Community Partnerships

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and industry policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, social, economic, racial, and climate justice.

The Watershed Project is committed to inspiring Bay Area communities to understand, appreciate and protect local watersheds. We engage students, teachers and volunteers in creek beds and on the shorelines, giving them the tools to create and care for healthy watersheds. We reach out to support grassroots watershed organizations and nurture young people to aspire to environmental careers defending precious natural resources.

Brightline is an environmental justice non-profit that works to empower  communities and create sustainable environments. We work to promote sustainable policies that allow low-income residents to remain and work in developing urban communities, focusing on local hiring policies and access to environmental benefits such as solar and energy efficiency.  Our team of community-oriented lawyers connects communities most in need to critical policymaking levers at the local and state level, which can be then modeled nationwide.

All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, work, learn, play and thrive. Towards this vision, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice.

The mission of the California Environmental Justice Alliance is to strengthen the progressive environmental justice movement in California by building on the local organizing efforts and advocacy successes of our member organizations and use them as a means to achieve state policy change.

The Civic Engine engages with civil society, private enterprise, and government to design and prove innovations for health and sustainability. We bring experience and expertise in data science and communication, civic engagement, public policy, and governmental accountability.

The Community Water Center believes all communities should have access to clean, safe, and affordable water. That’s why we work as a catalyst for community-driven water solutions through organizing, education, and advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley. We build strategic grassroots capacity to address water challenges in small, rural, low-income communities and communities of color.

Energy Solidarity Cooperative designs and develops community-owned, cooperatively managed renewable energy with community groups (i.e. non-profits, schools, places of worship, collectives) in traditionally underserved and marginalized communities.

Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers (PSE) for Healthy Energy is a multidisciplinary, nonprofit research institute that studies the way energy production and use impact public health and the environment. We share our work and translate complex existing science for all audiences.

The Sierra Club is America’s oldest and largest environmental organization. The San Francisco Bay Chapter’s top priorities are protecting critical habitat and open space, promoting clean renewable energy, and working directly in elections to pass environmental ballot measures and elect environmental leaders. 

Urban Tilth hires and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture in west Contra Costa County to help our community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system.

Youth Spirit Artworks is an interfaith art jobs and job training program located in Berkeley, California which is committed to empowering homeless and low-income San Francisco Bay Area young people, ages 16-25. The mission of Youth Spirit Artworks is to use art jobs and jobs training to empower and transform the lives of youth, giving young people the skills, experience, and self-confidence needed to meet their full potential.

California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. is a nonprofit legal service program created to help California’s low-income individuals and communities. We represent all types of individuals and communities. We have offices from the Mexican border to Northern California.

The mission of Communities for a Better Environment is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy, and sustainable communities and environments.

Cycles of Change’s mission is to promote cycling as a primary means of safe, enjoyable, accessible, inexpensive, healthy, and sustainable transportation for as many East Bay residents as possible. Combining bike mechanic trainings with after-school bicycle adventures, our programs became wildly popular and developed a huge following. Since then, we have expanded to offer in-school bicycle safety trainings and watershed education to thousands of students in Alameda County and beyond.

Environmental Justice Coalition for Water is a statewide coalition of grassroots groups and intermediary organizations building a collective, community-based movement for democratic water allocation, management, and policy in California. EJCW empowers the most under-served communities, including those of low-income and communities of color throughout California to advocate for clean, safe, and affordable water.

Planting Justice is a grassroots organization with a mission to democratize access to affordable, nutritious food by empowering urban residents with the skills, resources, and knowledge they need to maximize food production, expand job opportunities, and ensure environmental sustainability in the bay area.

Spiral Gardens was originally founded in 1993 as a project of the Agape Foundation for Nonviolent Social Change by a handful of individuals dedicated to urban greening, innovative organic farming methods, food security, and environmental justice issues. It then melded with the Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) Urban Gardening Institute from 1997 through 2004.