The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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Illinois Illinois

Action Center on Race and Economy (ACRE)

The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) is a 501(c)(4) organization formed in 2017 that drives political and policy campaigns that fight for structural change. We directly take on the financial institutions and anti-democratic actors that are responsible for pillaging communities of color and poor families, subverting voting rights, and destroying our environment.

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Colorado Colorado

Adaptive Sports Center

The Adaptive Sports Center enhances the quality of life of people with disabilities through exceptional outdoor adventure activities. The successful programs the ASC provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our participants in their daily lives and have a positive enduring effect on self-efficacy, health, independence and overall well-being.

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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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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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California California

Berkeley Student Food Collective

The Food Collective started in 2009, in tandem with student protests against the university’s planned installation of fast food chains in Lower Sproul, such as Panda Express. Students quickly became inspired to do themselves what the institution did not, and supported by a $90,000 grant from TGIF funds, the Food Collective took its start, moving into the storefront in November 2010.

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Ohio Ohio

Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC)

The mission of the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) is to build a multi-state campaign that amplifies black voices, dismantles the colonized narrative of Appalachia, and uses story-based strategies and solutions that center the voices and lived experience of Black Appalachians.

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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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Ohio Ohio

Buckeye Environmental Network

The Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN), is a non-profit committed to empowering grassroots organizations, individuals, and local communities to advocate for environmental justice.

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Texas Texas

Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

We the Carrizo/Comecrudo will always try to connect the past to the future by living in the present. Our desire to be advocates of Peace and Harmony among our own people as well as other Nations has been one of our greatest traits as we traversed through Texas and beyond.

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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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Arizona Arizona

Center for Biological Diversity

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.

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California California

Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)

The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) is a progressive equity-based organization that embodies hope, unites people y pueblos, to create intersectional solutions that transform communities “to bring people together to improve their social and natural environment.” Utilizing the lens of environmental health, we achieve regenerative change by developing resilient BIPOC intergenerational leadership, through the power of community base-building. Through strategic campaigns, we cultivate inclusive self-sustaining neighborhoods, where everyone can live, work, play, and thrive.

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Florida Florida

Central Florida Jobs With Justice (CF-JWJ)

Central Florida Jobs with Justice believes that all workers should have collective bargaining rights, employment security, and a decent standard of living within an economy that works for everyone. To fight for justice, we form long-term relationships and formal partnerships between labor unions, people of faith, community organizations, and student activists based on shared values.

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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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Louisiana Louisiana

Concerned Citizens of St. John

Our mission it to advocate for the health and safety of all citizens by working to hold government officials and industry accountable for the quality of our air, water and soil. To collect all facts about our environment and share that information with the citizens of St. John Parish. To aggressively advocate for the safety and future of the children of our parish and provide leadership in moving our community forward in all avenues that impact our daily lives.

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North Dakota North Dakota

Dakota Resource Council

DRC works with communities across the state to organize around common goals of securing a thriving North Dakota and putting people first. Members take action to create public awareness and shape public policy to ensure safe and responsible development, to protect North Dakota’s agricultural economy, and to establish a foundation for a just transition to a diverse energy economy.

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Oklahoma Oklahoma

Deep Fork Community Action Partnership

Community Action changes people’s lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.

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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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California California

Faith in the Valley

Our mission is to unlock the power of people to put faith into action in the public square, and to advance a movement for racial justice and health equity. We seek to build relational power, lift up a new narrative about the lives of people of color, and drive civic engagement efforts that move our community priorities forward. The following are our core campaigns.

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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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New York New York

Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)

GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization.

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Illinois Illinois

Grow Greater Englewood (GGE)

Grow Greater Englewood is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.

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New Jersey New Jersey

Ironbound Community Corporation

Founded in 1969, Ironbound Community Corporation’s (ICC’s) mission is to engage and empower individuals, families, and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community.

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Kentucky Kentucky

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a statewide organization working for a new balance of power and a just society. As we work together we build our strength, individually and as a group, and we find solutions to real life problems. We use direct action to challenge – and change – unfair political, economic and social systems. Our membership is open to all people who are committed to equality, democracy and non-violent change.

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Kentucky Kentucky

Kentucky Environmental Foundation

We accomplish our objectives by engaging in research and public education; improving public access to information; encouraging community participation in environmental decision-making processes; and building consensus among affected peoples, governments, nonprofits and businesses.

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Indiana Indiana

Kheprw Institute

Kheprw Institute (KI) works to create a more just, equitable, human-centered world by nurturing youth and young adults to be leaders, critical thinkers, and doers who see the people in any community as the most valuable assets and are committed to working with community assets to bring about change that leads to empowered self-reliant and self-determining communities

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Hawaii Hawaii

Kuaʻāina Ulu ‘Auamo (KUA)

KUA empowers communities to improve their quality of life through caring for their biocultural (natural and cultural) heritage. Our vision is ʻāina momona — abundant and healthy ecological systems in Hawaiʻi that contribute to community well-being.

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Oklahoma Oklahoma

Land Legacy

Land Legacy is a nonprofit land conservation organization established in January 2003 and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Our mission is to conserve and enhance rural and urban landscapes, thereby improving the quality of life. Our work includes urban parks and trails, farm and ranch preservation, and water quality protection.

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California California

Little Manila Rising

Little Manila Rising (LMR) serves the South Stockton community, developing equitable solutions to the effects of historical marginalization, institutionalized racism, and harmful public policy.

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California California

Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA)

The mission of the Local Clean Energy Alliance is to promote the development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change, advancing social and racial justice, and building sustainable and resilient communities.

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Louisiana Louisiana

Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)

The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to assess and mend the environmental problems in Louisiana. LEAN's goal is the creation and maintenance of a cleaner and healthier environment for all of the inhabitants of this state.

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Tennessee Tennessee

Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)

Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) is a Black-led grassroots movement in Memphis, Tennessee that fought and beat Valero Energy Corporation and Plains All American’s Byhalia Connection Pipeline, a proposed crude oil pipeline that would cut through Southwest Memphis communities already burdened by decades of environmental injustice.

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Florida Florida

Miami Climate Alliance (MCA)

The Miami Climate Alliance works for equity and resilience by activating community through strategic action, increasing understanding of climate change as a threat to all forms of justice, and building urgency around our shared community well-being. Our mission is to achieve justice for all of Miami's communities in the face of climate change and its effects.

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Nebraska Nebraska

Morton Meadows Neighborhood Assosication

Preservation of historic & residential character of the neighborhood through compatible land use & housing rehabilitation; promotion of better facilities & services to meet needs of residents of community; improvement of physical appearance of neighborhood, in order to make it an aesthetically distinctive & pleasing area of the city; analysis of advantages & problems of life within the community as means of aiding in determination of needs & priorities with regard to community development & education of public on subjects useful to individual & beneficial to community.

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Colorado Colorado

Movimiento Poder

Movimiento Poder is led by working-class Latine immigrants, queer folks, youth, women and families. We build collective power through community organizing, leadership development and civic engagement.

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Nevada Nevada

Nevada Conservation League Education Fund (NCL EF)

Nevada Conservation League Education Fund (NCL EF) works to protect our climate, air, water, land, and health by translating conservation values into priorities that we actively promote so all Nevada’s communities can thrive. We recognize certain communities are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation and climate disruption and seek more environmentally just outcomes at all levels of our work. We strive to work in a way that recognizes and builds a deeper understanding of issues of racial and social justice and in a way that builds a more inclusive organization.

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South Carolina South Carolina

New Alpha Community Development Corporation

Our mission is to create a lasting impact through our initiatives, campaigns, and strategic partnerships. To accomplish our mission, we rely on support from brave groups and individuals just like you, who know that marginalized communities will suffer until we drive exponential change. With your help, we can break socioeconomic barriers and address water, air, land, and healthcare issues that still affect vulnerable communities today.

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New York New York

New York Renews

NY Renews is a coalition of over 370 environmental, justice, faith, labor, and community groups, and the force behind the nation’s most progressive climate law. We fight for good jobs and climate justice, and we’re not finished yet.

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North Dakota North Dakota

North Dakota Environmental Health Association

The mission of the North Dakota Environmental Health Association is to promote and protect the environmental health of the citizens of North Dakota wherever they live, work, or play. We unite with individuals, families, and communities to improve environmental health and enhance their quality of life.

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Texas Texas

Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council (NEHRC)

The Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council, 501c3 non profit(NEHRC) is a grassroots community organization. We advocate for issues that affect our community in Northeast Houston and develop programs that process resources to directly benefit our community.

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West Virginia West Virginia

Our Future West Virginia

At Our Future West Virginia, we aim to change the balance of power through grassroots-led policy change, civic engagement, local leadership development, and uniting diverse voices. We stand united in our fight for justice, dignity, and equity for all West Virginians.

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Mississippi Mississippi

People's Advocacy Institute

Our mission is to equip people most impacted by systemic violence with the tools to disrupt the criminal and juvenile punishment systems and create a new system founded in human justice, re-education, restitution, restoration and individual and collective healing.

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Texas Texas

Poder ATX

To redefine environmental issues as social and economic justice issues, and collectively set our own agenda to address these concerns as basic human rights. We seek to empower our communities through education, advocacy and action.

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Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people

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Rhode Island Rhode Island

Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC 401)

The Racial & Environmental Justice Committee (REJC) transforms the collective priorities of BIPOC, low wealth, frontline communities in Providence into policy solutions to cultivate a world where everyone lives well without living better at the expense of others. The REJC facilitates co-governance so that decision-making is shared between communities at the frontlines of environmental and racial injustices and the institutions that formally hold decision-making power..

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Louisiana Louisiana

Rise St. James

Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice as it works to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

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Nebraska Nebraska

Seventy-Five North

To facilitate the revitalization of a healthy, sustainable, mixed-income community in the Highlander neighborhood. We work to break the cycle of poverty and community deterioration by partnering to create high-quality housing, thriving schools, recreational facilities and other neighborhood enrichment amenities.

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Delaware Delaware

Socially Responsible Agricultural Project

Through education, advocacy, and organizing, SRAP collaborates with communities to protect public health, environmental quality, and local economies from the damaging impacts of industrial livestock production and to advocate for a socially responsible food future.

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Michigan Michigan

Soulardarity

Soulardarity is building a brighter future in Highland Park with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. We are working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with our neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all.

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Mississippi Mississippi

Steps Coalition

To build a democratic movement to create a healthy, just and equitable Mississippi Gulf Coast, by developing local leadership, supporting communities to advocate for their needs, and by facilitating communication, coordination, and collaboration among our membership.

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Louisiana Louisiana

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy. All of our work is rooted in a commitment to Black Liberation.

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Ohio Ohio

The Black Hive

We are a cohort of Black climate and environmental justice experts who use our collective experience and knowledge to assess how climate change and ecological destruction impact Black communities in the U.S. and across the Global Black Diaspora. Together, we organize for cleaner, better, and safer futures for Black lives.

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South Dakota South Dakota

The Native American Community Board

The Native American Community Board (NACB) works to protect the health and human rights of Indigenous Peoples pertinent to our communities through cultural preservation, education, coalition building, community organizing, reproductive justice, environmental justice, and natural resource protection while working toward safe communities for women and children at the local, national, and international level.

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New York New York

THE POINT Community Development Corporation

THE POINT Community Development Corporation is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Celebrating over 20 years of service, THE POINT offers a multi-faceted approach to asset-based community development. Its programming falls within three main headings all aimed at the comprehensive revitalization of the Hunts Point community: Youth Development, Arts and Culture and Community Development.

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IE Amplified Orgs

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