Some of Our Partners

Wisdom & Money

Be Present, Inc. and Wisdom & Money (known as the Trailblazing Collaborative) — have co-created the Trailblazing Institute: Creating and Sustaining Inner Transformation, Partnerships and Social Justice. Unique in who we are, but unified in the pursuit of justice for all, the two organizations share 20 years of authentic partnership. This is rooted in our intentional approach to collaboration.

Be Present, Inc. is rooted in the vision and leadership of Black women and girls, beginning with Lillie P. Allen, who partnered with diverse people to create a movement for sustainable change that serves everyone in our communities.

Rooted in the Christian and prophetic traditions of Christianity, Wisdom & Money invites people who identify as financially wealthy or from a culture of wealth to engage with money as a doorway to spiritual transformation at the personal, communal and systemic levels. The Be Present Empowerment Model® is one of the core practices that supports the organization to realize its mission, vision and values.

Both organizations envision a society where people of all genders, faiths, races and cultures live, work and celebrate and worship in their unique particularities together. 

Bounceback Generation

Bounce Back Generation is a nonprofit dedicated to creating and sharing tools that build resilience to the stressful times we live in. BBGtv.org is our media site, where youth content creators share what makes them feel good, how they learn more about themselves, and how they bounce back from adversity.

 

 

Pie Ranch

In 2002, three founding partners — Nancy Vail, Jered Lawson, and Karen Heisler — accessed a 14-acre slice of land on California’s San Mateo coast, 55 miles south of San Francisco along Highway 1, in the unceded lands of the Quiroste Tribe. As there are currently no known descendants of the Quiroste, today these lands are tended and cared for in their honor by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Land Trust with whom Pie Ranch is in an ongoing partnership. The AMTB/AMLT invite other indigenous peoples and allies to join them in their efforts.

Pie Ranch's founding partners shared a vision to create a regenerative farming and food system education center to build community; provide a space for healing our relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth; steward the land and the environment; sequester carbon through climate friendly farming techniques; engage and employ young people on the land; share resources with new farmers; make healthy food accessible to Bay Area communities; leverage privilege to address systemic racism; dismantle white supremacy and all forms of oppression; create space for joy and celebration; and build a beloved community through strategic partnerships.

We began a youth education program in 2005 as a partnership with Mission High School in San Francisco. In its first year the Youth Program served 50 students; it now reaches over 1000 young people annually from four different partner schools and dozens of communities throughout the Bay Area. Over 6000 participants of all ages engage in food and farming education programs on the ranch each year. In 2006, Pie Ranch began hosting its first Farm Apprentices and Interns and as of January 2020, the year the apprentice program ended, the program had trained over 100 new farmers, the majority of whom are still engaged in farming, gardening, food education, or are working within the food system in some capacity.