The mission of Asian Neighborhood Design is to reduce poverty by building communities and providing opportunities for low-income residents to become economically self-sufficient.

APEN 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.

We catalyze the emergence of a regional, self-reliant economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities.

The mission of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration is to engage African Americans and other communities in a dialogue that leads to actions that challenge U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it.

We help homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve health and self-sufficiency, while fighting against the root causes of poverty and homelessness.

To improve access to health care and eliminate health disparities by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of our communities.

The California Reinvestment Coalition advocates for the right of low-income communities and communities of color to have fair and equal access to banking and other financial services. CRC has a membership of more than 240 nonprofit organizations and public agencies across the State.

The Center for Environmental Health protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business products and practices that are safe for public health and the environment.

The mission of Communities for a Better Environment is to achieve environmental health and justice by building grassroots power in and with communities of color and working-class communities.

One of the Bay Area’s most advanced green buildings, the nonprofit David Brower Center is an inspiring home for environmental and social action, combining both offices and program facilities in a 50,000 square-foot space. The David Brower Center provides a central address for the nonprofit community, a place to discover the connections between issues, build lasting relationships and affect real, substantive change.

The David R. Brower Center, Ronald V. Dellums Institute for Sustainable Policy Studies reseraches human behavior as it applies to the implementation of policies of Equity, Ecology and Economy

EARN breaks the cycle of poverty by matching the savings of low-wage workers and helping them invest in assets that build wealth, creating a cycle of prosperity across generations.

The mission of Earth House, in Oakland, California, is to build healthy, just, and sustainable communities through education, training and multi-media communication tools.

East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) is a 24-year-old membership non-profit organization dedicated to working with communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to preserve, protect and expand affordable housing opportunities through education, advocacy, and coalition building.

The East Bay Regional Park District will preserve a priceless heritage of natural and cultural resources open space, parks and trails for the future and will set aside park areas for enjoyment and healthful recreation for generations to come. An environmental ethic guides us in all that we do.

The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy advances economic and social justice by building power and raising standards for working families.

The Education Trust--West works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Our basic tenet is this — All children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels.

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. Based in Oakland, California, we promote positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through our four cutting-edge campaigns.

We support grassroots leadership and promote civic participation to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life in local underrepresented communities.

GRIP is an interfaith, multi-racial coalition with 40 member congregations from a variety of faith traditions - Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Sikh, Buddhist - working together to address critical issues of human dignity and social justice. GRIP celebrates the diversity of our multi-cultural community and draws upon a variety of traditions and cultures to “actively seek solutions” to “the issues of justice that affect the poor and the disenfranchised of our society…to empower all people”. GRIP “provides the opportunity for…diverse groups to work together in mutual respect, to carry out a deeply held commitment to heal the world around us.”

Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy – especially for people from disadvantaged communities – Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.

In our vision, the Bay Area remains one of the country’s most desirable places to live, work, and visit. Our cities and towns have attractive, walkable neighborhoods with a vibrant mix of homes, shops, restaurants, and offices. The Bay Area’s communities are linked by buses, trains, and bike paths, and are bounded by a protected greenbelt of rolling hills, productive farmlands, lush watersheds, and plentiful parks.

The Greenlining Institute’s mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities.

Our Mission is to fight for equal access to housing for everyone by eliminating barriers to housing choice such as discrimination, sub-standard housing, ignorance, apathy and malice in order to eradicate illegal housing discrimination, prevent evictions/foreclosures and encourage diversity in our neighborhoods.

We develop and promote innovative solutions that help people and communities become, and remain, economically secure.

Our mission is to increase the effectiveness of progressive social change groups and to encourage social activism within underrepresented communities by building their planning and evaluation capacity.

Mandela Marketplace is a community leadership incubator that provides civic engagemet, economic and entrepreneurial opportunity to low-income residents and minority farmers.

Our Mission is to improve the economic and social quality of life of Marin City residents. Toward this end, MCCDC develops land, promotes business opportunities, creates income-generating commercial development programs, promotes quality employment and asset development, and promotes the concept of economic self-sufficiency.

To foster accountability, ethics and diversity in all aspcets of the media in the interest of peace, justive and social responsibility.

Loneliness, danger, separation from loved ones. These are just some of the problems seafarers face. The Mission to Seafarers, a charity and part of the Anglican Church, is there worldwide offering them help and support.

Next 10 is an independent, nonpartisan organization that educates, engages and empowers Californians to improve the state’s future.

Oakland Rising is a formation of six community-based organizations that have come together to build progressive power in Oakland. Organizations that make up Oakland Rising have decided to step-up and take leadership to build and put in place the capacity needed to realize and sustain a long-term progressive vision for Oakland.

The Pacific Institute is a nonpartisan research institute that works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity

Public Advocates Inc. is a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization that challenges the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing and transit equity. We spur change through collaboration with grassroots groups representing low-income communities, people of color and immigrants, combined with strategic policy reform, media advocacy and litigation, “making rights real” across California since 1971.

Shifting public policy to achieve a sustainable economy, a healthy environment and a just society.

The mission of Somos Mayfair is to cultivate the dreams and power of the people of Mayfair through cultural activism, social services and community organizing. We are generations of immigrants, rooted in a vibrant community, who nurture healthy families and speak out for justice in Silicon Valley.

TransForm works to create world-class public transportation and walkable communities in the Bay Area and beyond.

The mission of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for their community.

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.

Women's Initiative for Self Employment is a Bay Area non-profit which provides high-potential, lower-income women the training, resources and on-going support to start and grow their business. The business management training, technical assistance, and financial services we provide — in English and Spanish — improve the quality of life for the women we serve, their families and our communities.