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OUTSIDE
LANDS NON-PROFIT PARTNERS
www.afhaiti.com
Mission: The Arcade
Fire Haiti program is a means to educate and inspire fans
about the important work of Partners and Health and Kanpe,
organizations working with communities across Haiti.
Outside Lands Activities: Lokahi Outreach
will be displaying photos, video and information about Partners
In Health, Kanpe and the Arcade Fire Haiti program. Additionally,
Lokahi Outreach will be hosting exciting contests and offering
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www.bluebearmusic.org
Mission: Celebrating our 40th Anniversary as the original school
of rock and roll, Blue Bear School of Music's nonprofit mission
since 1971 is to provide superior quality and affordable popular
music education in the genres of rock, blues, jazz and folk to
aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels within a supportive
and encouraging community.
Outside Lands Activities:
Want to be a rock star and feel what its like to play at a world class music
festival? Then come rock out with Blue Bear School of Music at Outside Lands!
The Blue Bear booth will be outfitted with instruments for festival attendees
to jam with and receive tips from talented Blue Bear teachers.
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www.calacademy.org
Mission: The mission
of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain
and protect the natural world.
Outside Lands Activities: Visit the Cal Academy
booth and view specimens from the Academy’s collections including
skulls and other surprising bones & creatures. Cal Academy
will also offer a prize wheel with fun, scientifically-based
questions and prizes.
Don’t miss the 2011 OutSide Lands - NightLife, Thursday, August
10th at Cal Academy! This year’s NightLife event will feature
Best Coast and Eskmo. For more information please visit: http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/. |
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www.conservatoryofflowers.org
Mission: The Conservatory
of Flowers - Connecting people and plants in a place of exceptional
beauty.
Outside Lands Activities: Stop by the Conservatory’s
booth for ‘Wicked Tattoos,’ discount admissions
to the devilishly popular current exhibit Wicked
Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins, and more!
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www.fishwise.org
Mission: FishWise
promotes the health and recovery of ocean ecosystems by providing
innovative market based tools to the seafood industry. We
support sustainability through environmentally responsible
business practices.
Outside Lands Activities: The decisions you
make as consumers when purchasing seafood can really make a
difference. When you purchase seafood that is sustainably farmed
or harvested you help to protect vulnerable ocean ecosystems
and ensure a supply of seafood for future generations.
But choosing sustainable seafood isn’t always easy, in fact
some people find it so daunting that they refrain from buying
seafood altogether.
At your local seafood counter, you might ask yourself:
“Is this seafood good for me?”
“Is it good for the environment?”
“Is it local?”
With these questions in mind, FishWise wants to offer you
a virtual shopping experience where you will learn which key
things to consider next time you are choosing your dinner.
FishWise guarantees you will leave the booth with a more complete
understanding of what it means to eat seafood sustainably. |
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www.fuf.net
Mission: To promote
a larger, healthier urban forest as part of the urban ecosystem,
through community planting, maintenance, education and advocacy.
Outside Lands Activities: This year, Friends
of the Urban Forest (FUF) booth will offer their popular “Draw
the Best Tree” competition, with prizes including FUF t-shirts
+ water bottles. FUF will also bring a small “forest” of live
nursery trees. Rumor has it that FUF’s mascot “Spooky Tree”
will be on hand, which the kids LOVE. |
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www.gardenfortheenvironment.org
Mission: Garden for
the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-half acre
urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education
programs for youth and adults about organic gardening, urban
compost systems and sustainable food systems. Since its’ founding
in 1990, the garden has operated as a demonstration site for
small-scale urban ecological food production, organic gardening
and low water-use landscaping. Annually, GFE provides direct,
hands-on education to 3,000 youth and adults.
Outside Lands Activities: Garden For the
Environment (GFE) will host gardening and composting workshops
throughout the course of the weekend! Each mini-workshop will
be held once on Friday - Sunday.
Compost with Worms!
Jump-start your garden with some homemade compost! Aside from
giving veggies and flowers a healthy start, composting encourages
beneficial organisms in the soil and can help break the life
cycle of pests and disease as well as keep valuable waste
out of the landfill. Join Garden For the Environment for
this mini-workshop where you will learn the easy steps involved
in setting up and maintaining your own worm composting system
at home. Rot On!
Urban Farming 101: Grow Your Own Food Workshop & Demonstration
Reduce your ecological footprint, decrease your dependence
on oil and increase your health and wellness all by starting
a vegetable garden in your home or neighborhood. Join Garden
For the Environment for this mini-workshop and walk away
with ideas of what to plant, when to plant it, and how to
organically care for your vegetables. |
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www.globalinheritance.org
Mission: Born in
2002, Global Inheritance is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
working to empower individuals worldwide to think and act
creatively in solving global imbalances. Our unique initiatives
focus on the power of creativity to communicate and push
for progressive social change.
Through technology, the arts and interactivity, Global Inheritance
reinvents activism by removing stereotypes and inspiring
those looking to make a difference in their communities and
beyond. With each step forward, Global Inheritance will continue
to build bridges uniting individuals.
Outside Lands Activities: Global Inheritance’s
TRASHed :: Recycling Store returns to Outside Lands! This
interactive recycling center rewards motivated people who
recycle their empty bottles/cans and compostable cups collected
on-site with cool merchandise. The more you recycle, the
more prizes you can afford.
The TRASHed Recycling Store is exclusive to those helping
keep Outside Lands looking great. If you don’t recycle, you’ll
be missing out on exclusive Outside Lands merchandise (posters,
water bottles, t-shirts & 2012 tickets), Treasure Island
music festival tickets, autographed band merch, The North
Face sleeping bags, Loomstate Jeans, PS3 games, Skullcandy
headphones, Camelbak refillable water bottles, Chipotle Bucks
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www.hayesvalleyfarm.com
Mission: Hayes Valley
Farm is an education and research project with a focus on urban
agriculture. Situated on the city-owned lots bordered by Oak,
Fell, Laguna, and Octavia streets, the project is organized
by an alliance of urban farmers, educators, and designers that
comprise the HVF Project Team. HVF is a fiscally sponsored
project of the San Francisco Parks Trust.
Outside Lands Activities: Urban Farmers Unite!
Hayes Valley Farm will provide fun and interactive playfulness
that delight all the senses and ignite a sense of wonder and
curiosity.
Hayes Valley Farm literature and giveaways (including stickers,
buttons, postcards and seedballs) showcase some of the educational
and agricultural programming available at Hayes Valley farm.
The Seed Ball Exchange is coming to Eco-Lands! Its diversity
and fun rolled into one! We'll show you how you can carry mini
veggie, herb and native gardens in the palm of your hands. |
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www.headcount.org
Mission: HeadCount
reaches young people and music fans where they already are
- at concerts and online - to inform and empower. Through
a national community of volunteers with diverse backgrounds
and values, we come together to register, engage, and mobilize
voters. Our message is not about what party you support
or where you land on an issue. It's that you must speak
to be heard.
Outside Lands Activities: HeadCount will
provide an interactive booth where attendees can register to
vote, write a letter to Congress, or participate in our 2011
“Fan DNA Poll,” which asks fans how they can feel about music
and politics.
HeadCount will also stage the "Signs of the Times" Photo
Contest at about a dozen festivals this summer. Fans
can choose from and personalize one of 20 different signs (example: "I
vote because___") or create their own original sign on
a whiteboard. Then they'll post with their sign for a
picture in the HeadCount photo booth, which will be posted
on HeadCount's Facebook page. Whoever's photo gets the most "likes" wins
the grand prize! |
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www.mustcreate.org
Mission: A San Francisco
Bay Area non-profit organization with national impact, Music
in Schools Today (MUST) advocates for, supports and develops
integrated, accessible, sustainable and measurable music-in-education
programs that improve student achievement.
Outside Lands Activities: The MUST booth
at Outside Lands will be focused on raising awareness of the
value of Music in Education, specifically through the Music
Inspires Education program which will be launching in August.
Parents will have the opportunity to submit their children’s
music lyrics for a chance to co-write songs with major musicians
like members of Phish.
Other planned activities include music circles between sets,
with a teaching artist and rhythm instruments available for
anyone who would like to join in, and an opportunity for festival
attendees to drop in the booth and tell (on video) why they
think it’s important to have Music in Education.
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www.oxfam.org
Mission: Oxfam America
is an international relief and development organization that
creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Forty
percent of the people on our planet--more than 2.5 billion--now
live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 a day.
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization
working to change that. Together with individuals and local
groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps
people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice.
Outside Lands Activities: Did you know that
across the world, farms produce enough food to feed every person
on earth, yet far too many people struggle to access food?
Oxfam will teach you how you can get involved in Oxfam’s campaign
related to helping poor people find access to food. Want to
have a little fun while learning? Oxfam will offer photo petitions,
non-toxic t-shirt screening, and contests to win bandanas.
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www.savethewaves.org
Mission: Save
The Waves Coalition is a global nonprofit organization dedicated
to protecting and preserving the coastal environment, with
an emphasis on the surf zone, and educating the public about
its value.
Outside Lands Activities: Save The Waves
will be offering two different interactive activities for Outside
Lands attendees. First, screen-printing will be available at
the booth for people to put on their own t-shirt. Save The
Waves will also offer a photo competition that will allow you
to choose how you want your beaches to look; clean and pristine
with phenomenal surf breaks or crowded with development projects.
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www.seva.org
Mission: Seva (Say-Va)
is a Berkeley based international health organization, currently
focused on preventing blindness around the globe and supporting
Native American communities around issues of food justice
and the prevention of diabetes. Seva is also very
well known for their epic benefit concerts. Board members
include Wavy Gravy, Ram Dass and Bob Weir. Visit their
booth here at Outside Lands to find out how you can get involved.
Outside Lands Activities: Seva is a Sanskrit
word meaning selfless service. We have been working on
a video where people from around the globe tell about what "service" or "compassion" mean
to them. At the festival, we'd like to invite people
who visit our booth to be a part of that video if they so choose. It
is a great way to get involved!
Visit the Seva booth and learn more about their work with
Native American communities and their food justice initiatives. Seva
has a great Native American cookbook that they recently produced. Seva
will have copies of healthy Native American recipes that festival
attendees can pick-up and try cooking at home.
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www.sfsurfrider.org
Mission: The Surfrider
Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated
to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans, waves
and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism,
research and education.
Outside Lands Activities: Surfrider will
be educating festival attendees on the reality of one of our
ocean's biggest threats: plastic and the multiple geyers that
exist around the world. Surfrider will have examples
of plastic found on beaches all over the world for the "Name
what beach this plastic was found on" game. As well
as info and photos on some of our members' expeditions to The
Pacific Geyer, The South Atlantic Geyer and the newly discovered
North Pacific Geyer that one of our members will have just
returned from.
Surfrider will also have information on some of their local
programs which are always looking for volunteers. These
programs include Plant Don't Pave, regular beach clean ups,
Music Outreach Program, La Playa Demonstration Garden and Sloat
Erosion.
Surfrider will have SF Surfrider Chico bags. These are
different than the bags from years past in that they are made
from 100% recycled material!
In addition to the above, Outside Lands and Surfrider will
be hosting the OL Beach Clean-up at Ocean Beach (stairwell
17) Saturday 13-Aug 10 am - 12 pm! |
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www.urbansprouts.org
Mission: Growing
healthy schools and communities through garden-based education.
Outside Lands Activities: Urban Sprouts
will be offering seed saving demonstrations -participants
will get to take home seeds. Have you ever played Garden
Twister or Veggie Bean Bag toss? Drop by the Urban Sprouts
booth and test your skills and knowledge.
Urban Sprouts is excited to offer a 3-day community garden
art project that will be built by YOU throughout the duration
of Outside Lands! See Urban Sprouts to leave your sustainable
mark on the festival! |
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www.outsidelands.org
Mission: The Western
Neighborhoods Project is a nonprofit organization formed
in 1999 to preserve and share the history and culture of
the neighborhoods in western San Francisco. Our mission
is to record personal memories, copy photographs, and help
unearth the story of local businesses, schools, clubs or
places of worship. We research the history of the western
neighborhoods of San Francisco in the interest of preservation
and community education; promote and make accessible to the
public the rich and diverse stories of the western neighborhoods
of San Francisco; solicit oral histories, photos, and historical
items pertaining to the western neighborhoods of San Francisco
for cataloguing and preservation in appropriate institutions,
such as the San Francisco History Center at the San Francisco
Main Library; and build awareness of the cultural diversity
that created the western neighborhoods of San Francisco.
Outside Lands Activities: The Western Neighborhoods
Project booth will feature photo albums and displays about
the western neighborhoods of San Francisco. Board
and organization members that are knowledgeable about the organization’s
mission and activities and ready to discuss the rich history
of the western neighborhoods with festival attendees will staff
the booth. The Western Neighborhoods Project will also
be prepared to take some oral histories from festival attendees
with stories to tell about the western neighborhoods. |
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