Featured Event: 2025 Together Conference

Possibilities Ahead: What Can We Do Together?
May 13–16, 2025

The 2025 Together Conference will focus on possibility and collaboration as we work for climate resilience and equity, healthy lands and communities. You’re invited to join hundreds of colleagues to make connections and find ways to work together for the lands and watersheds that are integral to a thriving Bay Area and all people who live here.

The conference will feature a variety of venues to explore the question “What can we do together?” with all of the wisdom in the room. Inspiring speakers, engaging exhibitors, useful workshops, structured and unstructured networking opportunities, and bespoke field trips hosted by TOGETHER Bay Area members will support the urgent work we need to do today. Together we will build the foundation for the transformational changes we need to make for an uncertain yet hopeful future. Learn more here

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, February 12
10:00–11:00 am

Progress, Collaboration, and Hope: the Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Progress Report
| Open to all

We feel hopeful. We see a San Francisco Bay Area in the not so distant future that is home to healthy lands, people, and communities where we address the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises through collaboration. And we invite you to join us in that hope.

Conservation progress is being made, people are collaborating all across the Bay Area to make it happen, and we aren’t stopping anytime soon. Read all about it in the Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Progress Report!

You’re invited for a virtual hour together to dive into major findings from the 2.0 Report, celebrate the progress we’ve made together as a region, and look ahead to how everyone can play a role in this continued, collaborative work. Speakers include Mark Kalnins from the State Coastal Conservancy and Dan Rademacher from GreenInfo Network. Join us!

Register here

Thursday, April 3
11:00 am–12:00 pm

TOGETHER Policy Learning Session: CA Natural Resources Agency Tribal Affairs Program | Open to members

Join us for an hour focused on learning about the tribal affairs program at California Natural Resources Agency! We’ll hear directly from Geneva Thompson, Deputy Secretary for Tribal Affairs at CNRA and have plenty of time for Q&A. You can learn more about the tribal affairs program here.

Register here

Regional Funding

Policy Learning Sessions

TOGETHER Bay Area is thrilled to announce the plan for new Policy Learning Sessions. These sessions will share information and resources to grow our members’ collective capacity for advocacy as TOGETHER Bay Area.

Each session will be engaging and informative, covering topics that are core to TOGETHER Bay Area’s work building legislative relationships and advocating for policies and funding on behalf of its regional goals and membership.

Learning Sessions will be designed for a wide audience including people new to the policy world as well as seasoned advocates!

Thursday, April 3
11:00 am–12:00 pm

TOGETHER Policy Learning Session: CNRA Tribal Affairs Program | Open to members

Join us for an hour focused on learning about the tribal affairs program at California Natural Resources Agency! We’ll hear directly from Geneva Thompson, Deputy Secretary for Tribal Affairs at CNRA and have plenty of time for Q&A. You can learn more about the tribal affairs program here

Register here

Policy Committee

Our Policy Committee meets every other Thursday to advocate effectively towards our policy priorities through values-driven, collaborative, inclusive participation of our coalition’s members. TOGETHER Bay Area encourages individuals from a variety of member organizations and with various levels of policy expertise to participate in the Policy Committee – it is an active learning, listening, and sharing space.

Staff and board members who are eligible to participate in TOGETHER’s advocacy program (nonprofits, Native Tribes & organizations, local public agencies, and mission-aligned businesses) are invited!

Email [email protected] with questions and to sign up.

Regional Conservation

Wednesday, February 12
10:00–11:00 am

Progress, Collaboration, and Hope: the Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Progress Report
| Open to all

We feel hopeful. We see a San Francisco Bay Area in the not so distant future that is home to healthy lands, people, and communities where we address the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises through collaboration. And we invite you to join us in that hope.

Conservation progress is being made, people are collaborating all across the Bay Area to make it happen, and we aren’t stopping anytime soon. Read all about it in the Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Progress Report!

You’re invited for a virtual hour together to dive into major findings from the 2.0 Report, celebrate the progress we’ve made together as a region, and look ahead to how everyone can play a role in this continued, collaborative work.

Register here

Wildfire data working group

Wildfire Data Working Group

Since April 2021, we have convened regular calls with professionals at nonprofits, public agencies, and companies who compile data about wildfire on the landscape. We meet every other months for 80 minutes to hear from speakers and facilitate regional conversations about timely topics.

Our next Working Group session will take place on Zoom starting again in 2025. To participate, email [email protected]. These meetings are open to everyone.

Regional Coordination

May 13–16, 2025

Together Conference

Our annual gathering of over 400 professionals and practitioners returns with opportunities to come together online, in-person, and on field trips.

  • Tuesday, May 13 | Virtual kickoff from 9:00–10:30 am
  • Wednesday, May 14 | All-day, in-person conference at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
  • Thursday and Friday, May 15–16 | Field trips co-hosted by TOGETHER Bay Area members

Colleagues in all stages of their careers and all arms of an organization are invited – from staff who work directly on the land or water, communicating, interpreting, fundraising, directing, interning, and more.

Learn more here  

Regional Tribal Alliances

Right Relations

Right Relations is a 9-month, cohort-based program that supports alliances with local Native American communities through learning, action, and community. We are catalyzing collective action for healthy lands, people, and communities and building the region’s capacity to strengthen Tribal sovereignty. This program is designed specifically for TOGETHER Bay Area members in partnership with Redbud Resource Group

Going Beyond Land Acknowledgments 

Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements is an interactive 2.5 hour workshop for individuals seeking to grow their allyship with Native peoples. Participants learn about the strengths and limitations of land acknowledgements and explore concrete, action-oriented strategies for building connections with Native communities and organizations.

Individuals working for TOGETHER Bay Area member organizations are invited to participate in one of the following online workshops:

  • Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 10:00 am–12:30 pm

TOGETHER Bay Area has reserved 10 spots at each of the workshops for people who work for our member organizations. Anyone who works at our member organizations can apply: all departments, at any level. There is no cost for TOGETHER members to attend as part of this program. Please email [email protected] to reserve your space in a GBLA workshop. First come, first served!