About us

The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (SFGSA) is an alliance that promotes inclusive, community driven processes that create and maintain healthy, environmentally sustainable learning environments in San Francisco's schools. The SFGSA envisions a future in which each school operates in concert with its neighborhood and local ecology to foster academic achievement, environmental stewardship, creativity, and community building. By focusing on schoolyards as a catalyst for change, the SFGSA:

-Partners with community members, educators, students, public officials, and other stakeholders,
-Actively encourages the integration of green schoolyards with student learning,
-Makes the case for green schools and schoolyards based on research and best practices,
-Advocates for responsible public policy,
-Secures financial and volunteer resources,
-Encourages efficacy and sustainability in the creation and stewardship of each green schoolyard, and
-Connects schools to the larger environmental issues affecting schools and their surrounding communities.

How can you become a supporting member?

SFGSA maintains an open membership policy with the following guidelines:
1) Alliance members subscribe to the mission, goals, guiding principles, and membership conditions of the Alliance.
2) Each organization member designates one representative and one alternate that may vote on behalf of the organization in the event that an action item is taken to a vote.
3) Each organization commits to actively participating in the SFGSA for one year by joining an Alliance task force and/or providing in-kind support for SFGSA sponsored projects.  
4) Each SFGSA member organization must sign a membership agreement that commits the organization and their representatives to the afore-mentioned membership criteria before they are considered a voting member.
5) A suggested donation is requested of each SFGSA member.