Bay Area
ACE has partnered up with orgs all over the greater Bay Area. Click on your region to get the super-local skinny.
San Francisco
- Alemany Farm: Get your hands dirty at SF's 4.5 acre organic farm
- Consious Youth Media Crew: Get trained in digital and media production
- Garden for the Environment: Learn to grow food at SF's organic demonstration garden
- Headlands Institute: Learn how to educate on behalf of the environment and lead interactive eco-games
- Oxfam America - SF Chapter: Join a campaign to fight poverty and environmental injustice
- The Presidio Community YMCA Bicycle Program (YBike): safe routes to schools, bike programs at your school, and more!
- San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: Volunteer to help promote bicycling in San Francisco
- San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance: Volunteer to help build and mantain gardens!
- Youth Leadership Institute: Get trained in youth leadership skills
Marin
- Conservation Corps North Bay: Community service days
- Richardson Bay Audubon Center: Learn about your local environment
- Trips for Kids: Help teach bike maintence skills and environment education to younger kids
South Bay
- Acterra: Community service opportunities
- BioS.I.T.E.: Mentor elementary students and help with river cleanups
- Canopy: Volunteer and plant trees!
East Bay
- CommuniTree: Volunteer at an urban farm
- Ella Baker Center: Join the Soul of the City program
- Earth Team: Join the Climate Action Campaign or be featured on the Green Screen!
- Kijiji Grows: Learn about auquaponic gardening
- Oakland Green Youth Arts & Media Center: Do you rap? Sing? Dance? Edit Videos?
- Planting Justice: Learn about permaculture and urban food production
- Richmond Spokes: work at SPOKED staffed events and gain bike mechanic training
- Rising Sun Energy Center: Apply for a summer job to work as a Youth Energy Specialist
- Youth Speaks: Become a green spoken word artist
Sonoma County
- Climate Protection Campaign: Take leadership on climate action campaigns
San Francisco
Alemany Farm
Alemany Farm
Alemany Farm is a 4.5 acre working organic farm in southeastern San Francisco. The Farm is collaboratively managed by volunteers, San Francisco city officials, and residents of the Alemany community.
What YOU Can Do:
Community gardening is a great way for you to get involved in local food production, and thereby reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transported foods. Volunteer workdays are the First and Third Sundays of every month, and the Second and Fourth Saturdays, from noon to 5pm. No need to RSVP.
Contact: For more information, check out www.alemanyfarm.org/get-involved/
Conscious Youth Media Crew
Conscious Youth Media Crew is a San Francisco-based youth-driven, digital media production studio. We provide the technology and training necessary for inner city youth to create quality media that represents their experiences, stimulates meaningful dialogue, and promotes social change.
What You Can Do: Contact Debra to learn how to be come an intern, get trained in video and digital media production, and start making films about awesome environmental projects in your community!
Contact:
Debra Koffler, Executive Director
Garden for the Environment
Garden for the Environment is San Francisco's Organic Demonstration Garden. We teach people to compost, capture rainwater, redistribute their greywater, grow their own food, plant natives and nurture seedlings.
What YOU can Do: Come get dirty during Drop In Volunteer hours on Wednesdays 10am-2pm and Saturdays 10am-4pm. Or, apply for our Summer Sprouts program, when we explore food and where it comes from.
Contact:
Nicole Brisebois
nicole@gardenfortheenvironment.org
www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
Headlands Institute
Headlands Institute is dedicated to teaching science and environmental education in nature's classroom to inspire a personal connection to the natural world and responsible actions to sustain it.
What YOU Can Do: Become a Teen Environmental Action Mentorship (TEAM) intern and learn first hand what its like to be an educator on behalf of the environment. Lead interactive games with our participating elementary school students, steward our lab spaces, work with a professional Mentor Educator and create a lesson to bring back to a classroom in your community. Contact Adam below for more information.
Contact:
Adam Schraft, Youth Programs Manager
aschraft@naturebridge.org
415.332.5771 x27
http://www.naturebridge.org/headlands/
Oxfam America - SF Local Chapter
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 100 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice.
What YOU Can Do: The local San Francisco Oxfam Action Corps has many opportunities available to students such as Days of Action, concert outreach, lobby visits, writing letters to the editor and many more. Please John below for more information!
Contact:
John Dolon
Sfoxfamactioncorps.org
Oxfam.sf@gmail.com
The Presidio Community YMCA Bicycle Program
The Presidio Community YMCA Bicycle Program (YBike) delivers exemplary youth and family bicycle safety education programs that build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by promoting the bicycle as a safe, healthy, fun, and green recreation and transportation alternative.
What YOU Can Do: The program includes after-school bike clubs at over 10 schools; bicycle safety rodeos at elementary schools and community events; 2-week Bicycling and Bicycle Safety units in physical education (PE) classes; Safe Routes to School pedestrian and bicycle safety education; and youth and family bike classes at the Presidio Community YMCA. To volunteer for the program, bring a bike program to your school or get help starting a bike club at your school, or just to get more information, email bikeprogram@ymcasf.org or visit our website.
Contact:
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
The mission of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation. Improve your ride and your city when you volunteer with the SFBC!
What can you do: Volunteer with SFBC!
- Volunteer Nights - Stop by, snack on tasty treats, and help us keep our organization rolling. Dinner is provided. Check sfbike.org/chain for upcoming volunteer nights.
- Daytime Volunteering - volunteer at the SFBC office and help bike advocacy by stuffing envelopes, fulfilling orders, data entry, research projects, errands - anything and everything!
- Organize a group of your fellow students and ride to school as part of SF Bike to School Day on Thursday, April 7th, 2011.
Contact:
Tessa Buckley
tessa@sfbike.org
415.431.2453 x301
Volunteer location: 995 Market Street Ste 1550, SF CA 94103
http://www.sfbike.org/volunteer
San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance provides resources, training, and advocacy to school communities to help them create and sustain outdoor learning environments and green schoolyards.
What YOU Can Do: Youth that are interested in getting more involved in school garden and outdoor classroom projects in the Bay Area should contact us! There are opportunities to volunteer, help build and maintain gardens, and learn how to be an environmental educator or garden coordinator.
Contact:
415.355.6979, ext. 1566
info@sfgreenschools.org
www.sfgreenschools.org
Youth Leadership Institute
YLI designs and implements community-based programs that provide youth with leadership skills for drug and alcohol abuse prevention, philanthropy and civic engagement. YLI is a great place to gain the leadership skills you need to be an effective youth climate activist!
What YOU Can Do: Get trained to get the word out!
Contact:
Jennifer Lyle, Vice President, Education & Research
Marin
Conservation Corps North Bay
Conservation Corps's programs helps youth develop an ethic of service and community while advancing towards career goals. All of our programs preserve and protect our natural resources for safe, healthy, livable communities.
What YOU Can Do: We host community service days throughout the year in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, Cesar Chavez Day of Learning and Service, Earth Day, Summer Service Days, California Coastal Clean Up, and America Recycles. All ages are welcome and details are on our website.
Contact:
William Pagan
415.454.4554, Ext. 144
Richardson Bay Audubon Center
Richardson Bay Audubon Center provides habitats for migratory water birds and other wildlife, and offers ways for our community to connect with the Bay through education, conservation and restoration programs.
What YOU Can Do: With our Audubon Youth Corps, you can: learn about local environment, engage in estuarine, upland & bird restoration and research projects, present your work locally and at Statewide Audubon Assemblies, be mentored, and enjoy other enrichment opportunities.
Contact:
Mindy Hiatt
415.388.2524 x107
Trips for Kids
Trips for Kids is a nonprofit youth biking program for kids in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What YOU Can Do: Help teach bicycle mechanics skills and environmental education to the youth we serve or who can help in our shop and office. Youth 16 or older with their own mountain bike may be able to join as a volunteer on our rides with younger kids.
Contact:
Willow Taraja
415.458.2986
South Bay
Acterra
Acterra Stewardship restores damaged natural habitats to become fully functioning healthy ecosystems and uses habitat restoration to educate and inspire adults and youth to understand and appreciate the natural world.
What YOU Can Do: Community Service opportunities and interpretive events are posted on our website.
- Two Satruday mornings/month, Wednesday evenings late Spring-early Fall = Restoration workdays at Arastradero Preserve
- One Saturday morning/month = Workdays on San Francisquito or other local creeks
Contact:
Claire Elliott, Stewardship Program Director
650.962.9876, ext. 311
BioS.I.T.E. (Students Investigating Their Environment)
BioS.I.T.E. is a comprehensive environmental field study program created and facilitated by Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. BioS.I.T.E. elementary participants work in small groups led by trained high school students, to collect and test water samples, survey plant and animal species, and document their findings to share with the community.
What YOU Can Do:
- Join the BioS.I.T.E. ACE Program on Tuesday afternoons to mentor elementary students.
- Join special teams on River Clean Ups (September and May and special scheduled events)
- Volunteer for special events at Children’s Discovery Museum
Contact:
Sandy Derby, BioS.I.T.E. Program Director
408.298.5437 ext. 261.
Canopy
Canopy is a nonprofit organization working to promote a healthy urban forest as a practical and beautiful solution to global climate change.
What YOU Can Do: Join Canopy's volunteer team and plant trees!
Contact:
Sharon Kelly, Program Director
650.984.6110
East Bay
CommuniTree
CommuniTree is dedicated to environmental stewardship and social transformation through the arts and experiential learning. CommuniTree's newest initiative focuses on urban farms & gardens as outdoor classrooms and green job opportunities for students in Contra Costa County high-schools.
What YOU Can Do: We are accepting volunteers that will meet once a month at both Kennedy (4300 Cutting Boulevard Richmond, CA 94804) and Richmond (1250 23rd Street Richmond, CA 94804-1011) High School farms. We will work on soil quality, irrigation and water, maintenance, and food systems for these after school programs. Contact Aaron for more info.
Contact:
Aaron Ableman, Co-Founder
ablemantra@gmail.com
www.communitree.net
415-756-7816
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Founded by Van Jones, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America, with a focus on environmental issues.
What YOU Can Do: Join the Soul of the City program, which takes youth around Oakland neighborhoods in Oakland to clean up the streets and plant gardens.
Contact:
Emily Kirsch, Bay Area Organizer
510.428.3939 x. 287
Earth Team
Earth Team provides free environmental programs to middle and high school students. Our mission is to create a new generation of environmental stewards and leaders by introducing environmental experiences that inspire dedication to a healthy planet.
What YOU Can Do: EarthTeam’s Climate Action Campaign runs monthly youth-action meetings, for students to learn new angles of the climate action movement and to work together on several group projects over the year. EarthTeam also provides media opportunities through the Green Screen, our environmental television show airing on 11 public access stations and on Youtube.
Contact:
Caroline Sandifer, Climate Action Campaign Director
caroline@earthteam.net
Kijiji Grows
Kijiji Grows (kee-gee-gee) advocates for aquaponic gardening, a revolutionary concept mimics nature to grow vegetables and fish together combining aqua-culture (growing fish) and hydroponics (growing vegetables without soil). We provide inner-city schools with an ecologically advanced aquaponic, soil-less, water saving, fish-powered, pesticide-free garden system.
What YOU Can Do: Try your hand at aquaponic gardening! Hands-on work experience range from washing gravel to planting and harvesting vegetables to feeding fish and do chemical tests, at the following locations. Contact Kijiji Grows for more information.
- Mosswood Park, 3509-3699 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611
- The Mo Betta Food Educational Farm, 1347 5th St. Oakland, CA.
Contact:
Keba Konte, Co-Founder
keba@kijijigrows.com
877-865-2055
www.kijijigrows.com
Oakland Green Youth Arts & Media Center
The Oakland Green Youth Arts & Media Center is a creative empowerment hub in Oakland that supports personal, professional, economic, and community development. We serve youth impacted by violence and poverty through innovative programs in the arts, media production, and environmental sustainability.
What can YOU Do: Do you rap, sing, dance and like to make videos? Well if you live in the East Bay the Oakland Green Youth Arts & Media Center is a great place to brush up on those skills and take them to the next level.
Contact:
http://oaklandgymc.blogspot.com/
Planting Justice
Planting Justice is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering urban residents with the skills, tools, and resources to maximize food production and economic opportunities in our neighborhoods. We combine grassroots organizing tactics with ecological training to democratize access to affordable, nutritious food right where 80% of Americans live- in our urban areas.
What can YOU Do: Youth can get more involved by coming to our free educational workshops on permaculture and urban food production, or they can help us organize in the East Bay by doing street and door-to-door canvassing with Planting Justice.
Contact
Co-founders Haleh Zandi or Gavin Raders
plantjustice@gmail.com
510 290 4049
Richmond Spokes
Richmond Spokes empowers, engages, and employs youth through cycling and green industries that benefit our local community. By creating a new youth cycling industry, which embodies youth skills development and green entrepreneurship, Richmond Spokes guides each participant to improve their life and the health of our local and global environment.
What YOU Can Do: Youth can learn about their community by working at SPOKED staffed events and gain Bike Mechanic training, job training and how to access personal mobility through bicycles.
Contact:
Brian Drayton
youthwork@richmondspokes.org
510-653-7494
http://www.richmondspokes.org
Rising Sun Energy Center
Rising Sun Energy Center is a green workforce development organization which gets Bay Area youth and adults ready to work in the energy efficiency field, where they can fight global warming and save their community’s resources!
What YOU Can Do: Apply for a summer job to work as an Youth Energy Specialist with our California Youth Energy Services program. We hire young people ages 15 to 22 to serve their local community with free Green House Calls - efficiency assessments and retrofits to save homes water, energy, and money!
Want to see this program in action? Get an energy-saving free Green House Call at your home! Click here to learn more.
Contact:
Natesha Tabor
www.risingsunenergy.org
tabor@risingsunenergy.org
Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks is the leading nonprofit presenter of Spoken Word performance, education, and youth development programs in the country. All told, Youth Speaks works with 45,000 teens per year in the Bay Area alone, and has created partner programs in 36 cities across the United States.
What YOU Can Do: Calling all environmentally conscious poets and spoken word artists. Youth Speaks' green poet corps can help you get your voice to the masses and train you to be a world class performer.
Contact:
http://youthspeaks.org/word/
Hodari Davis
Sonoma County
Climate Protection Campaign
The Climate Protection Campaign works to inspire, align, and mobilize action in response to the climate crisis. We partner with business, government, youth and the broader community to advance practical, science-based solutions for significant greenhouse gas emission reductions. We helped Sonoma County become the first community in the country to have 100% of its cities committed to meeting one of the boldest greenhouse gas reduction targets – 25% below 1990 levels by 2015.
What YOU Can Do:
We help Sonoma County high school youth take leadership on climate action projects in their schools as well as provide them opportunities to participate in relevant community events. For example, we facilitate projects such as “eCO2mmute” to reduce emissions from school commutes, or others related to recycling and composting. The Cool Schools Coordinator interacts regularly with your student team to provide the necessary skills and resources to carry out a successful project.
If you're interested in working with the Climate Protection Campaign to do a project at your school, contact:
Cool Schools Coordinator: Maitreyi Siruguri
maitreyi@climateprotectioncampaign.org
707-525-1665 ext:115
www.climateprotectioncampaign.org
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