[6][7] The organization is dedicated to improving creek habitats for environmental, flood control, pollution filtration, and beautification reasons.

The organization has daylighted and restored a portion of the creek along the parking lot of El Cerrito Plaza Shopping Center.

[6] Further down stream part of the creek runs through Pacific East Mall's parking lot, where it forms the border between Richmond and Albany.

[13][12] Berkeley Daily Planet columnist Ron Sullivan reports a statement from FFC's Susan Schwartz that Pacific East Mall landscapers in Richmond have used herbicides, and speculates that this could explain her (Sullivan's) observations of dead grasses, plants and trees along the creek path near the mall's property line.

[15] The "Friends" are also lobbying for the creation of public space adjacent to the creek for a new Whole Foods supermarket and parking structure along the stream's banks in U.C.