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Transforming California 
to make regenerative communities a reality

We connect and nurture housing system changemakers to do collaborative work that transforms California’s communities into affordable, equitable, and healthy spaces.

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We convene changemakers 
to create meaningful, holistic impact

We deepen relationships and foster collaboration to address the most pressing challenges facing the California housing system.

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A place-centered, 
people-driven approach to community transformation

Our Regenerative Communities Program supports community leaders as they build a shared understanding around, and take action on, key regenerative development strategies.

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Build It Green’s Brand Transformation

We’re excited to reveal our new brand. Our fresh look and updated messaging represent our renewed commitment to building a regenerative California.

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Build It Green supports transformative work from ideas to action.

We create the conditions to think and work holistically across the housing system — grounding all work in regenerative development practices — so that together we can create a California where all communities are places where people and the environment thrive together.

We convene people to spark connections and ignite new ideas

We believe that big challenges and opportunities can’t be taken on alone. We create spaces where diverse perspectives meet, relationships grow, and ideas that can regeneratively transform communities emerge.

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We help grow relationships and ideas into collaborative projects across California.

By creating the space to nurture new work through our programs, we help turn innovative concepts into real-world initiatives that benefit communities across California.

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We nurture community-led efforts that ripple into major systems change.

By supporting community-driven projects, we spark local transformations that ripple out to larger systems, fostering resilience and systemic change.

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We convene people to spark connections and ignite new ideas

We believe that big challenges and opportunities can’t be taken on alone. We create spaces where diverse perspectives meet, relationships grow, and ideas that can regeneratively transform communities emerge.

See how we connect people

We help grow relationships and ideas into collaborative projects across California.

By creating the space to nurture new work through our programs, we help turn innovative concepts into real-world initiatives that benefit communities across California.

See how we catalyze on the ground work

We nurture community-led efforts that ripple into major systems change.

By supporting community-driven projects, we spark local transformations that ripple out to larger systems, fostering resilience and systemic change.

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Join us in creating a thriving, resilient California by donating to Build It Green

Your support fuels our work and allows us to better support regenerative communities throughout California. Help transform the housing ecosystem by donating or become a Founding Sponsor of BIG’s new era.

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Letter from our Executive Director

Hope, Collaboration, and Thanks: A Message From Our Executive Director

At Build It Green (BIG) it’s our firm belief that tapping into hope and optimism enables us and our partners to create homes and communities that are affordable, healthy, and equitable and where people and nature thrive together.

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Community Collaboration

Exploring Collaborative Housing Models: Highlights from the Mix & Match Virtual Event

Fostering creative, community-driven approaches is key to transforming the housing landscape. That’s why we were excited to co-host the virtual event, “Mix & Match: Building Housing Solutions One Card at a Time,” featuring the designers of Mix & Match, Ben Hoffman, Junior Designer at LMNOP Designs, Inc., and Janette Kim, Principal at All of the Above.

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Innovative Frameworks

Building Codes, Innovative Funding Frameworks, and Community Housing Initiatives

We know that you see and feel the impacts of the warming climate on California—it’s making us more vulnerable to fires, floods, and drought. And, at the same time, housing prices are rising higher than ever before.

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Regenerative Reflections

Reflections from The Regenerative Practitioner Program and the Three Lines of Work

Last fall, I was gifted the opportunity to take the five month Regenerative Practitioner Series course offered by The Regenesis Group which grounds itself in the belief that the inner development of new levels.

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Community Collaboration

A Collective Solution To Curb Housing Displacement

San José, CA – SOMOS Mayfair is a nonprofit in East San José that, among many other community development programs, organizes tenants and working-class families to create alternative housing solutions.

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“This Innovation Fund program is a dynamic learning process on both ends of grantor and grantees, I think that is a signature of what this BIG Network is all about. I really appreciate what you are showing how our reflections and comments are incorporated into the one on one engagements you've had with each grantee, as well as those grantees that didn't get funded. Super work.”

Peter Cohen, Innovation Fund Steering Committee Member

“The thing that makes BIG unique is it brings people together who would never come together otherwise, and helps them develop new ways of working that will help us actually get stuff done.”

Mick Penn, BIG’s Board Treasurer

"Through every interaction, Build It Green has consistently helped connect with brilliant minds, inspiring real-world creative solutions. These collaborations have fostered lasting perspectives that positively impact the homes we live in and the communities we serve."

Tyler Pew, Principal, LMNOP Design Inc.

Alex Coba

Communication Associate

As a proud California native from Stockton, Alex brings a wealth of experience and a versatile skill set. He has a solid communication background with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Relations from California State University, Chico. Alex is adept at strategic communications and media relations, with experience gathering and sharing stories from his local communities that uplift the unique spirit and values of those places. He is excited to join Build It Green, where he can apply his talents to further BIG’s mission to help communities across California thrive