The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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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.
Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
KSEC works toward an ecologically sustainable future through the coalescence, empowerment, and organization of the student environmental movement.
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
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.
Kootenai Environmental Alliance
To conserve, protect and restore the environment, with a particular emphasis on the Idaho Panhandle and the Coeur d’Alene basin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Local Environmental Action Demanded
We are a grassroots Environmental Justice organization dedicated to ensuring the health and safety of the people living in Miami, Oklahoma, and the surrounding areas in Ottawa County.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Melanin Base Camp
Our purpose is to inspire you with weekly content from Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous and Queer People of Color who love the outdoors. Join the movement and help us #diversifyoutdoors.
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.
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.
Meriden Natural Resources Inventory
The NRI aims to chart a more sustainable future for Meriden by maintaining our environmental well-being while encouraging appreciation of nature’s benefits and value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Missouri Coalition for the Environment
To educate, organize, and advocate in defense of Missouri’s people and their environment.
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.
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.
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.
Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project
To build a movement for environmental justice and climate resilience led by communities of color.
Movement Strategy Center
To provide strategic support to movements for social, economic, and environmental justice.
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.
Muslim Climate Watch
Our mission is to empower Muslims with the right tools and education to demand climate justice and to inspire climate action embedded in Islam and guided by the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
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 Lands Restoration Collaborative Inc.
Through community education, Native Lands Restoration Collaborative empowers diverse land stewards to protect and restore resilient native ecosystems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Communities Inc
The mission of New Communities is to become a thriving organization that is a global model for community empowerment.
New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (NEGEF)
The Grassroots Fund is part of a movement to disrupt the power imbalance at the community level and across philanthropy
New Jersey Envrionmental Justice Alliance
We are an alliance of New Jersey organizations & individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable & just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income & communities of color.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
No Coal in Oakland
To prevent the development of a coal terminal in Oakland and protect the health and environment of the community.
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.
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.
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.
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC)
We are shifting the cultural paradigm: turning our society away from destruction and toward equitable, Earth-honoring, inclusive community building. We build grassroots power, develop movement infrastructure, and align frontline struggles.
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low income communities and people of color on issues of climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.
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.
Northern Alaska Environmental Center
The Northern Alaska Environmental Center promotes conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.
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.
Nuestra Tierra Coservation Project
Our mission is to ensure that historically and deliberately excluded communities have access to the outdoors and that their history, values, and people are authentically reflected in public land and water management decisions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Our City Forest
To protect, restore, and expand the urban forest in San Francisco to create a healthier, more equitable, and more resilient city.
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.
Ouryouth4theclimate
Our Youth For The Climate (OY4C) is a global grassroots organization and youth-driven movement. We aim to catalyze systemic change by providing high-quality and accessible climate education to the next generation, fostering widespread awareness and action towards our future.
Outdoor Asian
The mission of Outdoor Asian is to build a diverse and inclusive community of Asian & Pacific Islanders in the outdoors.
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.
OUT There Adventures
The goal is simple: empower queer young people through their connection with the natural world.
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.
Parceleras Afrocaribeñas por la Transformación Barrial Inc. (PATBA)
Our mission is to launch cultural, artistic, and ecological projects of social justice and anti-racism. We advocate for the protection of natural resources in the face of exploitation that communities like ours live through.
Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE)
Our mission is to advance policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South.
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.
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 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.
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.
People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER) Austin
Our mission is to redefine environmental issues as social and economic justice issues, and collectively set our own agenda to address these concerns as basic human rights. We seek to empower our communities through education, advocacy and action.
People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) SF
PODER’s mission is to organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. We nurture everyday people’s leadership, regenerate culture, and build community power.
People Power Solar Cooperative
To empower communities to take control of their energy future by developing, owning, and operating solar power projects.
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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