The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
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.
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.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
We work to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans and build an equitable society for all.
Autistic People of Color Fund
To empower and support the Autistic People of Color (APOC) community through advocacy, education, and resource sharing.
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.
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.
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*.
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.
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.
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.
Citizens for a Better Environment
To protect public health and the environment through advocacy, education, and legal action.
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.
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.
Color of Climate Maine
Color of Climate is a group centered on BIPOC youth, their voice, experiences, and perspectives regarding climate change and environmental justice. ME
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.
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
DARE’s mission is to organize low-income families living in communities of color for social, economic, and political justice.
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.
Dream Defenders Education Fund
Young, powerful Black and brown people organizing towards a new vision for safety away from police and prisons.
Eagle Eye Institute
PURPOSE is to offer learning programs/opportunities for primarily Black and Brown youth to experience well being, belonging and empowerment through a relationship with nature.
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit network of organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating sustainable, just and inclusive economies with opportunities for all — an approach we call "the high road."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Georgia WAND Education Fund
Georgia WAND empowers women to advocate for climate, environmental and social justice, grounded in racial equity.
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.
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
Matahari Women Workers’ Center
Matahari is a grassroots organization working to end the exploitation of women and femme workers. We have grown into the largest non-union community organization representing women workers in the domestic and service industries in Massachusetts.
Melanin Base Camp
Our purpose is to inspire you with weekly content from Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous and Queer People of Color who love the outdoors. Join the movement and help us #diversifyoutdoors.
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.
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
Founded in 1991, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 citywide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice.
New York Energy Democracy Alliance (EDA)
We envision a renewable energy system that is led by and prioritizes solutions for low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color who are most negatively impacted by our current energy and economic system. We transform our communities’ relationship to power through advocacy, organizing, job creation, coalition-building, policy research, and public education for an equitable, sustainable energy future
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low income communities and people of color on issues of climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.
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.
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.
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 Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER) Austin
Our mission is 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.
Poder in Action
We build power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future as people of color in Arizona.
QPOC Hikers
QPOC Hikers is based in the Pacific Northwest and exists to connect queer people of color with hiking and the outdoors by creating space to share stories and experiences, increasing visibility, representation, and awareness, and organizing opportunities for learning and growth.
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..
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.
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.
Sending in Color
We strive to create a diverse and inclusive climbing community and industry by implementing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles to break down barriers of accessibility for all Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and create educational spaces to introduce new climbers to the sport and the outdoors.
Slow Factory
Slow Factory's mission is to restore balance for humans and nature through systemic regenerative design, open education and strategic narrative change.
Sol Nation
Sol Nation’s vision is to create self-lead BIPOC communities who prioritizes black issues, establishes climate justice solutions, and provides the next generation with access to knowledge and resources, including school curricula with environmental justice standards.
Soul Trak Outdoors
Soul Trak Outdoors is a D.C. based nonprofit organization that connects communities of color to outdoor spaces while also building a coalition of diverse outdoor leaders.
Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN)
Our mission is to confront the climate crisis by creating strategic alignment, growing capacity, and building power among member organizations and their communities in the Southeastern United States.
Soy Sauce Nation
Our mission is to create space for underrepresented people and groups by highlighting them through media, producing events, and partnering with the best-of brands that believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We bring people together, celebrate differences, and create connections so that everyone continues to participate in snowboarding with passion.
Start:Empowerment
Our mission is to mobilize education and action to achieve social-environmental justice and liberation for all.
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) builds grassroots power to create social and economic justice for low-income, female, immigrant, black, and brown communities in Los Angeles.
Sustainable Brooklyn
Sustainable Brooklyn works to bridge gaps between the sustainability movement and targeted communities.
SUSU commUNITY
SUSU commUNITY farm exists to co-create a homemade field of love for the next 7 generations through the healing, affirming, and liberation of Black, indigenous, people of color and the allies who ride with us.
The Eco Justice Project
Amplifying the voices of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities. a digital platform & resource hub dedicated to climate storytelling, justice, advocacy, and education
The Fields Retreat and Learning Center
The Fields at Rootsprings is stewarding liberating space for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, activists, healers, and community in Minnesota and beyond.
The Greenlining Institute
To advance economic opportunity and racial equity for communities of color in California.
The Vessel Project of Louisiana
The Vessel Project of Louisiana is a grassroots mutual aid, disaster relief, and environmental justice organization founded in Southwest Louisiana in response to several federally declared disasters, including hurricanes Laura and Delta, winter storm Uri, and the May flood of 2021. The Vessel Project realizes the intersectionality of the challenges that plague BIPOC communities and works holistically to achieve environmental and climate justice, voting rights, and access to housing, energy, clean water, safe fresh produce, and healthcare.
Unlikely Hikers
Unlikely Hikers is a diverse, anti-racist, body-liberating outdoor community.
Un Mar De Colores
We envision a broader and more welcoming surfing community. We’re making it happen with programs that bridge socio-economic gaps, increase coastal access, and encourage personal exploration and expression. The results benefit us all. Our students grow their individual confidence, connection to community, and a lifelong passion for ocean stewardship.
VAYLA New Orleans
VAYLA incubates AAPI leaders for a more just tomorrow. VAYLA exists as an embodiment and commitment to activating tomorrow’s AAPI leaders in New Orleans and beyond. We engender leadership to address social inequities facing our community while anchored in an anti-racist, Queer, Feminist lens. At the forefront of these issues we focus on environmental justice, reproductive justice, and civic engagement initiatives.
Veggie Mijas
We are a community of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people who are dedicated to advocating for plant-based lifestyles and food justice within marginalized communities.
Vermont Releaf Collective
The Vermont Releaf Collective cultivates connection, shares resources, and amplifies the voices of people of color in Vermont within our focus areas of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Foodways. We are a collaborative ecosystem for growing power and community for our members.
West End Revitalization Association (WERA)
All of WERA’s past and current projects have been governed by our vision to maintain sustainable and historic African American communities through environmental protection, preservation, stabilization, and planned development.
Wild Diversity
At the core of Wild Diversity's mission is a deep commitment to nurturing the growth and learning of BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Communities. We are industry leaders in transforming individuals into joy seekers, adventurers, and leaders. This transformation occurs through our holistic approach, which combines community workshops, thrilling adventures, engaging outings, and the unifying power of community.
Wisconsin Environmental Justice and Infrastructure Initiative
Wisconsin Environmental Justice Infrastructure Initiative is changing the narrative by bringing together diverse grass roots groups, Black and other communities of color, to develop an innovative statewide Environmental Justice Initiative that is community-driven and equity-centered.
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA)
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color, the majority from low-income communities, provides a safe space for young people to empower ourselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing.
Youth Vs Apocalypse
We are a diverse group of young climate justice activists working together to lift the voices of youth, in particular youth of color and working class youth. Our collective action aims to fight for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.
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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