California Partners

ACLU Death Penalty Project/ACLU of Northern California
The ACLU of Northern California works to preserve and guarantee the protections of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. We aim to extend these freedoms to segments of our population who have traditionally been denied their rights, including people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.

ACLU of Southern California
In 1983, the ACLU of Southern California became the first ACLU affiliate in the nation to recognize that liberty and equality are shaped by economic realities as well as by legal realities. Our Economic Bill of Rights articulates a vision of freedom that includes such rights as employment, adequate health care, housing and more.

Alter Eco Americas
Alter Ecoís goals are to provide consumers with quality products, encourage the development of independent producers as well as distributors who are concerned with social issues and to maximize the openings for marginalized producers by developing the sale of Fair Trade goods.

Americans For Peace Now, Southern California
Americans for Peace Now (APN) was founded in 1981 to support the activities of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now in Israel). APN is the leading United States advocate for peace in the Middle East. APN's mission is to help Israel and the Shalom Achshav movement to achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict consistent with Israel's long-term security needs and its Jewish and democratic values.

Access SF
Access San Francisco is an award-wining community media organization with a 17-year track record. Through a contract with the city, they manage San Francisco's public access television operation and take an active role in advocating for public interest communications policy in San Francisco. They provide San Francisco's diverse local communities and the nonprofit sector with access to electronic communication tools, distribution systems and training in their use.

Arab Cultural and Community Center
The Arab Cultural and Community Center provides the Arab community in the Bay Area and neighboring regions with a physical base for cultural activities, where a sense of belonging and unity are strengthened; teaches the younger generation of Arabs about the components of their culture especially the Arabic language, history and traditions in order to nurture pride in their heritage and identity and provides Arab organizations representing diverse groups with the support they need in serving their membership.

Asian Law Caucus
The Asian Law Caucus is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Founded in 1972, the Caucus has always strived to defend and empower the Asian Pacific American community through a three-pronged strategy of 1) community education and organizing, 2) provision of direct legal services and 3) strategic impact litigation.

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach is a community-based, social justice organization serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area. They provide legal, social and educational services in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL)
The Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) is a collaborative of six agencies serving Asian and Pacific Islander youth in the East Bay. AYPAL aims to change the relationship of power between youth and policy makers through youth-identified and youth-led direct action and arts activist campaigns for school and community improvement.

Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
The Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition (BAIRC) is a broad-based coalition of individuals and organizations working to build a unified voice for immigrant rights that transforms and improves the lives of immigrants. BAIRC forges strong working relationships between member organizations, advocates for just public policies, raises public awareness about the rights and living conditions of immigrants and increases the capacity of member organizations to work on immigrant issues.

Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center
The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center, a nonprofit, public benefit organization, is designed to advocate, educate, research, develop and preserve the history and the future of blacks in the film and television industries.

California State University East Bay (Producing Partner)
California State University East Bay is best known for its award-winning programs, expert instruction, small classes, a highly personalized learning environment and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study.

Cambodian Community Development Inc.
Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI) is a grassroots, volunteer-based organization founded by a group of concerned community activists in 1997. CCDI assists Cambodian refugees in Oakland, California in overcoming social, cultural and economic barriers to reach independence and self-sufficiency. Currently, the agency serves approximately 500-1,000 refugees per year.

Campaign to End the Death Penalty
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is the only national membership-driven, chapter-based grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States. We have active chapters in cities and campuses across the country, from Berkeley, California to Austin, Texas to Chicago, Illinois. We work hand in hand with those who have experienced the horrors of death row firsthandódeath row prisoners themselves and their family membersóand work to ensure that their voices are at the forefront of our movement.

Coffee Quality Institute
CQI works to improve the quality of coffee and the lives of the people who produce it through innovative approaches to economic sustainability. CQIís solutions have helped to improve the lives of thousands of coffee farmers and over 88 percent of their income goes directly into these programs.

CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters and helps people rebuild their lives.

Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting is part of the solution, injecting tough but fair investigative reporting into the news media, by: investing in promising stories at their earliest stages to give them a chance in the news marketplace; producing major investigative projects for television, radio, print and the Web; promoting the best investigations to maximize their impact with policy makers and the public.

Center for Juvenile Justice
Established in 1985 as the Western Regional Office of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), CJCJ maintains a professional staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise in the various components of criminal justice with its senior staff members possessing over 15 years experience in the justice field. Headquartered in San Francisco, CJCJ provides direct services, technical assistance and policy research in the criminal justice field. The Center includes offices in Oakland, California and The District of Columbia.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies - University of California at Berkeley
The principal mission of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is to enhance awareness of the Middle East and of its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public understanding of this crucial area of the world, which includes the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel.

The City of Oakland
Nestled between the San Francisco Bay and the coastal hills, Oakland has it all: balmy temperatures, world-class arts and entertainment, top-flight restaurants and hotels and an abundance of recreation. Whether you're coming for business or pleasure, you'll find Oakland offers something for every interest and price range.

City of West Hollywood
As a premiere city, it is proactive in responding to the unique needs of our diverse community, creative in finding solutions to managing its urban environment and dedicated to preserving and enhancing its well being.

Conscious Youth Media Crew
Conscious Youth Media Crew is a San Francisco-based youth-driven, digital media production studio. They 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. Conscious Youth Media Crew participants become life long learners and gain workforce skills to help shape a successful future for themselves and their communities.

Death Penalty Focus
Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives. We conduct research on behalf of lawyers, educators and the general public and sponsor a variety of public education and media campaigns. DPF also serves as a support network for our 10 chapters throughout California and as a liaison among anti-death penalty groups nationwide.

The DJ Project
The DJ Project is an arts entrepreneurship program built on a hip-hop foundation. It uses music to engage young adults, giving them opportunities to develop in a context familiar to them. Through small business management, audio and video production, job readiness training and community service, The DJ Project model is a creative learning experience for the hip-hop generation.

Dystonia Support and Advocacy Group of San Diego
The Dystonia Support and Advocacy Group of San Diego welcomes persons with all forms of dystonia, as well as their family members and friends to be part of a support group and to attend meetings.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights/Books Not Bars campaign
Books Not Bars fights to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities. We engage in grassroots campaigns using media advocacy, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing and alliance building. Currently, we are working to close California's abusive, expensive youth prisons and replace them with rehabilitation centers and community-based programs.

Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center
The Ethiopian Community and Cultural Center (ECCC) of the East Bay Area was established in 2001 to empower Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans through education, advocacy and development of community based resources and services.

Giant Robot
From movie stars, musicians and skate-boarders to toys, technology and history, Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian American pop culture. Paving the way for less knowledgeable media outlets, Giant Robot put the spotlight on Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan and Jet Li years before they were in mainstream America's vocabulary.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since its founding in 1988, they have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change.

Hand to Hand provides traditional martial arts training and self defense classes. The center was founded in 1980 by Sigung Coleen Gragen and is one of the largest woman-led schools on the West Coast.

Homies Unidos
Homies Unidos is a nonprofit gang violence prevention and intervention organization with projects in San Salvador, El Salvador and Los Angeles, California. The organization was founded in 1996 in San Salvador and formally began organizing in the United States in 1997.

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is a national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, they train lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. ILRC develops leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice.

Impact Bay Area
Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization preventing violence and promoting healing by teaching Impact, a unique form of full-force self-defense for mind, body and voice. They offer a variety of courses, each with the aim of making you more safe and secure in this world. Since 1985, Impact Bay Area has given more than 8,400 women and girls the skills to defend themselves against verbal, physical and sexual assault.

Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco
The Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco (ILRCSF) ensures that people with disabilities are full social and economic partners, both within their families and in a fully accessible community.

ISM Support Group
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded by a small group of activists in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with two resources, international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.

Just think – Media literacy
Just Think teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. They develop and deliver cutting-edge curricula and innovative programs that build skills in critical thinking and creative media production.

Khmer Girls in Action
Khmer Girls in Actionís (KGA) mission is to contribute to the movement for social, economic and political justice by building a strong, progressive and sustainable community institution led by Southeast Asian women and girls. Taking a comprehensive approach to youth development, KGA provides leadership skills and organizing work in partnership with cultural exploration and expression. Their goal is to increase the communityís power and ability to challenge oppressive systems and institutions that are not accountable to immigrant/refugee needs.

KQED Community Outreach
KQED Community Outreach uses evocative documentaries to convene diverse audiences and engage them in dialogue around important community issues.

KQED’s SPARK
Spark is about Bay Area artists and arts organizations. It is a weekly television show, an educational outreach program and a Web site. More than a showcase for art objects and the artists who make them, Spark takes the audience inside the creative process to witness the challenges, opportunities and rewards of making art.

Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is one of the most thorough news-gathering operations in the world. With 25 foreign bureaus and 13 domestic bureaus (eight national and five in California), the Los Angeles Times has the largest editorial staff of any U.S. newspaper.

Media Alliance
Media Alliance is a 30-year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, nonprofit organizations and social justice activists. Their mission is excellence, ethics, diversity and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice and social responsibility.

Middle East Children's Alliance
Since 1988 MECA has brought over $8 million of much needed relief to besieged communities in Iraq and Palestine through emergency medical aid and direct aid to families and communities. MECA also supports childrenís clinics and family mental health projects in refugee camps throughout the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and supports community projects for children including, playgrounds, childrenís libraries and youth centers. MECA supports Palestinian and Israeli organizations and movements, fighting for political, social and economic equality for the Palestinian people as well as Iraqi and international movements and organizations working to secure justice for the Iraqi people.

Museum of Children’s Arts
Founded in 1988, the Museum of Childrenís Art (MOCHA) is synonymous with excellence and leadership in arts education. MOCHA has encouraged hands-on learning in the arts and has promoted the arts as a way to help children of all backgrounds develop as healthy, resourceful and involved citizens.

National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter
The National Lawyers Guild is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

New College of California Media Studies M.A. Program
Offering an innovative media studies education for social change, the Media Studies Graduate Program is founded on the belief that vibrant alternative media are urgently needed to renew our democracy and achieve peace and social justice. The program encourages media makers to speak truth to power, expose injustice and enable marginalized communities to utilize mediañand in these ways create a forum for the practice of democracy.

Nomad Café
Nomad is a community-based, earth-friendly arts and Internet cafÈ. Many evenings (and a few afternoons) bring live music, poetry storytelling and open mic performances to the Nomad stage.

Oakland Asian Cultural Community Center
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center believes that culture and heritage play a critical role in building and maintaining vibrant and healthy communities. The Center showcases a wide range of cultural and artistic expression including dance, literature, music and the visual arts. OACC serves as a resource for understanding the legacy of Asians and Pacific Islanders and their unique influences on the cultural identities and enrichment of our communities.

The Oakland Film Office
The Oakland Film Office promotes filmmaking in the City of Oakland to advance economic development and civic pride and to increase regional, national and international awareness of Oakland as a vibrant, beautiful and culturally diverse city.

Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California provides unique collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and deeper understanding of and interest in California's environment, history, art and people. Museum programs are responsive, accessible and meaningful to the public, including school children, teachers, scholars, the immediate Oakland community and an increasingly diverse California population.

Omega Boys Club
The Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers was founded in 1987 as a program of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Through their day-to-day work with youth, the founders of Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers identified violence as a public health issue and developed an approach to helping youth move from the culture of violence to safer, more personally and socially productive alternatives.

Peace Over Violence
Peace Over Violence is a social service agency formerly called Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, or LACAAW. The organization changed its name on its 35th anniversary in 2006 to reflect the growing range of programs offered, which have grown from one-on-one intervention in sexual assaults and domestic abuse, to include one-by-one prevention of youth violence and child abuse, as well as a range of specialized services reaching underserved groups like Latinas, deaf persons, disabled persons, seniors, the LGBTQ community and youth.

Project Censored
Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

Salon.com
Salon Media Group, Inc. is an Internet media company that produces seven original content sections as well as two online communities ó Table Talk and The Well. The content sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News and Politics, Opinion, Technology & Business, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life and Comics.

San Diego Public Library
The San Diego Public Library responds to the information needs of San Diego's diverse communities, ensures equal access to local, national and global resources, anticipates and addresses the educational, cultural, business and recreational interests of the public and develops and provides welcoming environments.

San Francisco Public Library
The San Francisco Public Library system is dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge, independent learning and the joys of reading for our diverse community.

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center is a non-commercial, democratic collective of Bay Area independent media makers and media outlets and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network.

Solstice Neurosciences
A biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of specialty biopharmaceutical products, including Botulinum Toxin Type B Injectable Solution, indicated for the treatment of patients with cervical dystonia to reduce the severity of abnormal head position and pain associated with cervical dystonia.

South Asian Network
South Asian Network was founded in 1990 to provide an open forum where individuals of South Asian origin could gather to discuss social, economic and political issues affecting the community, with the goal of raising awareness, active involvement and advocacy among community members leading to an informed and empowered community.

SPARK
Spark was founded in 2004 by a group of young women in San Francisco seeking to engage their peers in global issues that affect women. President Maya Garcia envisioned an organization that would empower young professional women in local communities to address social, political and economic issues that women face globally by creating a local network and working with grassroots womenís groups worldwide.

Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project
The Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project (TCSIP) at the University of California, Los Angeles in partnership with the California Service Corps, California State Office of the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) and the National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP), supports the active engagement of people with disabilities as service members and volunteers in all levels of national and community service. The goals of TCSIP are to increase the capacity of national service programs in California and Pacific Cluster States and to be inclusive of disabilities, facilitating partnerships between national service entities and disability organizations.

Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law brings together faculty, students, the bar and the bench to explore more effective ways for the law to fulfill our nationís promise of equality for all people. Established in 1999, the Center fosters a new kind of scholarship that views the law in a larger social context and works in partnership with communities to provide education to the general public.

Transfair USA
TransFair USA is one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade Certifiedô products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price.

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The goal of the Graduate School of Journalism is to produce professional print, broadcast and new media journalists who move on to positions of leadership and influence. The two-year Master of Journalism (M.J.) program provides intensive training in journalism skills and teaches the traditions and principles of the field.

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is a nationally recognized center for research on women and gender and the only organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. Established in 1984, it draws on the energies of approximately 150 faculty members from seven UCLA professional schools, 34 departments and 10 research centers. Organized to develop, promote and disseminate faculty and graduate student research, the Center administers grants, conferences, seminars and a quarterly speakers series.

UCSD Medical Center
UCSD Medical Center is part of the renowned University of California system, recognized for its clinical and research excellence in a wide range of specialties, including cancer care, orthopedics, respiratory care and gynecology.

University of Southern California at Annenberg—Institute for Justice and Journalism
The mission of IJJ is to strengthen news media coverage about justice and injustice. IJJ seeks to help journalists bring context, depth and diversity of perspectives to news coverage and commentary about complex justice issues; to make exemplary journalism accessible to the public across all media; and to raise the standing of justice issues in the field of journalism, ensuring that media decision makers nurture high-quality news coverage.

Volunteer San Diego (Producing Partner)
Volunteer San Diego directs capacity-building programs and services that engage volunteers in working hand in hand with nonprofit agencies to develop strong and vibrant communities. Their mission is to engage individuals and groups in meaningful volunteer opportunities that meet real community needs and to envision making volunteering a way of life for all San Diegans.

Women’s Building
The Women's Building is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-service center for women and girls. Their mission is to provide women and girls with the tools and resources they need to achieve full and equal participation in society.

Women of Color Resource Center
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.

World of Good Development Organization
World of Good focuses on building strategies to substantially improve economic and social conditions for millions of artisans and their families living on less than four dollars per day. The organization promotes fair trade practices and invests in fair trade artisan communities around the world. World of Good strives to educate U.S. consumers and corporations about the benefits of engaging in ethical trade practices to bridge the gap between the global north and south.

Youth Media Council
Launched in April 2001, the Youth Media Council is a Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for media justice.

Youth Movement Records
Youth Movement Records (YMR) is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project based in Oakland, California. Now in its third year, YMR has reached over 15,000 youth with more than 100 safe, sober weekend events. YMR has engaged over 500 youth directly in producing four original CDs, planning and creating performances and giving youth the opportunity to gain and sharpen skills.

Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks Arts in Education Program offers in-school and after-school workshops for youth, school assemblies and residency programs for schools and professional development opportunities for teachers and youth development workers. Our programs emphasize literacy, literary arts, youth development leadership and performance poetry. Our work with teachers focuses on translating urban and alternative literacy to academic success. We are empowering youth with their own voices and their own stories because the next generation can speak for itself.

Zeum
Zeum is a nonprofit multimedia arts and technology museum. Their mission is to foster creativity and innovation in young people and their families. It is the only Bay Area museum where individuals of all ages, backgrounds, communities and learning styles combine hands-on use of animation, digital technology, electronic media, traditional and non-traditional materials and the power of their imaginations to create high quality stories, movies, performances, music, art and more.

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