Community Partners

Grand Canyon Trust

This Flagstaff-based conservation group works to safeguard the Colorado Plateau and the Grand Canyon, while supporting the rights of Native peoples. Specific issues addressed by The Trust include uranium mining, and forest and landscape restoration, as well as protecting two national monuments in Utah.

Colton Garden

One of a number of "living exhibitions" at the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Colton Garden is set in an area of alluvial soil where museum founder Mary-Russell Ferrell used to farm. The garden includes a passive-solar greenhouse, horticultural research beds, and demonstration gardens where visitors can view plants native or well-suited to the Colorado Plateau and learn how these plants are used in ecological restoration, landscaping, animal habitat and for traditional arts and foods.

Flagstaff foodlink

With a mission to cultivate and celebrate local, healthy, equitable and resilient food systems, Flagstaff Foodlink helps food-insecure families to purchase locally-grown food at Flagstaff farmers markets. Flagstaff Foodlink also focuses on increasing the economic strength of local food systems by creating connections between eaters, growers, and restaurateurs, providing grower grants, creating opportunities for small farms to sell produce at local farmers markets, and assisting residents in learning how to grow food in Flagstaff.

Star charter school

The STAR (Service to All Relations) School is a charter elementary school located 25 miles east of Flagstaff near the Southwest corner of the Navajo Nation. The school serves students in Preschool-8th grade who live in a large rural area that includes Leupp and Tolani Lake. Sustainable living is a way of life intrinsic to the community served by the school. The Star School promotes self-reliance, alternative building methods, and energy sources such as solar power. The school also hosts workshops about sustainable living, technology, and the arts.

poore free medical clinic

Poore Free Medical Clinic is a community-based and community-supported free medical and dental clinic whose mission is to increase the availability of healthcare by providing free medical and dental care to low income, uninsured individuals and families living in Coconino County. The majority of the clinic’s patients are the working poor who live at or below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level. The clinic, staffed primarily by volunteers, has provided over 6,000 free visits to community members.

Friends of flagstaff’s future

Friends of Flagstaff’s Future works to promote and sustain the quality of life in the community of Flagstaff. It educates and advocates for policies that aid Flagstaff’s transition to a more resilient, sustainable and just community and economy. These policies include responsible stewarding of the built and natural environments, minimizing the consumption of energy and the destruction of natural resources, and strengthening the local and green economy. Focus areas include Land Use and the Built Environment; Open Space, Public Spaces, and Viewsheds; Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience; Affordability; Local, Resilient, and Equitable Economy; Water and Natural Resources; Transportation; and Civic Engagement.

willow bend environmental education center

Formed in 1980, the Willow Bend Environmental Education Center is a vibrant part of the Flagstaff community. The Center’s mission is to provide educational outreach services that build environmental awareness and an ethic of responsible stewardship of our natural and cultural resources. With a focus on unique in-class programs for elementary and middle school students, programs are designed to supplement teachers’ science and/or social studies curricula. The Center also provides adult workshops, monthly science Saturday programs, and field trips. Housed in a passive-solar, straw-bale structure, the Center is also home to five habitat gardens made up of plants that are native to the Colorado Plateau.

Townsite Community Land Trust

Townsite Community Land Trust (TCLT) is part of the community land trust movement, an innovative, long-term approach to meeting community needs and land ownership. TCLT is a non-profit that acquires historic properties, renovates them for contemporary livability and energy efficiency, helps homeowners achieve long-term financial stability, and increases neighborhood vitality and stability with more owner-occupied homes. Through TCLT, Flagstaffs historic structures become valuable community assets as permanently affordable homes.

Friends of the Rio de Flag

The Friends of the Rio de Flag is a non-profit organization supporting the preservation and restoration of the natural beauty and beneficial functions of the Rio de Flag stream channel. It promotes the Rio de Flag’s natural stream system as a unique and valuable natural resource, an asset and amenity to the City of Flagstaff and the surrounding community. The Friends promote the preservation and rehabilitation of all parts of the Rio de Flag and its tributary streams with particular emphasis on sections of the channels that have been disturbed, under-grounded, or abandoned.