The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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Hawaii Hawaii

‘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.

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California California

Berkeley Student Food Collective

The Food Collective started in 2009, in tandem with student protests against the university’s planned installation of fast food chains in Lower Sproul, such as Panda Express. Students quickly became inspired to do themselves what the institution did not, and supported by a $90,000 grant from TGIF funds, the Food Collective took its start, moving into the storefront in November 2010.

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Ohio Ohio

Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC)

The mission of the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) is to build a multi-state campaign that amplifies black voices, dismantles the colonized narrative of Appalachia, and uses story-based strategies and solutions that center the voices and lived experience of Black Appalachians.

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Illinois Illinois

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.

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Washington Washington

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.

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Connecticut Connecticut

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.

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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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North Dakota North Dakota

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.

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South Dakota South Dakota

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.

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Oklahoma Oklahoma

Deep Fork Community Action Partnership

Community Action changes people’s lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.

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Georgia Georgia

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.

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California California

East Bay Food Not Bombs

East Bay Food Not Bombs was formed in February of 1991. We have served in People’s Park since the beginning, and have a long connection to that land, which is occupied Ohlone territory. Food Not Bombs is a loosely linked network of autonomous collectives across the country and the world, all focused on providing nutritious, free vegetarian food to anyone who wants it. We are horizontally organized and committed to food justice and food waste reduction as well as houseless advocacy. The East Bay chapter is the longest continually operating chapter of Food Not Bombs — for 29 years we haven’t stopped.We serve hot food five days a week in People’s Park, two days a week in Oakland, and do mobile outreach at encampments around Oakland and Berkeley 3-4 days a week. We are based out of the Omni Commons on Shattuck Ave but have cookhouses scattered across the East Bay. We get our produce from grocery stores and farmer’s markets that donate things to us, and the staples from the food bank. Almost all of the produce we cook with is organic and sustainably farmed.East Bay Food Not Bombs is a testament to the sustainability of mutual aid in the long term. We are committed to supporting and loving our community in the East Bay.

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California California

East Oakland Collective

Working to increase Black resident knowledge and unity around collective and/or cooperative economic opportunities in the areas of savings, home and commercial ownership, small business and entrepreneurship.Food Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to bring resources to Oakland’s most vulnerable residents. Alleviate food insecurity in marginalized communities through the distribution and redistribution of food (food rescue), essential supplies and Housing Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to increase traditional and innovative housing options for no to low income residents of Oakland. Shift the paradigm on what housing is and means for vulnerable communities. Change the narrative on homelessness and hold the powers that be accountable for housing being a basic human right.resources. Expand the access to fresh and nutritious food options in East Oakland.

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Maryland Maryland

EcoSikh

EcoSikh is a response from the Sikh community to the threats of climate change and the deterioration of the natural environment.

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Oregon Oregon

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.

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Oregon Oregon

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.

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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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California California

Food Runners

The mission of Food Runners is to help alleviate hunger in San Francisco, to help prevent waste and to help create community. Food Runners is currently delivering over 17 tons of food a week that would otherwise be thrown away. With help from our volunteer coordinator, our paid truck driver and people like you, we can provide enough food for over 20,000 meals every week in San Francisco.

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Connecticut Connecticut

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.

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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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Washington Washington

Got Green Seattle

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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Massachusetts Massachusetts

GreenRoots

GreenRoots works to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.

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California California

Green Technical Education and Employment

Green Tech offers innovative workforce skills to youth and young adults in frontline communities with an emphasis on environmental protection, justice and economic development. Our activities focus on career opportunities in construction, manufacturing, utilities, transportation and environmental management.

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Illinois Illinois

Grow Greater Englewood (GGE)

Grow Greater Englewood is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.

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California California

HEAL Food Alliance

HEAL’s mission is to build our collective power to create food and farm systems that are healthy for our families, accessible and affordable for all communities, and fair to the working people who grow, distribute, prepare, and serve our food — while protecting the air, water, and land we all depend on.

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Mississippi Mississippi

Higher Purpose Co

Higher Purpose Co.'s® mission is to build community wealth with Black residents in Mississippi by supporting the ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Our theory of change is anchored by an integrated model: asset building, narrative change, and advocacy.

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South Dakota South Dakota

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.

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New Jersey New Jersey

Ironbound Community Corporation

Founded in 1969, Ironbound Community Corporation’s (ICC’s) mission is to engage and empower individuals, families, and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community.

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New York New York

Just Food

Just Food works passionately to shift the power, health, and wealth of historically marginalized communities that have been purposely divested from by developing community-driven solutions to inequities within the New York regional food system.

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Michigan Michigan

Keep Growing Detroit

Keep Growing Detroit’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits. Our strategic approach to achieving our mission facilitates beginner gardeners becoming engaged community leaders and food entrepreneurs, addressing the immediate needs of the community while promoting sustainable change in our food system. To these ends, KGD operates a number of nationally recognized programs including the Garden Resource Program, which supports a network of more than 2,000 urban gardens and farms in the city and Grown in Detroit, which provides urban growers with low-barrier opportunities to sell the fruits and vegetables they grow at local market outlets. KGD also operates a 1.38-acre urban farm and teaching facility located in Detroit’s historic Eastern Market District

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Indiana Indiana

Kheprw Institute

Kheprw Institute (KI) works to create a more just, equitable, human-centered world by nurturing youth and young adults to be leaders, critical thinkers, and doers who see the people in any community as the most valuable assets and are committed to working with community assets to bring about change that leads to empowered self-reliant and self-determining communities

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New Mexico New Mexico

Los Jardines Institue

The work of the founders of Los Jardines Institute spans over 70 years of social, environmental and economic justice organizing, education and building a multi-generational movement.We are a predominately volunteer-run organization that supports itself through our projects and grass roots fundraising.

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Georgia Georgia

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.

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Guam Guam

Micronesia Climate Change Alliance

Our mission is to construct the importance of climate change as a threat multiplier to Pacific Islands. Our network seeks to build urgency and cohesion through local communities and create a model that is resilient in the face of climate change. We exist as a local hub for climate injustice, shedding light on the many public policy issues affecting our community such as emergency preparedness and disaster response, food security, extreme heat, and tropical diseases.

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Vermont Vermont

Migrant Justice

Our mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights. We gather the farmworker community to discuss and analyze shared problems and to envision collective solutions.

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Nebraska Nebraska

Morton Meadows Neighborhood Assosication

Preservation of historic & residential character of the neighborhood through compatible land use & housing rehabilitation; promotion of better facilities & services to meet needs of residents of community; improvement of physical appearance of neighborhood, in order to make it an aesthetically distinctive & pleasing area of the city; analysis of advantages & problems of life within the community as means of aiding in determination of needs & priorities with regard to community development & education of public on subjects useful to individual & beneficial to community.

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Alaska Alaska

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.

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North Carolina North Carolina

North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP)

The Land Loss Prevention Project was founded in 1982 by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers to curtail epidemic losses of Black owned land in North Carolina. Land Loss Prevention Project was incorporated in the state of North Carolina in 1983. The organization broadened its mission in 1993 to provide legal support and assistance to all financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners in North Carolina.

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Texas Texas

Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council (NEHRC)

The Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council, 501c3 non profit(NEHRC) is a grassroots community organization. We advocate for issues that affect our community in Northeast Houston and develop programs that process resources to directly benefit our community.

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California California

Project New Village

To serve as a catalyst for resident-led, community-rooted experiences that BUILD stronger neighborhoods; IMPROVE the neighborhood food supply chain; STIMULATE collective investment in better health; and MAXIMIZE the impact of investment to address social inequities.

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Ohio Ohio

Rid-All Institute

We have turned an empty and forgotten piece of land in Cleveland’s Kinsman Neighborhood into an urban farm where we grow produce to bring healthy, local food to area institutions...

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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.

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Delaware Delaware

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.

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Missouri Missouri

Solidarity Economy St. Louis

Solidarity Economy St. Louis is a network of groups and individuals striving to build and grow a “solidarity economy;" that is, an economy that embodies the values of justice, sustainability, self-determination, and cooperation while resisting the notion of “every person for themselves.”

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Michigan Michigan

Soulardarity

Soulardarity is building a brighter future in Highland Park with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. We are working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with our neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all.

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Kansas Kansas

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.

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Vermont Vermont

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.

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Indiana Indiana

Teter Organic Farm

Our mission at Teter is to increase access to healthy food for the vulnerable and provide ecological education while building relationships and community. We believe we can help create an equitable food system that provides the nutrition, community, and ecological healing that allows everyone to thrive.

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Connecticut Connecticut

The Food Justice Framework

The Food Justice Framework (FJF) is a free online tool developed by Green Village Initiative (GVI): a nonprofit working to grow food, knowledge, leadership, and community, through urban farming and gardening, to create a more just food system in Bridgeport, CT.

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South Dakota South Dakota

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.

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Arkansas Arkansas

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.

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California California

The Ron Finley Project

The Ron Finley Project is teaching communities how to transform food deserts into food sanctuaries, and teaching individuals how to regenerate their lands into creative business models. We envision and want to facilitate a world where gardening is gangsta!

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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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