We support a variety of community projects, locally, regionally, and internationally. Our goal is that 10% of our profits will be dedicated to these projects. These include:

Education:

• UnifiedCommunity.info A free, non-commercial metasite resource listing 1,000 sites on the broad theme of sustainability, with a hundred subcategories.
• Botanical Explorations Projected website on botanical photos for tropical / temperate medicinal plants. In English and Latin names with brief descriptions for each plant.
• Hemp Hemp Hooray! The Growing Industrial Hemp Market videos donated to various western state libraries as an educational resource on how hemp can improve the environment and economy.
• Alcohol Can Be a Gas (book on ethanol) by David Blume. Helped support and research.
• FOSL (Foundation of Sustainable Living / Santa Cruz/Mendicino, CA) Development of skill sets for teaching and mentorship for sustainability. All ages.

Public Radio:

• KKUP (Santa Clara, CA) Provided ethnic & world music programming grant.
• KUSP (Santa Cruz, CA) Provided local station support.
• KZSC (UCSC, Santa Cruz) Offered grant for archive of talk shows.

Enviromental / Conservation:

• North Coast Environmental Center (Arcata, CA)
• Open Space Alliance (Santa Cruz, CA)
• Save-the-Redwoods League (San Francisco, CA)
• Sempervirens Fund (Los Altos, CA) Supporting the Lompico Headwaters campaign.
• Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, NY)

Local Advocacy:

Gemma (Santa Cruz, CA) Helping women in transition. Have provided grants and given talks on motivation, psychology, mentorship, health & nutrition. Helped schedule other speakers, organize events, projects, infrastructure.

Community organizations Worked with a variety, freely donating time and resources, helping with infrastructure, focus and direction for projects such as directing the first Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo, co-founding a community forum for non-profit groups called Synergy Party, and working with Gaia Song, Vision Quest, and others.

International:

Pen & notebooks project Through monasteries, schools, and direct contact in Southeast Asia, provided writing materials to children so that they have a chance to write and draw.

Sri Rakum School for the Blind Orphanage for blind children in Bangalore, India. Helped fund food and supplies.
Boca de Tomatlan, Mexico Helped build a safe foot bridge linking two sides of a river and in clean up for local sanitation, and also donated nutritional supplements to their clinic.

Village program Providing basic nutrition (rice) for a village in Birkina Faso (Africa).