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.
Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund
Preserving the Black Family Land Commons Through Imagination, Art, and Cooperative Economy
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.
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.
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.
Bay Nature Magazine
To inspire people to connect with and protect the natural world through storytelling, education, and community engagement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates (DDSAE)
The Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates was started to help understand community voices in search of solutions that enhance inter-generational access to traditional lands and resources. Our school works with artists and individuals, culture and sustainability organizations, funders and policymakers, offering curriculum on how the cultural sector can contribute to environmental sustainability.
Higher Purpose Co
Higher Purpose Co.'s® mission is to build community wealth with Black residents in Mississippi by supporting the ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Our theory of change is anchored by an integrated model: asset building, narrative change, and advocacy.
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.
Hip Hop is Green
WE ARE EDUCATING YOUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND BRINGING HEALTH AND WELLNESS TO COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA BY USING THE GLOBAL POWER OF HIP HOP CULTURE.
Honor the Earth
Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.
Indigenous Regeneration
Our mission is to foster sustainable development, preserve cultural heritage, and promote self-determination among our indigenous communities in Southern California.
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
Love the Everglades Movement
To implement evolving strategies across the full spectrum of being which address the environmental, structural, cultural and spiritual problems plaguing the Florida Everglades by raising awareness and organizing positive community engagement at the local, regional, national and global levels.
Maine Youth for Climate Justice
We fight for climate justice, bold and urgent climate action, and a just and equitable transition in Maine. This must be done through a sustainable, united climate justice movement that is youth-led and intersectional in its analysis. We must always strive to educate both youth and our adult allies, and to connect youth to leadership positions in an equitable way.
Muslim Climate Watch
Our mission is to empower Muslims with the right tools and education to demand climate justice and to inspire climate action embedded in Islam and guided by the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Ocean Music Action
Ocean Music Action stands against racism and all forms of hate. We commit to working toward a world where both the planet and all of it's people are treated as precious.
OK Roots Music
The nonprofit OK ROOTS MUSIC promotes and encourages an eclectic array of music, arts and culture through public performances and educational activities.
Old Flame Mending
Old Flame Mending is a Pittsburgh-based sewing service that helps you keep your garments + textiles in your wardrobe and out of thr landfill through repair, tailoring + alterations, and cutsom work
Outdoor Writers Association of America
The Outdoor Writers Association of America: Improves the professional skills of our members, Sets the highest ethical and communications standards, Encourages public enjoyment and conservation of natural resources, and Mentors the next generation of professional outdoor communicators.
Parceleras Afrocaribeñas por la Transformación Barrial Inc. (PATBA)
Our mission is to launch cultural, artistic, and ecological projects of social justice and anti-racism. We advocate for the protection of natural resources in the face of exploitation that communities like ours live through.
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.
Protect Our Winters
POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places we live and experiences we love from climate change.
Pueblo Action Alliance
Pueblo Action Alliance is a community driven grassroots organization that protects Pueblo cultural sustainability and community defense by addressing environmental and social impacts in Indigenous communities.
Sacred Land Film Project
Our mission is to use film, journalism and education to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and help protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Slow Factory
Slow Factory's mission is to restore balance for humans and nature through systemic regenerative design, open education and strategic narrative change.
Sustainable Brooklyn
Sustainable Brooklyn works to bridge gaps between the sustainability movement and targeted communities.
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 Institute for Queer Ecology
The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) is an ever-evolving collaborative organism that seeks to bring peripheral solutions to environmental degradation to the forefront of public consciousness. IQECO projects are interdisciplinary, but unified and grounded in the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. The collective works to overturn the destructive human-centric hierarchies by imagining an equitable, multispecies future.
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.
The Women's Building
The Women’s Building is a safe place focused on women’s issues. Here everyone can come together and find their own confidence and strength. We offer everyone the tools and resources to create better lives for themselves, their family and their community.
Tó Nizhóní Ání
Our Mission is to protect the water of Black Mesa from industry use and waste. We work to bring power back to our Indigenous communities impacted by coal. Our work is rooted in protecting our water—Tó bee iiná. Water is life.
UPROSE Brooklyn
Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood through community organizing, education, indigenous and youth leadership development, and cultural/artistic expression. Central to our work is advocacy to ensure meaningful community engagement, participatory community planning practices, and sustainable development with justice and governmental accountability. As lead advocates of climate justice, UPROSE views the just urban policy—ranging from transportation to open space—as the heart of climate adaptation and community resilience.
Walk Good LA
To bring people from all walks of life together to heal in solidarity through the arts, health, and wellness
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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