The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
People vs. Fossil Fuels Coalition
People vs. Fossil Fuels is a coalition of over 1,200 groups pressuring President Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop the federal approval of all new fossil fuel projects. Join the movement and sign your organization on!
Philly Thrive
Philly Thrive organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice in the poorest big city in the U.S. We work to heal the unmet needs the current extractive economy creates for communities while taking direct action to transform the extractive economy into a regenerative one.
Pigtown Climbs
To use climbing as a means to promote racial justice, health, and environmental initiatives within Southwest Baltimore.
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.
Planting Justice
To cultivate a just and sustainable food system through community gardening, urban agriculture, and food education.
Poder in Action
We build power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future as people of color in Arizona.
Poder Latinx
To build power and advance the collective interests of the Latinx community through grassroots organizing and advocacy.
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
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
We build power with our community through strategic organizing and policy advocacy to build a strong and fair Nevada that puts people and planet first.
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.
Protect Our Winters
POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places we live and experiences we love from climate change.
Pueblo Action Alliance
Pueblo Action Alliance is a community driven grassroots organization that protects Pueblo cultural sustainability and community defense by addressing environmental and social impacts in Indigenous communities.
Pure Justice
The mission of Pure Justice is to empower our members and supporters to advocate for the changes they want to see in our criminal justice system and for the economic opportunities they need. Through community organizing and civic engagement, we aim to transform institutions, create equity, and improve the lives of low to moderate income families in Harris County.
QPOC Hikers
QPOC Hikers is based in the Pacific Northwest and exists to connect queer people of color with hiking and the outdoors by creating space to share stories and experiences, increasing visibility, representation, and awareness, and organizing opportunities for learning and growth.
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 Nature
To create a more inclusive and equitable outdoor community for LGBTQ+ people.
Queer Surf
Supporting queer wellness, increasing acess to nature and science, and expanding surf culture
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..
REACT (Rubbertown Emergency Action)
Rubbertown Emergency ACTion (REACT) is a grassroots organization of residents living near or at the fence lines of a cluster of 11 chemical plants in Louisville commonly referred to as Rubbertown.
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.
ReImagine Appalachia
Reimagine Appalachia was born out of a broad recognition that the economy has not been working for most people and places in the Ohio River Valley. In response, a diverse set of economic, environmental and community leaders, and grassroots organizations, came together to find common ground and build the future we want to see—a 21st century economy that’s good for workers, communities, and the environment.
Remote Energy
Remote Energy mentors aspiring Solar PV (Photovoltaic) technicians and motivated instructors in remote and underrepresented communities worldwide. No matter your experience or background, we can offer the tools and skills needed to get you started on your Solar PV training journey.
Resilience Force
Resilience Force is a voice for the emerging workforce that helps us come home after climate disasters: the Resilience Workforce.
Resilient Roots Farm
To cultivate a sustainable and culturally relevant food system in the East Oakland community.
Rhythmic Alliance for Community Sustainability
Our mission is to gain access to underserved communities and provide pathways, resources, and education on community sustainability. Through building, educating, and enriching these communities with healthy and renewable food sources.
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...
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.
Rising Hearts
An Indigenous led organization elevating Indigenous voices & foster intersectional growth thru organizing & programming
Roots 2 Empower
Roots 2 Empower's mission is to promote economic empowerment to break the cycle of incarceration, poverty, and recidivism for low-income and marginalized communities.
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.
SAFE Diversity Communities
We are committed to Educate and Empower our students for Environmental Justice that will make a lasting impact on the future of our communities.
SAGE Development Authority
SAGE Development Authority exists to ensure energy independence, protect the environment, and promote economic growth in the region, for the Tribe.
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.
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.
Seed St. Louis
Our purpose is to provide communities with the tools, education, and empowerment to grow their own food.
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.
Sending in Color
We strive to create a diverse and inclusive climbing community and industry by implementing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles to break down barriers of accessibility for all Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and create educational spaces to introduce new climbers to the sport and the outdoors.
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.
SF Permaculture
To educate and inspire people to live more sustainable lives through permaculture principles and practices.
Slow Factory
Slow Factory's mission is to restore balance for humans and nature through systemic regenerative design, open education and strategic narrative change.
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.
Solidago Conservancy
Solidago Conservancy is on a mission to preserve our landscapes and the stories they hold. Solidago works with landowners and other partners to conserve natural areas, protect green spaces and connect people with the open land.
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.”
Sol Nation
Sol Nation’s vision is to create self-lead BIPOC communities who prioritizes black issues, establishes climate justice solutions, and provides the next generation with access to knowledge and resources, including school curricula with environmental justice standards.
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.
Soul Fire Farm
Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
Soul Trak Outdoors
Soul Trak Outdoors is a D.C. based nonprofit organization that connects communities of color to outdoor spaces while also building a coalition of diverse outdoor leaders.
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.
Southern Echo
Southern Echo’s mission is to empower African Americans and low wealth communities throughout Mississippi and the Southern Region with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to impact and demand accountability of the political, education, economic and environmental systems to address the needs of communities through comprehensive organizing, leadership development, training and technical assistance programs.
Southwest Conservation Corps
To empower young people through conservation service and education.
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.
Start:Empowerment
Our mission is to mobilize education and action to achieve social-environmental justice and liberation for all.
Stay Together Appalachian Youth (The STAY Project)
As young people from Central Appalachia, we are connecting across our region to make our home communities places we can and want to STAY.
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.
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.
Sunflower Land Trust, Inc
The Sunflower Land Trust (SLT) is a Kansas-based land trust established in 1996 with the mission to provide a wide range of conservation activities for Kansas landowners. With decades of conservation and land management experience, SLT can help landowners to better conserve and protect their family land. The Sunflower Land Trust promotes conservation activities by offering a wide range of land protection programs, tax incentives, and real estate options. We also promote legacy, mitigation, and specialized assistance programs.
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.
Sustainable BK
To build a more sustainable and equitable Brooklyn through advocacy, education, and community organizing.
Sustainable Brooklyn
Sustainable Brooklyn works to bridge gaps between the sustainability movement and targeted communities.
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.
Sustainable Food Center
Sustainable Food Center transforms the food system to nourish our health, land, and livelihood.
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.
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.
Teens for Food Justice
TFFJ is catalyzing a youth-led movement to end food insecurity in one generation through high-capacity, school-based hydroponic farming.
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.
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS)
Dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities in the East End of Houston by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environmental pollution, empowering individuals with an understanding of applicable environmental laws and regulations and promoting their enforcement, and offering community building skills and resources for effective community action and greater public participation.
The Alliance for Appalachia
The Alliance for Appalachia promotes a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction.
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 Black School
To provide a rigorous and culturally relevant education for Black students in Austin, Texas.
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 Eco Justice Project
Amplifying the voices of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities. a digital platform & resource hub dedicated to climate storytelling, justice, advocacy, and education
The Fields Retreat and Learning Center
The Fields at Rootsprings is stewarding liberating space for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, activists, healers, and community in Minnesota and beyond.
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.
The Greenlining Institute
To advance economic opportunity and racial equity for communities of color in California.
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 Harambee House / Citizens for Environmental Justice
To educate, inspire, organize and build the capacity of African Americans and other communities of color to create and sustain safe, economically vibrant, healthy neighborhoods that promote healthy living, wellness, environmental justice and green sustainability.
The Institute for Queer Ecology
The Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) is an ever-evolving collaborative organism that seeks to bring peripheral solutions to environmental degradation to the forefront of public consciousness. IQECO projects are interdisciplinary, but unified and grounded in the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. The collective works to overturn the destructive human-centric hierarchies by imagining an equitable, multispecies future.
The Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE)
The Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE), has been active in promoting and providing quality, non-biased and science-based environmental education in Kansas for more than 50 years.
The Kent Street Coalition
An organization dedicated to America’s founding principles of fairness, justice, equality, liberty and compassion.
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 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.
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.
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 Service Board
As a youth-led organization the Service Board (tSB) builds community through the power of youth.
The Smile Trust Inc
We are The Smile Trust. Restoring dignity in people by providing resources and direct services to those communities with love and care. Our organization is rooted in service, resilience, transparency, self-determination, innovation, positive impact, rapid response, and abundance. We service the most vulnerable communities in coalition with social justice and community organizations.
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.
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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