Our community partners
Friends of Caltrain is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit representing a grassroots coalition of neighborhood groups, employers, environmental groups, transit advocates, and transit riders advocating for the long-term viability of Caltrain’s critical local and regional transit service. With a member base of over 3,500 Peninsula and San Francisco residents, the group advocates for a modern, connected transit network, and transit-supportive policies on the Caltrain corridor to increase social and environmental sustainability in our region. Founded in response to a sudden funding crisis for the vital rail system, the group has successfully organized in the past to stave off drastic cuts to Caltrain service, as well as to improve service and capacity. For more information on Friends of Caltrain and their work, go to http://www.greencaltrain.com/friends-of-caltrain/.
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A self-dubbed “action-oriented think tank,” Working Partnerships USA is a community-labor organization working to tackle inequality and foster more equitable growth through research, advocacy and organizing, civic engagement and leadership development, all with the aim of empowering workers and their communities -- especially those of color -- to lead and govern. Born and based in the heart of Silicon Valley, Working Partnerships “envisions our social change effort as an innovation laboratory for new policy and organizing ideas which can be exported and scaled… across the country.” The group has campaigned successfully in the past for, among other things, access to quality healthcare for children in Santa Clara County; a $10 an hour minimum wage, with annual cost of living adjustments, in San Jose; increasing funding for affordable housing in Santa Clara County; and registering, educating, and engaging over 14,000 young Vietnamese and Latino voters in the 2012 elections. For more information on Working Partnerships, check out http://www.wpusa.org/.
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