Local Chico and Northern California Resources
Altacal Audubon Society - California chapter of National Audubon Society serving Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties.
Butte Environmental Council - Educates and advocates for land, water, and air.
C.A.R.E. - Focusing on sound economic policies that promote smart growth while preserving Chico's unique character.
Chico Women's Club - A diverse community of women who support the arts and practice and promote sustainable living.
Citizens for Responsible Government - Redding-based progressive organization.
Chico Food Not Bombs - serves free vegan and vegetarian food between 12 and 2 on Sunday at Depot Park. We often serve free food at protests. Ask us!
Jesus Center - Offers a place safe from the rigors of street living.
Legal Services of Northern California - Ensure poor families obtain the full amount of benefits for which they are eligible.
The Nature Conservancy - Preserves millions of acres of land and water across the continent.
Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence - Paradise-based organization focuses on respecting difference and fostering alternatives to violence.
Stonewall Alliance - Serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Communities.
Vegchico.com - Reducing the amount of meat, egg and dairy products in daily diets.
Torres Community Shelter - Offers shelter, showers, individualized case management services.
State and National Resources
American Friends Service Committee - National Quaker organization - counter recruitment, war resistance, and social justice campaigns.
American Civil Liberties Union - Conservation of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Fellowship of Reconciliation - Educates about domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience.
Leave My Child Alone - National organization protesting the "No Child Left Behind" act and its hidden provisions, including sending student information to the military.
Nevada Desert Experience -Working to stop nuclear weapons testing through a campaign of prayer, education, dialogue, and nonviolent direct action.
Ten Thousand Villages - Supporting Fair Trade for 60 years.
Peace X Peace - Empowers women to build sustainable peace locally and globally through connection, recognition, and eductation.
Tri-Valley CAREs - The Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) is a Northern California group dedicated to ending nuclear weaponry, especially in their local Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
Western Center on Law and Poverty - Advances and enforces the rights of low-income Californians in health, housing and public assistance by working statewide for systemic change.
Albert Einstein Institution - Advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world.
Center for Nonviolent Communication - A global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication language.
Freedom From War - Freedom From War is a non-profit international organization that welcomes everyone desiring a world of nonviolence, peace and social justice. Our vision is a world at peace, made possible by freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
MercyCorps - Works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of communities to be their own agents of transformation.
Search for Common Ground - "Our mission is very ambitious: to transform the way the world deals with conflict. We emphasize cooperative solutions, pursued on a realistic scale and with practical means. Current problems - whether ethnic, environmental, or economic - are simply too complex and interconnected to be settled on an adversarial basis."
