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Coming soon! The 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.

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Upcoming events

Good Company Picnics
Summer – Fall 2025

You’re invited to get together in person, outdoors at the Good Company Picnic series this summer. Because when you meet and get to know your fellow TOGETHER Bay Area members across the region, it’ll become really clear that you’re in really good company. We’re all working in our different ways for solutions. We’re in this together!

These picnics will be positive, productive, and fun. Bring food for everyone to enjoy, ideas for how we can collaborate on solutions, and/or joy like games or music. They’re free and you can attend one or more of your choosing.

Dates and locations to be announced. The Good Company Picnics are for staff and board members of TOGETHER Bay Area member organizations.

 

Policy Summit
November 18, 2025

Save the date for our 2025 Policy Summit which will be held on Tuesday, November 18 in Berkeley. This event is for TOGETHER Bay Area members.

Ongoing events for TOGETHER members

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.

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, August 12, 2025, 10:00 am–12:30 pm
  • Tuesday, November 6, 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!

Ongoing events for anyone who is interested

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.The WDWG is focused on regional coordination of data collected before, during, and after wildfires for informed decision making by land management organizations and agencies. TOGETHER Bay Area convenes this working group of data compilers to learn from one another, share information, and build our regional understanding of the impacts of fire on the land.

To participate, email [email protected]. These meetings are open to everyone. 

  • Tuesday, April 15, 3:00–4:00 pm | Data Workflows. Watch the recording here.
  • Tuesday, June 17, 3:00–4:00 pm | Tech Tools: We’ll explore various public domain mapping platforms and tools, such as Fire Aside and Planscape, and how they can be used in our work.
  • Tuesday, August 19, 3:00–4:00 pm | Responding to post-fire vegetation changes: This meeting will be centered on how to respond to post-fire vegetation community changes meaningfully.
  • Tuesday, October 21, 3:00–4:00 pm | Partnerships: In this gathering, we’ll talk about partnerships, collaboration, and what makes them tick!
  • Tuesday, December 9, 3:00–4:00 pm | End of year reflection + celebration: This gathering will be more reflective in spirit, taking time to look back on what we learned through 2025 and generate some ideas for 2026.