Community Roots Collaborative
Together with 15 local partners, Community Roots Collaborative (CRC) spurs community-based development in Silicon Valley . Given that there were no CDCs and one Community Land Trusts (CLT) in our region just in 2024, SV@Home was prompted to encourage, seed, and expand community development by providing a cohort of community-based organizations in Silicon Valley exposure and education of the existing landscape of affordable housing and community development throughout the Bay Area. SV@Home provides a year-long lesson plan on community-based development, filled with expert speakers and presentations, facilitated discussions, resource-sharing, and exciting tours of established CDCs and CLTs.
Community Roots Collaborative’s Current Members:
Today, SV@Home continues its commitment to build the capacity of our community-based nonprofit partners that are interested in or have recently become emerging developers in Santa Clara County. The CRC has evolved into a solutions-based strategic group that meets monthly to create a community of shared learning, collaboration, and action to advance and foster a flourishing environment for community-based development in Silicon Valley. CRC cohort members who are also SV@Home members have the benefit of engaging in an intimate one-on-one strategic consulting service to support their place-based visions of their communities. The CRC cohort continues to benefit from tours of CDCs and CLTs throughout the Bay Area on an annual basis.
Do you want to join the CRC? Contact Kenneth Javier-Rosales at kenneth@siliconvalleyathome.org
New CRC members undergo an orientation process, known as the “Discovery Program” as part of becoming a monthly meeting participant, filled with introductory lessons about how to become a community-based developer.
Testimonials
Mountain View CLT
Olga and Sonia, Olga and Sonia, two of the six women behind Mountain View Community Land Trust (MVCLT) sat with SV@Home to talk about their work as a newer organization working toward community development, and how much of their growth comes from learning alongside other organizations in the cohort.
You Can Help Support the CRC
Your support directly fuels programs that train and empower the next generation of civic and housing leaders, equipping individuals and organizations to drive change, innovate solutions, and even become developers in their own right.