advocacy campaigns; and provides technical assistance. WID’s mission is realized when Read more [...]
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Youth UpRising (YU)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Transportation, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Health and Wellness, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Transportation, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Policy & Legal AssistanceWe provide comprehensive, fully integrated health, wellness, educational, career, arts, and cultural programming to Alameda County youth and young adults, ages 13-24. YU’s personal transformation work is focused on helping members change their life course. Through our comprehensive services and core programming, we give East Oakland youth the opportunity to Read more [...]