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Local Organizations and Groups

Environmental

Environmental Health Coalition (EHC): is dedicated to achieving enviornmental and social justice. EHC believes that justic is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change; organizing and advocating to protect public health and the environment threatened by to toxic polution.

Friends of San Diego: is dedicated to preserving the environment and quality of life through effective growth management.

League of Conservation Voters San Diego (LCV): a chapter of the California League of Conservation Voters, which seeks to protect the environmental quality of the state by working to elect environmentally responsible candidates and hold them accountable to the conservation agenda.

San Diego Coastkeeper: protects the region's bays, beaches, watersheds and ocean for the people and wildlife that depend on them.

Sierra Club, San Diego Chapter: a local chapter of the national Sierra Club working to pomote environmental protection and action.

Surfrider Foundation: a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education.

San Diego Earth Times: presents articles covering a wide variety of local, national and international environmental topics.

San Diego Earth Works: a committed network of volunteers in service for a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future for all living things. The organization produces the Earth Fair, an annual forum for environmental education, awareness and celebration.

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Foundations

Foundation for Change: supports emerging leaders and organizations working for progressive social change in San Diego/Tijuana region. A member fund of the Funding Exchange, a network of publicly supported, regionally-based community foundations committed to "Change, not Charity."

The San Diego Foundation: since 1975, The San Diego Foundation has helped public-spirited citizens find ways to address community problems. The funds support numerous organizations and serve a variety of community needs.

Homelessness

Alpha Project for the Homeless: a nonprofit human serices organization that serves over 2,000 men, women and children each day, 12,000 annually. Serives offered include affordable housing, residential substance abuse treatment, supportive housing for people with special needs, basic and emergency services for the homeless, transporation assistance, mental health counseling and much more.

Girls Think Tank: currently focusing on homelessness they act to inspire, empower and organize the community to advance diginity through activism and advocacy.

Housing

Community Housing Works: a San Diego non-profit that helps people and neighborhoods move up in the world by providing a full range of housing options combined with training and support.

San Diego Affordable Housing Coalition

Human Rights / Social Justice

Activist San Diego: a social justice organization that promotes and facilitates the development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San Diego through networking, culture and electronic technology.

Alpha Project: to empower individuals, families, and communities by providing work, recovery and support services to people who are motivated to change their lives and achieve self-sufficiency. The agenecy's many programs are available to all persons in need regardless of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

American Civil Liberties Union SD and Imperial Counties: a non-partisan organization committed to fulfilling the aspirations of the Bill of Rights by fighting for individual rights and fundamental freedoms for all.

Border Angels: a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the US and Mexican border.

The Center, San Diego County: to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV communities by providing activities, programs, and services that create community, empower members, provide essential resources, advocate for civil and human rights, and embrace, promote and support cultural diversity.

Center for Social Advocacy (CSA): founded in 1969 as Heartland Human Relations, (a 501c3 nonprofit corporation), is one of San Diego's oldest civil and human rights organizations. Long an advocate for fair housing and tenant/landlord meidation, Center for Social Advocacy addresses diverse issues such as hate crimes, the civil rights violations experienced by newly arrived immigrants, human trafficking, youth alientation, and poverty.

Lambda Letters Project: promotes the social, economic, and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals, couples, and families; people affected by HIV/AIDS; people of color; women; and people of low economic status. We urge elected officials to enact and support legislation that accomplishes this goal.

MAAC Project: a multi-purpose social service agency that promotes self-sufficiency for low and moderate income families and communities of Southern California through advocacy for, and delivery of, social, educational, housing and empoloyment services.

Planned Parenthood of SD and Riverside Counties: to ensure broad public access to reproductive healthcare through direct service, education and advocacy. Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual to manage his or her fertility, regardless of theindividual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin or residence.

The San Diego County Community Coalition: embarked on a public information campaign to improve social, economic, cultural and political relations in our community.

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Interfaith

First Unitarian Universalist Church: offers members and friends many hands-on opportunities to create social justice. The church has change the world groups such as: peace and democracy, rainbow action, service and EarthSpirit.

Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice of San Diego (ICWJ): to educate and moblize the San diego religious communities and people of faith to support issues and campaigns that will sustain lives with dignity for workers and their families by such means as improving wages, benefits and working conditions.

Justice Overcoming Boundaries (JOB): to invest in the development of community leaders so that they may address issues that affect them, their families and their communities.

Network of Spiritual Progressives, San Diego (NSP): the San Diego Chapter of the NSP is part of a national movement which was first envisioned in 2005 by the national chair of the TIKKUN Community, Rabbi Michael Lerner, as an alternative to the religious "Right" and a new direction for the progressive "Left."

San Diego Organizing Project (SDOP): a faith-based community organization which has united people throughout the county since 1979.

United African American Ministerial Action Council (UAAMAC): a non-profit 501c3 and 509a3 organization. A network of African American congregations whose mission is to build the capacity of clergy, lay and community leaders to revitalize and moblize the members of the communities in which they live, work and worship.

Labor / Working Families

Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI): a non-profit research and advocacy organization formed in 1997 to address issues affecting working people in the San Diego region. CPI conducts research, builds coalitions and advocate for a fair economy in which economic opportunities are accessible to all and no one who works lives in poverty.

Employee Rights Center: the organizations helps nonunion workers with free education, advocacy and assistance with a host of issues and claims.

Pride at Work: a lesbian, gay, bixesual and transgender group (LGBT) of labor union activists which seeks full equality for LGBT workers in their workplaces and their unions.

Open, Good Government

Common Cause San Diego: a non-profit, non-partisan citizens' lobby organization that makes public officials and public institutions accountable and responsive to citizens.

League of Women Voters (LWV): a non-partisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Peace and Justice

North County Coalition for Peace and Justice: a grassroots organization dedicated to finding peaceful solutions to national and global conflicts.

Nonviolent Peaceforce San Diego: a local Chapter of Nonviolent Peaceforce, an international federation conceived in 1999, composed of 80 non-governmental member organizations. Nonviolent Peaceforce uses the methods of Mahatma Gandhi, and works, by invitation, with local and international agencies to restore and maintain peace in areas of crisis around the world.

The Peace Resource Center of San Diego: is a membership organization and community clearinghouse of information on peace and social justice issues and activities. Through PRC active programs and by promoting networking among peace-related organizations, offering nonviolent alternatives to conflict resolution and carrying on a program of peace education.

The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO): a 501c3 nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment.

San Diego Veterans for Peace: a Chapter of the national organization founded in 1985. A local group of concerned patriotic veterans who feel compelled to speak out at this crucial time in our country's histroy.

Political Organizations

Democracy for America San Diego (DFA): supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government.

Filipino American Community Empowerment (FACE): a non-profit Political Action Committee highly committed in creating a positive change and empowering the Filipino American community through the political process.

Progressive San Diego: is a non-partisan, political action committee (PAC). Progressive works to create a more equitable and sustainable society in the San Diego region by promoting progressive candidates and policies. Formed in 2003, Progressive San Diego is working to strengthen the coordinated efforts of progressive coalitions to deliver on the promise of creating a higher quality of life for all San Diegans. Our goal is to recruit, groom, support and campaign for progressive candidates and get them elected to office.

South Bay Forum: is a non-partisan, political action committee (PAC). It is committed to addressing the educational, social, and political needs of the Chicano/Latino community in the San Diego South Bay area while building coalitions with other communities.

Transportation

Citizens for Effective Transportation (CET)

Move San Diego: a non-profit organization formed to improve transportation in San Diego county. Move San Diego's intent is to foster a better understanding of transportation issues and provide tools and opportunities for action that help diversify our transportation options.

Voter Integrity and Clean Elections

Neighborhoods for Clean Elections: a coalition of neighborhood groups and leaders from every corner of San Diego: from Rancho Bernardo to San Yisdro, from Pacific Beach to Encanto.

Secure*Accurate*Elections: citizen's coalition dedicated to achieving an election system that is secure, accurate and completely open to public oversight.

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