Community Service & Non-Profit Organization

Humboldt Area Foundation

Promotes and encourages generosity, leadership, and inclusion to strengthen our communities.

Humboldt Baykeeper

Humboldt Baykeeper works to safeguard our Bay and coastal resources through advocacy, scientific research, and education.

Institute for Sustainable Forestry

The Institute for Sustainable Forestry’s mission is to promote forest management that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic and social well-being of forest-based communities in northwest California.  

Humboldt Rose Society

A non-profit organization affiliated with the American Rose Society promotes interest in all aspects of rose horticulture through rose shows, educational programs, garden tours, and other rose-related projects.

Redwood Women’s Foundation

Redwood Women’s Foundation (RWF) is a rural laboratory for women’s empowerment.  Their mission is to increase the emotional & financial stability of women and families from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Humboldt Green

Humboldt Green is at the epicenter of all things Green. They are experienced business consultants, master cultivators, event producers, & community educators.

Trees For Little People

A nonprofit organization providing teachers tree growing kits for their students around National Arbor Day to foster a lifelong appreciation of trees, natural processes, and life science.

Redwood Region Audubon Society

The Redwood Region Audubon Society advocates for the protection of birds and other wildlife by supporting local conservation efforts. 

Eureka NAACP

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

Northcoast Environmental Center

The mission of the Northcoast Environmental Center is to promote understanding of the relations between people and the biosphere and to conserve, protect, and celebrate terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems of northern California and southern Oregon.

Queer Humboldt

Queer Humboldt is an anti-racist, anti-colonialist resource center serving queer individuals and groups in Humboldt County and the surrounding tribal areas through community education, affordable mental health services, micro-grants, networking and more. 

Environmental Protection Information Center

The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) is a community-based, non-profit organization that advocates for science-based protection and restoration of Northwest California’s Forests.

Cooperation Humboldt

Cooperation Humboldt exists to help develop a solidarity economy across the North Coast. 

Humboldt Food Policy Council

We are the food bank for Humboldt County, CA, working to eliminate hunger and improve health.

Humboldt Garden Collective

We are an arm of Humboldt Mutual Aid! Working to build community and food sovereignty.

Humboldt Permaculture Guild

The Humboldt Permaculture Guild (HPG) is a group of food producers, business owners, builders, educators, and permaculture designers. We all believe in resilient communities, regenerative lifestyles, educating the community, stewardship of natural systems, local seed development, natural building, conservative water, and energy use.

Locally Delicious

A non-profit organization engaged in education about the benefits of eating locally-grown, organic food. We create and support projects designed to increase the production of local organic food, with an emphasis on making good food accessible to all. We advocate for a healthy and sustainable local food system.

Humboldt Community Access and Resource Center

A private non-profit agency incorporated in 1955 by a group of dedicated parents seeking an alternative to institutionalization for their children with developmental disabilities.

Redwood Community Action Agency

(RCAA) is a locally based, private non-profit organization that provides a wide range of services to low and moderate-income residents of Humboldt County. Their long-term goal is to develop programs through which people can become self-sufficient and empowered to improve their lives. 

Jefferson Community Center

The Westside Community Improvement Association, Inc. supports and facilitates programs to combat urban blight and revitalize neighborhoods by increasing recreational, educational, and vocational opportunities where they are either lacking altogether or insufficient to the needs of the community.   The Association’s activities foster a sense of working together to benefit the greater Eureka community.

Redwood Community Action Agency

RCAA provides affordable housing for low and moderate income individuals and families in Eureka, McKinleyville and Fortuna.

Redwood Community Services

RCS began with a simple goal when it received its non-profit designation in 1995 — there was a need to have a locally controlled administered organisation who could control the decisions, both financial and programmatic on behalf of rural California kids

Community Corrections Resource Center

A “one-stop-shop” to meet the diverse needs of this new, high-risk population under County supervision. 

McKinleyville Community Services District

The community offers a variety of activities, parks, trails, community projects, philanthropic organizations, an active senior center, recreation programs for pre-k through adults, and established school systems, with Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods only a few minutes away. 

Arcata Community Forest

The Arcata Community Forest is part of the parks and recreation system of the City of Arcata, California, United States. It was created in 1955 from six forest tracts: Gannon Tract, Burns Tract, Preston Tract I, Preston Tract II, Reclamation Water Co. Tract, and Brizard Tract

211 Humboldt

Resources and social services in Humboldt County. You can also call 2-1-1 from any phone in Humboldt County to talk to a real person. They are free, confidential, caring, and helpful.

Healthy Kids Humboldt

St. Joseph Hospital, Eureka is committed to meeting the highest standards in health care delivery while ministering to the needs of the whole person – body, mind, and spirit. This commitment to the people of the North Coast is expressed in the Providence core values – Compassion, Dignity, Justice, Excellence, and Integrity.

History of Humboldt County

Their purpose is to further understand and appreciate all peoples, places, events, and activities of Humboldt County and related areas. 

North Coast Opportunities Inc. Humboldt

NCO strengthens our communities through responsive advocacy, engagement, and services. A non-profit organization in Ukiah, California

True North Organizing Network

Develops leadership in communities with common values across Tribal Lands, Del Norte, and Humboldt Counties.

CASA of Humboldt

The goal of our Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program is to ensure every child in the Humboldt County Dependency Court System (foster care) has a caring, stable adult in their life to mitigate the effects of having experienced abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment.

Humboldt Garden Collective

We are an arm of Humboldt Mutual Aid! Working to build community and food sovereignty.

Community Alliance with Family Farmers

CAFF’s mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems.

Trinidad Coastal Land Trust

This non-profit land trust owns and manages important open space coastal properties and trails for public access to the amazing local beaches.

Arcata Endeavor

The Arcata Endeavor Opened In June Of 1999. The Center Was Developed To Help The Homeless, Those At High Risk Of Homelessness And Those Displaced By The Shrinking Logging And Fishing Industries In Our Community. The Center Is Located In The 4500 Square Mile County Of Humboldt Ca. The Endeavor Promotes Self Help, Self-Empowerment .

The People of New Directions

New Directions is a non-adversarial and harm reduction approach to individuals or groups of individuals residing in illegal encampments, offering resources and opportunities, and educating the campers in ecological impact and appropriate environmental stewardship.

Friends Of The Dunes

Friends of the Dunes is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization​ dedicated to conserving the natural diversity of coastal environments in northern California through community supported education and stewardship programs.

Eureka Women’s Club

The Eureka Woman’s Club is a non-profit organization that is a member of international, national and California Federations of Women’s Clubs. Programs and projects are generated on all levels.

Food For People-Food Bank

Food for People, the Food Bank for Humboldt County, is working to eliminate hunger and improve the health and well-being of our community through access to healthy and nutritious foods, community education and advocacy.

Redwood Teen Challenge

Redwood Adult & Teen Challenge is the faith based solution for the drug epidemic.

Pay It Forward Humboldt

The mission of Pay it Forward Humboldt is to provide help, healing, and hope in a time of crisis.

Humboldt Coastal Nature Center

The Humboldt Coastal Nature Center is unique in our region. Its location makes it a public gateway to over 1,000 acres of coastal lands, and its facilities and programming make it the only center on California’s North Coast where people of all ages and abilities experience and learn about all the diverse habitats of the Humboldt Bay dunes.

Arcata Community Pool

The Arcata Community Pool is a non-profit government agency that offers year-round recreational and educational activities. For over 35 years, we’ve offered the best water quality, cleanliness, education, and customer service on the North Coast.

Redwood Coast Regional Center

RCRC provides intake, assessment, diagnosis, and coordinates community-based services for over 10,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities in Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino counties. 

Dream Quest

Dream Quest provides youth with healthy, vocational, educational and creative opportunities to imagine and build their dreams – building community strength and sustainability.

Evolve Youth Services

Transformative Support for the Entire Family Dedicated to improving the lives of families in post-adoptive care Providing Youth & Families Unique High Fidelity Wraparound Services on the North Coast.

Kinetic Sculpture Grand Championship Race

The “Triathlon of the Art World”

Humboldt Domestic Violence Services

Humboldt Domestic Violence Services (HDVS) is an independent, non-profit agency dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of those who have survived or are enduring domestic and intimate partner violence or sex trafficking throughout Humboldt County.

If you are in need of support, you can reach our trained domestic violence advocates on our 24/7 support line by calling (707) 443-6042. Toll free: (866) 668-6543.

Humboldt Botanical Garden

The Humboldt Botanical Garden provides direction for the building of a world-class botanical garden for the Northern California region.  The Gardens are constructed on a 44.5 -acre site south of Eureka near the Humboldt Bay adjacent to the College of the Redwoods. 

Sovereign Sisters’ Society

A movement dedicated to women guided by instinct and intuition & powered by inner author-ity to lead

Mistwood Educational Center

Mistwood’s TK-12th grade education that is personalized to student and family needs and strives to cultivate a love of learning. Our thematic classes creates exciting and fun content that drives a passion for lifelong learning. 

Mercy’s Haven

Mercy’s Haven is a faith-based home that provides a sober environment for women who have completed long-term (one year recommended) drug & alcohol treatment programs, and their children.