Community Partners

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The Arab Resource and Organizing Center is a grassroots organization working to empower and organize the community towards justice and self-determination for all. AROC members build community power by participating in leadership development, political education, and campaigns. Also coordinates the Arab Youth Organization (AYO).

 

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

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APEN is an environmental justice organization seeking to strengthen the capacities of Asian and Pacific Islander American communities to develop proactive solutions to environmental problems through grassroots organizing, leadership development, and advocacy.

 

Black Organizing Project (BOP)

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BOP is a Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland.

 

Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth

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A dynamic, multi-ethnic, youth-led organization that builds the leadership and power of high school age low-income young people and people of color in San Francisco. Youth Organizers recruit, educate and mobilize Y-MAC members to wage policy campaigns that win concrete improvements.

 

Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)

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A community-based membership organization that organizes and empowers the low-income Chinese immigrant community in San Francisco with campaigns and programs on housing, health, a workers’ center, English empowerment classes, and a women’s group.

 

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)

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CBE is a grassroots non-profit environmental health and justice organization. CBE works for environmental health and justice by providing organizing and leadership development skills, and legal, scientific and technical assistance to low-income communities of color facing threats to their health and well-being from toxic pollution.

 

Critical Resistance

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Critical Resistance was formed in 1997 when activists challenging the idea that imprisonment and policing are a solution for social, political, and economic problems came together to organize a conference that examined and challenged what we have come to call the prison industrial complex (PIC).

 

Filipino Community Center

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Builds civic participation and grassroots leadership to strengthen our commitment and responsibility to each other, our community, and the larger society.

 

Frontline Catalysts

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Committed to helping frontline youth of color discover their power by grounding them in the historical context of climate justice and the role of collective and distributive power to create profound change.

 

Local 2, UNITE HERE!

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Represents about 12,000 workers in the hospitality industries of San Francisco and San Mateo. Our members work in many job sites – including hotels, restaurants, food services.

 

Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project

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Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture.

 

Oakland Kids First

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Oakland Kids First (OKF) trains hundreds of high-school leaders each year who work to advance safe and caring school cultures, academic success, and educational equity campaigns that center the needs of under-served Oakland students.

 

People Organized to Demand Environmental Rights (PODER)

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PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color.

 

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

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SPI provides in-person and virtual spaces for Native Nations and Indigenous People to think and strategically plan about how best to protect their sacred sites as well as advance the environmental justice priorities of tribal communities. 

 

SF Rising

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Builds political powers with communities of color that prioritize racial, economic and environmental justice. We build power through deepening multiracial solidarity, educating and mobilizing voters, working closely with policymakers, organizing, and developing leaders of color.”

 

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

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An urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

 

Trabajadordes Unidos/Workers United

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Formerly known as Young Workers United.