We amplify the lived experiences of our community to achieve social, political, and structural change.

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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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.

We work to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans and build an equitable society for all.

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.

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.

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.

F.A.R.M.S is a legal non-profit, committed to assisting farmers and landowners retain land for future use of next generation farmer.

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.

Georgia WAND empowers women to advocate for climate, environmental and social justice, grounded in racial equity.

The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults, while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural-based environmental education programming engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.

Groundswell builds community power through equitable community solar projects, clean energy programs that reduce energy burdens, and pioneering research initiatives that help light the way to clean energy futures for all.

Our mission is to advance sustainability at HBCUs and in the communities they serve. We aim to empower HBCUs to become resiliency hubs and sustainable development anchors, working towards justice and equity for people of African descent.

Mariposas Rebeldes wants to make community gardening, ecology, cultural education, and food autonomy more accessible to its members and community, particularly for QTIPOC (queer trans and intersex people of color) on Muscogee (Creek) land, also known as Atlanta.

The mission of New Communities is to become a thriving organization that is a global model for community empowerment.

Our mission is to advance policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.

To educate, inspire, organize and build the capacity of African Americans and other communities of color to create and sustain safe, economically vibrant, healthy neighborhoods that promote healthy living, wellness, environmental justice and green sustainability.

We are The Smile Trust. Restoring dignity in people by providing resources and direct services to those communities with love and care. Our organization is rooted in service, resilience, transparency, self-determination, innovation, positive impact, rapid response, and abundance. We service the most vulnerable communities in coalition with social justice and community organizations.