COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Empowering Change

We believe in living our values. As community organizers, we learned long ago that without local community buy-in to conservation or fire-safety projects, the best efforts are doomed to lackluster results. People—mainly area residents—need to have a stake in making or maintaining changes that result in more vibrant and resilient landscapes and communities.  

We have “people skills” and organizing skills that help bring stakeholders, neighbors, and interested groups together to identify and achieve common goals. Some of our team's experience includes:

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• Dozens of media campaigns on a variety of ecological and social-justice issues.

• International attention for the Eureka Women’s March when we decided to cancel the march in favor of building diversity.

• National grassroots strategy and local organizing with the Patagonia sin Represas anti-dam campaign which stopped several dams in pristine watersheds of southern Chile.

• Founding and facilitating the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs & the Environment, a labor-environmental alliance with US Steelworkers against MAXXAM, including helping to shut down the WTO in Seattle.

• Strategic leadership of the Headwaters Ancient Redwood Forest  campaign, with both EPIC  and the Trees Foundation.

• Core organizing of Redwood Summer bringing thousands of people to northern California to oppose liquation logging of redwoods, garnering international attention.

• Core media team for the successful civil rights lawsuit Bari v FBI, working with leading civil rights attorneys.

• Co-launching Rainforest Action Network’s tropical timber campaign.

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We have increasingly oriented our work toward involving local residents in efforts to protect fragile ecosystems, improve climate resiliency, and ensure social justice. With the growing threats of climate change and fire, no one can afford to be ignorant or uninvolved any longer.

We can share how things have been accomplished elsewhere and inspire action with concrete step-by-step strategic plans tailored to specific landscapes and situations. From grassroots organizing to community service, FGF can draw on a wealth of past campaigns and projects to fit its services to new communities and challenges.