Our Partners

The following organizations provide information or services that may be useful to cvparents.

Back Yard Nature (www.backyardnature.net). Naturalist Jim Conrad’s Back Yard Nature contains excellent descriptions of many aspects of nature that can be found right in our back yard.

Bay Nature (www.baynature.com). Bay Nature is the quarterly magazine dedicated to exploring the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Their website also has lots of fascinating information about the natural sites all around us.

The Castro Valley Community Action Network (CVCAN!) (www.cvcan.net) is a community and school based coalition that was established in 2003 to reduce substance abuse among Castro Valley Youth by addressing the risk factors that lead to drug use and promoting solutions that will lead to a Drug-Free Castro Valley.

Castro Valley Educational Foundation (www.cvef.org). The Castro Valley Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit community organization of volunteers and businesses dedicated to promoting excellence in the education of students in the Castro Valley Unified School District. We are exclusively educational and charitable, and we generate and distribute contributions from the entire community.

Common Sense Media (www.commonsensemedia.org). Children are exposed to a lot of television, books, movies, and computer games. Common Sense Media provides families with the trustworthy information they need to help manage their kids' media lives.

Vazball (www.vazball.com). Vazball is a nonprofit basketball development that provides a safe, disciplined, highly structured environment where the participants can feel good about working hard and improving their basketball skills. The learner’s personal development is more important than the game.