We began this year riding high on the outpouring of love from you, our beloved community, as we celebrated our 30th Anniversary. Your ongoing friendship and support inspired our work and successes in 2025, and we are delighted to share a few highlights.
This year we:
- Expanded our work in process-based restoration at the state level, promoting whole-systems, whole-watershed approaches to land management and wildfire mitigation through our Fuels to Flows campaign and Beaver Coexistence Program.
- Provided administrative and strategy support to our environmental and social justice-focused Fiscally Sponsored Projects, whose work is threatened in this hostile political and funding climate.
- Co-founded ALMA, the Alliance for Land-Based Mutual Aid, a bioregional coalition to support the expanding network of land access projects across the Bay Area.
- Hosted a record number of strategic planning, training, and organizational retreats at OAEC for groups doing impactful social change work.
- Made resiliency improvements to our demonstration site and campus, installing a new solar microgrid and establishing fire-safe zones around buildings.
- And much more…
The OAEC staff collective and community thank you deeply for all the work you are doing in your own communities at this critical time in history. Your solidarity and support are crucial to ensuring OAEC remains an inspiring refuge for movement leaders and alliances, and a force for accelerating transformative social and environmental change. As we move into a new year, we humbly ask you to support OAEC’s diverse and impactful work.
