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.


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.


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

our Manzanita method and model generates and manages consortiums

that facilitate the collective purchasing and distribution of services and resources.

Social equity is their founding principle.


Working together, we can meet current and future community 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.

OUR MODEL

Manzanita Works' model for consortium formation and management has been applied in transit and childcare since 2020 working with employers and property owners across public, private and voluntary civic sectors.

A new wildfire prevention consortium is in formation.


Enduring Lands Consortium

In Formation

Ravenswood Family Consortium

Established November 2020

Ravenswood Transit Consortium

Established May 2020

PORTFOLIO

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 commons in collaboration with public and private partners.

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

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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