The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
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.
Island Conservation
Island Conservation’s mission is to prevent extinctions by removing invasive species from islands.
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.
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
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.
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.
Appalachian Voices
We envision an Appalachia with healthy ecosystems and resilient local economies that allow communities to thrive.
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.
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.
Cheyenne River Grassroot Collective
We are Lakota-led collective fighting against extraction industries focusing on pipeline and mining
Chispa LCV
Chispa wields the power of the people and the strength in our voice to rally and engage grassroots communities, drive awareness and inclusiveness, and boost the local communities’ participation in governance and democracy to shape critical environmental policies and decisions that directly affect our people, our environments and ultimately, our future.
Christians for the Mountains
OUR CORE MISSION IS TO HONOR THE TRUTH OF PSALM 24:1 “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”
Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER)
To raise awareness of the connections between pollution, place and the public's health.
Comité Diálogo Ambiental
El Comité Diálogo Ambiental esta comprometido con el diálogo deliberativo y participativo, para la protección ambiental y el desarrollo sostenible
Common Vision
Common Vision is creating a Healthy and Just Society by growing fruit tree orchards in low-income schools.
Conejos Clean Water
We work to build public awareness and encourage advocacy and education around environmental, social, economic, and food justice issues in the Conejos Land Grant Region.
Conservation Nebraska - Our Legacy Nebraska
Conservation Nebraska protects our state’s natural legacy by educating the public, supporting communities, and increasing civic engagement.
Dakota Resource Council
DRC works with communities across the state to organize around common goals of securing a thriving North Dakota and putting people first. Members take action to create public awareness and shape public policy to ensure safe and responsible development, to protect North Dakota’s agricultural economy, and to establish a foundation for a just transition to a diverse energy economy.
Dakota Rural Action
Dakota Rural Action (DRA) organizes people and builds leadership while developing strong allied relationships. We protect environmental resources, advocate for resilient agriculture systems, and empower people to create policy change that strengthens their communities and cultures.
Delaware Association for Environmental Education
DAEE promotes environmental and outdoor education to facilitate positive impact on the conservation, protection, and sustainability of Delaware’s natural resources by connecting communities to nature.
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.
Edisto Island Open Land Trust
“To preserve the rural quality of life on Edisto by protecting lands, waterways, scenic vistas, and heritage through conservation and education.”
Environmental Volunteers
Promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.
Evangelical Environmental Network
EEN inspires, equips, educates, and mobilizes evangelical Christians to love God and others by rediscovering and reclaiming the Biblical mandate to care for creation and working toward a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world.
Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES)
To empower Filipino/American communities to advocate for environmental justice and a healthy environment.
Friends of the Urban Forest
Our mission is to bring neighbors together to plant and care for San Francisco’s ideal urban forest.
Gather New Haven
Committed to social and environmental justice. Gather New Haven promotes health, equity and justice for people and the environment by cultivating connections and access to our lands and waters and by inspiring us to care for our wellbeing, our shared community, and our environment.
Giniw Collective
Indigenous womxn, two-spirit led resistance to defend our Mother & live in balance. We stand unafraid. Prayers into action.
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, now and for future generations.
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.
GreenRoots
GreenRoots works to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
Grow Smart Rhode Island
Grow Smart RI's mission is to lead and engage Rhode Islanders in advancing neighborhood revitalization, environmental stewardship, and economic opportunity for all.
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.
Heart of the Rockies Initiative
To ensure connected habitat and working lands for people and wildlife by increasing the pace of durable conservation in the Central Rockies of North America.
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 Regeneration
Our mission is to foster sustainable development, preserve cultural heritage, and promote self-determination among our indigenous communities in Southern California.
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance
Protecting the wildlife, wild places, and community character of Jackson Hole by empowering the whole community to live in balance with nature.
Just Transition Northwest Indiana
JTNWI is committed to educating and organizing Northwest Indiana communities and workers, giving voice to our shared stories, and supporting a just transition to a regenerative economy that protects the environment, climate, and future generations.
Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance
To promote greater awareness, appreciation & stewardship of the cultural and natural resources of the Kansas (Kaw) River Valley.
Kootenai Environmental Alliance
To conserve, protect and restore the environment, with a particular emphasis on the Idaho Panhandle and the Coeur d’Alene basin.
Kuaʻāina Ulu ‘Auamo (KUA)
KUA empowers communities to improve their quality of life through caring for their biocultural (natural and cultural) heritage. Our vision is ʻāina momona — abundant and healthy ecological systems in Hawaiʻi that contribute to community well-being.
Land Legacy
Land Legacy is a nonprofit land conservation organization established in January 2003 and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Our mission is to conserve and enhance rural and urban landscapes, thereby improving the quality of life. Our work includes urban parks and trails, farm and ranch preservation, and water quality protection.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) promotes ecological health, environmental stewardship, and community development in Southeast San Francisco by creating urban greening, eco-literacy, community stewardship and workforce development opportunities that directly engage and support local residents in securing a healthier future.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
We’re on a mission to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of Louisiana.
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
To educate, organize, and advocate in defense of Missouri’s people and their environment.
Monadnock Conservancy
As a land trust for southwestern New Hampshire, our mission is to work with communities and landowners to conserve the natural resources, wild and working lands, rural character, and scenic beauty of the Monadnock region. We care for our conservation lands, and we engage people in ways that strengthen their communities and their connections to the land.
Native Lands Restoration Collaborative Inc.
Through community education, Native Lands Restoration Collaborative empowers diverse land stewards to protect and restore resilient native ecosystems.
Nature for All
Our mission is to build a diverse base of support to ensure that everyone in the Los Angeles area has equitable access to the wide range of benefits which nature provides.
Nevada Conservation League Education Fund (NCL EF)
Nevada Conservation League Education Fund (NCL EF) works to protect our climate, air, water, land, and health by translating conservation values into priorities that we actively promote so all Nevada’s communities can thrive. We recognize certain communities are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation and climate disruption and seek more environmentally just outcomes at all levels of our work. We strive to work in a way that recognizes and builds a deeper understanding of issues of racial and social justice and in a way that builds a more inclusive organization.
New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (NEGEF)
The Grassroots Fund is part of a movement to disrupt the power imbalance at the community level and across philanthropy
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC)
We are shifting the cultural paradigm: turning our society away from destruction and toward equitable, Earth-honoring, inclusive community building. We build grassroots power, develop movement infrastructure, and align frontline struggles.
Northern Alaska Environmental Center
The Northern Alaska Environmental Center promotes conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.
Nuestra Tierra Coservation Project
Our mission is to ensure that historically and deliberately excluded communities have access to the outdoors and that their history, values, and people are authentically reflected in public land and water management decisions.
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.
Our City Forest
To protect, restore, and expand the urban forest in San Francisco to create a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient city.
Our Future West Virginia
At Our Future West Virginia, we aim to change the balance of power through grassroots-led policy change, civic engagement, local leadership development, and uniting diverse voices. We stand united in our fight for justice, dignity, and equity for all West Virginians.
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.
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.
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.
Rhythmic Alliance for Community Sustainability
Our mission is to gain access to underserved communities and provide pathways, resources, and education on community sustainability. Through building, educating, and enriching these communities with healthy and renewable food sources.
Rise St. James
Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice as it works to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
Run 4 Salmon
A prayerful journey led by Chief Caleen Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe to restore our salmon runs, protect our waters, and our indigenous lifeways.
Save Our Illinois Land (SOIL)
To halt permitting and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in the Great Lakes Region while meeting the energy demands through a transition to renewable energy and efficiency.
Seventy-Five North
To facilitate the revitalization of a healthy, sustainable, mixed-income community in the Highlander neighborhood. We work to break the cycle of poverty and community deterioration by partnering to create high-quality housing, thriving schools, recreational facilities and other neighborhood enrichment amenities.
Slow Factory
Slow Factory's mission is to restore balance for humans and nature through systemic regenerative design, open education and strategic narrative change.
Socially Responsible Agricultural Project
Through education, advocacy, and organizing, SRAP collaborates with communities to protect public health, environmental quality, and local economies from the damaging impacts of industrial livestock production and to advocate for a socially responsible food future.
Solidago Conservancy
Solidago Conservancy is on a mission to preserve our landscapes and the stories they hold. Solidago works with landowners and other partners to conserve natural areas, protect green spaces and connect people with the open land.
Southwest Conservation Corps
To empower young people through conservation service and education.
Sunflower Land Trust, Inc
The Sunflower Land Trust (SLT) is a Kansas-based land trust established in 1996 with the mission to provide a wide range of conservation activities for Kansas landowners. With decades of conservation and land management experience, SLT can help landowners to better conserve and protect their family land. The Sunflower Land Trust promotes conservation activities by offering a wide range of land protection programs, tax incentives, and real estate options. We also promote legacy, mitigation, and specialized assistance programs.
Sustainability Action Network
The Sustainability Action Network is a non-profit organization that is bringing awareness of a global crisis caused by climate change, energy depletion and economic instability to communities in the Kansas River bioregion. We are initiating positive solutions inspired by the Transition and Permaculture Movements. We bring the tools needed to re-skill and re-localize our economy and create more socially just and ecologically sustainable country and world.
Taproot Earth
Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy. All of our work is rooted in a commitment to Black Liberation.
The Alliance for Appalachia
The Alliance for Appalachia promotes a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction.
The CLEO Institute (Climate Leadership Engagement Opportunities)
To educate and empower communities to demand climate action, ensuring a safe, just, and healthy environment for all
The Descendants Project
We aim to champion the voice of the Black descendant community while demanding action that supports their total well-being.
The Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE)
The Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE), has been active in promoting and providing quality, non-biased and science-based environmental education in Kansas for more than 50 years.
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.
The Service Board
As a youth-led organization the Service Board (tSB) builds community through the power of youth.
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT)
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) is dedicated to protecting land to grow healthy food.
Tree People
TreePeople’s mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share our process as a model for the world.
Trees for Oakland
To plant and care for trees in Oakland to create a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient city.
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.
Un Mar De Colores
We envision a broader and more welcoming surfing community. We’re making it happen with programs that bridge socio-economic gaps, increase coastal access, and encourage personal exploration and expression. The results benefit us all. Our students grow their individual confidence, connection to community, and a lifelong passion for ocean stewardship.
Urban Green Lab
Urban Green Lab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that exists to teach communities how to live sustainably in Nashville, TN and its surrounding counties. We organize teams, train them on making sustainable choices, and connect people with services and peers to walk with on their sustainable journey. We envision a Nashville where everyone has access to opportunities for learning about sustainable living.
Urban Habitat
Urban Habitat is a movement support organization working to democratize power and advance equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color.
Voices for a Sustainable Future
Brings together non-traditional allies to achieve a sustainable future for the planet and its people.
Walnut Way Conservation Corps
Our mission is to create an economically diverse community through environmental stewardship, community engagement, and economic development, ensuring sustainable transformation.
West Virginia Climate Alliance
Members of the Alliance work together to provide science-based education on climate change to West Virginia citizens and policymakers.
West Virginia Rivers
Our mission is to conserve and restore West Virginia’s exceptional rivers and streams. We value clean water as the foundation of life. We believe that all people should respect and be able to enjoy clean West Virginia rivers and streams. We operate under the premise that inclusive and diverse civic engagement is the key to building political power to affect change.
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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