The Ag Innovations Network is building a groundswell in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles basin of California to link rural stakeholders with urban planners, agricultural, food security and social justice advocates, civic leaders, and policy makers.

This CSA information resource is a cooperative effort between the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service (CSREES) and the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The specific programs involved are CSREES's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and its Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), and NAL's Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC). Several organizations also helped.

America's Second Harvest—The Nation’s Food Bank Network is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Founded in 1979, America's Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to a network of 13 food banks in its first year operation. Today, the national network is comprised of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and receives nearly two billion pounds of donated food and grocery products.

Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. BFW Institute seeks justice for hungry people by engaging in research and education on policies related to hunger and development.

Legal services in the area of housing eviction defense, unemployment, education, health benefits, TANF and SSI. People must be located in Tulare or Kern counties.

The Californians for GE-Free Agriculture Coalition is unique in that it brings together farmer-based organizations with consumer and environmental groups to halt the introduction of economically and ecologically destructive genetically engineered (GE) crops.

Our mission is to stop new GE crop plantings in California.

CPR is a statewide coalition of more than 175 organizations, founded in 1996 to shift fundamentally the way pesticides are used in California. CPR’s mission is to protect public health, improve environmental quality and expand a sustainable and just agriculture system by building a diverse movement across California to change statewide and local pesticide policies and practices. CPR has built a diverse, multi-interest coalition to challenge the powerful political and economic forces opposing change.

CALPIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, CALPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation. CALPIRG¹s mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.

The Capital Ownership Group (COG), a non-profit network of professionals, business, labor and government leaders and staff, academics and activists on six continents, works to broaden ownership to deal with the negative effects of globalization. Funded by the Ford Foundation, COG has developed and operates an on-line virtual think tank and conference center from Kent State University in Ohio. Over 600 participants are registered in one or more of the 15 existing working groups. COG has responded to over 1,944,348 data requests from people in 148 countries. The site is navigable in English, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, and Chinese.