The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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Gullah Museum of Georgetown
The Gullah Museum offers presentations on Gullah Geechee history, crop cultivation, animal husbandry, as well as distinctive arts, crafts, foodways, music, style of worship, naming practices, and language.
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.
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
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.
Kupu hawaii
Kupu a’e ke aloha; he aloha no ka ‘āina. “Aloha sprouts forth; it is aloha for the land.”
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.
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.
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.
Saticoy Food Hub
Create equitable economic opportunities for food producers, while increasing access to fresh, local food for community members.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Autistic People of Color Fund
To empower and support the Autistic People of Color (APOC) community through advocacy, education, and resource sharing.
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.
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.
Cheyenne River Grassroot Collective
We are Lakota-led collective fighting against extraction industries focusing on pipeline and mining
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.
Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico
Achieve the sustainable management of solidarity food and education projects through collective work.
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
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.
Defend the Sacred Alaska
We see a future Alaska that offers a place and a role to ALL people. We envision an Alaska that is guided by Indigenous knowledge and place-based knowledge in a post-oil economy.
Dogwood Alliance
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect Southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (DRCC)
Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife . We promote place-keeping and prioritize community capacity and resilience.
Essential Food and Medicine
To re-indigenize our community's relationship to land, food and medicine and build a healthy world.
Get Out Stay Out/Vamos Afuera
We are committed to increasing diversity and representation for people of color within the outdoor industry, and especially for kids and youth of indigenous backgrounds.
Giniw Collective
Indigenous womxn, two-spirit led resistance to defend our Mother & live in balance. We stand unafraid. Prayers into action.
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.
Great Plains Action Society
We are a small society of Indigenous Folks living in the Great Plains region, resisting colonization and re-Indigenizing the land and the world around us.
Gwich’in Steering Committee
The Gwich’in Steering Committee was formed in 1988 in response to proposals to drill for oil in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Heartland Environmental Justice Center
Building capacity to make advances towards environmental and energy justice.
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 Environmental Network
IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law
Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance (IMFA)
The Alliance improves the civil liberties of Indigenous people through research, advocacy, and nation building by employing the core values of integrity, inclusivity and transparency.
Indigenous Regeneration
Our mission is to foster sustainable development, preserve cultural heritage, and promote self-determination among our indigenous communities in Southern California.
Institute for Climate and Peace (ICP)
ICP’s mission is to advance effective and inclusive processes to build peaceful and climate-resilient futures for the wellbeing of all.
Ka'ala Farm
To cultivate a sustainable and pono (righteous) food system that nourishes the land, people, and culture.
Lakota People's Law Project
For over a decade, we’ve been standing strong with the Lakota to counteract treaty violations, protect sovereignty, and confront systemic racism. We're helping to safeguard sacred lands and water, end the epidemic of children being removed from their families and traditions, and amplify Native voices.
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.
Mariposas Rebeldes
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.
Native American Disability Law Center
To advocate so that the rights of Native Americans with disabilities in the Four Corners area are enforced, strengthened and brought in harmony with their communities.
Native Movement
Native Movement is dedicated to building people power, rooted in an Indigenized worldview, toward healthy, sustainable, & just communities for ALL. Native Movement supports grassroots-led projects that align with our vision, that endeavor to ensure social justice, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and the rights of Mother Earth.
Native Organizers Alliance
Through advocacy, capacity building, and campaign support, Native Organizers Alliance amplifies the power of tribes, organizations, and grassroots movements to drive policy change in Indian Country.
Native Renewables
Using off-grid solar photovoltaic systems, Native Renewables provides power to homes on the Navajo reservation and Hopi reservation through our Hozho Homes Program.
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment
We exist to carry on time-honored sustainable environmental practices in the tradition of the Nimiipuu by facilitating and organizing tribal youth and adults in activities for the protection, enhancement, and promotion of mother earth and the Nimiipuu culture.
NYC Fair Trade Coalition
The NYC Fair Trade Coalition offers a unique educational experience for ethically-aligned businesses, students of sustainability, and advocates by creating space to incubate and activate local communities.
OPAL (Organizing People Activating Leaders) Environmental Justice
OPAL’s work is at the intersection of environmental justice, civil rights, and transportation and housing. We’ve organized around issues ranging from air quality to congestion pricing, to reducing policing and increasing bus service, and have had dozens of victories since OPAL’s founding in 2006. Community members lead our work at every step of the way as we create campaigns, develop programming, and organize to win!
Pandos
Pandos peacefully advocates for basic human, environmental, and Indigenous rights. By organizing support and education, we encourage dialogue and the protection of our shared home. We are a diverse group of both native and non-native people who are passionate about working together to ensure this mission. We are passionate individuals focused on healing ourselves and our communities. We aspire to be good relatives.
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 of the Red Mountain
People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute) is a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and descendants of the Fort McDermitt Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock Tribes working in coalition with allies to protect our ancestral homelands.
Piikani Lodge Health Institute (PLHI)
Piikani Lodge Health Institute (PLHI) is an Indigenous-founded and led nonprofit organization focused on promoting the health and well-being of Blackfeet (properly known as ‘Amskapi Piikani’) people and lands.
Poder in Action
We build power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future as people of color in Arizona.
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
We build power with our community through strategic organizing and policy advocacy to build a strong and fair Nevada that puts people and planet first.
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.
Rising Hearts
An Indigenous led organization elevating Indigenous voices & foster intersectional growth thru organizing & programming
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.
SAGE Development Authority
SAGE Development Authority exists to ensure energy independence, protect the environment, and promote economic growth in the region, for the Tribe.
Seeding Sovereignty
Seeding Sovereignty is a multi-lens collective that works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation. By investing in Indigenous folks and communities of the global majority, we cross the threshold of liberation together.
Seed the Commons/Millahcayotl Association
Our goal is to decrease dependence on and participation in the global corporate food complex by promoting small-scale, decentralized alternatives that are healthy and just for producers, eaters and communities as a whole. We integrate an animal liberation perspective and uphold models that are not reliant on animals for food or labor.
Soul Fire Farm
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
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.
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 Native American Community Board
The Native American Community Board (NACB) works to protect the health and human rights of Indigenous Peoples pertinent to our communities through cultural preservation, education, coalition building, community organizing, reproductive justice, environmental justice, and natural resource protection while working toward safe communities for women and children at the local, national, and international level.
The Native Conservancy
Native Conservancy was established in 2003 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to empower Alaska Native peoples to permanently protect and preserve endangered habitats on their ancestral homelands. We strive to maintain and secure titles to Native lands in conservation trusts to strengthen our inherent rights of sovereignty, subsistence and spirituality.
Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation
Empowering Lakota youth and families to improve the health, culture, and environment of our communities through the healing and strengthening of cultural identity.
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.
Utah Diné Bikéyah
Preserve and protect the cultural and natural resources of ancestral Native American Lands to benefit and bring healing to people and the Earth.
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project
To empower Zuni youth to become leaders in their communities and the 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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