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Geography, demographics, economy, history, and government (see also Research) - Form of government:
- Population:
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Portals, indexes, guides, searchers, phone directories
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Executive, legislature, judiciary, ministries, departments, agencies, and commissions
- Agencies & Commissions:
- California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
- Counties:
- Alameda County
- Alpine County
- Calaveras County
- Contra Costa County
- El Dorado County
- Fresno County
- Humboldt County
- Kern County
- Kings County
- Lake County
- Los Angeles County
- Marin County
- Mariposa County
- Merced County
- Monterey County
- Napa County
- Orange County
- Plumas County
- Placer County
- Riverside County
- Sacramento County
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District
- San Benito County
- San Bernardino County
- San Diego County
- San Joaquin County
- San Mateo County
- Santa Clara County
- Santa Cruz County
- Solano County
- Stanislaus County
- Sutter County
- Tulare County
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Human rights & civil liberties, humanitarian aid, political parties, activism, environment, and labour
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California (San Francisco)
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California (Los Angeles)
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of San Diego & Imperial Counties
- California Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) (Los Angeles) - advocate for the public interest, uncovering threats to public
health and well-being and fighting to end them, and using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes,
grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice - aims to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social
problems
- Congress of California Seniors (Sacramento) - takes stands on issues of importance to midlife and older persons and their
families, including social security and retirement, Medicare and Medi-Cal, health care policy, senior programs and the Older
Americans Act, long-term care and consumer issues
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos) - provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of
- conservation, population, science, children, families, and communities, arts, and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy,
- with a special focus on the Northern California counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey
- eCAMPUSCENTER (University of California, Santa Barbara) - "Campus Activism for Social Justice"
- Environmental Protection Information Center (Northern California)
- Foresight Institute (Palo Alto) - guides emerging technologies to improve the human condition
- Forests Forever (SF)
- Grassroots Economic Organizing - worker cooperatives, sustainable community enterprises, and grassroots economic
organizing
- Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park) - promotes the well-being of mankind by supporting selected activities of a charitable
- nature, concentrating its resources on activities in conflict resolution, education, environment, family and community
- development, performing arts, population, and U.S.-Latin American relations
- Institute for Cultural Democracy
- Light Party
- Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution (San Francisco) - promotes non-violent approaches to the
resolution of conflict
- Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative
- Public Policy Institute of California
- Williams Syndrome Foundation (University of California)
- Women's International Center (WIC) (San Diego) - acknowledges, honors and encourages women by celebrating them and their
contributions to humanity, informing and educating via the Internet, and displaying the enduring works of women in museums,
theaters and WIC's Women's Hall of Humanity
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Education, health & public safety, religion, women, children & youth, and associations & societies
- Universities:
- San José State University
- California Academy of Sciences
- Professional Associations:
- San Diego Science Alliance
- Board of Vocational Nursing & Psychiatric Technicians
- Health & Public Safety:
- California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) - consumer rights project that helps Californians resolve problems with
their HMO as well as ensure a better, more solvent and stable managed health care system
- California Healthcare Association (CHA) (Sacramento) - statewide leader representing the interests of hospitals, health systems
and other health care providers in California, including nearly 500 hospital and health system members, and more than 100
Executive, Associate and Personal members
- Center for Health Care Rights (Los Angeles) - non-profit health care consumer advocacy organization serving consumers through
a combination of direct service programs and policy level advocacy
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) California
- San Francisco Patients Resource Center - marijuana for medical purposes
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Ethnicity, language, the arts, history & heritage, performance, costume, and literature
- Museums:
- Mingei International Museum (San Diego) - nonprofit, public foundation inspired by the Mingei Association of Japan and Tokyo's
the first Folk Art Museum and dedicated to furthering the understanding of art of all cultures of the world, which shares a direct
simplicity and reflects a joy in making by hand useful objects that are satisfying to the human spirit.
- Museum of the City of San Francisco
- Music:
- American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco)
- Fillmore auditorium (San Francisco)
- Vox Femina Los Angeles
- San Francisco Opera
- San Francisco Symphony
- Women's Philharmonic (San Francisco)
- San Diego Comic Opera
- San Diego Opera
- San Diego Women's Chorus
- Rainbow Women's Chorus (San Jose)
- West Bay Opera
- Theatre:
- San Diego Junior Theatre
- Sledgehammer Theatre (San Diego)
- Starlight Musical Theatre (San Diego)
- Theatre in Old Town (San Diego)
- Shoreline Amphitheatre (Mountain View)
- San Diego Repertory Theatre
- La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla)
- Lamb's Players Theatre (Coronado)
- Patio Playhouse - Escindido's community & youth theatre
- North Coast Repertory Theatre (Solana Beach)
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Associations, competitions, leisure, and hobbies
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Guides & advice, accommodation, attractions, transport, agents, and organisers
- USA Hostels - San Diego, Las Vegas, Hollywood
- Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach
- Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro
- Exploratorium, San Francisco
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- San-Diego-Beaches.com
- beach rentals, beach houses, surfing the San Diego waves
and more
- KMR Aviation Inc. (Ontario) - aircraft charter
- Atkin Air (Lincoln) - charter flights
- Jet Express (San Ramon) - executive air charters
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Statistics, government, economy, geography, demography, and society
- San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) - A National Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering
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Newspapers & magazines, journals, television & radio, publishing, and entertainment
- California Newspaper Publishers Association
- Independent Media Centre, Los Angeles
- Independent Media Centre, San Francisco Bay area
- Newspapers:
- Daily Aztec - San Diego University Studnet Newspaper
- Stockton Record
- Appeal-Democrat (Marysville)
- Bakersfield Georgian
- Big Bear Grizzly
- Brentwood News
- Business Journal (Santa Rosa)
- Chico Enterprise-Record
- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek)
- Daily Breeze (Torrance)
- Daily Democrat (Woodland)
- Daily Midway Driller (Taft)
- Daily News (Woodland Hills)
- Daily Republic (Fairfield)
- Daily Triplicate (Crescent City)
- Daily Variety (Los Angeles)
- Davis Enterprise
- Desert Dispatch (Barstow)
- Desert Sun (Palm Springs)
- Free Lance (Hollister)
- Fresno Bee
- Half Moon Bay Review
- Idyllwild Town Crier
- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario)
- Investor's Business Daily (Los Angeles)
- Lodi News-Sentinel
- Lompoc Record
- Los Angeles Times
- Madera Tribune
- Malibu Times
- Marin Independent Journal
- Merced Sun-Star
- Modesto Bee
- Monterey County Herald
- Mountain Democrat (Placerville)
- Napa Valley Register
- North County Times (Escondido)
- Orange County Register
- Oroville Mercury Register
- Palisadian Post
- Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)
- Press-Enterprise (Riverside)
- Press-Telegram (Long Beach)
- Record Searchlight (Redding)
- Red Bluff Daily News
- Ridgecrest Daily Independent
- Sacramento Bee
- Sacramento Business Journal
- San Bernardino County Sun
- San Diego Union-Tribune
- Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale)
- Vacaville Reporter
- Victorville Daily Press
- Oakland Tribune
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Francisco Examiner
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Santa Rosa Press Democrat
- Ventura County Star
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Resourcing, manufacturing, distribution, trade, and regulation of goods and services
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale) - semiconductor manufacturer
- California Farmers Union
- California Grain & Feed Association
- Electric Power Institute (EPRI) (Palo Alto)
- Emery Worldwide (City of Commerce) - heavylift air cargo carrier
- General Atomics (San Diego) - aeronautics, electronics, nuclear energy
- H&H Engineering Construction Inc. (West Coast) - railway maintenance, repair & track design
- Linear Technology
- Maxim Integrated Circuits
- Qualcomm Inc.
- Pacific Bell Telephone Company
- Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (San Francisco)
- Slope Block, Inc. (Newbury Park) - natrural gravity retaining walls
- Southern California Gas Company
- Western Digital Corporation
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Banking, investment, insurance, stockmarkets, and market regulation
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