West Marin Organizing Project
The West Marin Organizing Project supports long-term power building in Latinx communities of West Marin.
Overview
Following recommendations from the Housing Study conducted in 2023, the Coalition for Housing for All Workers and Their Families has been working to strengthen local organizing and leadership among farmworker families. In July 2025, with support from Marin Community Foundation and West Marin Fund, the West Marin Organizing Project was launched.
The West Marin Organizing Project supports long-term power building in the Latinx communities of West Marin.
West Marin Fund serves as the project’s backbone organization, handling fiscal and administrative functions. Hiring and programmatic decisions are made by the project’s leadership team.
We’re Hiring!
The West Marin Organizing Project seeks an experienced community organizer for a 1-year contract position (with opportunity to extend for a second year) to organize housing-impacted communities in West Marin.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
~ Alice Walker
Our Values
We are committed to building an organizing infrastructure in West Marin that creates the space for those most impacted by systems of oppression to step into individual and collective leadership. We are anti-racist and feminist, and we are committed to the values of justice, reverence, and liberation. We believe that those who have experienced oppression are experts in their own experience and are best situated to define solutions. We utilize training, deep relationships, strategic planning, healing, and celebration in our approach. We welcome people to join us in solidarity and mutuality.
Methodology
The methodology we use for organizing draws from evidence-based models such as the Leading Change Network , the Alinsky Model , the Midwest Academy of Grassroots Organizing , and the Just Transition Framework.
Components include:
Centering the voices of those most impacted: “Those closest to the pain should be closest to the power” - Ayanna Pressley
A commitment to transformational leadership development, where the organizer creates the conditions for leadership to emerge.
The development of campaigns that are designed to shift power relationships; win real, immediate improvements in people’s lives; build new leaders; and sustain existing leadership within communities.
Goals:
Begin developing an organizing infrastructure to support long term power building in the Latinx communities of West Marin.
Hire 2 - 3 organizers to work with volunteer leaders to develop housing solutions for FAR (Familias Afectadas de Rancho), Martinelli, and Bolinas ranch communities.
Support housing victories in three campaign areas (FAR, Martinelli, Bolinas) by June 2027.
Invest in 60 volunteer leaders by organizing skills training and leadership development.
Cesar Chavez on organizing:
(Chavez) was once asked by an aspiring young organizer, “How do you organize?” He said, “First, you talk to one person, face to face, then you talk to another…”
“But, Cesar,” the impatient youth interrupted, “how do you really get them involved?”
Chavez replied, “First, you talk to one person, face to face, and then you talk to the next and then the next…”