Community composting hubs inspire joy and lead to lasting transformation of unhealthy and unjust systems.
Get to know us.
CACC is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation in California. We are composed of individuals who work in communities or organizations carrying out community composting and/or its affiliated activities, such as micro-hauling, urban farming, environmental justice, and policy advocacy.
We host general monthly meetings where we offer a platform to share resources, opportunities, knowledge, and action. We collaborate to educate people about healthy food and soil, recover organics for local benefit, and make great compost. We fiscally-sponsor and train grassroots groups to develop small-scale composting operations.
CACC’s Leadership Team is responsible for strategic planning, record keeping and communication, and ensuring that CACC remains accountable to carrying out our shared purpose and community agreements.
Shared Purpose
We come together as the California Alliance for Community Composting to strengthen, protect, and develop small- and medium-scale community composting projects across the state, and to support and empower composters alongside the communities they serve.
We do this through:
Policy, Community, and Environmental Advocacy & Support
Extensive and Diverse Education, Training & Technical Assistance
People-oriented Economic Development & Social Enterprise Support
Community Network Development, Coalition Building & Resource Sharing
Community Composting Data Collection & Research
Outreach & Public Communications that uplift the voices of community composters and highlight the positive impacts of community composting with respect to sustainability, community health, equity, and building a world of beauty.
Shared Vision
We believe sustainable community composting hubs that inspire joy and lead to lasting transformation of unhealthy and unjust systems are characterized by organizational cultures of trust and the open commitment to bigger-than-self-ideas that unify, such as social justice, community well-being, environmental health, and living in a world of beauty.
We define community composting as any organics recovery program for public benefit and/or for locally-distributed benefits that processes locally-generated organic materials, including green materials, agricultural materials, food materials, and vegetative food materials, on a small-scale within the same community where these materials are generated, and which operates to both:
achieve community, social, economic, and environmental well-being, and
without compounding local or systemic environmental & social justice issues.
