SHIFT has allocated the needed funds for both Black Liberation Month 2025 and 2026. The activities throughout this month aim to uphold sustainability through a social justice lens by creating and implementing programming that centers our most marginalized population on campus, those being Black-identified students. Through a month of events and engagement opportunities, we hope to spotlight and uplift our Black-identified student population by keeping the Black experience as the foundation of the ideas we put forward in this project.

Cal Poly Humboldt is the owner of an 888-acre forest in Jacoby Creek. This forest contains an unknown amount of carbon stored in its trees, which it captures through a process known as sequestration. In 2022, a pilot program (originally called the Jacoby Creek Carbon Inventory) was launched to quantify the carbon present in this forest. The SHIFT Committee originally allocated $61,453 to this effort in the 23-24 AY which resulted in the training of 14 new students and the completion of approximately 30% of the forest inventory.

SHIFT has been funding the Black to the Land Project, orginally conceived as the Black Educational Farm program, in collaboration with the Umoja Center for Pan African Student Excellence at the Bayside Park Farm since 2022.

The Black Educational Farm program has 3 goals:

 1. To teach and develop farming skills with Black students 

2. To develop a sense of belonging in the local community 

3. Facilitate discussions and learning that center Black experiences, knowledge and challenges pertaining to sustainability and land.