ReVillage Foundation
ReVillage Foundation is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm of the broader ReVillage ecosystem, focused on nurturing the civic, cultural, and ecological roots of community life across the Green Valley watershed of West Sonoma County.
Within ReVillage's larger mission, the Foundation's particular focus is public space projects, arts and storytelling, youth and elder stewardship, ecological resilience, and the social ties that help communities thrive. We also develop educational resources, participatory frameworks, and adaptive templates that other communities can adapt to strengthen local resilience and civic life.
Joyfully remembering our interdependence with each other and the living earth.
Public Commons
Participatory public spaces for gathering, creativity, ecology, and civic life. Healthy communities need shared places where people can encounter one another outside the logic of consumption and isolation. Our work combines ecological restoration, cultural activation, and long-term stewardship of the commons — often with local government partners.
- Graton Town Square & Graton Green
- Stewardship workdays
- Native ecology & urban greening
- Outdoor gathering infrastructure
Arts & Cultural Life
Festivals, storytelling, music, public art, and intergenerational rituals that strengthen belonging and shared identity. We see arts and culture not as extras, but as essential civic infrastructure. Shared celebrations, creative expression, and storytelling help communities remember themselves and imagine futures together.
- Museum of the Future
- Seasonal festivals
- Public art installations
- Storytelling pop-ups
- Music & cultural gatherings
Youth & Ecological Stewardship
Hands-on programs connecting young people to ecology, creativity, and place through field trips, workshops, and intergenerational learning. We believe stewardship grows from relationship. Through arts, gardening, ecological restoration, and community participation, young people develop a deeper sense of belonging to the places they call home.
- School field trips
- Ecology education
- Arts workshops
- Youth stewardship programs
- Intergenerational workdays
- Environmental learning experiences
Community Resilience & Civic Participation
Programs and partnerships that help neighbors organize around resilience, care, and long-term stewardship of place. From resilience trainings to participatory planning, we work to strengthen the connective tissue of community life and support more locally capable, responsive, and collaborative communities.
- Community councils
- Resilience trainings
- Local government collaboration
- Neighborhood organizing
- Participatory visioning
- Emergency preparedness & mutual support efforts
Flagship Projects
We pay attention to what a place actually needs, then build alongside the people already caring for it. These projects are early prototypes for a more connected, locally rooted future.
Graton Town Square
Seasonal Festivals
Museum of the Future
A year of taking root.
In just over a year, ReVillage has helped cultivate a growing ecosystem of community participation, stewardship, and cultural life across the Green Valley watershed.
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Also: 50+ artists, musicians, and performers activated public space, plus dozens of stewardship workdays, workshops, and resilience gatherings. What's emerging is still early, imperfect, and evolving — but these small acts of participation are helping re-open pathways of connection many communities have lost.
Guided by a small working board.
ReVillage Foundation is guided by a small working board rooted in community organizing, design, stewardship, and long-term care for place. The Foundation works closely with a broader network of collaborators including artists, educators, farmers, organizers, architects, local government leaders, and volunteers throughout the watershed community.
Board of Directors
- Matt Jorgensen — President
- Lindsey Dyer
- John Nagle (Incoming Board Member)
- David Good (Incoming Board Member)
We work in deep collaboration.
ReVillage Foundation works in deep collaboration with local governments, schools, artists, land stewards, farms, and grassroots organizations across the Green Valley watershed and beyond. Our closest collaborator to date has been the Graton Community Services District, which oversees long-term stewardship and infrastructure for public sites like the Town Square, while ReVillage focuses on programming, arts, community engagement, and participatory visioning.
- Graton Community Services District
- Sonoma County Farm Trails
- Green Valley farmers & makers
- ILALI
- Graton Day Labor Center
- Stone Creek Zen Center
- Bioregional learning networks
Help steward the next chapter of village life.
This work grows through participation: neighbors showing up for workdays, artists contributing ideas, elders sharing stories, local businesses offering support, and community members investing in the places they love.