• These are just a few places to look! Feel free to do outside research and choose a nonprofit or activist group not on this list.
  
• Lists: A comprehensive list of nonprofits from "The Story of Stuff" website
• A great list of local and non-local organizations put together by Peggy Lopipero-Langmo, Biology instructor at CCSF
  
  
• Local Harvest: a sustainable food website
• Take Back Your Time
• Adbusters' Buy Nothing Day
• The Church of Life After Shopping
• Children and Nature Network
• The No Child Left Inside Act
• Hidden Villa
• Van Jones (vanjones.net), the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and Green Jobs
• Financial Integrity Foundation
• Wiretap Magazine (http://www.wiretapmag.org/activism/)
• Generation We -- the site, the book, the movement (http://www.gen-we.org/)
• Communities for a Better Environment (http://www.cbecal.org/)
• Critical Mass, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, or City Car Share
• Community garden projects      
• Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop – recently passed away http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/1415259&mode=thread&tid=25 for a radio interview on podcast with transcript (or google Democracy Now and search the archives for Anita Roddick)
• Fair trade coffee – you could check out Global Exchange or fair trade in general (Transfair)
• Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus - the Grameen Bank he created won the Nobel Peace Prize for leveraging small loans into major social change for impoverished families.
• PODER: People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights -- right here in San Francisco (www.podersf.org)
• The Yes Men.
• HOMEY (works with youth in the Mission on gang prevention activities) and their organic food box project

List compiled in large part by Lizzie Brock

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