TeamWorks Update (Week 4): Alameda Point Collaborative
This week we find our TeamWorks EcoActivism group out on an island to the east of Oakland where the Oakland Raiders train and where one of the largest and longest running Fourth of July parades take place, otherwise known as Alameda. The island owes much of its landscape to the United State Navy, which once [...]
TeamWorks Update (Week 3): Literacy for Environmental Justice
This is our third week together, and it just keeps getting better.
This past Saturday we visited Literacy for Environmental Justice’s Bay Youth for the Environment group at their Candlestick nursery and community garden in Bayview-Hunters Point, a neighborhood in Southeastern San Francisco. The program, a partnership with the California State Parks Foundation and California State [...]
TeamWorks Update (Week 2): Visitacion Valley Greenway Project
This past Saturday the Teamworks Eco-Activists traveled to the Visitacion Valley Greenway Project. The Greenway is a two acre sloping stretch of six mini-parks in a culturally diverse, vibrant area of south eastern San Francisco. The project took 14 years to bring to fruition, with great patience and determination by Fran Martin and [...]
TeamWorks Update (Week 1): City Slicker Farms
Our summer TeamWorks series kicked off this Saturday at City Slicker Farms in West Oakland! The TeamWorks program at HandsOn Bay Area combines our three core values 1. volunteer 2. learn and 3. lead into one great program. Through this unique service-learning experience, volunteers meet new people, learn about community issues and provide important volunteer [...]