The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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Hawaii Hawaii

‘Āina Momona

‘Āina Momona (Hawaiian for the fertile or rich land) is a community organization dedicated to achieving environmental health and sustainability through restoring social justice and Hawaiian sovereignty.

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New Hampshire New Hampshire

350NH

350NH is a multigenerational movement working to advance a just transition to a renewable energy economy and an end to our society’s dependence on fossil fuels. We are building the movement for climate justice and working for local and national systemic change.

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Maine Maine

Acadia Center

Acadia Center’s mission is to advance bold, effective clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

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Illinois Illinois

Adalah Justice Project

Adalah Justice Project is a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S. that builds cross-movement coalitions to achieve collective liberation. Our work is rooted in the conviction that drawing the linkages between US policy abroad and repressive state practices at home is crucial to shifting the balance of power.

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Advancing Equity & Opportunity Collaborative: Democratizing Rural Electric Cooperatives Working Group

Advancing Equity & Opportunity Collaborative (AEO) is a coalition of groups in the South working to identify and address the opportunities and threats associated with energy extraction, production and use in the region, and the related impacts on Black communities, communities of color and low-wealth communities.

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Florida Florida

Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, non-partisan, democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and the numerous United Nations Resolutions upholding such rights

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Alabama Alabama

Alabama Interfaith Power & Light

The mission of Alabama Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) is to be faithful stewards of Creation by responding to Climate Change through the promotion of environmental justice, energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy from a faith perspective.

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New Jersey New Jersey

Alliance for a Living Ocean

We champion every step towards living a life with less plastic. From hosting beach clean ups to educating on the harmful effects of plastic pollution in our oceans, our mission is to safeguard our shores for future generations

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Wyoming Wyoming

Alliance for Historic Wyoming

As Wyoming’s statewide historic preservation nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Historic Wyoming (AHW) is dedicated to protecting our historic and cultural resources in both the built and natural environments.

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Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Amigxs del M.A.R. Inc

The mission and execution of our organization is based on the Manatiburón concept, which is the combination of passive education strategies, environmental awareness events (beach cleanings, educational talks, workshops, among others) associated with the passivity of the manatee, together to active and radical strategies that enforce the country's demands, associated with the shark.

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Louisiana Louisiana

Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative

Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative is a women-of-color led, grassroots collaborative of ten members from Brownsville, Texas to Pensacola, Florida. We are built upon decades of organizing resulting in a strong and rooted ecosystem of relationships between individuals tied to a multitude of organizations, networks, communities, and alliances from the US Gulf South to the Global South.

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Ohio Ohio

Appalachia Resist!

We work to build vibrant, resilient communities that are economically and ecologically sustainable and that can and do advocate for their right to breathable air and drinkable water.

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Arizona Arizona

Arizona Center for Empowerment (ACE)

ACE is a 501 (c)3 member-led social justice organization that develops and mobilizes undocumented working youth and adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals to strategically take ownership and responsibility to advance economic, social, and racial justice. By building power through leadership development, Citizenship, civic engagement, advocacy and education, we are creating a more inclusive and just standard of equality in the state of Arizona. Income equality, protection of public education, immigrant rights, and health care are just a few of ACE’s priorities in creating a better Arizona for all.

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Arkansas Arkansas

Arkansas Climate League

The Climate League encourages environmental justice and green energy conversations in low-income communities. We connect with grassroots leaders, listen, build relationships, and hold space for more Arkansans to participate in local climate education, to access energy efficiency resources, and pursue local clean energy initiatives.

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California California

ArtSeed

ArtSeed’s mission is to connect the most resourceful & gifted with the youngest & most vulnerable citizens of the Bay Area & beyond through projects that explore links between classical & cutting-edge fine arts disciplines. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, color, creed, sexual orientation, political party, economic background, national citizenship, religion or ethnic origin.

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Alabama Alabama

Blackbelt Citizens Fighting For Health and Justice

We work towards a Uniontown and Black Belt region where all people will unite to act in love for shared liberty and justice for all. We, the Freedom Fighters, based in Uniontown Alabama will demonstrate faith in action by embracing and encouraging solutions against all injustices.

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Ohio Ohio

Black Environmental Leaders Association

We work collectively to provide a forum for community environmental education which can serve as the basis of a deeper understanding and commitment to land, water, air, transportation and energy issues that impact our economic bottom line, through the lens of health, diversity, inclusion and equity.

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Illinois Illinois

Blacks in Green (BIG NFP)

Blacks in Green - BIG™ is a national network for environmental justice and economic development created to close America’s racial health/wealth gap via the new green economy using a whole-system solution for the whole-system problem common to Black communities everywhere.

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Virginia Virginia

Blue Sky Fund

Blue Sky Fund is a youth development non-profit that provides transformational experiences for Richmond area youth through outdoor education.

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California California

Brown Ascenders

Our goal is to Increase accessibility of outdoor spaces, outdoor related education and recreation for BIPOC adults and youths, while cultivating outlets for community, representation, and growth.

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New York New York

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

CAAAV’s purpose is to develop the leadership of working class Asian immigrants to make a significant intervention in the gentrification of NYC by building neighborhood power in Chinatown and Astoria. Chinatown and Astoria are neighborhoods where Asian immigrants are the one of the driving forces of the working class, and could potentially shift the long-term political landscape of the city.

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Florida Florida

Catalyst Miami

Our mission is to build power with frontline communities throughout Miami-Dade County to collectively advance justice and achieve shared prosperity. Our vision is a just society where everyone can lead healthy, prosperous, self-determined lives.

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California California

Causa Justa

Causa Justa :: Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, we improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.

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Oregon Oregon

Center for Diversity and the Environment

We believe the environmental movement must evolve as a field to better care for the planet, people and all beings. It will require a system-wide shift in how we approach environmentalism, our relationships with each other, and our place within the natural world. Our work focuses on growing a strong and diverse network of leaders to envision, instigate and guide this transformation.

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Virginia Virginia

Center for Health, Environment and Justice

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice helps build healthy communities nationwide. Since its founding in 1981, CHEJ has grown into the nation’s leading resource for grassroots environmental activism, a ground-breaking, progressive organization with a vision for clean, green neighborhoods built from hard-won experience fighting for environmental justice.

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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living

Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL – pronounced “circle”) is a community led non-profit group that organizes and educates on issues of clean air, community health and environmental justice in Chester City, PA and the neighboring region. CRCQL has been leading the environmental justice movement in Chester, PA since 1992.

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Washington DC Washington DC

City Blossoms

City Blossoms is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that cultivates the well-being of our communities through creative programming in kid-driven gardens. We envision cities with abundant, accessible green spaces where communities thrive and children build lifelong connections to the natural world. Applying our unique brand of gardens, science, art, healthy living, and community building, we "blossom" in neighborhoods where kids, their families, and neighbors may not otherwise have access to green spaces.

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California California

Coalition of Community Organizations (COCO)

Community Coalition has a vision to harness the power of activists and communities from across the nation in multi-racial organizing through our Center for Community Organizing (CCO). CoCo will train a cadre of activists and organizers dedicated to supporting local power building with people of color across the country.

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Maine Maine

Color of Climate

To center Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth voices, experiences and narratives within the climate change crises and within environmental justice issues, especially because BIPOC communities and individuals are often the most impacted by these issues.

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California California

Comite Civico del Valle

Through partnerships improve access to health services, research, community service programs, and environmental justice to disadvantaged communities by way of education, capacity building, and civic participation.

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Washington Washington

Community to Community

We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.

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Colorado Colorado

Conejos Clean Water

We work to build public awareness and encourage advocacy and education around environmental, social, economic, and food justice issues in the Conejos Land Grant Region.

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Connecticut Connecticut

Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice

Our purpose is to improve urban environmental health, primarily in Connecticut, through educating our community, through promoting changes in governmental policy, and through promoting individual, corporate and governmental responsibility towards our environment. We define environment as including the places where we live, work, play and go to school.

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Oregon Oregon

Cultivate Oregon

Through education and advocacy, we are growing a diverse and equitable food system that promotes biodiversity, pollinator and soil health, heritage seeds, and resource conservation.

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South Dakota South Dakota

Dakota Rural Action

Dakota Rural Action (DRA) organizes people and builds leadership while developing strong allied relationships. We protect environmental resources, advocate for resilient agriculture systems, and empower people to create policy change that strengthens their communities and cultures.

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Alaska Alaska

Defend the Sacred Alaska

We see a future Alaska that offers a place and a role to ALL people. We envision an Alaska that is guided by Indigenous knowledge and place-based knowledge in a post-oil economy.

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Georgia Georgia

Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates (DDSAE)

The Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates was started to help understand community voices in search of solutions that enhance inter-generational access to traditional lands and resources. Our school works with artists and individuals, culture and sustainability organizations, funders and policymakers, offering curriculum on how the cultural sector can contribute to environmental sustainability.

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Washington Washington

Disabled Hikers

Disabled Hikers mission is to build disability community and justice in the outdoors towards a vision of an outdoor culture transformed by representation, access, and justice for Disabled and all other marginalized people.

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Maryland Maryland

EcoSikh

EcoSikh is a response from the Sikh community to the threats of climate change and the deterioration of the natural environment.

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Oregon Oregon

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon

Committed to mutual respect and understanding, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon brings together diverse communities of faith to learn, serve and advocate for justice, peace and the integrity of creation.

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Oregon Oregon

Equitable Giving Circle

Our mission is to inspire and create economic empowerment through authentic engagement and action within our community. We will bring forth healing from late-stage capitalism and colonialism through reparative and radical giving.

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Florida Florida

Family Action Network Movement

FANM’s MISSION is to empower low to moderate income families socially, financially, and politically and to give them the tools to transform their communities. FANM's VISION is to be a leader in creating a sustainable village where thriving families can raise well-rounded children in peace and harmony.​

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Washington Washington

Front and Centered

We seek a Just Transition away from an extraction-based economy to one centered on ecological restoration, community resilience, and social equity, fueled by regenerative resources and cooperative work, governed by deep democracy, and a culture of caring and sacredness.

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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania

Gateway to Green

To honor the diversity of Pennsylvania by cultivating a network of regional hubs to advance equitable, systemic, and meaningful environmental literacy and sustainability education for all.

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Connecticut Connecticut

Gather New Haven

Committed to social and environmental justice. Gather New Haven promotes health, equity and justice for people and the environment by cultivating connections and access to our lands and waters and by inspiring us to care for our wellbeing, our shared community, and our environment.

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Georgia Georgia

Georgia Interfaith Power & Light

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.

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IE Amplified Orgs

The IE Amplifier Program is a media capacity-building initiative that aims to amplify the efforts of participating organizations across IE’s media ecosystem. Through the IE Amplifier Program, Intersectional Environmentalist designs engaging social media assets, toolkits, videos, and other resources for participating organizations with the goal of connecting people with organizations leading intersectional approaches to environmentalism in their own communities.

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