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United Way of Tulare County
Website: www.unitedwaytc.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unitedwaytularecounty?rf=118719974808323
Location: Tulare
Services/Resources: Provides governance, budgeting assistance to nonprofits and community boards/districts. Partners with many Tulare County nonprofits and agency service providers.
United Way of Tulare County has a mission to strengthen communities in Tulare County. It does this by building partnerships and investing resources where they can most effectively stimulate sustainable change that improves conditions in communities. Some of United Way’s programs and initiatives include:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unitedwaytularecounty?rf=118719974808323
Location: Tulare
Services/Resources: Provides governance, budgeting assistance to nonprofits and community boards/districts. Partners with many Tulare County nonprofits and agency service providers.
United Way of Tulare County has a mission to strengthen communities in Tulare County. It does this by building partnerships and investing resources where they can most effectively stimulate sustainable change that improves conditions in communities. Some of United Way’s programs and initiatives include:
- 2-1-1 — A 24/7, multilingual, free, confidential non-emergency information and referral system; just dial 2-1-1.
- College Access Initiative — A collaborative effort that encourages Tulare County youth to attend college
- Community Building Initiative — An asset-based approach to help communities build on their strengths to create proactive, sustainable, community driven plans for meeting community needs
- Non-Profit Management Services — Helping non-profit organizations become stronger and more efficient
- Funding to local nonprofits/programs that serve: children and youth, families, seniors and the disabled
Self-Help Enterprises
Website: www.selfhelpenterprises.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Self-Help-Enterprises/128935357261538
Location: Visalia
Self-Help Enterprises (SHE) is an organization dedicated to self-help housing, sewer and water development, housing rehabilitation, multifamily housing and homebuyer programs in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The goal of SHE is to help farm laborers and other low-income families to help themselves.
Services/Resources:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Self-Help-Enterprises/128935357261538
Location: Visalia
Self-Help Enterprises (SHE) is an organization dedicated to self-help housing, sewer and water development, housing rehabilitation, multifamily housing and homebuyer programs in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The goal of SHE is to help farm laborers and other low-income families to help themselves.
Services/Resources:
- Self-Help Housing: Self-Help Housing allows families to use their "sweat equity" as the down payment on the new home that they otherwise could not afford. With skilled onsite supervision of SHE construction staff, families participate directly in the construction of their own homes.
- Multi-Family Housing: Recognizing that only one in five families qualifies for homeownership programs, SHE has expanded its mission to include the development of rental housing to address the unmet needs of low-income Valley residents. The concepts of community and teamwork are emphasized in resident participation and responsibility in management.
- Housing Rehabilitation: SHE operates a rehabilitation program to preserve and improve the existing stock of housing. SHE also adapts housing to accommodate the special needs of the handicapped and elderly under this program.
- Home-Buyer Program: To extend homeownership opportunities beyond the self-help program, SHE provides assistance for families wishing to become homeowners through traditional avenues. SHE offers a range of homeownership education programs; courses are available in English and Spanish.
- Homeownership Counseling: Self-Help Enterprises is pleased to offer a FREE comprehensive approach to homeownership, through Homeownership Counseling and Education. Courses are available in culturally appropriate languages to teach families about: credit, budgeting, shopping for the right home, obtaining a mortgage and financing options, mortgage and financing terms and closing procedures, home maintenance and more. Individual counseling is also available.
- Foreclosure Counseling: Self-Help Enterprises is a HUD-approved counseling agency. We offer free counseling services to assist homeowners in preserving homeownership, preventing foreclosure and to help families get through the difficult transition period if keeping their home is not an option.
- Community Development: Self-Help's community development program works as a catalyst in seeking funding and technical assistance for communities developing water and wastewater systems. Small rural communities in the Valley often lack the most basic of services - clean drinking water and sanitary sewer systems. SHE provides human resources and the technical assistance necessary to these small towns to develop adequate water delivery and wastewater disposal systems.
Tulare Basin Wildlife Partners
Website: www.tularebasinwildlifepartners.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tularebasinwildlifepartners
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TulareBasin
Location: Tulare Basin
Services/Resources: Provides assistance in adding environmental benefits to community/water/recreation projects.
About TBWI: Its mission is to promote watershed-based integrated resource management in the Tulare Basin watershed by connecting diverse stakeholders in the Tulare Basin with resources to build capacity for projects that enhance water supply, water quality, flood management and ecosystem services. Goal: Create a healthy regional watershed with ecologically functional waterways, wetlands and uplands that provide abundant clean water for both people and wildlife.
One of the TBWI’s eight objectives is to coordinate with disadvantaged communities to identify overlapping community and environmental interests/projects, and integrate those components into IRWM water projects.
TBWI is led by the Tulare Basin Watershed Coordinator who works with the seven Tulare Basin Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning groups to ensure that IRWM projects consider and incorporate ecological, watershed and sustainability principles, and provide benefits to disadvantaged communities.
About TBWP: TBWP is the go-to organization in the Tulare Basin for providing integrated land and water management solutions that balance nature, agriculture and the economy. TBWP works with various partners to provide opportunities for conservation, water management and wildlife as land use continues to change in the Tulare Basin. View the TBWP Conservation Vision online for more details.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tularebasinwildlifepartners
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TulareBasin
Location: Tulare Basin
Services/Resources: Provides assistance in adding environmental benefits to community/water/recreation projects.
About TBWI: Its mission is to promote watershed-based integrated resource management in the Tulare Basin watershed by connecting diverse stakeholders in the Tulare Basin with resources to build capacity for projects that enhance water supply, water quality, flood management and ecosystem services. Goal: Create a healthy regional watershed with ecologically functional waterways, wetlands and uplands that provide abundant clean water for both people and wildlife.
One of the TBWI’s eight objectives is to coordinate with disadvantaged communities to identify overlapping community and environmental interests/projects, and integrate those components into IRWM water projects.
TBWI is led by the Tulare Basin Watershed Coordinator who works with the seven Tulare Basin Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning groups to ensure that IRWM projects consider and incorporate ecological, watershed and sustainability principles, and provide benefits to disadvantaged communities.
About TBWP: TBWP is the go-to organization in the Tulare Basin for providing integrated land and water management solutions that balance nature, agriculture and the economy. TBWP works with various partners to provide opportunities for conservation, water management and wildlife as land use continues to change in the Tulare Basin. View the TBWP Conservation Vision online for more details.
Tulare County
Website: tularecounty.ca.gov/board/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countyoftulare?rf=152167744795906
Location: Visalia, CA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countyoftulare?rf=152167744795906
Location: Visalia, CA
Community Water Center
Website: www.communitywatercenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Water-Center/116669441734084
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CWaterC
Location: Visalia and Sacramento
Services/Resources: Provides training to Valley clean water advocates, conducts programs that aim to improve drinking water.
The Community Water Center’s (CWC) mission is to create community-driven water solutions through organizing, education and advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
CWC works directly with a number of low-income, primarily Latino communities to address problems that range from chronic drinking water contamination to barriers to participation in local water governance. These direct services provide the foundation for both of CWC’s Programs:
- Protecting Groundwater from the Ground Up: This program aims to improve groundwater used as a source of drinking water in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Our work focuses on the coordination and development of the AGUA coalition and its campaign for groundwater protection, particularly from sources of nitrate.
- Water Democratization: This program aims to ensure communities have a voice in water planning, policy and in decision making.
- Research: CWC is an expert source of information on community drinking water issues in the Valley.
Center for Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE)
Website: www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CRPE.EJ?ref=profile
Location: Offices in Delano and San Francisco
Services/Resources: Provides legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color
The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment is a national environmental justice organization dedicated to helping grassroots groups across the United States attack head on the disproportionate burden of pollution borne by poor people and people of color. CRPE provides legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color fighting environmental hazards. CRPE’s ongoing campaigns fall into three broad areas: AIR QUALITY, LAND USE, NATIONAL ISSUES. They have the following goals:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CRPE.EJ?ref=profile
Location: Offices in Delano and San Francisco
Services/Resources: Provides legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color
The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment is a national environmental justice organization dedicated to helping grassroots groups across the United States attack head on the disproportionate burden of pollution borne by poor people and people of color. CRPE provides legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color fighting environmental hazards. CRPE’s ongoing campaigns fall into three broad areas: AIR QUALITY, LAND USE, NATIONAL ISSUES. They have the following goals:
- Individuals taking part in a particular campaign leave the campaign with more personal capacity than they had coming into it.
- Community involved has more power vis a vis decision makers at the end of the campaign than at the beginning.
- Working with affected communities, we concretely address the environmental hazard at hand.
San Joaquin Valley Rural Development Center
Location: Fresno, CA
Services/Resources: Acting as a resource hub, the San Joaquin Valley Rural Development Center (SJVRDC) provides technical assistance for public agencies in small, underserved communities by connecting them to experts who can provide specialized consulting to which they would otherwise not have access. Areas include business services, clean energy, economic development, finance, grant writing, health and human services, housing, nonprofit capacity, planning, project design and construction, trade development, transportation, and water infrastructure.
Contact: Ismael Diaz Herrera, Director. Email: [email protected]. Phone: 559-278-0519.
Services/Resources: Acting as a resource hub, the San Joaquin Valley Rural Development Center (SJVRDC) provides technical assistance for public agencies in small, underserved communities by connecting them to experts who can provide specialized consulting to which they would otherwise not have access. Areas include business services, clean energy, economic development, finance, grant writing, health and human services, housing, nonprofit capacity, planning, project design and construction, trade development, transportation, and water infrastructure.
Contact: Ismael Diaz Herrera, Director. Email: [email protected]. Phone: 559-278-0519.
Center for Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)
Website: www.crla.org
Location: Delano – (661) 725-4350 [and 21 locations in California including Fresno, Madera and Lamont]
Services/Resources: CRLA staff conducts litigation, outreach and legal education on the pressing issues facing low-income communities: housing; employment; education; workplace safety; discrimination; income maintenance and healthcare access.
CRLA's mission is to fight for justice and individual rights alongside the most exploited communities of our society.
CRLA serves low-income individuals residing in over 22 California counties. Today, CRLA serves a wide array of clients, while maintaining specialized programs that focus on services for farmworker populations. CRLA clients also include individuals with disabilities, immigrant populations, school children, lesbian/gay/bisexual and transgender populations, seniors and individuals with limited English proficiency.
CRLA reaches over 39,000 individuals a year through a combination of advocacy strategies that:
Location: Delano – (661) 725-4350 [and 21 locations in California including Fresno, Madera and Lamont]
Services/Resources: CRLA staff conducts litigation, outreach and legal education on the pressing issues facing low-income communities: housing; employment; education; workplace safety; discrimination; income maintenance and healthcare access.
CRLA's mission is to fight for justice and individual rights alongside the most exploited communities of our society.
CRLA serves low-income individuals residing in over 22 California counties. Today, CRLA serves a wide array of clients, while maintaining specialized programs that focus on services for farmworker populations. CRLA clients also include individuals with disabilities, immigrant populations, school children, lesbian/gay/bisexual and transgender populations, seniors and individuals with limited English proficiency.
CRLA reaches over 39,000 individuals a year through a combination of advocacy strategies that:
- 1) increase access to high-quality, no-cost legal services;
- 2) ensure the equitable and fair distribution of resources in rural communities; and
- 3) protect the rights of low-income individuals to seek justice under the law.
The Center for Environmental Health
Website: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Pages/CenterEnvironmentalHealth.aspx
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAPublicHealth
Location: Sacramento, CA
Services/Resources: The Center for Environmental Health (within the California Department of Public Health) administers programs that protect the public from unsafe drinking water; regulate the generation, handling, and disposal of medical waste; oversees the disposal of low-level radioactive waste; and protects and manages food, drug, medical device, and radiation sources. The Center comprises the Division of Food Drug and Radiation Safety and the Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CAPublicHealth
Location: Sacramento, CA
Services/Resources: The Center for Environmental Health (within the California Department of Public Health) administers programs that protect the public from unsafe drinking water; regulate the generation, handling, and disposal of medical waste; oversees the disposal of low-level radioactive waste; and protects and manages food, drug, medical device, and radiation sources. The Center comprises the Division of Food Drug and Radiation Safety and the Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management.
CSET (Community, Services, Employment, Training)
Website: www.cset.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cset.info
Location: Visalia, Tulare County
Services/Resources: Youth employment opportunities (Youth@Work), Junior Leadership program, recreation centers for youth, Employment Connection Center, Family Resource Center (Earlimart and Tulare), energy efficiency programs, family crisis resources, housing services, income tax preparation assistance (VITA), Welfare to Work program, recycling education, technical assistance for town council/community organization, urban forestry, microenterprise technical assistance.
CSET’s mission is to strengthen youth, families, and caring communities. CSET’s purpose is to reduce the causes of poverty. CSET envisions healthy, prosperous, and safe communities - communities where children want to live when they grow up because life is good.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cset.info
Location: Visalia, Tulare County
Services/Resources: Youth employment opportunities (Youth@Work), Junior Leadership program, recreation centers for youth, Employment Connection Center, Family Resource Center (Earlimart and Tulare), energy efficiency programs, family crisis resources, housing services, income tax preparation assistance (VITA), Welfare to Work program, recycling education, technical assistance for town council/community organization, urban forestry, microenterprise technical assistance.
CSET’s mission is to strengthen youth, families, and caring communities. CSET’s purpose is to reduce the causes of poverty. CSET envisions healthy, prosperous, and safe communities - communities where children want to live when they grow up because life is good.
Proteus, Inc.
Website: www.proteusinc.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProteusInc
Location: Visalia, Tulare County
Services/Resources: To provide education, job training, job placement, and other support services to farm working families and other program participants. Services include a mobile employment center, job seeker tools, energy services, youth services, farm labor safety training, and scholarship opportunities.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProteusInc
Location: Visalia, Tulare County
Services/Resources: To provide education, job training, job placement, and other support services to farm working families and other program participants. Services include a mobile employment center, job seeker tools, energy services, youth services, farm labor safety training, and scholarship opportunities.
Tulare Public Library: Foundation Center Funding Database
Website: http://www.tularepubliclibrary.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TulareLibrary
Location: Tulare
Services/Resources: Using our Foundation Center collection, individuals and nonprofits can research funding opportunities from foundations and corporations. Note: Foundation Center electronic resources can only be accessed on computers inside the Library. With profiles of more than 100,000 U.S. grantmakers and 2.4 million grant records, including 990s, this is the premier online tool for non-profits looking for grants. A one-of-a-kind database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that pro-vide support for students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. An interactive mapping tool designed for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers and anyone else interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today. For more information, contact Jane Zikratch at (559) 685-4517.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TulareLibrary
Location: Tulare
Services/Resources: Using our Foundation Center collection, individuals and nonprofits can research funding opportunities from foundations and corporations. Note: Foundation Center electronic resources can only be accessed on computers inside the Library. With profiles of more than 100,000 U.S. grantmakers and 2.4 million grant records, including 990s, this is the premier online tool for non-profits looking for grants. A one-of-a-kind database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that pro-vide support for students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. An interactive mapping tool designed for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers and anyone else interested in the impact of philanthropy around the world today. For more information, contact Jane Zikratch at (559) 685-4517.
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Website: http://ccejn.wordpress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-California-Environmental-Justice-Network-CCEJN/142772219259979
Location: Near Fresno
Services/Resources: Our goals are to preserve our natural resources now and in the future, by seeking better ways to minimize or eliminate environmental degradation in Central Valley communities. This is crucial because rural communities in California’s Central Valley suffer a disproportionate amount of negative health, social and financial impacts.
The Central California Environmental Justice Network serves as the hub of environmental activism in the Central Valley. CCEJN is committed to developing activists and working with community members and other stakeholders at local, regional, state and federal levels to identify environmental justice issues and develop sustainable solutions.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Central-California-Environmental-Justice-Network-CCEJN/142772219259979
Location: Near Fresno
Services/Resources: Our goals are to preserve our natural resources now and in the future, by seeking better ways to minimize or eliminate environmental degradation in Central Valley communities. This is crucial because rural communities in California’s Central Valley suffer a disproportionate amount of negative health, social and financial impacts.
The Central California Environmental Justice Network serves as the hub of environmental activism in the Central Valley. CCEJN is committed to developing activists and working with community members and other stakeholders at local, regional, state and federal levels to identify environmental justice issues and develop sustainable solutions.
Central Valley Air Quality (CVAQ) Coalition
Website: http://www.calcleanair.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sjvcleanair
Location: Fresno
Services/Resources: To become a healthy, safe, and economically prosperous San Joaquin Valley where chronic air pollution and epidemic sickness due to poor air quality is eliminated.
To work toward awareness, act as a watchdog, advocate for policy, and mobilize communities to create clean air in the San Joaquin Valley. To ensure that all communities, of all races, cultures, class or creed, have the opportunity to be involved in the policy development and regulatory processes improving regional health.
Founded in 2003, The Central Valley Air Quality (CVAQ) Coalition is a partnership of more than 70 community, medical, public health, environmental and environmental justice organizations representing thousands of residents in the San Joaquin Valley that are unified in their commitment to improve the health of Californians by (a) seeking full and vigorous enforcement of the federal Clean Air Act, (b) strengthening State law and District regulations relating to air quality, and (c) educating the public about the serious health impacts of air pollution. CVAQ is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a registered public non-profit.
For more information, call CVAQ at (559) 442-4771
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sjvcleanair
Location: Fresno
Services/Resources: To become a healthy, safe, and economically prosperous San Joaquin Valley where chronic air pollution and epidemic sickness due to poor air quality is eliminated.
To work toward awareness, act as a watchdog, advocate for policy, and mobilize communities to create clean air in the San Joaquin Valley. To ensure that all communities, of all races, cultures, class or creed, have the opportunity to be involved in the policy development and regulatory processes improving regional health.
Founded in 2003, The Central Valley Air Quality (CVAQ) Coalition is a partnership of more than 70 community, medical, public health, environmental and environmental justice organizations representing thousands of residents in the San Joaquin Valley that are unified in their commitment to improve the health of Californians by (a) seeking full and vigorous enforcement of the federal Clean Air Act, (b) strengthening State law and District regulations relating to air quality, and (c) educating the public about the serious health impacts of air pollution. CVAQ is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a registered public non-profit.
For more information, call CVAQ at (559) 442-4771
Clinica Sierra Vista, Inc.
Website: http://www.clinicasierravista.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clinica-Sierra-Vista-Inc/190935344252292
Location: Fresno & Bakersfield
Services/Resources: Clinica Sierra Vista opened its doors in 1971 and currently operates 26 community health centers, 6 dental centers, and 6 behavioral health centers in Kern, Inyo, and Fresno Counties.
Clinica Sierra Vista provides high quality and comprehensive primary and preventative health care services at the most efficient cost to the underserved populations of Kern, Fresno and Inyo counties regardless of ability to pay. We strongly believe in everyone's right to quality health care; therefore, no one is denied services based on race, religion, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or economic status.
In addition to comprehensive medical care CSV also offers the following services:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clinica-Sierra-Vista-Inc/190935344252292
Location: Fresno & Bakersfield
Services/Resources: Clinica Sierra Vista opened its doors in 1971 and currently operates 26 community health centers, 6 dental centers, and 6 behavioral health centers in Kern, Inyo, and Fresno Counties.
Clinica Sierra Vista provides high quality and comprehensive primary and preventative health care services at the most efficient cost to the underserved populations of Kern, Fresno and Inyo counties regardless of ability to pay. We strongly believe in everyone's right to quality health care; therefore, no one is denied services based on race, religion, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or economic status.
In addition to comprehensive medical care CSV also offers the following services:
- Women, Infants & Children (WIC)
- HIV/AIDS
- Family Services & Health Promotion
- Adolescent Services
Building Healthy Communities
Website: http://www.healthysouthkern.org/about-bhc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BHCSK
Location: Lamont
Services/Resources: Over 1,200 residents, youth, businesses and organizations are leading the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) South Kern effort to positively change the health of our communities through a shared vision, goals and action plan. Residents in Arvin, Lamont, Weedpatch and the unincorporated areas of Greenfield are proving that we have the power to make health happen in our communities.
BHC South Kern is promoting healthy change in the areas of:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BHCSK
Location: Lamont
Services/Resources: Over 1,200 residents, youth, businesses and organizations are leading the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) South Kern effort to positively change the health of our communities through a shared vision, goals and action plan. Residents in Arvin, Lamont, Weedpatch and the unincorporated areas of Greenfield are proving that we have the power to make health happen in our communities.
BHC South Kern is promoting healthy change in the areas of:
- Education: Improving education from pre-K through adult
- Environment: Creating a healthy environment with clean air and water
- Health Access: Increasing access to a better health care system
- Recreation: Improving recreational activities, facilities and parks
South Kern Sol
Website: http://www.southkernsol.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Kern-Sol/127063514052500
Tumblr: http://southkernsol.tumblr.com/
Location: Lamont
Services/Resources: South Kern Sol is the youth-led publication of South Kern. South Kern Sol staff are youths between the ages of 14 to 24 from the areas of Greenfield, Arvin, Lamont and Weedpatch.
South Kern Sol is ‘La Luz del Valle’ or in English ‘The Light of the Valley,’ to bring light and truth about the issues that are important to those living in South Kern. South Kern Sol reporters are well aware that often times mainstream media ignores coverage of South Kern or provides a cookie-cutter approach in their reporting. South Kern Sol strives to be the voice of the voiceless and improve the health and quality of life of those living in South Kern. For more information, email:[email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Kern-Sol/127063514052500
Tumblr: http://southkernsol.tumblr.com/
Location: Lamont
Services/Resources: South Kern Sol is the youth-led publication of South Kern. South Kern Sol staff are youths between the ages of 14 to 24 from the areas of Greenfield, Arvin, Lamont and Weedpatch.
South Kern Sol is ‘La Luz del Valle’ or in English ‘The Light of the Valley,’ to bring light and truth about the issues that are important to those living in South Kern. South Kern Sol reporters are well aware that often times mainstream media ignores coverage of South Kern or provides a cookie-cutter approach in their reporting. South Kern Sol strives to be the voice of the voiceless and improve the health and quality of life of those living in South Kern. For more information, email:[email protected]
