Community Tables
Meet organizations doing great work to find real solutions to the biggest challenges San Diego is facing. Community tables are located in the courtyard of the Joan B. Kroc School. Pick up a community table passport when you check in at Politifest, engage with 8+ organizations, and redeem for your choice of Voice merch while supplies last.
KPBS is your NPR and PBS station. For 65 years we have been right here in San Diego providing locally and nationally produced news, entertainment, educational and lifestyle programming for all ages, as well as events and resources that help you build a strong and vibrant community. KPBS provides stories that make us think, help us dream and keep us connected.
Change the state of homelessness in San Diego County, one life at a time.
Empowering voters, defending democracy.
The Policy & Innovation Center conducts research, convenes stakeholders, recommends policy, and brings resources to communities to solve complex challenges such as unaffordable housing, climate change, and inequitable economic mobility.
To improve our communities’ sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers people to choose how they live as they age.
To build collective power to create a more inclusive multiracial democracy where all of us can thrive with dignity.
The students in the Advanced Engineering class at La Jolla Country Day School have designed and built a cheap, modular living space equipped with off-grid plumbing and electrical as a solution for homelessness in San Diego. These “Extra Tiny Homes” can offer better comfort, safety, and quality of life over tents for people living in homeless camps and on the streets.
Public Power San Diego believes all San Diegans — individuals, families, businesses, and our city government — deserve affordable, reliable, and climate-friendly electricity. Electricity is a basic necessity, not a luxury. A not-for-profit, community-owned utility can deliver significantly lower rates on day one, promote local solar, and prioritize public good over monopoly profits.
Children First Collective is creating a local movement across San Diego County, with an urgent mission: to make quality, affordable childcare available to every working family that wants and needs it.
To document and promote water, sanitation, and hygiene (“WaSH”) access as an urgent public health, basic dignity, and social justice issue.
To inspire action with honest storytelling that uplifts our community.
We connect people to resources that help strengthen the land, wildlife, and communities.
We promote the health, learning, and well-being of young children and their families by fostering collaboration and making equity-centered investments to help every child have the very best start in life.