The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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People Power Solar Cooperative
To empower communities to take control of their energy future by developing, owning, and operating solar power projects.
Planting Justice
To cultivate a just and sustainable food system through community gardening, urban agriculture, and food education.
Poder Latinx
To build power and advance the collective interests of the Latinx community through grassroots organizing and advocacy.
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.
Quaker Earthcare Witness
Quaker Earthcare Witness is a network of Quakers inspiring Spirit-led action for ecological integrity and environmental justice.
Queer Climbing Collective
The QCC hopes to connect the LGBTQIA2S+ community through our love for climbing and the outdoors. #SendWithPride
Queer Ecojustice Project
To aid organizing, land-based healing, and cultivating spaces of queer joy.
Queer Surf
Supporting queer wellness, increasing acess to nature and science, and expanding surf culture
Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign
The Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign’s focus is taking on California’s failed private utility model by pushing for a restructuring of the state’s energy system that would meet the needs of our most impacted communities—towards the vision of a new decentralized, democratized energy system in California.
Resilient Roots Farm
To cultivate a sustainable and culturally relevant food system in the East Oakland community.
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
We support grassroots initiatives that help build a world in which individuals, organizations, and communities are empowered to promote stewardship of nature, inspire people to take action, and hold government and corporations accountable.
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.
Sacred Land Film Project
Our mission is to use film, journalism and education to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and help protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Seed the Commons/Millahcayotl Association
Our goal is to decrease dependence on and participation in the global corporate food complex by promoting small-scale, decentralized alternatives that are healthy and just for producers, eaters and communities as a whole. We integrate an animal liberation perspective and uphold models that are not reliant on animals for food or labor.
SF Permaculture
To educate and inspire people to live more sustainable lives through permaculture principles and practices.
Soy Sauce Nation
Our mission is to create space for underrepresented people and groups by highlighting them through media, producing events, and partnering with the best-of brands that believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We bring people together, celebrate differences, and create connections so that everyone continues to participate in snowboarding with passion.
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.
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) builds grassroots power to create social and economic justice for low-income, female, immigrant, black, and brown communities in Los Angeles.
Sunflower Alliance
To build a movement for environmental justice and sustainability in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.
Sustainable Contra Costa
Sustainable Contra Costa is a community of citizens, educators, innovators, and organizations designing and building pathways to ecologically sustainable, economically vibrant, and socially just communities for all.
The Greenlining Institute
To advance economic opportunity and racial equity for communities of color in 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!
The Suitcase Clinic
The Suitcase Clinic is a humanitarian student organization and volunteer community that offers free health and social services to underserved populations. Structured around the principles of public health, social welfare, and community activism, it currently operates three weekly multi-service drop-in centers in the city of Berkeley: the General Clinic, the Womxn’s Clinic and the Youth/LGBTQ+ Clinic. In addition to providing services, it strives to educate students, engage in community organization, and support public policy efforts that address homelessness in the local community. We are a group of volunteers, mainly composed of undergraduate students, in a cooperative relationship with the community to serve as advocates for the locally underserved population. We aim to provide continuous aid through health and social services to the homeless and low-income groups, regardless of their ability to pay.
The Women's Building
The Women’s Building is a safe place focused on women’s issues. Here everyone can come together and find their own confidence and strength. We offer everyone the tools and resources to create better lives for themselves, their family and their community.
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.
UndocuFund
The UndocuFund for Disaster Relief in Sonoma County, was founded in October 2017, in response to the Tubbs wildfire. It was launched by a coalition of immigrant service providers and advocates to provide direct assistance to undocumented victims of the Northern California fires. The fund ceased operations December 31, 2018; it was re-activated in October 26, 2019 in response to the Kincade Fire. We are now activating the fund again in March of 2020; the fund seeks to support undocumented children, families, and communities in Sonoma County affected by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
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 Adamah
Urban Adamah seeks to build a more loving, just, and sustainable world. We ground and connect people — to themselves, to others, and to the natural world. We do this by providing farm-based, community building experiences that integrate Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action.
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.
Urban Sprouts
Urban Sprouts believes everyone has the right to healthy food, quality education, beautiful outdoor environments & to earn a living wage.
Urban Tilth
To cultivate a healthy, just, and sustainable food system through urban agriculture and education.
Veggie Mijas
We are a community of women, trans, and gender non-conforming people who are dedicated to advocating for plant-based lifestyles and food justice within marginalized communities.
Walk Good LA
To bring people from all walks of life together to heal in solidarity through the arts, health, and wellness
West County DIGS
West County DIGS supports school gardens in West Contra Costa by providing resources, curriculum, advocacy, partnerships, and more.
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
To collect and analyze environmental data to inform decision-making and improve environmental quality in West Oakland.
Working Partnerships USA
To build partnerships between labor unions and environmental groups to advance environmental justice and worker rights.
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA)
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color, the majority from low-income communities, provides a safe space for young people to empower ourselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing.
Youth Vs Apocalypse
We are a diverse group of young climate justice activists working together to lift the voices of youth, in particular youth of color and working class youth. Our collective action aims to fight for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.
IE Amplified Orgs
The IE Amplifier Program is a media capacity-building initiative that aims to amplify the efforts of participating organizations across IE’s media ecosystem. Through the IE Amplifier Program, Intersectional Environmentalist designs engaging social media assets, toolkits, videos, and other resources for participating organizations with the goal of connecting people with organizations leading intersectional approaches to environmentalism in their own communities.
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