The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) is dedicated to protecting land to grow healthy food.

The Vessel Project of Louisiana is a grassroots mutual aid, disaster relief, and environmental justice organization founded in Southwest Louisiana in response to several federally declared disasters, including hurricanes Laura and Delta, winter storm Uri, and the May flood of 2021. The Vessel Project realizes the intersectionality of the challenges that plague BIPOC communities and works holistically to achieve environmental and climate justice, voting rights, and access to housing, energy, clean water, safe fresh produce, and healthcare.

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.

Empowering Lakota youth and families to improve the health, culture, and environment of our communities through the healing and strengthening of cultural identity.

Through outdoor programs, financially-accessible to all, Trail Blazers equips and empowers youth to build values for life.

We are dedicated to the advancement of transgender rights throughout all aspects of society by promoting athletics as a platform of transgender awareness and inclusion.

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.

To plant and care for trees in Oakland to create a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient city.

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.

Ujima cultivates community through food justice, environmental stewardship, and youth empowerment.

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.

To empower communities to ensure human dignity.

Unlikely Hikers is a diverse, anti-racist, body-liberating outdoor community.

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.

Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood through community organizing, education, indigenous and youth leadership development, and cultural/artistic expression. Central to our work is advocacy to ensure meaningful community engagement, participatory community planning practices, and sustainable development with justice and governmental accountability. As lead advocates of climate justice, UPROSE views the just urban policy—ranging from transportation to open space—as the heart of climate adaptation and community resilience.

To empower youth through urban agriculture and environmental education.

Our Mission is: Empowering, educating, and serving communities by utilizing trees for their environmental, economic, and social benefits.

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 Community AgriNomic’s mission is to improve the health and wellness of our community. Our programs shall provide education on healthy lifestyles, seed-to-table food preparation and preservation, and hands-on STEM and agricultural skills. We empower Durham families with access to resources to grow their own healthy food using sustainable practices in a supportive environment.

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.

We aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, our mission is to cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture.

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 Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems

Urban Sprouts believes everyone has the right to healthy food, quality education, beautiful outdoor environments & to earn a living wage.

To cultivate a healthy, just, and sustainable food system through urban agriculture and education.

As part of a global movement for collective liberation, we work to end U.S. complicity in Israel's massive violence against the Palestinian people.

Preserve and protect the cultural and natural resources of ancestral Native American Lands to benefit and bring healing to people and the Earth.

VAYLA incubates AAPI leaders for a more just tomorrow. VAYLA exists as an embodiment and commitment to activating tomorrow’s AAPI leaders in New Orleans and beyond. We engender leadership to address social inequities facing our community while anchored in an anti-racist, Queer, Feminist lens. At the forefront of these issues we focus on environmental justice, reproductive justice, and civic engagement initiatives.

To provide a safe and fun space for queer, trans, and LGBTQ+ people to experience the outdoors.

Through research, education, collaboration and advocacy, VNRC protects and enhances Vermont’s natural environments, vibrant communities, productive working landscapes, rural character and unique sense of place, and prepares the state for future challenges and opportunities.

The Vermont Releaf Collective cultivates connection, shares resources, and amplifies the voices of people of color in Vermont within our focus areas of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Foodways. We are a collaborative ecosystem for growing power and community for our members.

To build the health and wealth of communities of color, low-income communities, and communities overburdened by pollution in Virginia by reducing the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards through educating, empowering, and mobilizing grassroots organizations and individuals to speak for themselves and through building an alliance to advocate for equitable policies and practices.

Brings together non-traditional allies to achieve a sustainable future for the planet and its people.

To bring people from all walks of life together to heal in solidarity through the arts, health, and wellness

Our mission is to create an economically diverse community through environmental stewardship, community engagement, and economic development, ensuring sustainable transformation.

WeCount! is a non-profit, membership organization of immigrant workers and families in South Florida, including agricultural workers, construction workers, and domestic workers. We are fighting for better living and working conditions in Miami-Dade, Florida.

WeGotNext amplifies individual stories of adventure and activism from communities that have been underrepresented in outdoor and environmental spaces.

West County DIGS supports school gardens in West Contra Costa by providing resources, curriculum, advocacy, partnerships, and more.

All of WERA’s past and current projects have been governed by our vision to maintain sustainable and historic African American communities through environmental protection, preservation, stabilization, and planned development.

To collect and analyze environmental data to inform decision-making and improve environmental quality in West Oakland.

West Street Recovery’s mission is to connect communities to the resources that they need to not only rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, but to build communities that are resilient, secure and stronger than before.

Members of the Alliance work together to provide science-based education on climate change to West Virginia citizens and policymakers.

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.

Whitelock Community Farm is a vibrant open space that grows food and activates community to promote social equity in the neighborhood.

At the core of Wild Diversity's mission is a deep commitment to nurturing the growth and learning of BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Communities. We are industry leaders in transforming individuals into joy seekers, adventurers, and leaders. This transformation occurs through our holistic approach, which combines community workshops, thrilling adventures, engaging outings, and the unifying power of community.

The mission of Winneshiek Energy District is to lead, implement, and accelerate the locally-owned, inclusive, clean energy transition in Winneshiek County. Our key strategies together build an unstoppable flywheel of momentum, and include energy planning, market transformation, public engagement, policy advocacy, and readiness. As the founding Energy District, our mission also includes the demonstration of the energy district model viability, and the growth of an energy district network throughout Iowa and beyond.

We are working to raise equity and increase participation in environmental quality and conservation efforts by empowering the Latino community and minorities to take action against environmental hazards affecting our community and reduce our carbon footprint. We pursue an equitable and sustainable environment by eliminating language and social barriers while advocating for the inclusion of our community in the transition to the clean energy economy and climate change adaptation.

Wisconsin Environmental Justice Infrastructure Initiative is changing the narrative by bringing together diverse grass roots groups, Black and other communities of color, to develop an innovative statewide Environmental Justice Initiative that is community-driven and equity-centered.

Wisconsin Green Muslims (formerly known as the Islamic Environmental Group of Wisconsin), a grassroots environmental justice group formed in 2005, intends to educate the Muslim community and the general public about the Islamic environmental justice teachings, to apply these teachings in daily life and to contribute to collaborations and coalitions working toward a just, healthy, peaceful and sustainable future.

To build partnerships between labor unions and environmental groups to advance environmental justice and worker rights.

WyAEE’s mission is to strengthen and amplify the work of environmental educators.

PROTECTING WYOMING'S ENVIRONMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE

To empower communities to take action and advocate against the crisis of lead exposure and environmental injustice in disadvantaged communities.

To empower youth through arts education and community engagement.

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.

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.

To empower Zuni youth to become leaders in their communities and the world.