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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350VT
Bioregion: NY: Hudson-MohawkIn the Green Mountain State, we’re uniting a mass movement for bold solutions that both lift up Vermonters and cut down carbon — to be a national and global example for solving the climate crisis. We believe that everyone has a right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment. Read more [...]
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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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Acterra
Category: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Online Resources, Transportation, Water, Zero WasteCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Transportation, Water, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Online ResourcesActerra is a environmental non-profit that brings people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet. We have information and opportunities for everyone, from longtime environmentalists to people just starting to “green” their lives. Acterra now focuses its efforts on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. Read more [...]
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Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Finance & Grant, Schools & Youth, Transportation, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Environment and Nature, Transportation, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Finance & Grant, and With Volunteer OpportunityAgile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre brings visceral, intellectual and socially engaged theatre to communities across the country, traveling by bicycle. Please support our effort to expand the possibilities of the way theater is made and shared by donating to our crowdfunding campaign!
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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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Alameda Backyard Growers
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityAlameda Backyard Growers (ABG) is a network of gardeners in Alameda, California who grow their own food and donate extra fruit and vegetables to the Alameda Food Bank. Our goal is to reach out to the community to provide information about urban food growing. In the process, we get to 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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Anam Earth Center for Sustainability & Culture
Bioregion: NY: Hudson-MohawkCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Leadership, Schools & Youth, Water, YouthCategory: Environment and Nature, Leadership, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthAnam Earth Center for Sustainability & Culture “preparing new generations for a 21st century planet” The Anam Earth Center for Sustainability and Culture is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth and environment organization to promote the transition toward sustainable communities. Sustainability includes ecological, socio-cultural, governance and economic aspects, and especially includes work with the 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 Green Tours
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Zero Waste, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityBay Area Green Tours (BAGT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting Bay Area adults and youth with the change makers and thought leaders of the emerging local green economy. We serve as a conduit to solutions for a more sustainable future and a bridge from the past to all 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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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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Bay Bucks
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Home/Neighborhood, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, and With Volunteer OpportunityTake Action! The era of waiting for someone else to solve our problems is over. This is the age when we come together and help ourselves. The true path towards racial and gender equality is not pleading for tolerance, but economic empowerment. When the people own and support our own 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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Bioneers
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, Water, Women Empowerment, YouthCategory: Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Inner Resilience, Water, Women Empowerment, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Jobs & Employment, and PermacultureBioneers, under its parent foundation, Collective Heritage Institute, is a nonprofit organization based in New Mexico and California that promotes practical and innovative solutions to global environmental and bio-cultural challenges. The organization operates within a philosophy that recognizes and cultivates the value and wisdom of the natural world. Official Programs 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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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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Canopy
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Schools & Youth, Water, YouthCategory: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthUrban trees and nature have a profound impact on people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life. CANOPY envisions a day when every resident of the Mid-Peninsula can walk, play, and thrive under the shade of healthy trees. To bring this vision to life, we plant and care for trees where 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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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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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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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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Cool Effect
Bioregion: CA: North BayCategory: Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Media, Online Resources,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Media, and Online ResourcesCool Effect is a San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit that allows individuals and organizations to create a tangible impact on climate change through a digital platform, providing consistent funding to the highest-quality carbon reducing projects around the world. It provides highly-vetted offsets and follows up on the impact of each 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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David Brower Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Schools & Youth,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and Event SpacesWe are a home for the environmental movement. The David Brower Center provides a home for the environmental movement by advocating for the beauty, diversity and ecological integrity of Earth. The Brower Center accomplishes this mission through a distinctive combination of permanent infrastructure and ongoing programs in a unique institution 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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East Bay Cohousing
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Event SpacesEast Bay Cohousing is for people interested in creating intentional communities. We are a big tent for all manner of self-governing resident managed housing communities, such as housing cooperatives & collective houses, co-housing neighborhoods & eco-villages, co-living leaseholds and income sharing collectives, as well as community land trusts, cooperative loan Read more [...]
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East Bay Community Space
Bioregion: CA: East BayEBCS is available for rent for public and private events, both during the day and evening. Rentals include both the main Space (oak floor, roughly 40 x 40), the mezzanine (carpeted, roughly 30 x 12), and a classroom / meeting room (roughly 15 x 18). The space has 6 gender 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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Ecological Farming Association
Category: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Farms, Food,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and FarmsAbout the Ecological Farming Association We strive to support farmers and those who support them. The EcoFarm Conference and education programs have reached more than 75,000 participants during 33 years. Our programs bring together a diversity of stakeholders in food production to promote grassroots leadership and regional solutions to decrease Read more [...]
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Ecology Center
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Schools & Youth, Transportation, Water, With Volunteer Opportunity, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, Youth, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Jobs & Employment, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, and With Volunteer OpportunityFounded in 1969, the Ecology Center is a nonprofit organization located in Berkeley, California that focuses on improving the health and the environmental impacts of urban residents. We address critical issues through a model of education, demonstration, replication, and legislation. We envision a world where human activity nurtures the ecosystems 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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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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Farmers Guild
An agricultural community founded by farmers for farmers who collaborate toward the economic viability of local agriculture as well as the social networks necessary to attract, cultivate and sustain a new generation ready to work the land while building a healthier food system. MISSION To establish an integrated network of 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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Fibershed
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: Lake County, CA: Lake Tahoe, CA: Napa/Sonoma, CA: North Bay, CA: North Coast, CA: San Francisco, CA: Santa Cruz/Monterey, CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Schools & Youth,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthThe Fibershed Producer Program is a membership based network of farmers, ranchers, designers, sewers, weavers, knitters, felters, spinners, mill owners and natural dyers living and working within nineteen counties in the North and Central regions of California. Our Mission & Vision Fibershed develops regional and regenerative fiber systems on behalf of 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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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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Friends of Five Creeks
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Schools & Youth, Water, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Environment and Nature, Water, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityFriends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer watershed-restoration group working on the east side of San Francisco Bay, California, USA. We believe that the health of creeks and watersheds supports the health of urban environments. Friends of Five Creeks mobilizes volunteers of all ages to restore, maintain, and enjoy the Read more [...]
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Friends of Sausal Creek
Bioregion:Category: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Affiliated with, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Water, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityFriends of Sausal Creek (FOSC) is a volunteer-based, nonprofit, community organization dedicated to promoting awareness, appreciation, and stewardship of Oakland’s Sausal Creek Watershed, which drains to San Francisco Bay. FOSC works to restore, maintain, and protect the Sausal Creek Watershed. We educate future generations, involve the community in local environmental Read more [...]
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Gilroy Demonstration Garden
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood,Category: Carbon Removal, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, and Community & Grassroots Organizations“We connect residents to healthy food, gardening, and one another, by providing educational and family-friendly programs in our ¾ acre community garden.” We are a non-profit community garden that is open to the public. We are different than other community garden models because we do not offer individual plots. Many Read more [...]
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Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm
Bioregion: CA: Lake CountyCategory: Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Farms, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Women Empowerment, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Economic Injustice, Environment and Nature, Food, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Housing and Land, Human Rights, Inner Resilience, Women Empowerment, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Event Spaces, Farms, Marketplace: CSAs & Farmers Markets, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityMission: Connecting Earthlings with Earth Things! HERstory: Brenda founded Golden Rocks Permaculture Farm in November 2010 after falling in love with permaculture, gardening, and the beautiful skies of South Lake County. The farm specializes in fresh herbs, herbal tea blends and seasonal organic produce using poly-cropping, companion planting and bio-intensive Read more [...]
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Green The Church
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Interfaith, Leadership,Category: Economic Injustice, Energy, Environment and Nature, Home/Neighborhood, Human Rights, Interfaith, Leadership, and Community & Grassroots OrganizationsGreen The Church is a national organization that empowers people of all faiths to be leaders in caring for the Earth. We provide resources to educate, connect, and advocate for healthier communities. Green The Church engages congregations in the fight against climate change, and helps churches serve as centers of Read more [...]
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GreenTown Los Altos
Bioregion: CA: South BayCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, With Internship Opportunity, With Volunteer Opportunity, Zero WasteCategory: With Internship Opportunity, Carbon Removal, Energy, Home/Neighborhood, Transportation, Water, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and With Volunteer OpportunityMission To educate and inspire the people of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills to take action that will make our communities more environmentally healthy and vibrant today and for future generations. How we accomplish our mission We have four program areas: Water, Watts (energy), Waste and Walk or Wheel (WoW!). Read more [...]
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Greywater Action
Bioregion: CA: East BayWe are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure. Our teaching tools include: Hands-on installation workshop (greywater, rainwater, composting toilet) Installer’s training for professionals Presentations on design and installation of greywater, rainwater, and composting toilets Interactive 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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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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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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Institute for Evolutionary Leadership
Category: Community & Grassroots Organizations, Inner Resilience, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network,Category: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Inner Resilience, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and Schools & YouthWe build leadership capacity across sectors to address pressing social and environmental challenges through intentional cultural and institutional redesign.
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Integral Church
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaSpiritual but not religious? Turned off by the “traditional” church experience? Integral Church is a St. Petersburg, FL-based non-profit organization and interfaith group (religious and non-religious) committed to personal transformation, community service and religious literacy. We currently hold “radically inclusive” services on the first Thursday and third Sunday of the 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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Interfaith Tampa Bay
Bioregion: FL: Tampa Bay AreaInterfaith Tampa Bay is committed to religious literacy, interfaith dialogue and community service. Join our efforts today!
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Jackson St Community Food Forest
Bioregion: Great Lakes: WisconsinA regenerative, resilient community resource in Oconto, WI – contact marissa@transitionus.org if you’d like to learn more or help out!
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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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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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Matter of Trust
Bioregion: CA: San FranciscoCategory: Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Event Spaces, Food, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, With Volunteer Opportunity, Youth, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Food, Youth, Zero Waste, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Event Spaces, Jobs & Employment, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityMatter of Trust is an ecological public 501 c 3 charity established in 1998. We concentrate on renewable resources, programs for manmade surplus, natural abundance and eco-education. The Matter of Trust Eco-Center opened in the sunny inner-city Mission District of San Francisco in June of 2013. Mission Our mission is 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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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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NorCal Community Resilience Network
Bioregion: CA: Bay Area Peninsula, CA: East Bay, CA: Lake County, CA: Lake Tahoe, CA: Napa/Sonoma, CA: North BayCategory: **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Finance & Grant, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Permaculture, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer Opportunity, YouthCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, **With Collaboration Opportunity**, Environment and Nature, Gardening, Home/Neighborhood, Leadership, Youth, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, Finance & Grant, Permaculture, and With Volunteer OpportunityEarth Care. People Care. Fair Share. These are challenging times. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of climate catastrophe, social injustices, and an economic system that values profit before people. Inundated by news stories of crisis facing the planet, many feel caught in cycles of pessimism and paralysis. 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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Numundo
Bioregion: WorldwideCategory: Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Environment and Nature, Inner Resilience, Schools & Youth, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, With Volunteer OpportunityCategory: Affiliated with, The NorCal Community Resilience Network, Environment and Nature, Inner Resilience, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Schools & Youth, and With Volunteer OpportunityNuMundo is a platform that connects people to transformative educational experiences. Our mission is to facilitate the transformation of individuals and the world, facilitated by an interconnected network of land-based regenerative education centers. We link aspiration to experience, passion to purpose.
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O2 Artisans Aggregate
Bioregion: CA: East BayCategory: Arts & Culture, Businesses, Carbon Removal, Community & Grassroots Organizations, Energy, Environment and Nature, Farms, Zero WasteCategory: Carbon Removal, Energy, Environment and Nature, Zero Waste, Arts & Culture, Businesses, Community & Grassroots Organizations, and FarmsO2AA, an eco-industrial park located in West Oakland, is home to a network of artisans working collectively to develop and promote environmentally progressive projects. The systems created at O2 enable tenants and the community to utilize alternative energies & reduce and up-cycle various waste-streams. Organized by the founder of Joinery 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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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 [...]