Tides Partners

CCRF is a statewide alliance of more than 40 organizations working to promote sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice in California through collective policy advocacy, strategic communication and collaboration.

CCRF was informally started nearly 30 years ago to encourage strategic coordination of policy advocacy activities among key players in the state reproductive health and rights movement. Over the past three decades, the Coalition has grown from a handful of pro-choice organizations based in Sacramento to a dynamic, diverse membership of more than 40 groups from across California.

CCRF is the only statewide coalition in California dealing specifically with reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice policy issues. On all of these issues, CCRF plays a key role in facilitating rapid and broad response by keeping the lines of communication open, disseminating information and calls to action throughout our membership, and encouraging strategic coordination and collaboration wherever possible. CCRF is looked to nationally as a model for successful coalition work in the reproductive health, rights and justice movements, both in terms of the policy wins resulting from our members’ collective advocacy, and in terms of our commitment to being a truly diverse, democratic coalition.

CCRF’s vision is that California policies and programs will promote sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice for the diverse women and girls living in our state, and that the voices of those women and their communities will be represented among the leadership of policy advocacy efforts.

California Health Report is a news site covering health and health policy throughout the state, with an emphasis on disadvantaged communities and populations. We’re non-partisan, grant-funded and editorially independent.

As the only journalism organization dedicated exclusively to covering health issues in low-income communities,we are a trusted source of information about the state of health and health care across California.

The mission of CASBA is to further the practice of straw-bale construction by exchanging current information and practical experience, conducting research and testing, and making that body of knowledge available to working professionals and the public at large. Strawbale building is being seen as a promising alternative to conventional construction methods, both in terms of positive environmental impact and in its potential for becoming economical.

The Marine Education Project’s mission is to preserve and restore the biodiversity and health of California’s coastal and marine ecosystems through scientifically supported community involvement, education, and action.

The Center for Genetics and Society seeks to alert and engage the public, the media, leadership of civil society organizations, and policymakers about the risks to social justice and the public interest posed by particular applications of human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies. It works to establish effective and accountable public policies for these human biotechnologies. The Center focuses on technical developments and public controversy regarding the prospect of engineering the genes and traits that are passed on to future children and generations.

Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) creates policy and market solutions to advance sustainable energy.

CRS is a national nonprofit with global impact. It develops expert responses to climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solutions. Its leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer-protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets.

Children’s Action Network (CAN) uses the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and to make them a top priority in everyday life.

CAN is currently dedicated to finding homes for the more than 100,000 children in the United States who are waiting for an adoptive family and improving outcomes for the more than 400,000 children in foster care.

To decarbonize at the speed and scale required to address the climate crisis, we need bold public policy to accelerate change.

Corporations play a huge role in climate policy action – or inaction. They often are too narrowly focused on reducing emissions in their own operations, and fail to use their powerful influence to advocate on climate policy.

We need a movement that raises the expectations for the corporate sector and we believe that when employees speak, companies act.

Our areas of focus are:
– Activating employees who can catalyze bold advocacy from their employers and create a tipping point for policy change.
– Educating executives by providing targeted education on key issues including use of their lobbying influence and public statements to help enact pro-climate policy.
– Shining the spotlight by harnessing external attention to put pressure on corporate leadership.
– Keeping score by tracking corporate and trade-association climate policy engagement.

ClimateVoice is led by Co-Executive Directors Deborah McNamara and Bill Weihl – the organization’s founder.