On Tuesday, August 18th, CCNB and Zero Waste Sonoma were jointly awarded the 2020 Outstanding Electronic Recycling Award from the California Resource Recovery Association at their annual conference. This ongoing partnership has already kept well over a million pounds...
The Board of Directors of Conservation Corps North Bay (“CCNB”) could not be prouder of our corpsmembers during the COVID 19 crisis. Our enthusiastic and committed corpsmembers have remained deployed and working (with safety protocols in place) in our community...
Conservation Corps North Bay (CCNB), the oldest local nonprofit youth conservation corps in the United States, has secured funding through the State of California Proposition 68 grants program to complete a project on Azalea Hill within the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed....
Jazmin C. has been with CCNB since November 2017, when her cousin, already a corpsmember in Cotati, and our recruiter Vicente encouraged her to join. In the wake of the devastating wildfires, CCNB joined many other organizations to serve the community and begin the...
We are contracting through the County of Marin to assist in food distribution with community partners to package and distribute food to residents. Corpsmembers have been onsite at emergency food pantries working with our partners at Canal Alliance and the Marin...
It has been just over a year since CCNB started its partnership with the Mattress Recycling Council to collect and recycle used mattresses and box springs. Our goal is to deter the dumping of mattresses—residents will often avoid bringing mattresses to landfill or...
Jordan first heard about CCNB from a neighbor in his apartment complex. In March 2019, he joined one of our Natural Resources crews. In his six months on the crew, he tackled all types of projects from building trails to reducing fire fuels. His favorite projects were...
As cities across the North Bay raise the minimum wage, we are proud to announce all wages across CCNB are rising for corpsmembers on January 1st, 2020.Now our starting wage is $14 an hour. That means every single corpsmember is getting a boost to their income, even if...
Pilot program for young people provides work experience, improves job prospects Marin County Parks hopes to groom its next recruiting class of road and trail specialists through an experimental program underway now with the nonprofit Conservation Corps North Bay...
CCNB has been working with the Town of Tiburon for over a decade. This longstanding partnership allows us to provide work for corpsmembers in the rainy winter season when outdoor projects are (understandably) harder to come by. Our crews are working across Tiburon...
