The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
Black people Will Swim
Black People Will Swim’s mission is plain and simple: smashing the stereotype that Black people don’t swim.
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.
Penn Center
The mission of Penn Center is to promote and preserve Penn’s true history and culture through its commitment to education, community development and social justice.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Acadia Center
Acadia Center’s mission is to advance bold, effective clean energy solutions for a livable climate and a stronger, more equitable economy.
Acta Non Verba - Youth Urban Farm Project
To empower youth through urban agriculture and environmental education.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Alliance for Renewable Energy of Laramie
Our mission is to transition our communities to renewable energy based on scientific data, economic fairness, public education, and support.
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine raises awareness about Israel's use of water as a weapon against the people of Palestine.
Alternatives for Community and Environment
ACE builds the power of communities of color and low-income communities in Massachusetts to eradicate environmental racism and classism, create healthy, sustainable communities, and achieve environmental justice.
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.
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.
Appalachian Voices
We envision an Appalachia with healthy ecosystems and resilient local economies that allow communities to thrive.
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.
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.
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.
Arkansas Community Organizations
We envision an Arkansas and nation where every person has access to affordable healthcare, secure housing, a livable income, and a nurturing community.
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.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
To advance environmental justice and empower Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Autistic People of Color Fund
To empower and support the Autistic People of Color (APOC) community through advocacy, education, and resource sharing.
Bay Nature Magazine
To inspire people to connect with and protect the natural world through storytelling, education, and community engagement.
Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
To empower Bayview-Hunters Point residents to advocate for environmental justice and economic development.
Blackbelt Citizens Fighting For Health and Justice
We work towards a Uniontown and Black Belt region where all people will unite to act in love for shared liberty and justice for all. We, the Freedom Fighters, based in Uniontown Alabama will demonstrate faith in action by embracing and encouraging solutions against all injustices.
Black Environmental Leaders Association
We work collectively to provide a forum for community environmental education which can serve as the basis of a deeper understanding and commitment to land, water, air, transportation and energy issues that impact our economic bottom line, through the lens of health, diversity, inclusion and equity.
Black Girl Environmentalist
Black Girl Environmentalist is a national organization dedicated to addressing the pathway and retention issue in the climate movement for Black girls, women and gender-expansive people.
Blacks in Green (BIG NFP)
Blacks in Green - BIG™ is a national network for environmental justice and economic development created to close America’s racial health/wealth gap via the new green economy using a whole-system solution for the whole-system problem common to Black communities everywhere.
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness is committed to healing, educating, inspiring, and supporting Black women, so we may tap our personal power to enhance and improve our health and well being.
Blue Sky Fund
Blue Sky Fund is a youth development non-profit that provides transformational experiences for Richmond area youth through outdoor education.
Brown Ascenders
Our goal is to Increase accessibility of outdoor spaces, outdoor related education and recreation for BIPOC adults and youths, while cultivating outlets for community, representation, and growth.
Brown Grove Preservation Group
Protecting our African American community from environmental racism.
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.
Casa Familiar
The mission of Casa Familiar is to enhance quality of life for people living in underserved and underrepresented communities.
Catalyst Miami
Our mission is to build power with frontline communities throughout Miami-Dade County to collectively advance justice and achieve shared prosperity. Our vision is a just society where everyone can lead healthy, prosperous, self-determined lives.
Catholic Climate Covenant
The mission of Catholic Climate Covenant is to inspire and mobilize the U.S. Catholic community to care for creation and achieve climate justice through the lens of integral ecology.
Causa Justa
Causa Justa :: Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, we improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.
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.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice helps build healthy communities nationwide. Since its founding in 1981, CHEJ has grown into the nation’s leading resource for grassroots environmental activism, a ground-breaking, progressive organization with a vision for clean, green neighborhoods built from hard-won experience fighting for environmental justice.
Charleston Climate Coalition
CCC works on many fronts to expand awareness and inspire citizens and elected officials to address the roots causes of climate change.
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL – pronounced “circle”) is a community led non-profit group that organizes and educates on issues of clean air, community health and environmental justice in Chester City, PA and the neighboring region. CRCQL has been leading the environmental justice movement in Chester, PA since 1992.
Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice
To center the people most impacted by environmental injustice and provide an Asian American voice in the environmental justice movement.
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.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that cultivates the well-being of our communities through creative programming in kid-driven gardens. We envision cities with abundant, accessible green spaces where communities thrive and children build lifelong connections to the natural world. Applying our unique brand of gardens, science, art, healthy living, and community building, we "blossom" in neighborhoods where kids, their families, and neighbors may not otherwise have access to green spaces.
City Kids Wilderness Project
City Kids Wilderness Project is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that providing enriching life experiences for DC youth can enhance their lives, the lives of their families and the greater community.
City Slicker Farms
To provide fresh, locally grown produce to San Francisco residents and businesses while creating jobs and training opportunities for underserved communities.
CivicSpark
To empower young people to engage in community service and environmental stewardship.
Climate Generation
Igniting and sustaining the ability of educators, youth, and communities to act on systems perpetuating the climate crisis.
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.
Coal River Mountain Watch
The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.
Color of Climate
To center Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth voices, experiences and narratives within the climate change crises and within environmental justice issues, especially because BIPOC communities and individuals are often the most impacted by these issues.
Comite Civico del Valle
Through partnerships improve access to health services, research, community service programs, and environmental justice to disadvantaged communities by way of education, capacity building, and civic participation.
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.
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.
Community Action of Napa Valley
To empower people and families to achieve self-sufficiency through education, advocacy, and support services.
Community Housing Empowerment Connection Inc. (CHEC)
It is the mission of the Community Housing and Empowerment Connections Inc. (CHEC) to build just, healthy and strong communities through advocacy, education and community partnerships.
Community to Community
We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.
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.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Our purpose is to improve urban environmental health, primarily in Connecticut, through educating our community, through promoting changes in governmental policy, and through promoting individual, corporate and governmental responsibility towards our environment. We define environment as including the places where we live, work, play and go to school.
Conservation Nebraska - Our Legacy Nebraska
Conservation Nebraska protects our state’s natural legacy by educating the public, supporting communities, and increasing civic engagement.
Cooperation Jackson
Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.
Coshocton Environmental and Community Awareness, Inc.
Our mission is education, civic action promoting health and environmental justice, and coalition-building with like-minded grassroots organizations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Delaware Concerned Residents for Environmental Justice
Our mission is to inform and empower communities to protect clean & healthy air, water, land & food.
Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates (DDSAE)
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.
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Led by a team of activists, advocates, organizers, artists and storytellers, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) advocates for a healthy environment through innovative community and policy action that values all people.
Disabled Hikers
Disabled Hikers mission is to build disability community and justice in the outdoors towards a vision of an outdoor culture transformed by representation, access, and justice for Disabled and all other marginalized people.
Dogwood Alliance
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect Southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
Eagle Eye Institute
PURPOSE is to offer learning programs/opportunities for primarily Black and Brown youth to experience well being, belonging and empowerment through a relationship with nature.
Earth Charter Indiana
Earth Charter Indiana exists to inspire and advance sustainable, just and peaceful living in Indiana by promoting the values and principles of the Earth Charter.
Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light
Earth Ministry/WA IPL transforms faith into action for the well-being of communities and the environment. We organize people of faith and conscience to advocate for strong environmental policies and provide strategic guidance to religious communities working toward environmental justice.
East Michigan Environmental Action Council
East Michigan Environmental Action Council works to build a movement to produce environmental justice as a transformation of society.
Ecology Center
To empower people to protect and restore the environment through education, advocacy, and action.
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Committed to mutual respect and understanding, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon brings together diverse communities of faith to learn, serve and advocate for justice, peace and the integrity of creation.
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.”
Education Economics Environmental Climate and Health Organization Inc. (EEECHO)
EEECHO’s mission is to support equitable inclusion of impacted communities in decision-making and apply our lived experiences to knowledge building and training opportunities that bolster the ability to be self-determinants of key strategic approaches to overcoming systemic injustices and move beyond surviving to thriving.
Environmental Justice Evanston
We are committed to highlighting inequities and reducing their disproportionate impacts on the health and quality of life for low income, Black, Indigenous, and all people of color in Evanston
Environmental Volunteers
Promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.
Equitable Giving Circle
Our mission is to inspire and create economic empowerment through authentic engagement and action within our community. We will bring forth healing from late-stage capitalism and colonialism through reparative and radical giving.
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.
Family Action Network Movement
FANM’s MISSION is to empower low to moderate income families socially, financially, and politically and to give them the tools to transform their communities. FANM's VISION is to be a leader in creating a sustainable village where thriving families can raise well-rounded children in peace and harmony.
Family Agriculture Resource Management Services
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.
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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