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5 Gyres Institute
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The 5 Gyres Institute researches the impact of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and employs communication and advocacy strategies to eliminate plastic accumulation in the five subtropical gyres. Research takes place on location, often in partnership with Pangaea Explorations and Algalita Marine Research Foundations, which carry scientists and journalists on research expeditions through the gyres. The Institute shares its findings through multimedia outlets, peer-reviewed publications, school outreach, and a traveling exhibition.
Alameda County Community Food Bank
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Alameda County Community Food Bank provides nutritious food to people in need, and promotes public policies that address hunger and its root causes. Through 275 food pantries, soup kitchens, child-care centers, senior centers, after-school programs, and other community-based organizations, the Food Bank distributes enough food for 300,000 meals weekly.
Alameda Meals on Wheels
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Alameda Meals on Wheels delivers hot, nourishing meals to Alameda residents since 1973. Seven-day-a-week, volunteers carry mid-day meals to more than 140 local residents of all ages, who are welcome to pay on a sliding fee scale.
Alameda Point Collaborative
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Alameda Point Collaborative provides 200 units of housing to families and individuals who have been homeless. Each year it serves approximately 500 people, including nearly 300 children and youth. The Collaborative also offers employment opportunities, on-the-job training, two playgrounds, an urban farm and community garden, a retail plant nursery (specializing in native and edible plants), and a commercial kitchen.
Alliance for Climate Education
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Alliance for Climate Education supports a generational shift to fight climate change. The Alliance introduces high school students to the basics of climate science through an award-winning multimedia assembly, and encourages them to Do One Thing (DOT) to help the environment and cool the climate. Youth representatives go on to influence their peers, leaders, and politicians.
American River Conservancy
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American River Conservancy provides environmental education and outdoor recreation for children and adults; promotes habitat restoration, trail building, and maintenance; and works to build an enduring ethic of stewardship. The Conservancy focuses on the American River and Cosumnes River watersheds. To date, it has protected habitat, native fisheries, and scenic vistas on more than 12,000 acres.
Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program
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Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program provides and promotes accessible sports and recreation opportunities for people with physical disabilities. Through their Adaptive Cycling Program, they loan 65 specially adapted bicycles to disabled riders, who are welcome to cycle solo or as part of a BORP-organized group ride.
Bay Area Wilderness Training
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Bay Area Wilderness Training, a project of the Earth Island Institute, instructs and equips teachers and community leaders wishing to lead wilderness field trips for urban youth, offering students an expanded sense of self and the world around them.
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
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Berkeley Youth Alternatives champions prevention and intervention to help young people and their families address problems before they become crises. Through programs including the Inter-generational Garden Project, Lady Hoops Twilite Basketball League, Video Production, and DJ Training, Berkeley Youth Alternatives supports individuals’ efforts to reach their full potential.
Canopy
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Canopy works on growing the urban forests in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and neighboring communities. Through their Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids program, they’re currently planting 1,000 trees in and around schools.
Catalyst Commons
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Catalyst Commons works to reform our complex food system. They’re currently developing platforms and networks to organize vast amounts of data about all aspects of the system – from production, processing, and distribution to urban agriculture, restorative production, and food security – in a simple format, so that people can quickly understand the intricacies of the food system, and support smarter business, policy, investment, and environmental decisions.
Center for Early Intervention on Deafness
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Center for Early Intervention on Deafness improves the lives of babies and young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have severe speech and language delays.
Center for Land Based Learning
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Center for Land Based Learning teaches California’s youth and the next generation of farmers about the importance of environmentally sound farming and watershed conservation. Interns work on a variety of habitat restoration projects and learn about related scientific concepts—why and how each task relates to the productive intersection of agriculture, conservation, and sustainability.
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center
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Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center defends water, wildlife, and wild places across 2,000,000 acres in the Northern Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada. CSERC monitors logging, mining, grazing, development, and water projects, and gives nature a voice at local hearings and meetings. Through their clean-up programs, they restore denuded meadows, repair crumbling stream banks, clear litter from rivers, and build new trails for public use.
Ceres Community Project
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Ceres Community Project works to reestablish locally grown, organic food as a cornerstone of health. The Project provides people who are facing life-threatening illnesses with nourishing meals and, at the same time, gives teens the opportunity to grow and prepare healthy food, and educates the larger community about the connection between food, healing, and wellness. To date, Ceres teen chefs have provided 83,000 meals to families in five counties. The Project model is currently being developed in three other states.
City Slicker Farms
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City Slicker Farms grows sustainable, high-yield, backyard gardens and urban farms that provide West Oakland residents with affordable organic fruits and vegetables, and the tools they need to grow their own food. The gardens empower children and adults who want to learn about the connections between ecology, farming, and the urban environment.
Clínica Verde
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Clínica Verde (“Green Clinic”) simultaneously supports kids, moms, and the Earth. The clinic provides maternal and infant healthcare in Nicaragua (the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere) in an environmentally friendly building that was designed to improve the health of the local community, save energy, and conserve resources. (The Clínica Verde model also was designed so that it could be replicated in other countries.)
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
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Community Alliance with Family Farmers advocates for California family farmers and sustainable agriculture. Programs include Buy Fresh, Buy Local, which opens new markets for family farmers and educates consumers about the benefits of buying local, and Farm to School, which reconnects children with local food and agriculture in their classrooms and cafeterias.
Community Resource for Science
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Community Resource for Science supports educators working to excite children about science, and promotes critical thinking skills through hands-on experiences that deal with real world problems.
Community Water Center
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Community Water Center seeks to ensure that communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley have access to safe, clean, and affordable water. Water quality in the area suffers due to groundwater pollution, which is linked to decades of intensive fertilizer and pesticide application as well as the influx of animal factories to the region. The Center acts to empower local residents through education, advocacy, and legal assistance.
Connolly Ranch Education Center
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Connolly Ranch Education Center connects kids with nature through farm-based environmental education programs focusing on farm life, organic gardening, the sources and benefits of healthy foods, and an appreciation of how nature sustains us.
Cool the Earth
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A parent- and volunteer-run program that educates K-8 students about climate change. Cool the Earth advocates for “education through action” and empowers kids to take simple, measurable actions to reduce their carbon emissions. Because kids’ enthusiasm is contagious, Cool the Earth (launched in 2007) is now running in over 50 U.S. schools.
Diabetic Youth Foundation
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Diabetic Youth Foundation works to improve the quality of life for children, teens, and families affected by diabetes. Since 1937, DYF has provided educational and recreational programs – such as Bearskin Meadow summer camp in Sequoia National Forest – that encourage personal growth and independence, and create opportunities that might otherwise seem unattainable for individuals and families living with diabetes.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
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Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund advances the rights of people with disabilities. They run a disability rights legal clinic in collaboration with San Francisco Bay Area law schools, and train and educate people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities so that they can challenge discrimination and participate fully in the lives of their communities.
Each One Reach One
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Each One Reach One offers one-on-one mentoring in the creative acts of theatre arts, playwriting, and academic studies to incarcerated youth, supporting their efforts to become positively engaged with society.
Ecology Center
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Ecology Center facilitates urban lifestyles that advance ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development. They provide the information and infrastructure that make sustainable practices possible on a large scale. Projects include the Berkeley's Farmers' Markets and residential curbside recycling program, Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, and EcoHouse demonstrations and classes.
Empowered by Light
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Empowered by Light improves rural people’s quality of life and environment by encouraging the use of renewable energy technologies. The current Solar: ZAMBIA project is delivering 5,000 solar-powered LED light/cell phone charge kits to families in Zambia living without electric power. The kits provide inexpensive electric lighting, which encourages nighttime studying; eliminate the need for open-flame kerosene lamps and candles (reducing the hazards of fire and respiratory disease); and charge mobile telephones, which help farmers market their goods.
Exploring New Horizons
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Exploring New Horizons (ENH) provides high quality, affordable environmental education for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The curriculum focuses on environmental awareness and natural history, cooperation and team building, and self-esteem and citizenship. Annually, over 8,000 students from 90 schools participate in ENH programs. Since its inception in 1979, ENH has reached over 80,000 elementary and middle school students.
Family Services of Tulare County
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Family Services of Tulare County helps children, adults, and families to heal from violence and choose healthy relationships. Services include counseling, education, advocacy, and training; programs designed for high school students include the My Strength club for boys and My Voice club for girls, which address dating, and violence prevention.
Farmer-Veteran Coalition
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Farmer-Veteran Coalition helps returning veterans find training and employment on America’s farms. FVC believes that America’s aging farmers, local and regional agriculture, and the sustainable farming movement would all be well served by people accustomed to discipline, dedication, and hard work. In turn, veterans also can benefit – even in these economic times – by helping to grow the green economy.
Food Forward
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Food Forward addresses urban hunger. Volunteers harvest locally grown food from private homes and public spaces and deliver it to local food pantries and organizations serving those in need.
Friends of the Urban Forest
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Friends of the Urban Forest promote large, healthy forests in San Francisco through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy. The Friends obtain permits; select, purchase and deliver trees; supply tools and materials; remove sidewalk concrete; and volunteer side-by-side with residents. They plant nearly 1,000 trees each year.
George Mark Children's House
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George Mark Children's House offers comprehensive, compassionate, and leading-edge care to children—and their families—who are facing chronic, life-limiting illnesses. Its programs are intended to relieve suffering while achieving the best quality of life possible, as defined in partnership with the family. George Mark Children’s House is the first and only freestanding residential pediatric palliative care center in the United States.
Giant Steps Equestrian Center
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Giant Steps Equestrian Center offers life-changing experiences to people with a wide range of disabilities through their horse "therapists" (including Snuffles, Scarlet, and Katydid).
Glide San Francisco
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Glide San Francisco offers programs to create a “radically inclusive” community, alleviate suffering, and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization. Programs include Feed the Hungry, Inspire Youth and Children, House the Community, and Green the Tenderloin.
Green Schools
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Green Schools works to catalyze “green” actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of U.S. schools. It acts to leverage the schools’ sector to transform the school environment—and the markets that supply them—to improve health and sustainability by eliminating toxins, using resources sustainably, creating green spaces and buildings, serving healthy food, and teaching stewardship.
GRID Alternatives
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GRID Alternatives installs solar panels for homeowners in low-income communities that are most affected by changing energy prices and least likely to have funds for alternative energy. They also train volunteers and job seekers to install solar electric systems.
Growers First
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Growers First helps rural farmers in Mexico, Honduras, Indonesia, and Rwanda cultivate sustainable, higher incomes and new jobs in their communities. Through ecologically balanced farming methods, increased crop yields, and organic certification of their coffee (available in Traceable-Transformation™ blends), over 600 families in 24 villages are improving their quality of life.
GrowingGreat
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GrowingGreat addresses the problems of obesity and rising health care costs by helping children and communities reconnect with healthy food. Through elementary school gardens, a Farm-to-School Harvest-of-the-Month tasting program, and nutrition education, GrowingGreat has reached over 30,000 students and families in California and Hawaii.
International Development Exchange
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International Development Exchange (IDEX) promotes sustainable solutions to poverty by providing long-term grants and other resources to locally run organizations. IDEX’s international development model, inspired by returning Peace Corps volunteers, centers around small grants targeting grassroots groups that are trusted by their neighbors and that understand the needs of their own communities. IDEX’s initiatives involve entire communities in building local economies, empowering women, protecting the environment, creating food security, and promoting local leadership in Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Kala Art Institute
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Kala Art Institute brings quality art education to the general public and public school children through on-site classes, an Artists-in-Schools program, exhibitions, lectures, and special events.
Land Trust of Napa County
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Land Trust of Napa County preserves agriculture, biodiversity, and scenic open space in Napa County by permanently protecting land. Established in 1976, the Land Trust has completed over 150 land projects and protected more than 53,000 acres – 10% of Napa County – including five permanent preserves.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/San Francisco
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Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/San Francisco is dedicated to funding lifesaving blood cancer research, and providing people with blood cancer access to free information and the services they need to fight and manage their disease.
Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont (LEAF)
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Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont (LEAF) provides local residents with information about sustainable and ecological practices including local food production, organic gardening, waste reduction, green building, and resource conservation. LEAF also collaborates with other community organizations to start neighborhood gardens and to build community among Fremont’s diverse residents.
Loco Bloco
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Loco Bloco provides low-income, minority, and immigrant youth and families access to professional-level arts education – percussion, dance, visual arts, and theater arts – at no cost. They advocate for art as a tool to overcome injustice, promote ethnic and cultural diversity, and contribute positively to community.
Luna Dance Institute
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Luna Dance Institute promotes dance as a creative practice to heal individuals, families, and communities. Luna brings dance and choreography to children through three programs – Studio Lab, MPACT, and School and Community Alliances – that provide students with knowledge to explore dance through active participation, guided discovery, and critical reflection.
Medic Mobile
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Medic Mobile uses appropriate technologies to create coordinated health systems that allow health care workers in remote areas of developing countries to save lives. By developing and extending existing open-source platforms, Medic Mobile allows health workers traveling to isolated patients to stay connected with central clinics. Advanced communications technologies combined with minimal infrastructure requirements support community mobilizations for vaccination and satellite clinics, logistics and supply chain management, referrals, and routine data collection.
MedShare
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MedShare improves both healthcare and the environment by redistributing surplus medical supplies and equipment to healthcare facilities in the developing world, medical missions, and safety net clinics in the U.S. and abroad. MedShare has delivered over $83 million worth of medical supplies to patients in 88 countries, and provided medical supplies for over 1,500 medical mission teams; at the same time, they’ve saved over two million cubic feet from area landfills, and decreased our carbon footprint.
Mission Graduates
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Mission Graduates aims to increase the number of college graduates from San Francisco’s ethnically mixed, low-income Mission District as a means to achieve economic equity and strengthen the fabric of the Mission community. It offers a range of K-12 after-school, in-school, and summer programs that reach over 1,100 children, youth, and families each year, with college education as an “end goal” that’s woven through all academic enrichment programs.
Movement Strategy Center
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Movement Strategy Center increases the capacity of individuals, organizations, alliances, and sectors to support social and racial justice. Successful movements require that a range of different strategies develop simultaneously, so MSC helps local campaigns operate increasingly collaboratively, strategically, and sustainably, to form powerful alliances that can affect state-level policy.
National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA)
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National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) promotes the development of interscholastic mountain biking leagues for U.S. high school students, along with athletic skills, teamwork, and respect for community and the environment.
OBUGS
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OBUGS (Oakland Based Urban Gardens) reaches over 400 children each week through a network of school and neighborhood gardens, green spaces, and farmers' markets. In partnerships with West and North Oakland schools, OBUGS offers in-school, afterschool, volunteer, and internship programs and summer camps at seven gardens that emphasize hands-on educational activities. OBUGS has served more than 2,000 children from preschool through middle school since its inception (and 400 adults through related events).
Organic Farming Research Foundation
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Organic Farming Research Foundation advocates for the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems. Through an integrated strategy of grant making, policy, education, and networking initiatives, OFRF supports organic farmers’ needs for immediate information while moving the public and policymakers toward greater investment in organic farming systems.
Outdoor Outreach
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Outdoor Outreach empowers underprivileged youth through comprehensive outdoor education and hands-on learning experiences. Through short trips to local mountains and beaches or more comprehensive multi-year curricula, Outdoor Outreach offers underserved youth the opportunity to develop a passion and joy in the outdoors that can inspire positive changes in their lives. To date, it has provided more than 5000 at-risk youth in San Diego County with the support and relationships they need to become successful adults.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
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Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. Through a citizens’ action network that includes consumers and labor, health, environment and agriculture groups, they challenge the local and global proliferation of pesticides, and defend public health and environmental quality.
Petaluma Bounty
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Petaluma Bounty helps local residents grow their own healthy food, redistributes surplus food, and provides affordable fresh food to low-income families and seniors. Core programs include the Bounty Hunters food gleaning program, an educational urban farm, weekly boxes of organic fruits and vegetables sold at wholesale prices to low-income families, and custom designed, permaculture-inspired food forests.
Pie Ranch
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Pie Ranch serves as a model of sustainable farming and supports “pie in the sky” idealistic thinking to guide social change. The working farm hosts regional high school students, and collaborates with educators and community leaders from diverse settings to help students apply what they’ve learned to their daily lives in order to create meaningful and measurable change. The Ranch also mentors aspiring farmers through yearlong resident apprenticeships.
Pogo Park
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Pogo Park is a community-based nonprofit group working to rebuild the Elm Playlot, a half-acre park in an inner-city neighborhood burdened by crime and poverty. By engaging local residents in the re-design and re-building of Elm Playlot, Pogo Park works as a catalyst for both child development and community development, and serves as a new model for how to reinvigorate inner-city parks and playgrounds.
Project Bike Trip
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Project Bike Trip provides comprehensive bicycle education and training for youth and adults, introducing the bicycle as alternative transportation, a potent solution for childhood obesity, and an effective way to benefit the economy and environment.
Rooted in Community
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Rooted in Community, a project of Earth Island Institute, prepares young people for leadership positions in neighborhood food security through urban and rural agriculture, community gardening, and related environmental justice work.
Sacred Rok
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Sacred Rok helps under-served young people learn to respect nature by exploring and understanding the beauty of Yosemite National Park and through these experiences, to better respect themselves.
Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN)
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Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) works to protect and restore endangered salmon habitat in the Lagunitas Watershed through monitoring and research, restoration, education, strategic litigation, and grassroots actions.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
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San Francisco Bicycle Coalition promotes the bicycle as everyday transportation. The Coalition offers free Urban Cycling Workshops, distribute hundreds of free bike lights and helmets to adults and children in underserved communities, and provide free, valet bike parking at major city events. The Coalition led campaigns to double the number of San Francisco bike lanes, and between 2006 and 2010, the number of city cyclists increased by 58%.
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
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San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) promotes good planning and government through research, analysis, public education, and advocacy. SPUR gives citizens a voice in crafting solutions to common problems.
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
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Santa Barbara Channelkeeper protects and restores the Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds. Channelkeeper monitors local waterways, repairs aquatic ecosystems, advocates for clean water, enforces environmental laws, and educates and engages citizens in identifying and resolving local pollution problems.
Save Mt. Diablo
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Save Mt. Diablo works to protect the land on and around Mount Diablo. Currently half of the area is preserved and the other half is at risk of being lost. Save Mt. Diablo conserves land through purchases, gifts, and cooperative efforts with public and private entities. The group also educates the public regarding the history and heritage of the mountain, its surrounding foothills and its watersheds.
Save the Bay
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Save the Bay protects San Francisco Bay from pollution and sprawl; restores habitat; and engages and inspires more than 25,000 supporters annually. For nearly 50 years, it has fought to stop raw sewage flowing untreated into the Bay, to prevent the Peripheral Canal from draining more of the Bay’s fresh water from upstream, and to close the garbage dumps ringing the shoreline. As a result, the size of the Bay has actually increased slightly, and public shoreline access has increased from four miles in 1969 to over 200 miles today.
Seacology
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Seacology preserves the highly endangered and rapidly disappearing biodiversity of the earth’s islands. The nonprofit works closely with islanders to conserve their natural resources and create crucial support systems. To date, Seacology has saved nearly 164,000 acres of island terrestrial habitat and over 1,800,000 acres of coral reef and marine habitat, and built or funded 80 schools, community centers, and other essential facilities.
Slide Ranch
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Slide Ranch is a nonprofit teaching farm located at a historic coastal dairy. The Ranch uses its organic gardens as well as its goats, sheep, chickens, and ducks to teach an appreciation for fresh healthy food, and the farms that grow it. Each year, thousands of Bay Area residents participate in Ranch Programs and learn about growing and preparing nutritious foods, and how to use natural resources sustainably.
Taylor Family Foundation
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Taylor Family Foundation offers children with life threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities a therapeutic camp experience designed to enhance their quality of life.
The Friendship Club
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The Friendship Club educates and empowers at-risk girls in grades six through twelve each year. The Club teaches life skills through after-school clubs, summer programs, mentoring, community service projects, and special programs such as the Healthy Choices Project, which offers health education to disadvantaged rural girls through cooking courses, nutrition information, fitness classes, and training for a fun run.
Urban Biofilter
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Urban Biofilter builds urban bamboo forests, which purify waste, filter diesel particulates from the air, and shield inner-city residents from industry and transportation emissions.
Urban Biofilter
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Urban Biofilter implements innovative green infrastructures and biological systems solutions in environmentally degraded urban neighborhoods. Urban Biofilter designs green spaces that provide quantifiable ecosystem services—air, soil, and water filtration; heat mitigation; and climate change preparation—for residents of West Oakland and other urban communities. Programs such as the West Oakland Greenbelt Campaign, Green Collar Jobs, and Urban Timber empower communities to make momentous changes in their own neighborhoods.
Urban Tilth
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Urban Tilth helps to build a healthier food system in west Contra Costa County. The group works with schools, community-based organizations, government agencies, businesses, and individuals to develop the capacity to produce 5% of their food supply. Urban Tilth trains and employs local people, establishes cross sector coalitions, engages in local policy decisions, and grows food using permaculture principles (waste reduction, and water and soil conservation, preservation and restoration).
Watershed Project
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Watershed Project increases awareness of San Francisco Bay, one of the world's greatest estuaries, and the most altered aquatic ecosystem in the United States. The Project demonstrates human impact on the Bay, and inspires community actions to protect and restore it.
Waterside Workshops
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Waterside Workshops empowers youth through vocational skills instruction, outdoor activities, and organizational and retail experience. Facilities include a wood workshop and a bicycle repair shop, as well as access to nearby Aquatic Park. Waterside Workshops also serves the Berkeley community with a bicycle sales and repair facility, a full-service wooden boat building shop, and the city’s only waterfront coffeehouse.
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