The Local Clean Energy Alliance is a growing coalition of nonprofits, businesses, and community groups working to advance strong climate protection plans and create thousands of clean energy jobs throughout the Bay Area. We focus on climate strategies that jump-start green economic development and benefit all Bay Area communities. We Read more [...]
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Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice,Category: Energy, Environment and Nature, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, and Policy & Legal Assistance
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Abundant Beginnings
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 PermacultureAbundant 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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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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Alemany Farm
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Inner Resilience, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityAlemany Farms improves food security and reduces crime in San Francisco. Take Action! Everyone, young or old, experienced or still learning, is welcome to join our community workdays held from Noon to 5pm every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month and the Saturdays in-between, plus every Monday afternoon from 1:00-5:00. New volunteers are Read more [...]
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All of Us or None
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAll of Us or None (project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children) is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly- and currently- incarcerated people and our families. We are fighting against the discrimination that people face every day because of arrest or conviction history. Read more [...]
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Ashby Community Garden
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Gardening, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, and PermacultureAshby Community Garden is a collectively run garden located on the 1300 block of Ashby Ave, in South Berkeley, is where we raise food and share our knowledge of urban farming. The Ashby Community Garden was founded in 2004 on a privately-owned empty lot in South Berkeley. Today there is 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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Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayImagine a world where everyone’s needs matter and people have the skills to make peace. Personal Growth: We support individuals and families in experiencing inner peace, greater choice, integrity, and satisfying relationships by offering classes, individual coaching, and intensive programs. We work in-person as well as through phone and Skype. Leadership Read more [...]
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Bay Area Rising
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityAbout Bay Area Rising is at the intersection of art, spirituality, and activism! Who We Are Bay Area Rising is a powerful feminist network of artists, spiritual leaders, and activists dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. BAR was formed in 2012 as a call to action from VDay’s One Read more [...]
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Bend the Arc Bay Area
Bend the Arc Bay Area provides opportunities for Jews in the San Francisco region to work together to create more economic and social justice, locally and nationally. We envision a Bay Area that leads the nation in access to quality education, living wage jobs, sustainable development, and a vibrant democratic Read more [...]
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Black Permaculture Network
Bioregion: All United StatesBlack Permaculture Network is a network of Afro-indigenous people who have come together through the practices of permaculture, agroecology, natural living and care of the earth. We recognize and honor the ancestral and historical knowledge that each of these land care practices embrace and strive to broaden inter-cultural dialogue around natural Read more [...]
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Breakthrough Communities
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Environment and Nature, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots Organizations -
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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Centro Legal de la Raza
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Immigration, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Immigration, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, and With Volunteer OpportunityFounded in 1969, Centro Legal de la Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of immigrant, low-income, and Latino communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy. By combining quality legal services with know-your-rights education and youth development, Centro Legal promotes access to justice for Read more [...]
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Changing Gears Bike Shop
Bioregion: CA: East BayChanging Gears is a full-service nonprofit bike shop which offers professional repairs, new & used bikes/parts sales, job training, volunteer/community service opportunities, and DIY repair stands open to the public. The shop’s mission is to operate a bicycle-based social enterprise that benefits the under-served people of our local area. Changing 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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City Slickers Farm
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, and With Volunteer OpportunityCity Slicker Farms empowers West Oakland community members to meet the basic need for healthy food for themselves and their families by creating organic, sustainable, and high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens. These spaces provide healthy, affordable food and improve the environment. We seek to serve all West Oakland residents, prioritizing Read more [...]
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Climate Action Now!
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityClimate Action Now! (CAN!) teaches young people and adults about climate change by removing cement to build organic gardens in San Francisco, California. Strategic Educational Goals: Climate Action Now!’s primary goal is to empower young people to regularly and routinely make choices that support a healthy climate. Through CAN!’s educational 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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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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Common Vision
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: Lake County, CA: Lake Tahoe, CA: Napa/Sonoma, CA: North BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, and PermacultureTake Action! JOIN COMMON VISION’S 2017 SPRING TOUR to plant school orchards by making art and inspiring kids! About We plant school orchards and teach permaculture courses. Dig it? check us out! Mission Common Vision is creating a Healthy and Just Society by growing fruit tree orchards in low-income schools. 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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Cypress Mandela Training Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Economic Injustice, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice,Category: Economic Injustice, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, and Jobs & EmploymentLocated in Oakland, a city of approximately 400,000 with one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the United States, the Cypress Mandela Training Center, Inc. offers a 16-week pre-apprenticeship program for Bay Area men and women over 18 years old. Training is both hands-on and in the classroom and 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 Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, Inc (EB PREC)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityWe are a start-up cooperative organization working throughout the East Bay area of Northern, CA with a focus on Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. This initiative seeks to make land and housing more accessible to community members, especially those that have been historically disenfranchised, in the face of rampant speculation and 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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East Point Peace Academy
Bioregion:Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice,Category: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe US military prepares many of its leaders for war at the Military Academy at West Point. At the East Point Peace Academy, we invest in creating leaders working for peace. The East Point Peace Academy is an organization dedicated to bringing about a culture of peace through training, education Read more [...]
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East Side Arts Alliance
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Home/Neighborhood, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesThe East Side Arts Alliance & Cultural Center presents free youth art classes, cultural programming, public art projects, ongoing gallery exhibitions, community town halls, and the annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival. We work with numerous organizations and community groups to present hundreds of events every year.
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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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Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Immigration, Interfaith, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Resistance,Category: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Environment and Nature, Immigration, Interfaith, Resistance, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsFAME is a network of people of people of faith who support low wage and immigrant workers who are organizing for respect, dignity and living-wage jobs. To listen to the Hope from the Hood podcast about Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy, click HERE. Excerpt from Hope from the Hood Read more [...]
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Farms to Grow
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Food, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Finance & Grant, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityFARMS TO GROW, INC is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization dedicated to working with Black farmers and underserved sustainable farmers around the country. Farms To Grow, Inc. is committed to sustainable farming and innovative agriculture practices which preserve the cultural and biological diversity, the agroecological balance of the local environment. 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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Food & Water Watch
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Resistance, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Energy, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Resistance, Racial Justice, Water, and With Volunteer OpportunityOur Mission Food & Water Watch champions healthy food and clean water for all. We stand up to corporations that put profits before people, and advocate for a democracy that improves people’s lives and protects our environment. Our Vision We are working to create a healthy future for our families Read more [...]
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Food First
Category: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Racial Justice, Resistance, Women EmpowermentCategory: Carbon Removal, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe mission of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, is to end the injustices that cause hunger. Food First envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. After 40 years of analysis of the global Read more [...]
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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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Front Porch Radio with Julie Wilder
Bioregion: FL: Central FloridaCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Media, Racial Justice, Resistance, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Resistance, Racial Justice, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Arts & Culture, and MediaFront Porch Radio is an award-winning talk variety show which spotlights people and issues related to localism, sustainability and equality while helping to celebrate and foster a vibrant & people empowered Central Florida community. The conversational style show airs every Wednesday from 4pm to 5pm EST on 91.5 FM in the 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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Future Justice Fund
Bioregion: All United StatesWe’re a new grantmaking organization founded by Kaitlyn & Mike Krieger in December 2015. We believe all people deserve a free, vibrant, and productive life, and we support exceptional organizations working towards this vision. We’re striving to give as effectively as we can – there’s a steep learning curve ahead. We 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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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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HipHop 4 Change
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Economic Injustice, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Jobs & EmploymentHipHopForChange, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using Hip Hop as a positive cultural exchange through which we can educate the public about socio-economic injustices. We do this, in part, by building platforms for 1) positive, socially conscious art and music, and 2) programs that benefit historically marginalized and 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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Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4HI)
Category: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity has a unique model which combines faith-based organizing, arts and cultural work, and strategic campaigns to help take down the barriers between neighbors, to connect immigrant and U.S.- born Californians to a global perspective on human rights. We mobilize inter-religious communities for concrete social Read more [...]
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LaborFest
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoLaborFest was established in 1994 to institutionalize the history and culture of working people in an annual labor cultural, film and arts festival. It begins every July 5th, which is the anniversary of the 1934 “Bloody Thursday” event. On that day, two workers Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise were shot Read more [...]
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Let Our People Go
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Immigration, Interfaith, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Resistance, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Immigration, Interfaith, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityDid you know that Northern California’s ICE detention center is in the Bay Area at the Richmond County Jail? Many immigrant community members (including children) are being interned there, as are non-immigrants who can’t make bail. Kehilla Community Synagogue’s Immigration Committee holds a monthly multi-faith, one-hour protest on site called Read more [...]
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Mandela Co-Op
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Racial Justice,Category: Food, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers MarketsA worker owned grocery store in Oakland California. Zella’s Soulful Kitchen is inside. Find us across from the West Oakland BART station. Our Mission Building community health and wealth through cooperative business ownership, nutrition education, and increasing access to affordable, locally grown food. SHORT STORY A small group of women Read more [...]
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Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) uses law to promote fundamental human rights within the United States. For 45 years, MCLI has challenged domestic human rights violations such as denial of freedom of speech, environmental racism, violence against women, labor abuses, and discrimination and unequal access to necessities such as housing, Read more [...]
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Movement Generation
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityMovement Generation Justice & Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. We are rooted in vibrant social movements led by low-income communities and communities of color committed to a Just Transition away from profit and pollution and towards healthy, resilient Read more [...]
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North Oakland Restorative Justice Council
Bioregion: CA: East BayThe mission of the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council is to put the neighbor back into our neighborHOOD by empowering our diverse communities to create our own solutions to neighborhood problems through the use of restorative justice practices. The Council uses a multifaceted grassroots approach which includes policy change, youth Read more [...]
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Nourish Resist
Where our communities can be nourished, build bonds and commit to organize against hate. #HateWontFeedUs Check our website for upcoming events. We are a group of social justice minded, People Of Color (POC) working to plan and activate transformative actions within our communities in 2017, using food as a platform. We Read more [...]
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Oak Center Cultural Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayThe Oak Center Cultural Center Inc. (OCCC) is an organization centered on the use of art and culture in effecting positive change in Oakland’s local community and surrounding areas. As a community staple for over forty years, the center has provided programs, services and resources in education, the arts, tutoring, mentoring, drug prevention, community 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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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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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 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 Action Network
Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Oakland Peace Center, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Oakland Peace Center, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Resistance, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityPermaculture Action Network empowers individuals to take action and create the world we want to see. We connect educators, creators, and organizers with broad and diverse audiences to build a regenerative and just world. From organizing Permaculture Action Days and events to building educational spaces and hosting courses, Permaculture Action 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
Category: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Mass incarceration, Permaculture, Racial Justice, Resistance, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Mass incarceration, Resistance, Racial Justice, Water, Youth, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Farms, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityPlanting Justice is a grassroots organization with a mission to democratize access to affordable, nutritious food by empowering urban residents with the skills, resources & knowledge they need to maximize food production, expand job opportunities, and ensure environmental sustainability in the Bay Area
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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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PODER (sf)
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Food, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Food, Housing and Land, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityFrom the beginning PODER has made recruiting members and building community leaders a central part of our work. We work with families—that means all generations from adults to seniors to youth and children. Our members engage in various levels of training and participation. We recognize that learning is a two-way 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 Avary
Category: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Youth, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthProject Avary offers long-term support, resources, guidance and training for children with incarcerated parents. We are a community that gives kids a deep sense of belonging, dignity and hope. Our programs are tailored to meet the needs of this unique population by providing youth development in leadership, emotional and social Read more [...]
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Radical Monarchs
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthOUR MISSION The Radical Monarchs create opportunities for young girls of color to form fierce sisterhood, celebrate their identities and contribute radically to their communities. OUR VISION The Radical Monarchs empower young girls of color so that they step into their collective power, brilliance and leadership in order to make 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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Red Light Legal
Bioregion: CA: East BayRed Light Legal provides direct legal services, legal representation, community education, and policy advocacy to sex workers and their communities. Utilizing harm-reductionist and anti-oppression methodologies, Red Light Legal is the first constituency-led legal organization providing services to this marginalized population. We advocate to reduce the stigma, discrimination, and violence associated 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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Resistance Manual
Bioregion: All United StatesCategory: Environment and Nature, Housing and Land, Immigration, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Online Resources, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, Reproductive Freedom, Resistance, Women EmpowermentCategory: Environment and Nature, Housing and Land, Immigration, Interfaith, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Reproductive Freedom, Resistance, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Online Resources, and Policy & Legal AssistanceThe Resistance Manual is an open-source platform to harness the collective power of the people to resist the impact of a Trump presidency and to continue to make progress in our communities. The Resistance Manual is focused on presenting truthful and actionable information. All content is reviewed for accuracy and Read more [...]
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Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthRJOY’s mission is to fundamentally shift the way we respond to youthful wrongdoing from punitive approaches that inflict more harm to restorative approaches that repair it. Disparately impacting youth of color, punitive school discipline and juvenile justice policies have the unintended consequence of activating tragic cycles of incarceration, violence, unsafe Read more [...]
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Rising Sun Energy Center
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Jobs & Employment, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, Water, YouthCategory: Energy, Racial Justice, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Jobs & EmploymentRising Sun builds healthy communities through climate solutions and green career pathways. With a focus on underserved populations, Rising Sun provides youth and low-income adults with meaningful training and employment opportunities in the growing green energy economy, while delivering free energy and water conservation upgrades to thousands of households each Read more [...]
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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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Rootical Gathering/Cowrie Village
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityRedefining wealth in the East Bay Inside Cowrie Village age old tools for economic sovereignty are being reactived. Putting these tools to work is what Cowrie Village is about. saltmne is a web based mobile app that facilitates peer to peer barter exchanges and offer a means of commerce 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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Shareable
Category: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Earth Activist Training, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Media, Online Resources, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Transportation, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, Earth Activist Training, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Transportation, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Media, Online Resources, and With Volunteer OpportunityShareable is a nonprofit media outlet and action network that empowers people to share for a more resilient, equitable, and joyful world. We inspire change by publishing solutions-based news stories, analysis, and tools in collaboration with our global partners. We offer: Connections to other people leading similar projects in cities 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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Soul Shoppe
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Inner Resilience, Leadership, Oakland Peace Center, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, Oakland Peace Center, Inner Resilience, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, and Schools & YouthSoul Shoppe supports school communities by providing interactive programs and tools that teach students powerful learning and life skills. In addition to working with students, we also support staff by creating and facilitating dynamic staff development trainings that give teachers the necessary tools to implement academic and personal growth. For Read more [...]
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Spiral Gardens
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunitySpiral Gardens Community Food Security Project is located on Sacramento and Oregon Streets in southwest Berkeley on two plots of public land, which were formerly a railroad right of way. Spiral Gardens strives to model and enable a healthy alternative to our current food economy. For almost two decades we Read more [...]
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SPUR
Category: Energy, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Transportation, WaterCategory: Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Racial Justice, Transportation, Water, and Event SpacesWe are SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association. We bring people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems our cities face. With offices in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland, we are recognized as a leading civic planning organization and Read more [...]
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SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), Bay Area chapter
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Racial Justice, Reproductive Freedom, Resistance, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women EmpowermentCategory: Economic Injustice, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Immigration, Inner Resilience, Leadership, LGBT rights, Mass incarceration, Reproductive Freedom, Resistance, Racial Justice, Women Empowerment, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunitySURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), Bay Area chapter, is part of a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. There are over 150 chapters and affiliates nationwide. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial Read more [...]
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Sustainable Economies Law Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, Policy & Legal Assistance, and With Volunteer OpportunityAbout Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) Legal education, research, advice, and advocacy for just and resilient economies. Our Mission SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, 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 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City (UUFRC)
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area PeninsulaCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Interfaith, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Interfaith, Leadership, Racial Justice, Water, Youth, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThe Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City (UUFRC) is a religious community that joins together to grow spiritually and intellectually. We offer opportunities for personal growth and development for all ages. We encourage exploration of our Unitarian Universalist heritage and of other religious and philosophical views. We welcome diversity of Read more [...]
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The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Leadership, Racial Justice, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Racial Justice, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityThe West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) is a resident led, community-based environmental justice organization dedicated to achieving healthy homes, healthy jobs and healthy neighborhoods for all who live, work, learn and play in West Oakland, California. Through our Community-Based Participatory Research projects and our Collaborative Problem-Solving Model we build Read more [...]
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Thrive East Bay
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Racial Justice, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsThrive East Bay is a purpose-driven community of people committed to transforming our lives, the places we live, and the world. We are a community that is informed by modern science and ancient wisdom, infused with a deep sense of purpose and interconnectedness, and focused on social change. We welcome people of all ages Read more [...]
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Trans Lifeline
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Online Resources, Racial Justice, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Inner Resilience, Racial Justice, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Online Resources, and With Volunteer OpportunityUS: (877) 565-8860 Canada: (877) 330-6366 Trans Lifeline is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the well being of transgender people. We run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Trans Lifeline volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of our community might have. We, 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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Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Interfaith, LGBT rights, Racial Justice,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Interfaith, LGBT rights, Racial Justice, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsUnitarian Universalism is a liberal religion that embraces theological diversity. We are united by shared values, rather than creed or dogma. People gather in our congregations to nurture their spirits and put their faith into action by helping to make the world a better place. Want to Make a Difference? Read more [...]