PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS
Funding Partners
Parks California
Parks California is on a mission to make our state parks and public lands welcoming, inclusive and climate-resilient spaces where all people throughout California truly feel at home.
Southern California Association of Governments
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is the largest Council of Governments (COG) and Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in the country.
SCAG’s mission is to foster innovative regional solutions that improve the lives of Southern Californians through inclusive collaboration, visionary planning, regional advocacy, information sharing, and promoting best practices.
Community Partners
Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, dedicated to the stewardship of Big Morongo Canyon through education and responsible visitation.
City of Redlands
Inland Empire Resource Conservation District
The purpose of the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District is to promote the understanding that the quality of the environment determines the quality of life. In cooperation with landowners, local, state and federal agencies, the agricultural community, environmental and community groups, we will promote good stewardship of our soil, water and other natural resources. We will provide strong education programs that will encourage today’s youth to accept the responsibility of conserving our natural resources for tomorrow’s generations.
Redlands Conservancy
Redlands Conservancy seeks to protect and preserve Redlands’ historic built environment and irreplaceable agricultural and natural environments while inspiring appreciation and a sense of stewardship in Redlands’ residents.
University of Redlands
The Artlands has supported or collaborated with the following organizations through fundraisers, art exhibitions, musical performances, public art projects, and/or programming. We encourage you to check out their amazing work.
Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action
ANCA's goal is to build climate-resilient communities at the neighborhood level using community education, neighborhood action and support, and community outreach and engagement.
Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley
Angry Tias and Abuelas’ mission is to provide basic necessities for health and safety and support for human dignity and justice to individuals and families seeking asylum at our borders and as they embark on their journeys to designated destinations in the US.
Border Kindness
Border Kindness provides asylum-seekers, migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services.
Their programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect, and nurture the most vulnerable, including women, children, the elderly, and families.
Border Kindness believes everyone should have the opportunity to live free of pain, hunger, intimidation, and fear.
Feeding America IE
Feeding America IE is one of 200 food banks affiliated with Feeding America, the National Food Bank Network. FARSB serves the Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, aka the Inland Empire. There are over 800,000 people who live below the poverty line in the Inland Empire and over 400,000 people who are food insecure. The FARSB food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in the Inland Empire, with over 100,000 people who rely on them each month.
Food Not Bombs - Inland Empire
The mission of Food Not Bombs is to recover and share free vegan or vegetarian food, that would otherwise go to waste, with the public without restriction to protest war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. Each of our over 1,000 groups is independent, and make decisions using the consensus process. Food Not Bombs is also dedicated to taking nonviolent direct action to change society so no one is forced to stand in line to eat at a soup kitchen, expressing a commitment to the fact that food is a right and not a privilege.
Good Group ATX
Good Group ATX hosts high quality, high impact clothing swap events for EVERYBODY every season!
Inlandia Institute
Inlandia Institute’s mission is to recognize, support, and expand literary activity in all of its forms in the Inland Empire by publishing books and sponsoring programs that deepen people’s awareness, understanding, and appreciation of this unique, complex and creatively vibrant region.
Joshua Tree Retreat Center/Institute of Mentalphysics
The Joshua Tree Retreat Center, home of the Institute of Mentalphysics, is the oldest and largest retreat center in the Western United States and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior on January 17, 2023. As a non-profit 501(c)3, our mission is to be a retreat center for individuals and groups to create and experience new ways to approach spiritual living and personal well-being.
Lifelines For Felines, Inc.
Lifelines For Felines’ main purpose is to find homes for homeless cats and kittens, catch, spay, neuter, feed, prevent cruelty to, and provide medical care for them as needed, and to provide sanctuary for some rescues, feral, and special needs cats.
The Painted Desert Project
The Painted Desert Project connects public artists with communities through mural opportunities on the Navajo Nation. In an effort to boost tourism on the reservation, to supplement the incomes of families with roadside stands, and to nurture the creative talent of local youth, The Painted Desert Project invites world-renowned street artists to come to the Navajo Nation to paint murals as funding allows.
Redlands Sunrise Rotary
Studio Mariposa
Studio Mariposa is a free art center on the Mexican side of the border wall which provides free art and music classes for kids. Their art center is located in Naco, Sonora, just across the border from Bisbee, Arizona. Students from the studio have painted murals along a mile-long stretch of the border wall.
TruEvolution
TruEvolution fights for health equity and racial justice to advance the quality of life and human dignity of LGBTQ+ people.
UNCF
UNCF envisions a nation where all Americans have equal access to a college education that prepares them for rich intellectual lives, competitive and fulfilling careers, engaged citizenship and service to our nation. UNCF’s North Star is to increase the total annual number of African American college graduates by focusing on activities that ensure more students are college-ready, enroll in college and persist to graduation.
Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition
VVBHC exists to help provide basic necessities including food, clothing, infant supplies, and to support those in need. We coordinate leading relief agencies both locally and nationally to administer humanitarian relief. VVBHC works alongside agencies to safely transition asylum seekers after being released from federal custody to avoid homelessness and human trafficking. We work with local partners to distribute humanitarian aid supplies on both sides of the border.