LOCAL SOLUTIONS

to help resolve regional dilemmas

LOCAL SOLUTIONS

to help resolve regional dilemmas

OUR WORK

Manzanita Works supports workers and their families to live fruitful, dignified lives.

We design and build solutions to local problems that stem from regional dilemmas.


To close gaps in the social safety net and create community benefits,

we facilitate collective purchasing and distribution of services and resources.


Our Manzanita Method generates public-private subregional consortiums.

Social equity is their founding principle.


Just as the Manzanita plant supports our region’s oaks and redwoods,

we grow networks of locally-informed structures that connect on-the-ground realities.


Working together, we can meet needs at practical economies of scale

that reflect where and how people live and work in our region.


Manzanita Works supports workers and their families to live fruitful, dignified lives.

We design and build solutions to local problems that stem from regional dilemmas.


To close gaps in the social safety net

and create community benefits,

we facilitate collective purchasing

and distribution of services and resources.


Our Manzanita Method generates

public-private subregional consortiums.

Social equity is their founding principle.


Just as the Manzanita plant supports

our region’s oaks and redwoods,

we grow networks of locally-informed structures that connect on-the-ground realities.


Working together, we can meet needs

at practical economies of scale

that reflect where and how

people live and work in our region.

Transit

How do we MOVE workers?

Family

How do we NURTURE families?

Housing

How do we HOUSE workers?

Health

How do we PROMOTE wellbeing?

Food

How do we NOURISH families?

Futures

How do we CRAFT the future of work?

ABOUT US

We are a fiscally sponsored project of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Philanthropic Ventures Foundation where we assemble and manage programs and initiatives inspired by voluntary civic society.
VISION: 
... a thriving regional workforce leading as stewards of the public commons in collaboration with public and private partners.

MISSION: 
... to support the welfare of workers and their families to live fruitful, dignified lives.

VALUES:
  • relationships that inspire, 
  • being present with courageous attitude, 
  • and positive impact with local focus in a regional approach.

TESTIMONIALS

Darnell Grisby, Commissioner
California Transportation Commission
“The work Manzanita is doing will be nationally recognized as a way forward towards constructive problem solving.”
Hon. Rod Sinks, Former Chair of Board Directors
Bay Area Air Quality Management District and
Former Mayor, City of Cupertino
“Manzanita Works offers a powerful and creative new model to bring stakeholders from all sectors together in order to solve our toughest challenges.”
Dr. Sara Singer, Professor of Medicine and Organizational Leadership
Stanford University School of Medicine
and by courtesy 
Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Manzanita Works employs one of the most thoughtful models for private, public, nonprofit, community collaboration that I’ve seen. No wonder it’s yielding win-win solutions!”
Jonathan Stock
Director, USGS National Innovation Center
“Manzanita Works is part of the next generation of innovative solutions we need to attract and keep a young, diverse workforce.”
Jonathan Stock
Director, USGS National Innovation Center
“Manzanita Works is part of the next generation of innovative solutions we need to attract and keep a young, diverse workforce.”
Dr. Sara Singer, Professor of Medicine and Organizational Leadership
Stanford University School of Medicine
and by courtesy 
Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Manzanita Works employs one of the most thoughtful models for private, public, nonprofit, community collaboration that I’ve seen. No wonder it’s yielding win-win solutions!”

GET INVOLVED

We welcome your participation!

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