The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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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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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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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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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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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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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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New York New York

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

CAAAV’s purpose is to develop the leadership of working class Asian immigrants to make a significant intervention in the gentrification of NYC by building neighborhood power in Chinatown and Astoria. Chinatown and Astoria are neighborhoods where Asian immigrants are the one of the driving forces of the working class, and could potentially shift the long-term political landscape of the city.

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Oregon Oregon

Cultivate Oregon

Through education and advocacy, we are growing a diverse and equitable food system that promotes biodiversity, pollinator and soil health, heritage seeds, and resource conservation.

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California California

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.

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Washington Washington

Got Green

Got Green organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice as a South Seattle-based grassroots organization led by people of color and low income people. We cultivate multi-generational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy (green jobs, healthy food, energy efficient & healthy homes, public transit) reach low income communities and communities of color.

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California California

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.

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California California

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.

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Louisiana Louisiana

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.

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IE Amplified Orgs

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