Get to know us by getting to know some of the organization we support.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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%.
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.
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).
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.
Save the Poudre
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Save the Poudre works to restore the Cache la Poudre River to a healthy and vibrant condition by stopping destructive water projects, hosting river cleanups, and expanding scientific research about the Poudre’s ecological and economic role in Northern Colorado.
cityWILD
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cityWILD provides tuition-free, experiential outdoor education for at-risk youth. The group assists students between the ages of 10 and 18 in northeast Denver through programs such as Teen Workforce Readiness, Weekend Adventure, Summer Expeditions, and Afterschool. The cityWILD model encourages students to make healthy life decisions by promoting personal empowerment, leadership development, and community participation.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
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Louisiana Bucket Brigade works with communities neighboring the state's oil refineries and chemical plants to create informed, sustainable communities free from industrial pollution. Programs include the Fenceline Neighbors Network, the Refinery Efficiency Initiative, and the Oil Spill Crisis Map, which tracks the impact of the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
New Orleans Food & Farm Network
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New Orleans Food & Farm Network addresses the city’s need for affordable and locally grown fresh produce. The Network focuses on underserved neighborhoods with limited access to fresh food, creates projects specific to each neighborhood’s identity and resources, and emphasizes food-growing gardens in backyards, schools, and churches. By cleaning up spaces, providing jobs, and growing good food, New Orleans’ neighborhoods-in-need can play a key role in revitalizing the city.
Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis
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Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis focuses on hastening a cure for MS by facilitating research that determines the causes and mechanisms of the disease. The Project compiles data about what is known and isn’t known about the origins of MS, facilitates research that’s most likely to reveal the causes of the disease in the shortest time, and compiles data from disparate experiments so that results can be combined and compared.
Sustainable Nantucket
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Sustainable Nantucket integrates sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption to enhance the overall environmental, economic, and social health of the island. Through programs such as Farm to School, Farmers and Artisans Market, and Community Agriculture, it supports a more locally based, self-reliant food economy.
Appropriate Technology Collaborative
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Appropriate Technology Collaborative (ATC) creates sustainable technologies that promote economic growth while improving the quality of life for low-income people worldwide. ATC collaborates with local residents and nonprofits to create market based solutions that are culturally sensitive, environmentally responsible, and locally repairable. To date, the group has served an estimated 4,500 people and its breakthrough designs—including Solar Vaccine Refrigerators, Treadle Pumps, and Bamboo Reinforced Concrete—have been downloaded by over 3,000 people, nonprofits, and governments in 23 countries.
Friends of the Wild Swan
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Friends of the Wild Swan support preservation and restoration of water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and road-less areas and wilderness in northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley. Recent efforts include saving the Sprunger-Whitney Nature Trail from clear cutting by leasing the land and turning it into an interpretive nature trail for 30 schools, which use it for botany and science studies and volunteer activities.
Women’s Voices for the Earth
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Women’s Voices for the Earth works to eliminate toxic chemicals that impact women’s health, while creating opportunities for women to become agents for social change. WVE organizes and provides technical assistance to women in Montana fighting polluting facilities such as pulp mills, incinerators, hard rock mines, cement kilns, and large-scale pesticide spraying. In 2004, WVE expanded its work to reach women at the regional and national levels, and co-founded the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
Pedals for Progress
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Pedals for Progress rescues bicycles destined for overburdened U.S. landfills and ships them to developing countries where they’re highly valued as inexpensive transportation. Pedals for Progress donates the first shipment of bicycles to a local nonprofit partner, who sells the bikes far below market value so that the people most in need can afford them. Enough money is raised from those sales to pay both for subsequent shipments and to fund other critical community programs. To date, Pedals for Progress has donated more than 133,000 bicycles in 33 countries.
Abundance Foundation
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Abundance Foundation educates the public on sustainability – renewable energy, local food, clean water, conservation and community – through DIY workshops, a new community garden, and programs such as the amazing Pittsboro pepper festival.
World Neighbors
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World Neighbors strives to eliminate hunger, poverty, and disease in isolated rural villages in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They do not give away food or material aid, but provide people and communities with knowledge and training in agriculture, literacy, water, health, and environmental protection so that they can create their own life-changing solutions.
Food Alliance
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Food Alliance is one of North America's most comprehensive third-party certification organizations for the production, processing, and distribution of sustainable food. They promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, safe and fair working conditions, careful stewardship of ecosystems, and humane treatment of animals.
Grow Portland
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Grow Portland expands urban gardening and agriculture by connecting diverse populations with knowledge, supplies, and land.
Organic Materials Review Institute
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Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) provides an independent review of products intended for use in certified organic production, handling, and processing. OMRI reviews products against the National Organic Standards, determines which inputs are allowed in organic production and processing, and provides guidance to subscribers and certifiers regarding the acceptability of various material inputs. OMRI also helps growers find organic seed.
Rodale Institute
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Rodale Institute has pioneered groundbreaking research in organic agriculture for over 60 years. It advocates for policies that support farmers, and educates people about the benefits of organic practices. The Institute’s Farming Systems Trial® is the longest-running side-by-side U.S. study comparing conventional chemical agriculture with organic methods (demonstrating that organic yields equal conventional, and outperform them in years of drought). New areas of study include rates of carbon sequestration, and new techniques for weed suppression.
Pedal Power
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Pedal Power helps put the “cycle” in recycle. They provide low cost transportation options to students, micro-businesses, health care workers, and others in developing nations (and in the great state of Texas) by recycling and reusing bicycles and their parts.
Puente a la Salud Comunitaria
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Puente a la Salud Comunitaria advances the health and economies of rural communities in Mexico. Through their Healthy Families and Eco-Amaranth programs, Puente works with subsistence farmers to produce nutritious crops using sustainable, environmentally sound methods; to combat malnutrition; and to raise community awareness about principles of food sovereignty and a healthy diet.
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
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Center for Health, Environment, and Justice collaborates with communities nationwide that are facing environmental health threats such as leaking landfills, polluted drinking water, and hazardous waste sites. CHEJ helps local groups research the extent of their problem, break it down into manageable “action steps,” and develop the skills and knowledge they need to bring about positive change and create a healthier environment.
Organic Seed Alliance
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Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) fosters the ethical development and stewardship of agricultural seed—a living natural resource that’s fundamental to our food security. Through collaborative education, advisory services, and research programs with organic farmers and other seed professionals, OSA works to restore and develop seed varieties for current needs while safeguarding seed as an invaluable genetic resource for future generations.
GRuB
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GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) encourages individual and community food solutions. Since 1993, it has partnered with youth and people with low-incomes to build more than 2,300 backyard and community gardens, host workshops, and provide training and resources to increase healthy food access in Thurston and Mason counties. GRuB in the Schools allows students to earn credits while learning about and contributing to their local food systems through programs such as Farming Self, Farming Land, and Farming Community.
American Farmland Trust
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American Farmland Trust protects America's fast disappearing farm and ranch land, promotes environmentally sound farming practices, and works to ensure an economically sustainable future for farmers and ranchers. Through efforts such as the No Farm No Food campaign, the Steward of the Land Award, and the Sustaining Farms on the Urban Edge report, the Trust inspires people to act on behalf of farms, clean water, and local food.
Campus Kitchens Project
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Campus Kitchens Project empowers thousands of college students each year to recycle food from their cafeterias, turn these donations into nourishing meals, and deliver them to those in need. Simultaneously, they cultivate resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses, and schools.
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