Community Organizing
Community gardens. Bike repair cafes. Water conservation projects with your neighbors.
The Bay Area region is home to hundreds of projects and organizations working on community-based climate solutions. When done right, grassroots community organizing leads to individuals getting to know each other, food grown, un-gentrified neighborhoods, and empowering emerging leaders. It can also potentially lead neighbors breaking their bonds with trust each other and frustrated community leaders.
Are you working on an exciting community project but feeling stuck? Energized by the work of building equitable, resilient and regenerative communities and wanting to expand your reach?
My work experience includes:
- Co-produced Building Resilient Communities Convergence for four years
- Co-organized a series of Garden Work Days with hundreds of volunteers, in collaboration with urban gardens and farms around the East Bay
- Founded and directed a grassroots organization for six years, with interns, volunteers and staff
- Co-designed a series of capacity building workshops for grassroots organizers
The following is a sampling of the types of support I can help to provide, by the hour or by the project.
Details about specifically about fundraising support can be found separately.
SERVICES
Presentations
Community organizing presentations can be customized and could include best practices, project ideas and connections with Bay Area community-based organizations doing like-minded work. Past speaking engagements have included school groups, bnai’ mitzvah programs, governmental agencies and businesses.
For Local Governments: Authentic Community Engagement
Design and implement community programs that are more tailored toward community needs, and get connected to grassroots organizations flying under the radar.
strategic planning AND CAPACITY BUILDING
Types of support include integrating community resilience programming into your organization, volunteer outreach, events planning and community engagement.
FEATURED CASE STUDIES
YBIKE PROGRAM
Design and implementation of a middle school after school bicycle program.
Read more here.
BUSD SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
Design and implementation of a District-wide waste reduction program in collaboration with the Green Schools Initiative.