The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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Kentucky Kentucky

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.

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Kentucky Kentucky

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.

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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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Maine Maine

Kindling Collective

Kindling Collective is a queer-centered gear library and education center creating an accessible pathway to outdoor experiences in Maine (Wabanaki Confederacy Territory). We aim to build community and support people in growing and sustaining relationships with the natural world.

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New Hampshire New Hampshire

Kroka Expeditions

Kroka Expeditions is a non-profit wilderness expedition school and organic farm that fosters a living relationship with the natural world and the development of skilled, compassionate, and community-minded young people.

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Hawaii Hawaii

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.

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Maryland Maryland

Labor Network for Sustainability

To be a relentless force for urgent, science-based climate action by building a powerful labor-climate movement to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future where everyone can make a living on a living planet.

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North Dakota North Dakota

Lakota People's Law Project

For over a decade, we’ve been standing strong with the Lakota to counteract treaty violations, protect sovereignty, and confront systemic racism. We're helping to safeguard sacred lands and water, end the epidemic of children being removed from their families and traditions, and amplify Native voices.

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Oklahoma Oklahoma

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.

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Texas Texas

LGBT Outdoors

Connecting the LGBTQ+ community to the outdoors and its members to one another is at the heart of what we do. It is our mission to strengthen connections between those in our community all while fostering a love for the outdoors.

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California California

Literacy for Environmental Justice

Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) promotes ecological health, environmental stewardship, and community development in Southeast San Francisco by creating urban greening, eco-literacy, community stewardship and workforce development opportunities that directly engage and support local residents in securing a healthier future.

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California California

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.

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Illinois Illinois

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)

After twenty years working for environmental justice in Little Village, LVEJO continues to organize for a healthier community in Little Village and beyond. Building upon the successful clean power, public transit, and open space campaigns LVEJO remains committed to organizing with those most impacted by industrialization and climate change.

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California California

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.

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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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Louisiana 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.

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Florida Florida

Love the Everglades Movement

To implement evolving strategies across the full spectrum of being which address the environmental, structural, cultural and spiritual problems plaguing the Florida Everglades by raising awareness and organizing positive community engagement at the local, regional, national and global levels.

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Maine Maine

Maine Youth for Climate Justice

We fight for climate justice, bold and urgent climate action, and a just and equitable transition in Maine. This must be done through a sustainable, united climate justice movement that is youth-led and intersectional in its analysis. We must always strive to educate both youth and our adult allies, and to connect youth to leadership positions in an equitable way.

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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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Tennessee Tennessee

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.

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Tennessee Tennessee

Memphis Rox and One Family Memphis

Memphis Rox brings rehabilitation, healing and a renewed sense of hope to challenged communities by providing a climbing facility and programs that foster relationships across cultural, racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.

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Florida Florida

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.

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Michigan Michigan

Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)

The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by inadequate policies. We work in alignment with the Principles of Environmental Justice, and cultivate relationships based on the Jemez Principles. We build power and unity within our community, so we all can thrive.

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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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California California

Mobility Matters

Mobility Matters is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that provides mobility management services in Contra Costa County. Mobility Matters is facilitating collaboration and coordination between public and private transportation providers, creating a network of integrated options that primarily address the mobility needs of seniors, individuals with disabilities, and low-income individuals. In addition to working with other transportation providers on their programs and services, Mobility Matters offers some programs and services directly.

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New Hampshire New Hampshire

Monadnock Conservancy

As a land trust for southwestern New Hampshire, our mission is to work with communities and landowners to conserve the natural resources, wild and working lands, rural character, and scenic beauty of the Monadnock region. We care for our conservation lands, and we engage people in ways that strengthen their communities and their connections to the land.

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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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Colorado Colorado

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.

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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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Arizona Arizona

Native Renewables

Using off-grid solar photovoltaic systems, Native Renewables provides power to homes on the Navajo reservation and Hopi reservation through our Hozho Homes Program.

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California California

Nature for All

Our mission is to build a diverse base of support to ensure that everyone in the Los Angeles area has equitable access to the wide range of benefits which nature provides.

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Nevada Nevada

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.

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South Carolina South Carolina

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.

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New York New York

New York Energy Democracy Alliance (EDA)

We envision a renewable energy system that is led by and prioritizes solutions for low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color who are most negatively impacted by our current energy and economic system. We transform our communities’ relationship to power through advocacy, organizing, job creation, coalition-building, policy research, and public education for an equitable, sustainable energy future

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New York New York

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.

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New York New York

NightCAP

Our goal is to provide an inclusive space and empower our community within a cycling environment that is overwhelmingly dominated by white men. We are also committed to being actively anti-racist and playing a supporting role in the work to undo the culture of colonialism and racism that we have inherited.

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Idaho Idaho

Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment

We exist to carry on time-honored sustainable environmental practices in the tradition of the Nimiipuu by facilitating and organizing tribal youth and adults in activities for the protection, enhancement, and promotion of mother earth and the Nimiipuu culture.

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California California

NorCal Resilience Network

The NorCal Resilience Network is a grassroots coalition that activates and supports community-based, nature-inspired solutions to climate change, economic instability, and social inequity in Northern California.

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Arizona Arizona

North AZ Climate Change Alliance

NAZCCA’s mission is to inform and engage people from all walks of life to join a broad and diverse climate movement across Northern Arizona. NAZCCA seeks to raise awareness of the threats of climate change and activate residents to organize and work toward solutions that reduce human impact on climate. By informing, engaging and training people to fight for change, we hope to achieve a future that is sustainable for all peoples and life on 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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North Dakota North Dakota

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.

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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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New York New York

NYC Fair Trade Coalition

The NYC Fair Trade Coalition offers a unique educational experience for ethically-aligned businesses, students of sustainability, and advocates by creating space to incubate and activate local communities.

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Hawaii Hawaii

Ocean Music Action

Ocean Music Action stands against racism and all forms of hate. We commit to working toward a world where both the planet and all of it's people are treated as precious.

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Oklahoma Oklahoma

OK Roots Music

The nonprofit OK ROOTS MUSIC promotes and encourages an eclectic array of music, arts and culture through public performances and educational activities.

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Arkansas Arkansas

OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, & Ecology

From the Latin omnis, for “all,” our mission is to educate, empower, and connect people to build a non-violent, sustainable, and just world. We work – and play – for peace, social and economic justice, equality, and a healthy environment through our many programs and events.

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California California

One Treasure Island

One Treasure Island's over arching goal is to build a new San Francisco neighborhood that includes formerly homeless and low income people from the ground up and to develop an integrated & healthy community comprised of people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. This has been true for today and is the plan for tomorrow.

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Louisiana Louisiana

One Up Action

It’s our MISSION to support marginalized youth by providing them with the resources needed to take innovative steps to tackle the climate crisis within their local communities for a regenerative future.

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Oregon Oregon

OPAL (Organizing People Activating Leaders) Environmental Justice

OPAL’s work is at the intersection of environmental justice, civil rights, and transportation and housing. We’ve organized around issues ranging from air quality to congestion pricing, to reducing policing and increasing bus service, and have had dozens of victories since OPAL’s founding in 2006. Community members lead our work at every step of the way as we create campaigns, develop programming, and organize to win!

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West Virginia West Virginia

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.

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Montana Montana

Outdoor Writers Association of America

The Outdoor Writers Association of America: Improves the professional skills of our members, Sets the highest ethical and communications standards, Encourages public enjoyment and conservation of natural resources, and Mentors the next generation of professional outdoor communicators.

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Utah Utah

Pandos

Pandos peacefully advocates for basic human, environmental, and Indigenous rights. By organizing support and education, we encourage dialogue and the protection of our shared home​. We are a diverse group of both native and non-native people who are passionate about working together to ensure this mission. We are passionate individuals focused on healing ourselves and our communities. We aspire to be good relatives.

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Vermont Vermont

Peace and Justice Center

We use education, advocacy, and activism to advance the interconnected issues of human rights and economic, social, and environmental justice. We seek true and meaningful peace within and beyond Vermont.

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Mississippi Mississippi

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.

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California California

People Linking Art, Community & Ecology (PLACE)

PLACE is a community hub that nurtures physical gathering space for the community. This hub allows people to see regenerative solutions in practice and gain access to the knowledge and resources to empower them to take action in their own lives, neighborhoods, towns, cities, and bio-regions.

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Nevada Nevada

People of the Red Mountain

People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute) is a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and descendants of the Fort McDermitt Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock Tribes working in coalition with allies to protect our ancestral homelands.

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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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