About Our Partners
ONCE UPON A BAY is independently produced and self-funded. At the same time, we have partnered with two powerful advocacy organizations – not for financial backing, but to help us find stories, connect with the best storytellers, and disseminate the end result as widely as possible. We all share the common goal of wanting to create more advocates for a healthy Bay and community.
These two organizations are very different in mission and scope, and both are doing amazing work. Since we are not asking for support for Once Upon A Bay, we would be pleased if you would show our partners some love by signing up for their newsletters, making a donation, or offering to volunteer. Links below. – Mike & Kate
San Francisco Baykeeper has been defending San Francisco Bay since Mike Herz founded the organization in 1989. They hold polluters accountable. Their fleet of volunteer skippers patrols the Bay looking for problems, and their team of lawyers, scientists, and advocates use science, policy, and the law to defend the Bay. And when they win a case, all settlement money – more than $12 million to date – is funneled to local nonprofits who are working to improve the Bay.
Baykeeper has racked up 35 years of impressive local and statewide victories, some of which have set national precedent. They have sent polluters to jail, forced the Navy to clean up Hunter’s Point, beat oil giants at the Supreme Court, stopped Dow Chemical from chlorinating the Bay, and much more.
The California Institute for Community, Arts & Nature is a nonprofit organization established in 2016 by Malcolm Margolin after his retirement from Heyday Books, a publishing house he founded in 1974. The institute is dedicated to fostering a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient society by promoting a deep understanding and appreciation of California's cultural and natural heritage. California ICAN operates with a sense of joy, playfulness, generosity, and community involvement, and it believes in the transformative power of beauty.
California ICAN collaborates with native communities in California on issues of political sovereignty and cultural survival. They help maintain Berkeley as a center of cultural and social innovation. And – most relevant to our project – they explore the connection between nature, place, the arts, and their role in stimulating the social imagination.
