Over Greenbelt Alliance’s 65-year history, Greenbelt Alliance has stewarded the region’s beautiful natural landscapes while promoting the growth needed for thriving communities for generations to come. As a result, today, almost 3.3 million acres of the Bay Area’s nine counties are protected open spaces. Learn more about our organization’s 65-year history here.
Today, we are leveraging our expertise in land-use policy advocacy and regional collaboration to realize a climate-resilient Bay Area. To us, this looks like communities and people thriving in the places they live, work, and play. Staying safe during climate disasters. Connecting with open spaces in new and powerful ways. Suffering less and recovering quickly after the next wildfire, flood, or drought. All thanks to equitable solutions drawing on the powerful role of nature.
Unique among regional organizations, our approach centers building deep, authentic connections to community members advocating for change at the local level. We amplify these grassroots voices, educate local elected officials, and build bridges across sectors to enact local change and ensure it adds up to regional impact to build a more resilient Bay Area for people and nature.
The Greenbelt Alliance Board of Directors plays a vital role in regional leadership for an organization on the frontlines of creating a more sustainable, equitable, vibrant Bay Area. In 2023, we are celebrating our 65th anniversary—a major milestone in our many years of critical work—and crafting a new strategic plan that is deepening our commitment to integrating nature-based climate adaptation and resilience into the region’s future. Our Board of Directors is currently composed of a group of committed individuals who are passionate about our work throughout the Bay Area. Get to know the folks who could be your future board colleagues here!
We’re looking for a new cohort of members to join our active and dynamic existing Board to provide the vision, leadership, and connections to guide Greenbelt Alliance to an even more impactful future. Over six and a half decades, our organization has grown from not only championing critical conservation efforts that protect natural and working lands, but we have also championed advocacy initiatives for affordable, abundant, climate-smart homes. We’re well positioned to activate a broad coalition of regional stakeholders who can make a meaningful impact—accelerating nature-based adaptation for the protection of land and people. If this sounds like exciting work to you, we need your leadership on our Board of Directors!
If you feel you or someone you know would make for a strong new addition to Greenbelt Alliance’s Board of Directors, we encourage you to fill out the application below. Providing as much information as possible will help us in considering the application.
At Greenbelt Alliance, we believe that local and regional policy decisions must prioritize attention, sustained resources, and solutions for the Bay Area’s low-income communities of color most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. These are also communities that have traditionally been excluded—deliberately—from large scale investment and planning decision-making.
We believe that advancing equitable climate resilience is part of advancing our society’s call for racial justice. That is why Greenbelt Alliance is increasing our focus on ensuring our most vulnerable communities are centered in regional and local efforts to build climate resilience.
Our commitments to social justice and racial equity extend to our Board of Directors, which we feel should represent the immense diversity of the Bay Area region in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, geographic location, professional focus, and many other relevant identities.
Here’s what our Board embodies:
We expect Board members to:
Just as Greenbelt Alliance works to create a better Bay Area, we also strive to better ourselves as an organization. To guide that continued improvement, our staff and Board of Directors have identified and adopted the following values. They reflect who we are as an organization, what we foster in our team members, and the internal standard we use to measure our work.
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