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Action Center on Race and Economy (ACRE)
The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) is a 501(c)(4) organization formed in 2017 that drives political and policy campaigns that fight for structural change. We directly take on the financial institutions and anti-democratic actors that are responsible for pillaging communities of color and poor families, subverting voting rights, and destroying our environment.
Adaptive Sports Center
The Adaptive Sports Center enhances the quality of life of people with disabilities through exceptional outdoor adventure activities. The successful programs the ASC provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our participants in their daily lives and have a positive enduring effect on self-efficacy, health, independence and overall well-being.
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.
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.
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 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.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
We work to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans and build an equitable society for all.
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.
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.
Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice (BBCFHJ)
Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice
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.
Buckeye Environmental Network
The Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN), is a non-profit committed to empowering grassroots organizations, individuals, and local communities to advocate for environmental justice.
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.
Casa Familiar
The mission of Casa Familiar is to enhance quality of life for people living in underserved and underrepresented communities.
CATA - The Farmworker Support Committee
The Mission of CATA is to empower farmworkers and immigrant workers to fight for their rights so they can live a full life. We work together to achieve safe working and living conditions, fair wages, and to be treated with respect and dignity.
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.
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.
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) is a progressive equity-based organization that embodies hope, unites people y pueblos, to create intersectional solutions that transform communities “to bring people together to improve their social and natural environment.” Utilizing the lens of environmental health, we achieve regenerative change by developing resilient BIPOC intergenerational leadership, through the power of community base-building. Through strategic campaigns, we cultivate inclusive self-sustaining neighborhoods, where everyone can live, work, play, and thrive.
Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ)
Reduce health and economic disparities and improve access to clean air, water, and soil in marginalized rural communities by influencing policy, inspiring innovation, catalyzing relevant research, and amplifying the voices of community leaders, all within the context of a changing climate.
Central Florida Jobs With Justice (CF-JWJ)
Central Florida Jobs with Justice believes that all workers should have collective bargaining rights, employment security, and a decent standard of living within an economy that works for everyone. To fight for justice, we form long-term relationships and formal partnerships between labor unions, people of faith, community organizations, and student activists based on shared values.
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.
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.
Concerned Citizens of St. John
Our mission it to advocate for the health and safety of all citizens by working to hold government officials and industry accountable for the quality of our air, water and soil. To collect all facts about our environment and share that information with the citizens of St. John Parish. To aggressively advocate for the safety and future of the children of our parish and provide leadership in moving our community forward in all avenues that impact our daily lives.
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.
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.
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.
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
DARE’s mission is to organize low-income families living in communities of color for social, economic, and political justice.
Disability Justice Culture Club
The Disability Justice Culture Club is an activist house in East Oakland, CA designed w accessibility in mind. It serves as a gathering place for disabled BIPOC community via events, meetings, meals.
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.
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.
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit network of organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating sustainable, just and inclusive economies with opportunities for all — an approach we call "the high road."
Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island
Our mission is to build power in the communities most affected by environmental burdens by developing leaders to take action to promote safe and healthy environments for all; so that we all have a healthy place to live, work, and play regardless of race, ethnicity, or income.
Faith in the Valley
Our mission is to unlock the power of people to put faith into action in the public square, and to advance a movement for racial justice and health equity. We seek to build relational power, lift up a new narrative about the lives of people of color, and drive civic engagement efforts that move our community priorities forward. The following are our core campaigns.
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.
Florida Clinicians for Climate Action
As clinicians in Florida, we educate and engage other Florida clinicians to protect communities against the health harms of Climate Change. We also advocate for equitable public health solutions.
GASP, Inc. (Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution)
Our mission is to enhance the health and wellbeing of Alabamians by reducing air pollution, advancing environmental justice, and promoting climate solutions through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
Georgia WAND Education Fund
Georgia WAND empowers women to advocate for climate, environmental and social justice, grounded in racial equity.
Go Austin! Vamos Austin! (GAVA)
GAVA organizes and mobilizes community power to reduce barriers to health while increasing institutional capacity to respond to the people most impacted by historic inequities.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization.
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.
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
HEAL Utah promotes renewable energy and clean air, and protects public health and the environment from dirty, toxic and nuclear energy threats.
Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Molokai
Hoʻāhu Energy’s mission is to produce community-owned, affordable, renewable energy for the benefit of our members, the community, and environment.
Inclusive Louisiana
Our mission is to spread enlightenment and educate the community about the injustices we see daily in our health, air, water, and soil.
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.
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.
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.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a statewide organization working for a new balance of power and a just society. As we work together we build our strength, individually and as a group, and we find solutions to real life problems. We use direct action to challenge – and change – unfair political, economic and social systems. Our membership is open to all people who are committed to equality, democracy and non-violent change.
Kentucky Environmental Foundation
We accomplish our objectives by engaging in research and public education; improving public access to information; encouraging community participation in environmental decision-making processes; and building consensus among affected peoples, governments, nonprofits and businesses.
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
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.
LEAD Coalition of Bay County
Our mission is to work collaboratively to build trust, increase safety, and restore neighborhoods.
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.
Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA)
The mission of the Local Clean Energy Alliance is to promote the development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change, advancing social and racial justice, and building sustainable and resilient communities.
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
We’re on a mission to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of Louisiana.
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)
The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to assess and mend the environmental problems in Louisiana. LEAN's goal is the creation and maintenance of a cleaner and healthier environment for all of the inhabitants of this state.
Louisiana League of Conscious Voters (LLOCV)
We seek to support, empower, and provide high quality resources to our community in a safe and secure environment.
Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC)
We are working to protect and transform the communities we serve to become self-sustaining communities that honor the living culture and our residence while creating better environments for the future.
Matahari Women Workers’ Center
Matahari is a grassroots organization working to end the exploitation of women and femme workers. We have grown into the largest non-union community organization representing women workers in the domestic and service industries in Massachusetts.
Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)
Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) is a Black-led grassroots movement in Memphis, Tennessee that fought and beat Valero Energy Corporation and Plains All American’s Byhalia Connection Pipeline, a proposed crude oil pipeline that would cut through Southwest Memphis communities already burdened by decades of environmental injustice.
Miami Climate Alliance (MCA)
The Miami Climate Alliance works for equity and resilience by activating community through strategic action, increasing understanding of climate change as a threat to all forms of justice, and building urgency around our shared community well-being. Our mission is to achieve justice for all of Miami's communities in the face of climate change and its effects.
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
To educate, organize, and advocate in defense of Missouri’s people and their environment.
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.
Movimiento Poder
Movimiento Poder is led by working-class Latine immigrants, queer folks, youth, women and families. We build collective power through community organizing, leadership development and civic engagement.
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 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.
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 Alpha Community Development Corporation
Our mission is to create a lasting impact through our initiatives, campaigns, and strategic partnerships. To accomplish our mission, we rely on support from brave groups and individuals just like you, who know that marginalized communities will suffer until we drive exponential change. With your help, we can break socioeconomic barriers and address water, air, land, and healthcare issues that still affect vulnerable communities today.
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
Founded in 1991, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 citywide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice.
New York Renews
NY Renews is a coalition of over 370 environmental, justice, faith, labor, and community groups, and the force behind the nation’s most progressive climate law. We fight for good jobs and climate justice, and we’re not finished yet.
North Dakota Environmental Health Association
The mission of the North Dakota Environmental Health Association is to promote and protect the environmental health of the citizens of North Dakota wherever they live, work, or play. We unite with individuals, families, and communities to improve environmental health and enhance their quality of life.
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.
North Montgomery Citizens United for Prosperity (MCUP)
MCUP and its partners working collaboratively to improve the quality of life & health of N. Montgomery County MS residents through education, intergenerational leadership development & planning to create sustainable & thriving places & spaces.
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's Advocacy Institute
Our mission is to equip people most impacted by systemic violence with the tools to disrupt the criminal and juvenile punishment systems and create a new system founded in human justice, re-education, restitution, restoration and individual and collective healing.
People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo)
The mission of PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in Buffalo.
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.
Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people
Racial and Environmental Justice Committee (REJC 401)
The Racial & Environmental Justice Committee (REJC) transforms the collective priorities of BIPOC, low wealth, frontline communities in Providence into policy solutions to cultivate a world where everyone lives well without living better at the expense of others. The REJC facilitates co-governance so that decision-making is shared between communities at the frontlines of environmental and racial injustices and the institutions that formally hold decision-making power..
Resilience Force
Resilience Force is a voice for the emerging workforce that helps us come home after climate disasters: the Resilience Workforce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Southeast Climate & Energy Network (SCEN)
Our mission is to confront the climate crisis by creating strategic alignment, growing capacity, and building power among member organizations and their communities in the Southeastern United States.
Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling - Los Angeles (Stand-LA)
STAND-L.A. is an environmental justice coalition of community groups that seeks to end neighborhood drilling to protect the health and safety of Angelenos on the front lines of urban oil extraction.
Steps Coalition
To build a democratic movement to create a healthy, just and equitable Mississippi Gulf Coast, by developing local leadership, supporting communities to advocate for their needs, and by facilitating communication, coordination, and collaboration among our membership.
Sustainable Food Center
Sustainable Food Center transforms the food system to nourish our health, land, and livelihood.
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 Black Hive
We are a cohort of Black climate and environmental justice experts who use our collective experience and knowledge to assess how climate change and ecological destruction impact Black communities in the U.S. and across the Global Black Diaspora. Together, we organize for cleaner, better, and safer futures for Black lives.
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 Green Urban Lunch Box
To empower people to connect to food and their community by revitalizing urban spaces and building a resilient food culture.
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 POINT Community Development Corporation
THE POINT Community Development Corporation is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Celebrating over 20 years of service, THE POINT offers a multi-faceted approach to asset-based community development. Its programming falls within three main headings all aimed at the comprehensive revitalization of the Hunts Point community: Youth Development, Arts and Culture and Community Development.
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