The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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New York New York

Palestinian Feminist Collective

We are an intergenerational collective of activists, organizers, practitioners, creators, thinkers, artists, scholars, healers, water and land protectors, life-givers, and life-sustainers. We are committed to achieving Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession.

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California California

Chinese Progressive Association

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

華人進步會是為三藩市華人社區的低收入和工人移民社區做宣傳教育, 組織基層 及争取權益等工作。 我们的宗旨是和其他所有被壓迫的社區群眾建立集體力量,一起贏取更好的生活, 工作條件和正義。

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New York New York

Red Canary Song

Red Canary Song is a grassroots organization of Asian and Migrant sex workers and massage workers, organizing transnationally. Our work is in the tradition of sex worker mutual aid, and we center base-building with migrant massage workers through a labor rights, migrant justice, and PIC abolitionist framework. We believe that the full decriminalization of sex work is necessary for the safety and survival of massage workers and trafficking survivors. #RightsNotRaids #ResourcesNotRescue

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New York New York

Asian American Feminist Collective

Asian/American feminism is an ever-evolving practice that seeks to address the multi-dimensional ways Asian/American people confront systems of power at the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, migration history, citizenship and immigration status. We are indebted to ways Black feminist thought and Third World feminist movements enable us to think and act critically through our own positionalities to address systems of anti-Black racism, settler colonialism, and xenophobia.

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Georgia Georgia

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is the first nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast.

Through our work, we envision a social movement in which communities of color are fully empowered, active in civic life, and working together to promote equity, fair treatment, and self determination for all.

Founded in 2010 as the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC), our organization became part of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation in 2014. Since then, we have re-organized our focus areas more specifically into four groups: Policy Advocacy, Civic Engagement & Organizing, Impact Litigation, and Legal Services.

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New York New York

Asian American Arts Alliance

Asian American Arts Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring greater representation, equity, and opportunities for Asian American artists and cultural organizations through resource sharing, promotion, and community building.Website

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California California

Stop AAPI Hate

Stop AAPI Hate is a U.S.-based coalition dedicated to ending racism and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAs & PIs). We strive to advance the multiracial movement for equity and justice by building power for our communities, working in solidarity with other communities of color, and advocating for comprehensive solutions that tackle the root causes of race-based hate.

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New York New York

NQAPIA

The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations.

We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations with allied organizations, and promote social justice values by challenging underlying causes such as homophobia, sexism, racism, and xenophobia that adversely impact our communities.

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New Jersey New Jersey

The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative

The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded in the spirit of intersectionality, creating space to explore the ways in which disability and Asian American identity interact.

Our mission is simple: AADI provides the next generation of disabled Asian American leaders with accessible resources so that they can combat anti-Asian racism and ableism in their own communities.

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Disability Together

Fighting ableism through representation and awareness for all disabilities and education for everyone.

Created and run entirely by disabled people!

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National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities

The National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) is a volunteer organization comprised of Disabled Latinx leaders and allies from across the nation. We came together in 2016 to form CNLD because we shared the experience of living fractured identities (in Disabled and Latinx worlds, respectively). Since then, CNLD has grown into a network of colleagues who have become like family.

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California California

Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California (APIDC)

Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California (APIDC) gives a voice and a face to Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities. We seek to help break down the service and cultural barriers faced by APIs with disabilities, to provide knowledge to APIs with disabilities and their families, and to create a community network for empowerment and independence.

Key to our mission is the development of the next generation of leaders — youth with disabilities.

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Virginia Virginia

National Black Disability Coalition

NBDC is a response to the need for Blacks with Disabilities to organize and assist each other around issues of mutual concern and use our collective strength to address disability issues in both the greater Black community and the greater disability community.

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Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

ISER Caribe

ISER Caribe's mission is to investigate the intricate interactions and dialectic relations between humans and the environment through community-centered participatory research to address inequitable environmental burdens and cultivate alternative, sustainable and just relationships with natural systems.

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South Carolina South Carolina

M.A.R.S.H. Project

Our mission is to help to rewild and ecologically restore Charleston’s unique saltmarsh ecosystem.

We believe humans are part of a larger living community that collectively enables life. As members of this living system, our goal is to create more life with our own, contributing generously through reciprocal acts of stewardship and the thoughtful ecological restoration of our living landscapes.

We acknowledge the interconnectedness of all life and seek to increase its overall abundance.

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South Carolina South Carolina

Friends of Gadsden Creek

We are a coalition of concerned citizens, businesses, and organizations who oppose the WestEdge development plan to fill Gadsden Creek. We demand the revitalization of Gadsden Creek and her surrounding wetlands, as a first step in a larger plan that repairs the social, environmental, and economic harm that has been inflicted upon the Gadsden Green community.

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South Dakota South Dakota

NDN Collective

NDN Collective's mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and Mother Earth.

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Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Amigxs del MAR

Amigxs del MAR (Revolutionary Environmental Movement) arises from the prevailing need for citizen action to defend nature and the communities of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. 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 cleanups, 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.

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Florida Florida

Miami Workers Center

Miami Workers Center builds power with working-class tenants, workers, women, and families in Miami-Dade County. Through leadership development and grassroots campaigns, we seek to transform our workplaces and neighborhoods to win the respect, rights, and resources we all deserve.

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California California

Our Own

Our Own is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded on the principle that you can’t solve a problem with a single solution. Our communities have a long history of socioeconomic injustices that have created generational disparities; making it a challenge to advance in society. Our mission is to dismantle these systemic barriers and create the access needed in nutrition, education, entrepreneurship, maternal health, mental and physical fitness to further bridge the gap to ensure racial equity and social justice.

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New Jersey New Jersey

New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

The New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance is an alliance of New Jersey-based organizations and individuals working together to identify, prevent, and reduce and/or eliminate environmental injustices that exist in communities of color and low-income communities. NJEJA will support community efforts to remediate and rebuild impacted neighborhoods, using the community’s vision of improvement, through education, advocacy, the review and promulgation of public policies, training, and through organizing and technical assistance.

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Rhode Island Rhode Island

The People's Port Authority

Formally nolnginpvd - now The People's Port Authority- grassroots organization stopping the new construction and expansion of Fossil fuel in the port of Providence. A group of Community members demanding community oversight over the Port of Providence

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California California

Act-LA

ACT-LA envisions Los Angeles as a transit-rich county where all people have access to quality jobs, healthy and affordable housing, ample transportation options, and a voice in decision-making. We will have a sustainable community with clean air, improved public health, and the preservation of community culture and heritage.

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California California

The Bay Area Youth Climate Summit (BAYCS)

The Bay Area Youth Climate Summit (BAYCS) is a by youth, for youth collective, entirely run by high school organizers. BAYCS serves as a launchpad for youth climate action, committed to bringing together teens from across the San Francisco Bay Area to connect over interactive environmental justice education, civil advocacy, and community-driven climate resilience. We believe that to effectively restore relationships of reciprocity with land, labor, and culture youth imaginations must be centered in the movement for a brighter future. This praxis guides our cultural strategy, as we unite youth with the intention of dismantling toxic isolating activism silos, and instead uplifting one another in community. Since our inception in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s rampant disconnection, we’ve united thousands of youth and hundreds of high schools through annual summits and 95+ workshops rooted in frameworks of horizontal mentorship, just transition, self-governance, and grassroots ecological justice. With these lenses, our youth council members have organized everything from protests to climate joy festivals to climate psychology skillshares to public policy campaigns.add mission statement

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New York New York

Kinetic Communities Consulting

In the transition to renewable energy, communities across New York continue to be left behind. As frontline communities, they’re the ones most affected by climate change. That’s why we’re committed to putting them front and center. Kinetic Communities Consulting (KC3), a M/WBE B Corp-certified firm, works with critical energy and affordable housing players to connect disinvested communities to clean, affordable energy. Promoting climate resilience means meeting these communities where they are and finding solutions that work for them.

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North Carolina North Carolina

Rural Beacon Initiative

Rural Beacon Initiative (RBI) is a North Carolina-based social enterprise, committed to advancing business sustainability and environmental justice. Through both private and public consultancy, strategic convening, and deploying models for practical, scalable community-based solutions we help businesses address the triple bottom line with practical, equitable solutions.

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California California

Council of Mexican Federations (COFEM)

The mission of the Council of Mexican Federations in North America (COFEM) is to empower immigrant communities to be full participants in the social, political, economic, and cultural life of the United States and their home country. We accomplish this work by uniting, strengthening, and expanding our member organizations to better advocate, preserve and share their cultural traditions and help improve the lives of families and friends in their country of origin.

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New York New York

Faithfully Sustainable

Our mission is to increase environmental and climate awareness, and activate solutions grounded in our beliefs and responsibilities as a Muslim community Through research, education, and entrepreneurship, we aim to return to a culture of environmental stewardship and justice. We are creating a future where Muslim-led initiatives are at the forefront of tackling every environmental crisis.

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New York New York

OkoFarms

Oko Farms’ activities began in 2013 as a volunteer-run initiative with the conversion of a rundown 2,500 square foot lot in Bushwick, Brooklyn into The Oko Farms Aquaponics Farm & Education Center. The farm was built in collaboration with the Moore Street, Brooklyn community and a diverse group of individuals interested in bringing an outdoor aquaponics farm to Brooklyn. The word “oko” pays homage to our founder’s Yoruba heritage. Oko is a Yoruba word which loosely translates to farm in English. A more accurate definition of the word is a province or place where agriculture is at the center of socio-economic life, daily activities, and cultural traditions.

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California California

Orange County Environmental Justice

Formed in 2016, Orange County Environmental Justice Educational Fund (OCEJ) is a 501(c)3 multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environmental justice organization. We are developing grassroots leadership and advancing an environmental justice agenda within the ancestral homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva Nations, now known as Orange County, California. Our mission is to fight for environmental justice by mobilizing and empowering marginalized community members.

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California California

Heirs To Our Ocean

Heirs To Our Ocean is empowering the next generation of leaders by connecting them in purpose, educating them on the intersection of the environmental and humanitarian crises they are inheriting, and cultivating essential skills to create innovative solutions and real-world change. Join the next generation of empathetic leaders as they aim to create a just and equitable future for all who share our Blue Planet.

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Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy

The Conservancy's mission includes various initiatives such as receiving land back, creating community and housing for Native people, practicing traditional ceremonies, establishing a Native archive, and rematriating the land.

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California California

City Gurlz Hike

City Gurlz Hike is an urban hike and community programming series for women to connect, heal, and liberate through nature. Through its programming, City Gurlz Hike seeks to center Black, Latina, and Indigenous women in San Francisco’s great outdoors and beyond.

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Design for Social Impact Lab

At Design for Social Impact Lab, our purpose is to create a profound social impact by revolutionising the way organisations and individuals approach social change. In the pursuit of social impact, creating inclusive and anti-racist monitoring, evaluation and research and learning is not just an option; it's a necessity. Our approach to research and learning is rebellious and anti-oppressive. We are an online training organization led by a BIPOC woman with more than 14 years in the international development sector, including working for INGOs in humanitarian crises. Our work is rooted in our foundational values of anti-oppression, intersectionality, and justice. We are inspired by a growing design justice movement that seeks to ensure that the design of products, services and spaces is equitable and inclusive, demolishing the barrier between "aid" and "beneficiaries". Our work is guided by 8 core principles - environmental and economic justice, structural change and action, anti-racism and decolonialism, system thinking, intersectionality, co-design, pedagogies of care and solidarity, fostering iterative mutual learning. Through our programs, we teach activists how to integrate these principles across program development, policy and research processes. Our mission is to empower you to use research and program design as a catalyst for social good.

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Rhode Island Rhode Island

Movement Education Outdoors

Movement Education Outdoors empowers Black, brown, and low-income youth in Rhode Island to connect to the land they live on and the communities they live in. Through land and water based learning experiences that center the knowledge, joy, and liberation of people of color, we guide young people in developing the tools they need to become leaders in their communities for transformative change towards environmental and racial justice.

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Alaska Alaska

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)

ACAT works with communities, implementing effective strategies to limit their exposure to toxic substances and to protect and restore the ecosystems that sustain them and their way of life. We work to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources, ensure the public’s right-to-know, achieve policies based on the precautionary principle, and support the rights of Indigenous peoples.

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California California

350 Pacific Climate Warriors

350 Pacific is a youth-led grassroots network working with communities to fight climate change from the Pacific Islands and diaspora.

350 Pacific works with organizers across 18 Pacific Island nations and diaspora communities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America to highlight our island countries’ vulnerabilities to climate change while showcasing our strength and resilience of people. We work through existing networks and with a range of partner organizations who share in our vision for the Pacific and the planet. 350 Pacific has organized and facilitated workshops to educate and empower youth in the region, and through our many campaigns, have amplified the voices of frontline communities in the face of the climate crisis.

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APANO Communities United Fund (CUF)

APANO Communities United Fund (CUF) — also known as APANO — unites Asians and Pacific Islanders to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development and cultural work.

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Hawaii Hawaii

‘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.

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California California

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.

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New Hampshire New Hampshire

350NH

350NH is a multigenerational movement working to advance a just transition to a renewable energy economy and an end to our society’s dependence on fossil fuels. We are building the movement for climate justice and working for local and national systemic change.

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Maine Maine

Acadia Center

Acadia Center’s mission is to advance bold, effective clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.

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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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Illinois Illinois

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.

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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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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.

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Florida Florida

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

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Alabama Alabama

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.

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New York New York

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.

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New Jersey New Jersey

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

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Wyoming Wyoming

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.

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Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

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.

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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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Ohio Ohio

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.

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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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Arkansas Arkansas

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.

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California California

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.

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New York New York

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.

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IE Amplified Orgs

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