ABOUT LOCAL IMPACT

Local Impact is a nonprofit organization that promotes action on social justice issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. By taking local action campaigns online, Local Impact provides easily accessible ways for individuals to have a direct impact in their community.

Local Impact works with grassroots organizations to identify causes and campaigns that would most benefit from targeted online action. Local Impact features select causes on its website, with opportunities for visitors to the site to take immediate action, including sending faxes to key decision makers. The website makes it easy to learn about important local issues and how to get involved.

Two activist attorneys in the Bay Area -- Stephen Knight and Dean Preston -- founded Local Impact to help bring internet organizing and online action to the local level. The internet can play an important role in grassroots organizing, but local groups are generally not equipped to take advantage of this resource.

With a growing base of concerned community members participating in each online action, Local Impact seeks to build a progressive network of informed people willing to take specific action on local issues.

For more information about Local Impact, or to have your cause featured on our website, please email us at info@local-impact.org.