Partners
Campus Partners
Northampton Survival Center
The Northampton Survival Center strives to improve the quality of life for low-income individuals and families in Hampshire County by providing food and other resources with dignity and respect. The Center runs two pantries – one in Northampton and one in Goshen, distributing approximately 650,000 pounds of food each year.
Lander-Grinspoon Academy
Lander~Grinspoon Academy is a Jewish day school in the Pioneer Valley that welcomes children of families from all Jewish traditions and backgrounds. Their mission is to provide a rich, academically rigorous, and values-based education integrating general and Jewish studies in a nurturing environment.
Congregation B'nai Israel (CBI)
ALMA and Gan Keshet
Located in the heart of Northampton, Congregation B’nai Israel welcomes all to participate in a community life of ongoing learning, spiritual exploration and personal connection. We are affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. ALMA (“world” in Aramaic) is inspired Jewish education for youth and families. At ALMA, we believe that Judaism matters, and that Jewish life and tradition has the potential to add profound meaning and richness to the lives of our students and families. Gan Keshet Preschool offers a rich, nurturing, play-based learning environment where children, families and staff together explore what it means to be a community.
Community Partners
Grow Food Northampton
Grow Food Northampton builds a just and resilient local food system that nourishes our community and protects and enriches the earth. Guided by the core values of community agency, environmental stewardship, and social, economic, and racial justice, we provide access to land and nutritious local food; steward productive and sustainably-managed farmland; mobilize community members to exchange knowledge about gardening, farming, and food; and dismantle oppressive systems and structures in the food system.
Pioneer Valley Workers Center
The Pioneer Valley Workers’ Center builds power with low-wage and immigrant workers throughout Western Massachusetts. Among other projects, the PVWC runs La Colmena Community Farm, a space where we gather to grow much more than just food. We collaborate closely with the Riquezas Del Campo Farm Coop, our sister organization. We cultivate the community needed to sustain a multi-racial, cross-class food justice movement.
The People’s Medicine Project
The People’s Medicine Project is a social justice project that seeks to address community health disparities by increasing access to alternative healing. They envision an inclusive culture of wellness, based on an empowered connection to personal health, the earth, and each other. Formed by a group of herbalists in 2013, the project has blossomed from a garden and small herbal clinic to a weekly year-round complementary and alternative health clinic that provides access to several alternative healing modalities.