These organizations are crucial -- and much admired -- members of the community of independent media and arts producers and organizations.

This is a work in progress -- we welcome new links for the list.

ArtSF
"ArtSF is an all-volunteer organization consisting of members with a common goal in mind: CREATE A COMMUNITY ART CENTER FOR ALL AGES in San Francisco."

Balazo/Mission Badlands Gallery
Send an email to subscribe to the Balazo Gallery events calendar, and stay up to date on their fine exhibitions of punk, outsider, lowrider, tattoo, Latino and cutting-edge art.

Cellspace
"CELLspace offers communal art workshops and learning labs in a variety of artistic mediums: metal, wood, puppetry, sewing, music, digital video, crafts, dance, and theatre. Our 10,000 square foot facility serves as an arts incubator, enabling emerging Bay Area artists to create, develop, exhibit, and perform new work in an affordable, cooperative, and collaborative environment."

The Craigslist Foundation
"The mission of the Craigslist Foundation is to bring visibility to small, grassroots nonprofits involved in local social change work, through craigslist.org websites, community events and special projects connecting nonprofits and new supporters."

The Crucible
"The Crucible is a non-profit educational collaboration of arts, industry and community. Established in 1999, The Crucible is the Bay Area's only nonprofit sculpture studio, educational foundry and metal fabrication shop offering classes in fine and industrial arts. From cast iron to neon, and from large-scale public art to the most precise kinetic sculpture, The Crucible is fast becoming the best-equipped public industry & arts education facility on the West Coast. The vision of The Crucible is to be one of the premiere art centers in the country: a place where art thrives, is accessible, and inspires everyone in their everyday lives. It is a place where forges roar, sparks fly, glass bends, molten metals fuse and pour, clay and cement take on form, neon glows, and creativity explodes!"

Crucible Steel Gallery
"Crucible Steel Gallery, a multipurpose gallery located within the non-profit arts and education space known as CELLspace, is designed to give opportunity and exposure to emerging Bay Area artists through group exhibitions, collaborative explorations and workshops. In the spirit of artistic encouragement, we host an open, biannual "call for art". This is a chance for artists to personally present their work to the gallery committee and submit show proposals for future exhibitions."

Independent Media Center
"The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (SF IMC) is a non-commercial, democratic collective of bay area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network."

Islias Creek Arts Community
A huge, diverse "underground" arts community in San Francisco, source of ongoing innovation in sculpture, robotics, music and performance, and intimately tied to the endangered Islias Creek ecosystem on the San Francisco Bay.

Kitchen Sink Magazine
"Kitchen Sink is a quarterly print and monthly web publication exploring independent art, identity, culture, and politics. Founded by a community of writers, artists and editors, KS is dedicated to investigating the contradictions we find in all parts of our lives."

KALX
"KALX 90.7 FM broadcasts freeform radio 24 hours a day to a large portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch all stripes of underground music accented with news and alternative informational programming. KALX has a wonderfully dedicated staff of student and community volunteers who are willing to explore with and educate their listeners. KALX is regular folks doing wild, unpredictable, extraordinary radio. All of our programs are homespun, we don't depend on satellite feeds. Rather we create programs from, and for our community (a community that includes both the University of California/Berkeley student population AND the surrounding area)."

KFJC
"KFJC's mission in life, as much as we can agree on such a thing, is to be a conduit for new and interesting audio art and information, especially the sorts that are unavailable elsewhere. Our music programming is largely oriented to recent material. Most programs must play at least 35% (by song count) tracks from material added in the last 8 weeks. We strive to carry the best of many styles of music and relevant public affairs programming. Licensed to the Trustees of the Foothill- De Anza Community College District and operated as a teaching laboratory for the Fine Arts and Communications Department of Foothill College, KFJC welcomes everyone to register in a broadcasting class and begin to help with station operation."

KPFA
"Founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a pacifist, poet, and journalist, KPFA was the first community supported radio station in the USA. KPFA broadcasts on 94.1 FM and KPFB 89.3 FM, Berkeley, and KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California. Our signal reaches one third of the state, utilizing 59,000 watts. Much of our programming is local, original and eclectic, with a well produced mix of news and in depth public affairs, an ongoing drama, literature and performance series, interviews, and reviews. Our music ranges from folk to hip hop, Bach to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan."

KUSF
KUSF is a community service of the University of San Francisco, and made possible by more than 100 volunteers from all facets of the San Francisco Bay Area community. We are dedicated to independent, underground, archival, specialty, local and eclectic/free-form music, information, ideas and public affairs programming that are marginalized by commercial media.

KZSU
"KZSU is owned by the Trustees of Stanford University and is governed by a Board of Directors appointed by the President ... KZSU's staff is all volunteer, made up of assorted locals as well as Stanford students and staff ... There are many ways to contact us, and also many ways to join us, if that's what you want to do ... Besides DJs' music shows, KZSU has a live music show, Wednesday Night Live, public affairs programming (including public service announcements) [and more]."

Laughing Squid
"Underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond."

Media Alliance
"Media Alliance is a 25-year-old nonprofit training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility."

The Neighborhood Bass Coalition
"Over the NBC's raucous and tawdry 4 year history, we have come to the conclusion that all styles of music and noise are fair game for fair-use, ripe for on-the-fly recombination by multiple minds in a real-time environment!"

POND
Currently evicted from their artspace, POND is a dynamic collective dedicated to "art, activism and ideas." Lacking a permanent home, POND is still developing events and art happenings around San Francisco.

Shaping San Francisco
"We are presenting an unprecedented multidisciplinary view of San Francisco's history, but it is by no means the last word on any aspect of local history. We encourage people to amend, update, correct, and fill the holes of our shared past. Contact us with contributions, suggestions and criticisms."

S.P.A.Z.
The folks of the Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone deliver breakthrough sounds, ideas and community connections against all odds.

SF_Indie
A loose affiliation of independent music fans in San Francisco, primarily focused on rock-oriented music and organized around a 1000+ member email listserv.

Watchword Press
"Watchword Press is a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to producing, publishing, and disseminating cutting-edge literary works to a wide audience ... Watchword Press is committed to providing a new, editorial-driven, and creative outlet for these innovative and inspired writers."