We built the tool we wished our community had.

The Bay Area is home to hundreds of community-based organizations working on climate, environmental justice, and resilience. Together they hold an extraordinary amount of knowledge about funders, programs, partners, and what's actually worked on the ground.

But that knowledge lives in places no one can search: finished grant reports, last year's board deck, a PDF on someone's desktop, a colleague who left two years ago. Every new staffer re-learns what the org already knew. Every collaboration starts with cold outreach. The same work gets repeated across town.

Intuitively, we know collaboration saves both time and money. Teams work more effectively when there's visibility into who's good at what, and who's working on what, when.

But in our research, we heard the same thing repeatedly: at the organizational level, collaboration is a nice ideal, but one that requires capacity and cash most CBOs don't have to spare.

So we built Euterria, a shared, searchable knowledge base for the Bay Area climate network. Organizations drop in the documents they already have, and Euterria turns them into structured programs, people, and resources that anyone in the community can find in seconds. Ask a real question; get a real answer, with every source linked.

Why we're called Euterria

Our name comes from eutierria, a word coined by the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht for a positive feeling of oneness with the earth and its living systems. It's the hopeful counterpart to the climate grief he named solastalgia, and it captures what we want this work to feel like: connected, grounded, and hopeful about what the community can do together.

Backed by people who believe in collaboration

Euterria is supported by the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford University, which funds and incubates ventures working toward an equitable, sustainable energy future. Their early backing let us build Euterria as a free resource for the CBOs we serve, not another tool with a price tag that small nonprofits can't justify.