The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
Acta Non Verba - Youth Urban Farm Project
To empower youth through urban agriculture and environmental education.
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.
Autistic People of Color Fund
To empower and support the Autistic People of Color (APOC) community through advocacy, education, and resource sharing.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 Girl Surf
To create a more diverse, joyful, and environmentally reverent surf culture for girls, women, and gender-expansive people of color.
Casa Familiar
The mission of Casa Familiar is to enhance quality of life for people living in underserved and underrepresented communities.
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 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.
Citizens for a Better Environment
To protect public health and the environment through advocacy, education, and legal action.
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 Justice Alliance
To build a movement to address the climate crisis and its disproportionate impact on marginalized communities.
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 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.
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.
Common Vision
Common Vision is creating a Healthy and Just Society by growing fruit tree orchards in low-income schools.
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
Community Action of Napa Valley
To empower people and families to achieve self-sufficiency through education, advocacy, and support services.
Disability Justice Culture Club
The Disability Justice Culture Club is an activist house in East Oakland, CA designed w accessibility in mind. It serves as a gathering place for disabled BIPOC community via events, meetings, meals.
East Bay Food Not Bombs
East Bay Food Not Bombs was formed in February of 1991. We have served in People’s Park since the beginning, and have a long connection to that land, which is occupied Ohlone territory. Food Not Bombs is a loosely linked network of autonomous collectives across the country and the world, all focused on providing nutritious, free vegetarian food to anyone who wants it. We are horizontally organized and committed to food justice and food waste reduction as well as houseless advocacy. The East Bay chapter is the longest continually operating chapter of Food Not Bombs — for 29 years we haven’t stopped.We serve hot food five days a week in People’s Park, two days a week in Oakland, and do mobile outreach at encampments around Oakland and Berkeley 3-4 days a week. We are based out of the Omni Commons on Shattuck Ave but have cookhouses scattered across the East Bay. We get our produce from grocery stores and farmer’s markets that donate things to us, and the staples from the food bank. Almost all of the produce we cook with is organic and sustainably farmed.East Bay Food Not Bombs is a testament to the sustainability of mutual aid in the long term. We are committed to supporting and loving our community in the East Bay.
East Oakland Collective
Working to increase Black resident knowledge and unity around collective and/or cooperative economic opportunities in the areas of savings, home and commercial ownership, small business and entrepreneurship.Food Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to bring resources to Oakland’s most vulnerable residents. Alleviate food insecurity in marginalized communities through the distribution and redistribution of food (food rescue), essential supplies and Housing Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to increase traditional and innovative housing options for no to low income residents of Oakland. Shift the paradigm on what housing is and means for vulnerable communities. Change the narrative on homelessness and hold the powers that be accountable for housing being a basic human right.resources. Expand the access to fresh and nutritious food options in East Oakland.
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Ecology Center
To empower people to protect and restore the environment through education, advocacy, and action.
Environmental Volunteers
Promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.
Essential Food and Medicine
To re-indigenize our community's relationship to land, food and medicine and build a healthy world.
Extinction Rebellion - San Francisco Bay Chapter
To use nonviolent civil disobedience to compel governments to act on the climate and ecological crisis.
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.
Fenceline Watch
To protect communities from the harmful effects of pollution and promote environmental justice.
Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES)
To empower Filipino/American communities to advocate for environmental justice and a healthy environment.
Florence Fang Community Farm
We aim to improve food security, increase healthy living habits, practice natural farming techniques, improve the environment, support neighborhood economic opportunity, and increase social connectedness within and between communities of color. Our farm also supports our community’s food sovereignty by providing a food source that is consistent with cultural identities and involving community networks that promote self-reliance and mutual aid.
Food Runners
The mission of Food Runners is to help alleviate hunger in San Francisco, to help prevent waste and to help create community. Food Runners is currently delivering over 17 tons of food a week that would otherwise be thrown away. With help from our volunteer coordinator, our paid truck driver and people like you, we can provide enough food for over 20,000 meals every week in San Francisco.
Friends of the Urban Forest
Our mission is to bring neighbors together to plant and care for San Francisco’s ideal urban forest.
Gardopia Gardens
To create a sustainable and equitable food system through community gardening and education.
Garment Workers Center LA
To empower garment workers to fight for their rights and improve working conditions.
Get Out Stay Out/Vamos Afuera
We are committed to increasing diversity and representation for people of color within the outdoor industry, and especially for kids and youth of indigenous backgrounds.
Gill Tract Community Farm
To transform a vacant lot in West Oakland into a thriving community farm that provides fresh food, education, and economic opportunities.
Good Life Garden
To provide comfort, joy, food, water and shelter for all creatures who venture into your realm.
Greenaction
To promote environmental justice and protect public health through community organizing and advocacy.
Green Technical Education and Employment
Green Tech offers innovative workforce skills to youth and young adults in frontline communities with an emphasis on environmental protection, justice and economic development. Our activities focus on career opportunities in construction, manufacturing, utilities, transportation and environmental management.
Habitat for Humanity
We are Habitat for Humanity, East Bay/Silicon Valley, We build strength, stability and self-reliance through homeownership because when you empower families, an entire community can thrive.
HandsOn Bay Area Sutro Native Plant Nursery
To propagate and distribute native plants for restoration projects in Golden Gate Park.
HEAL Food Alliance
HEAL’s mission is to build our collective power to create food and farm systems that are healthy for our families, accessible and affordable for all communities, and fair to the working people who grow, distribute, prepare, and serve our food — while protecting the air, water, and land we all depend on.
Healthy Black Families
To promote the health and well-being of Black families and communities through education, advocacy, and support services.
Hike Clerb
To equip Black, Indigenous, women of color with the tools, education, resources and experiences they need to collectively heal in nature.
Hip Hop Caucus
Our mission is to use the power of our cultural expression to empower communities who are first and worst impacted by injustice.
Homeless Garden Project
To provide dignified work and training opportunities for homeless individuals and families through urban agriculture and culinary education.
Indigenous Regeneration
Our mission is to foster sustainable development, preserve cultural heritage, and promote self-determination among our indigenous communities in Southern California.
InterEthnica
To empower and connect immigrant communities to promote social justice and environmental sustainability.
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
The ISSRNC is a community of scholars interested in religion, nature, and culture. We are dedicated to helping scholars think across disciplines and foster critical inquiry and engaged scholarship.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) promotes ecological health, environmental stewardship, and community development in Southeast San Francisco by creating urban greening, eco-literacy, community stewardship and workforce development opportunities that directly engage and support local residents in securing a healthier future.
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.
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.
Mobility Matters
Mobility Matters is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that provides mobility management services in Contra Costa County. Mobility Matters is facilitating collaboration and coordination between public and private transportation providers, creating a network of integrated options that primarily address the mobility needs of seniors, individuals with disabilities, and low-income individuals. In addition to working with other transportation providers on their programs and services, Mobility Matters offers some programs and services directly.
Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project
To build a movement for environmental justice and climate resilience led by communities of color.
Movement Strategy Center
To provide strategic support to movements for social, economic, and environmental justice.
Nature for All
Our mission is to build a diverse base of support to ensure that everyone in the Los Angeles area has equitable access to the wide range of benefits which nature provides.
No Coal in Oakland
To prevent the development of a coal terminal in Oakland and protect the health and environment of the community.
NorCal Resilience Network
The NorCal Resilience Network is a grassroots coalition that activates and supports community-based, nature-inspired solutions to climate change, economic instability, and social inequity in Northern California.
One Treasure Island
One Treasure Island's over arching goal is to build a new San Francisco neighborhood that includes formerly homeless and low income people from the ground up and to develop an integrated & healthy community comprised of people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. This has been true for today and is the plan for tomorrow.
Our City Forest
To protect, restore, and expand the urban forest in San Francisco to create a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient city.
Ouryouth4theclimate
Our Youth For The Climate (OY4C) is a global grassroots organization and youth-driven movement. We aim to catalyze systemic change by providing high-quality and accessible climate education to the next generation, fostering widespread awareness and action towards our future.
Outdoor Asian
The mission of Outdoor Asian is to build a diverse and inclusive community of Asian & Pacific Islanders in the outdoors.
Pachamama Alliance
To protect the Amazon rainforest and advance solutions for climate change and sustainability.
People Linking Art, Community & Ecology (PLACE)
PLACE is a community hub that nurtures physical gathering space for the community. This hub allows people to see regenerative solutions in practice and gain access to the knowledge and resources to empower them to take action in their own lives, neighborhoods, towns, cities, and bio-regions.
People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) SF
PODER’s mission is to organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power.
People Power Solar Cooperative
To empower communities to take control of their energy future by developing, owning, and operating solar power projects.
Planting Justice
To cultivate a just and sustainable food system through community gardening, urban agriculture, and food education.
Poder Latinx
To build power and advance the collective interests of the Latinx community through grassroots organizing and advocacy.
Project New Village
To serve as a catalyst for resident-led, community-rooted experiences that BUILD stronger neighborhoods; IMPROVE the neighborhood food supply chain; STIMULATE collective investment in better health; and MAXIMIZE the impact of investment to address social inequities.
Quaker Earthcare Witness
Quaker Earthcare Witness is a network of Quakers inspiring Spirit-led action for ecological integrity and environmental justice.
Queer Climbing Collective
The QCC hopes to connect the LGBTQIA2S+ community through our love for climbing and the outdoors. #SendWithPride
Queer Ecojustice Project
To aid organizing, land-based healing, and cultivating spaces of queer joy.
Queer Surf
Supporting queer wellness, increasing acess to nature and science, and expanding surf culture
Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign
The Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign’s focus is taking on California’s failed private utility model by pushing for a restructuring of the state’s energy system that would meet the needs of our most impacted communities—towards the vision of a new decentralized, democratized energy system in California.
Resilient Roots Farm
To cultivate a sustainable and culturally relevant food system in the East Oakland community.
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
We support grassroots initiatives that help build a world in which individuals, organizations, and communities are empowered to promote stewardship of nature, inspire people to take action, and hold government and corporations accountable.
Run 4 Salmon
A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways.
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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