The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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‘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.
18 Million Rising
When 18 Million Rising (18MR) launched in 2012, Asian Americans were yearning for a progressive political home. 18MR educates, organizes, and mobilizes Asian Americans to the movement which is key to building a more just world.
350 Bay Area
We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Acadia Center
Acadia Center’s mission is to advance bold, effective clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.
Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund
Preserving the Black Family Land Commons Through Imagination, Art, and Cooperative Economy
Acta Non Verba - Youth Urban Farm Project
To empower youth through urban agriculture and environmental education.
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.
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.
Adaptive Climbing Group
ACG creates accessible, affordable, and transformational climbing opportunities for people with disabilities.
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.
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.
Adventuring LGBTQ+
Adventuring is an outdoors club for the LGBTQ+ community in the Washington, DC Metro area. We’re all about enjoying the outdoors and being physically active.
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
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.
Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN)
ALIGN is a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York. ALIGN works at the intersection of economy, environment, and equity to make change and build movement. Our model addresses the root causes of economic injustice by forging strategic coalitions, shaping the public debate through strategic communications, and developing policy solutions that make an impact.
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
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.
Alliance for Renewable Energy of Laramie
Our mission is to transition our communities to renewable energy based on scientific data, economic fairness, public education, and support.
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine raises awareness about Israel's use of water as a weapon against the people of Palestine.
Alternatives for Community and Environment
ACE builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in Massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice.
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.
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.
Appalachian Voices
We envision an Appalachia with healthy ecosystems and resilient local economies that allow communities to thrive.
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.
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.
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.
Arkansas Community Organizations
We envision an Arkansas and nation where every person has access to affordable healthcare, secure housing, a livable income, and a nurturing community.
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.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
We work to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans and build an equitable society for all.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
To advance environmental justice and empower Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Atmos Magazine
Our mission is to re-enchant people with nature and our shared humanity. We inspire cultural transformation and illuminate solutions to heal and protect the planet–now, and for generations to come.
Autistic People of Color Fund
To empower and support the Autistic People of Color (APOC) community through advocacy, education, and resource sharing.
Backyard Harvest
Backyard Harvest works in partnership with our community to connect those with extra fresh produce and those who need it most.
Bay Nature Magazine
To inspire people to connect with and protect the natural world through storytelling, education, and community engagement.
Bay Rising
To organize and empower residents of the Bay Area's low-income communities of color to fight for environmental justice and climate resilience.
Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
To empower Bayview-Hunters Point residents to advocate for environmental justice and economic development.
Bed Stuy Clothes Swap
We provide clothing alternatives that move against the grain of capitalistic systems that unevenly take from and kill our community.
Benny's Club
Fosters a safe and encouraging space for surfers of all abilities, largely functioning out of Rockaway Beach in Queens, NYC.
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.
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.
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.
Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice (BBCFHJ)
Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice
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.
Black Girl Environmentalist
Black Girl Environmentalist is a national organization dedicated to addressing the pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women and gender-expansive people.
Black Girls Do Bike
We are dedicated to fostering and nurturing a vibrant community of women of color who share a passion for cycling. Our primary focus lies in promoting the joy of cycling, particularly among women and girls of color.
Black Girls Trekkin'
BGT seeks to inspire and empower Black women to spend time outdoors, appreciate nature, and protect it.
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.
Blacks In Nature
We empower families and individuals to experience and enjoy the wonders of nature. We believe that outdoor adventures not only provide thrilling experiences but also foster personal growth, promote physical well-being, and create lasting memories. We aim to inspire and empower our members to embark on unforgettable journeys, explore new landscapes, and forge lifelong friendships along the way.
Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute (BVM)
Our goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. We agree with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he said, “Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness is committed to healing, educating, inspiring, and supporting Black women, so we may tap our personal power to enhance and improve our health and well being.
Black Women in Nature
Cultivating space for Black women to engage in mindful movement, authentic sisterhood and environmental awareness in the outdoors of Columbus, OH
Blue Sky Fund
Blue Sky Fund is a youth development non-profit that provides transformational experiences for Richmond area youth through outdoor education.
Brave Trails
To connect youth with the outdoors and inspire them to become lifelong stewards of the environment.
Brightline Defense
To defend the right to protest and hold corporations and governments accountable.
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.
Brown Girls Climb
Brown Girls Climb (BGC) is a national non-profit which strives to facilitate mentorship, provide access, uplift leadership, and celebrate representation in the outdoors and climbing for People of the Global Majority*.
Brown Girl Surf
To create a more diverse, joyful, and environmentally reverent surf culture for girls, women, and gender-expansive people of color.
Brown Grove Preservation Group
Protecting our African American community from environmental racism.
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.
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.
Camping to Connect
Camping to Connect is a program of the Young Masterminds Initiative, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young men of color through transformative outdoor experiences. Founded by members of Mastermind Connect, our mission is to inspire change by nurturing camaraderie, fostering accountability, and cultivating trust, leadership, and support among our participants.
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.
Casa Familiar
The mission of Casa Familiar is to enhance quality of life for people living in underserved and underrepresented communities.
Casa Pueblo
Casa Pueblo is a community self-management project that is committed to appreciating and protecting natural, cultural and human resources.
CATA - The Farmworker Support Committee
The Mission of CATA is to empower farmworkers and immigrant workers to fight for their rights so they can live a full life. We work together to achieve safe working and living conditions, fair wages, and to be treated with respect and dignity.
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.
Catholic Climate Covenant
The mission of Catholic Climate Covenant is to inspire and mobilize the U.S. Catholic community to care for creation and achieve climate justice through the lens of integral ecology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ)
Reduce health and economic disparities and improve access to clean air, water, and soil in marginalized rural communities by influencing policy, inspiring innovation, catalyzing relevant research, and amplifying the voices of community leaders, all within the context of a changing climate.
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.
Charleston Climate Coalition
CCC works on many fronts to expand awareness and inspire citizens and elected officials to address the roots causes of climate change.
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.
Cheyenne River Grassroot Collective
We are Lakota-led collective fighting against extraction industries focusing on pipeline and mining
Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice
To center the people most impacted by environmental injustice and provide an Asian American voice in the environmental justice movement.
Chispa LCV
Chispa wields the power of the people and the strength in our voice to rally and engage grassroots communities, drive awareness and inclusiveness, and boost the local communities’ participation in governance and democracy to shape critical environmental policies and decisions that directly affect our people, our environments and ultimately, our future.
Chorus Foundation
We support communities on the frontlines of the fossil fuel economy, as we work together for a just transition to a fair and sustainable new economy.
Christians for the Mountains
OUR CORE MISSION IS TO HONOR THE TRUTH OF PSALM 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
Chugach Regional Resources Commission
Our organization’s mission is to promote Tribal sovereignty and the protection of our subsistence lifestyle through the development and implementation of Tribal natural resource management programs to assure the conservation, sound economic development, and stewardship of the natural resources in the traditional use areas of the Chugach region.
Citizens for a Better Environment
To protect public health and the environment through advocacy, education, and legal action.
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.
City Kids Wilderness Project
City Kids Wilderness Project is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that providing enriching life experiences for DC youth can enhance their lives, the lives of their families and the greater community.
City of Oakland Community Gardening Program
Our community gardens enable residents to grow organic flowers, fruits, vegetables and herbs.
City of Oakland Gardens of Lake Merrit
The Gardens are poised to serve as an example of the highest standards of horticulture and historic preservation while providing enriching public programs.
City Slicker Farms
To provide fresh, locally grown produce to San Francisco residents and businesses while creating jobs and training opportunities for underserved communities.
CivicSpark
To empower young people to engage in community service and environmental stewardship.
Climate Generation
Igniting and sustaining the ability of educators, youth, and communities to act on systems perpetuating the climate crisis.
Climate Justice Alliance
To build a movement to address the climate crisis and its disproportionate impact on marginalized communities.
Climate Justice Committee
We're an all-grassroots activist group from Minnesota that connects climate change and U.S. militarism and works to fight it! Rather than focus our work on changing consumer habits, we're part of a movement organizing around larger systemic issues like the US military—world's largest polluter— and how environmental disaster affects the most marginalized and oppressed populations in our world.
Climate Nashville
To stand up for climate protection and climate justice, provide our most vulnerable communities with the opportunity to speak for themselves, and give everyone access to clean energy.
Climate Resilient Communities
At Climate Resilient Communities, we have a clear vision of a future where under-resourced communities are empowered to take action to stay safe in the face of climate change impacts.
Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER)
To raise awareness of the connections between pollution, place and the public's health.
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.
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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