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Point Reyes National Seashore Association
We are the primary nonprofit park partner of the National Park Service at Point Reyes. With community support we are helping to fund and implement resource preservation projects within the park, while also providing people a way to explore, discover and connect with the natural world through our environmental education programs. Find out how our exciting programs can enhance your Point Reyes experience and how you can help us build a legacy of stewardship for years to come.

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Iron Springs Pub & Brewery
Give Back Tuesdays
At Iron Springs, we like to think of ourselves as active participants in our community, not as passive service providers. We know that the folks who frequent our pub are not just customers, they are our friends and neighbors. We like to think that this attitude is reflected in our style of service and in our casual, homey atmosphere. But that’s really just a reflection of what goes on behind the scenes at Iron Springs.

One of the most overt ways in which we choose to contribute to our community is through our “Give Back Tuesday” program. Every Tuesday, a percentage of the proceeds from the pub are donated to a local cause or organization. In this way, folks can come down, have a nice meal and a pint (or several) and know that some of what they spend on their meal is coming right back into the programs and services that make Fairfax and Marin such a fantastic place to live.

Our staff all lives locally, and we’re all raising our kids, dogs, cats and ferrets, living our lives, and doing our best to adhere to a simple credo: love one another. With everything we do – both big and small – we’re trying to make the world a better place to live in. For ourselves, for our children, and for our neighbors.

Support your local businesses, they support us!  

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Lagunitas Brewing
From points distant and beyond we all converged on Petaluma in 1993 and ’94 with an unenunciated desire to be more than we were before. The core of Lagunitas came from Chicago, St Louis, Memphis, Walker Creek, and the highlands of Quincy.

The Chicago contingent initiated the brewing and the gravitational effect of its suchness did the rest. We all loved the beer but the mission was larger than the ordinary joy of a hoppy-sweet quaff. It was driven unseen by an urge to communicate with people, to find our diasporidic tribe, and to connect with other souls adrift on a culture that had lost its center and spun its inhabitants to the four winds to wander lost and bereft with a longing to re-enter the light. Beer, we have learned, has always been a good lubricant for social intercourse!



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Good Earth Natural Foods in beautiful downtown Fairfax since 1969 has been continually offering our local community the finest organic foods we can procure. You won't find us listed on the New York Stock Exchange, nor are we going to open a store in neighborhoods all over the Planet. We simply want to sell our customers foods grown and processed using the radical but ancient concept, care. Often care takes a back seat to the pursuit of the almighty dollar. We feel that this is wrong and shortsighted. We offer foods grown and prepared using a minimum of processing and no chemical pesticides or food additives. If we cannot meet this ideal with a certain food item, we get as close as we can and make as much noise as we can to change it for the better. We always endeavor to remember that food contains spirit.

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Folkmanis Puppets
Folkmanis® believes imagination is the key to a healthy childhood, encouraging play and discovery to develop the skills necessary in life. The company has been making the most innovative and engaging specialty puppets in the world since 1976, delighting imaginations and winning nearly every industry, child development, and kid-tested award - many repeatedly.

Deutsch Design Works  & Dick Sakahara

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Deutsch Design Works - Strategic Designs that Work.
Dick Sakahara

West Marin/Tomales Bay

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Blue Waters Kayaking - Based on the shores of Tomales Bay, a wild and beautiful bay defined by the San Andreas Fault and definitely one of the most best kayak destinations in California.   Tomales Bay is home to river otters, harbor seals, wild salmon, herring, many many species of waterbirds, and is home-base for The River Otter Ecology Project.  Kayaking, paddleboarding, tours, classes and more.  Info on discounts and members-only ecology trips with Blue Waters to explore the Tomales Bay ecosystem (and possibly see otters in the wild) coming soon!

East Marin/San Francisco Bay

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Sea Trek Ocean Kayaking Center, Sausalito CA  - offering new River Otter Ecology Project members who sign up in February a 20% discount on rentals of kayaks or paddleboards, both excellent opportunities to explore San Francisco Bay's ecology!  To donate please contact Paola@RiverOtterEcology.org.

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