A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Directory Saturday 9 Jul ...

expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT works to enhance free expression and privacy in
communications technologies by finding practical and innovative solutions to public policy
challenges while protecting civil liberties. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all
parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
Web: http://www.cdt.org/ [28 Dec 2010]
Center for Digital Democracy A nonprofit organization working to ensure that the
digital media systems serve the public interest. Committed to preserving the openness and
diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital
communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public
interest programming. Web: http://www.democraticmedia.org/ [28 Mar 2009]
Center For Digital Storytelling (CDS) An international not-for-profit community arts
organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling. We assist youth and adults around
the world in using media tools to share, record, and value stories from their lives, in ways that
promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice. While the term "digital
storytelling" has been used to describe a wide variety of new media practices, what best
describes our approach is its emphasis on first-person narrative, meaningful workshop
processes, and participatory production methods. Address: 1803 Martin Luther King Jr Way
(near Delaware Street), Berkeley CA 94709 Voice: (510) 548-2065 Fax: (510) 548-1345
Email: info@storycenter.org Web: http://www.storycenter.org http://www.silencespeaks.org
http://www.storycircles.org http://www.storiesforchange.net [16 Oct 2009]
Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) Supports and advances education for sustainable living.
We believe that schools play a pivotal role in moving us beyond our growing environmental
crises and toward a sustainable society. We recognize schooling for sustainability as a process
that fosters abundant living on a finite planet and makes teaching and learning come alive.
Address: The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 270, Berkeley CA 94704-1377
Voice: (510) 845-4595 Email: info@ecoliteracy.org Web: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
[30 Apr 2011]
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Conducts both professional
research and public education. The professional research is oriented towards filling important
gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social problems, or the impact of specific
policies. The public education portion of CEPR’s mission is to present the findings of
professional research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad segments of
the public to know exactly what is at stake in major policy debates.
Web: http://www.cepr.net [03 Apr 2010]
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) Works to promote social justice
through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of
dignity, justice and sometimes life, we seek to uphold the universal human rights of every
human being to education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social and
cultural rights essential to human dignity. Web: http://www.cesr.org/ [16 Oct 2010]
Center for Ecosystem Survival (CES) We are committed to inspiring participation and
awareness in the preservation of fragile ecosystems by providing opportunities for personal
direct action to save the diversity of life on Earth. Since 1988 we have focused our efforts on
protecting entire ecosystems and natural communities, not just individual species, to ensure a
long term conservation strategy. We partner with schools, universities, zoos, aquariums,
botanical gardens, natural history museums, and science centers worldwide to protect wildlife
and nature. Address: 699 Mississippi Street, Suite 106, San Francisco CA 94107
Voice: (415) 648-3392 Email: info@savenature.org Web: http://www.savenature.com/
[30 Apr 2011]
Center for Employment Training (CET) A private, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to fighting poverty & dependence on public aid by making hands-on job training
available to youth and adults of all educational levels & backgrounds, but especially to those