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Where to Look: Bay Area Grad Programs for Impact Careers

Certificates, MBAs, MPAs and policy degrees built for impact work in the Bay Area, sorted by format, time and cost. SF State, Presidio, USF, Haas, San José State and Goldman, with what each one is actually good for.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 12 Nov 2026

The main quad at San Francisco State University, with lawns, paths and trees

San Mateo County Certifies Green Businesses for Free. Here's Who's on the List

From East Palo Alto taquerias to two lighthouse hostels, 180 Peninsula businesses are on San Mateo County's free green business list. Here is how the program works and who is on it.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 12 Nov 2026

San Mateo County Certifies Green Businesses for Free. Here's Who's on the List

A Sea Level Rise Summit at the Exploratorium, a Recycling AMA With Recology and Eight Volunteer Workdays Around the Bay: Your Bay Area Impact Week, November 9 to 15

Rising Together, the Bay Adapt sea level rise summit, fills the Exploratorium on Monday, an open AMA with Recology lands at 9Zero on Thursday, and eight volunteer workdays run from Muir Woods to Los Gatos. Thirty-four events this week, twelve of them free and open to anyone.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 10 Nov 2026

FYP SF Bay card: 34 Ways to Find Your People, November 9 to 15

Bay Area Youth Climate Summit Green Careers Fair, December 5: A Keynote, a Panel and One-on-One Talks With Climate Professionals

The free December 5 fair at SF Environment gives high school students a keynote, a careers panel and time to talk one-on-one with people who work in climate.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 10 Nov 2026

Bay Area Youth Climate Summit Green Careers Fair, December 5: A Keynote, a Panel and One-on-One Talks With Climate Professionals

A Camp Fire Documentary at Stanford, an Energy Career Expo and a Remembrance Planting in the Presidio: Your Bay Area Impact Week, November 2 to 8

A Camp Fire documentary at Stanford, YPE's energy career expo and a remembrance planting in the Presidio. Twenty-nine ways to find your people this week, eleven of them free and open to all.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 2 Nov 2026

FYP SF Bay card: 29 Ways to Find Your People, November 2 to 8

Broom Pulls, a Dog Hike in Costume and a Ballot Party at Manny's: Your Bay Area Impact Week, October 26 to November 1

Halloween weekend outdoors on the Peninsula, a 9Zero week in San Francisco, and a ballot party at Manny's. Thirty-four ways to find your people this week.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 26 Oct 2026

Broom Pulls, a Dog Hike in Costume and a Ballot Party at Manny's: Your Bay Area Impact Week, October 26 to November 1

Brightline Defense: Clean Air, Local Jobs and a Say in the Map

The SoMa nonprofit runs 19 air sensors in the city's lowest-income neighborhoods, trains young people for construction and clean energy jobs, and led this year's fight over the state map that decides which communities get funded.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 20 Oct 2026

Group photo of Brightline Defense staff and coalition partners posing with Xavier Becerra in an office.

Climate Week Lands on the Peninsula: 43 Ways to Find Your People, October 20 to 25

Stanford Climate Week runs through Sunday with two dozen events, the San Mateo County Climate Summit fills Saturday, and a youth climate rally marches through downtown San Mateo on Sunday. Forty-three ways to find your people this week, twenty-four free and open to all.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 20 Oct 2026

Climate Week Lands on the Peninsula: 43 Ways to Find Your People, October 20 to 25

Menlo Park’s JobTrain Opens a Practical Door Into the Skilled Trades

Menlo Park’s JobTrain is adding heat pump training and a solar-powered resilience hub to its free trades programs. Carpentry is enrolling now, building maintenance is paused, and three hiring events land this month.

By Dave Newberry

/ 18 Oct 2026

Menlo Park’s JobTrain Opens a Practical Door Into the Skilled Trades

WCS opens applications for its 2027 mentorship cohort

Three months of one-on-one mentorship for women early in cleantech and sustainability careers. Applications close November 25.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 18 Oct 2026

WCS opens applications for its 2027 mentorship cohort

San Mateo Youth Climate Rally, October 25: A March, Speakers and a Path to Get Involved

The October 25 gathering brings a downtown march, student speakers and local climate organizations to Central Park, with an invitation to stay involved afterward.

By Dave Newberry

/ 17 Oct 2026

San Mateo Youth Climate Rally, October 25: A March, Speakers and a Path to Get Involved

Water, Mending and a Solarpunk Saturday: Your Bay Area Impact Week, October 12 to 18

Two free 9Zero evenings on energy and water, SPUR's ballot briefing in San José, a mending workshop at the Ferry Building, and a full Saturday: solarpunk on Broadway, a Marin Headlands nursery morning, Bair Island at sunset and Health In Harmony at 20.

By FYP SF Bay

/ 12 Oct 2026

Water, Mending and a Solarpunk Saturday: Your Bay Area Impact Week, October 12 to 18