The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Ecology Center
To empower people to protect and restore the environment through education, advocacy, and action.
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Committed to mutual respect and understanding, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon brings together diverse communities of faith to learn, serve and advocate for justice, peace and the integrity of creation.
Edisto Island Open Land Trust
“To preserve the rural quality of life on Edisto by protecting lands, waterways, scenic vistas, and heritage through conservation and education.”
Education Economics Environmental Climate and Health Organization Inc. (EEECHO)
EEECHO’s mission is to support equitable inclusion of impacted communities in decision-making and apply our lived experiences to knowledge building and training opportunities that bolster the ability to be self-determinants of key strategic approaches to overcoming systemic injustices and move beyond surviving to thriving.
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC)
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit network of organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating sustainable, just and inclusive economies with opportunities for all — an approach we call "the high road."
Environmental Justice Evanston
We are committed to highlighting inequities and reducing their disproportionate impacts on the health and quality of life for low income, Black, Indigenous, and all people of color in Evanston
Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island
Our mission is to build power in the communities most affected by environmental burdens by developing leaders to take action to promote safe and healthy environments for all; so that we all have a healthy place to live, work, and play regardless of race, ethnicity, or income.
Environmental Volunteers
Promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.
Equitable Giving Circle
Our mission is to inspire and create economic empowerment through authentic engagement and action within our community. We will bring forth healing from late-stage capitalism and colonialism through reparative and radical giving.
Essential Food and Medicine
To re-indigenize our community's relationship to land, food and medicine and build a healthy world.
Evangelical Environmental Network
EEN inspires, equips, educates, and mobilizes evangelical Christians to love God and others by rediscovering and reclaiming the Biblical mandate to care for creation and working toward a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world.
Extinction Rebellion - San Francisco Bay Chapter
To use nonviolent civil disobedience to compel governments to act on the climate and ecological crisis.
Faith in the Valley
Our mission is to unlock the power of people to put faith into action in the public square, and to advance a movement for racial justice and health equity. We seek to build relational power, lift up a new narrative about the lives of people of color, and drive civic engagement efforts that move our community priorities forward. The following are our core campaigns.
Family Action Network Movement
FANM’s MISSION is to empower low to moderate income families socially, financially, and politically and to give them the tools to transform their communities. FANM's VISION is to be a leader in creating a sustainable village where thriving families can raise well-rounded children in peace and harmony.
Family Agriculture Resource Management Services
F.A.R.M.S is a legal non-profit, committed to assisting farmers and landowners retain land for future use of next generation farmer.
Fashion Revolution USA
Through advocacy, industry partnerships, events, initiatives, and education we bring together stakeholders from across the fashion, clothing, footwear, accessories, and textiles supply chain to help create an inclusive U.S. fashion system that conducts business ethically, regenerates the environment, and produces responsibly, supporting all voices across the apparel network.
Fenceline Watch
To protect communities from the harmful effects of pollution and promote environmental justice.
Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES)
To empower Filipino/American communities to advocate for environmental justice and a healthy environment.
Florence Fang Community Farm
We aim to improve food security, increase healthy living habits, practice natural farming techniques, improve the environment, support neighborhood economic opportunity, and increase social connectedness within and between communities of color. Our farm also supports our community’s food sovereignty by providing a food source that is consistent with cultural identities and involving community networks that promote self-reliance and mutual aid.
Florida Clinicians for Climate Action
As clinicians in Florida, we educate and engage other Florida clinicians to protect communities against the health harms of Climate Change. We also advocate for equitable public health solutions.
Food City STL
Creating a more inclusive, sustainable food ecosystem in the St. Louis Metro Area.
Food Runners
The mission of Food Runners is to help alleviate hunger in San Francisco, to help prevent waste and to help create community. Food Runners is currently delivering over 17 tons of food a week that would otherwise be thrown away. With help from our volunteer coordinator, our paid truck driver and people like you, we can provide enough food for over 20,000 meals every week in San Francisco.
Friends of the Urban Forest
Our mission is to bring neighbors together to plant and care for San Francisco’s ideal urban forest.
Front and Centered
We seek a Just Transition away from an extraction-based economy to one centered on ecological restoration, community resilience, and social equity, fueled by regenerative resources and cooperative work, governed by deep democracy, and a culture of caring and sacredness.
Gardopia Gardens
To create a sustainable and equitable food system through community gardening and education.
Garment Workers Center LA
To empower garment workers to fight for their rights and improve working conditions.
GASP, Inc. (Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution)
Our mission is to enhance the health and wellbeing of Alabamians by reducing air pollution, advancing environmental justice, and promoting climate solutions through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
Gateway to Green
To honor the diversity of Pennsylvania by cultivating a network of regional hubs to advance equitable, systemic, and meaningful environmental literacy and sustainability education for all.
Gather New Haven
Committed to social and environmental justice. Gather New Haven promotes health, equity and justice for people and the environment by cultivating connections and access to our lands and waters and by inspiring us to care for our wellbeing, our shared community, and our environment.
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.
Georgia WAND Education Fund
Georgia WAND empowers women to advocate for climate, environmental and social justice, grounded in racial equity.
Get Out Stay Out/Vamos Afuera
We are committed to increasing diversity and representation for people of color within the outdoor industry, and especially for kids and youth of indigenous backgrounds.
Getting Grown Collective
Getting Grown Collective’s vision is to progress towards land and food sovereignty while preparing future generations to build a healthy world.
Gill Tract Community Farm
To transform a vacant lot in West Oakland into a thriving community farm that provides fresh food, education, and economic opportunities.
Giniw Collective
Indigenous womxn, two-spirit led resistance to defend our Mother & live in balance. We stand unafraid. Prayers into action.
Global Greengrants Fund
Help activists take on the world’s most pressing environmental and social justice challenges.
Go Austin! Vamos Austin! (GAVA)
GAVA organizes and mobilizes community power to reduce barriers to health while increasing institutional capacity to respond to the people most impacted by historic inequities.
Good Life Garden
To provide comfort, joy, food, water and shelter for all creatures who venture into your realm.
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization.
Got Green
Got Green organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice as a South Seattle-based grassroots organization led by people of color and low income people. We cultivate multi-generational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy (green jobs, healthy food, energy efficient & healthy homes, public transit) reach low income communities and communities of color.
Got Green Seattle
Got Green organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice as a South Seattle-based grassroots organization led by people of color and low income people. We cultivate multi-generational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy (green jobs, healthy food, energy efficient & healthy homes, public transit) reach low income communities and communities of color.
Greater Newark Conservancy
Greater Newark Conservancy fosters collaboration in our community at the intersection of environmental, food, and racial justice to promote the health and well being of Newark residents.
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Great Plains Action Society
We are a small society of Indigenous Folks living in the Great Plains region, resisting colonization and re-Indigenizing the land and the world around us.
Greenaction
To promote environmental justice and protect public health through community organizing and advocacy.
Greening Youth Foundation
The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to engage under-represented youth and young adults, while connecting them to the outdoors and careers in conservation. GYF’s cultural-based environmental education programming engages children from local communities and exposes them to healthy lifestyle choices in order to create an overall healthy community.
Green Muslims
To serve as a source in the Muslim community for spiritually-inspired environmental education, action, and reflection. We engage locally while serving as a national resource.
Green Omaha Coalition
Since 2006, GOC has carried out our mission to inform and connect people across the Omaha metro to strengthen the local green community. We are your one-stop shop for sustainability-related opportunities and information in and around the Omaha metropolitan area.
GreenRoots
GreenRoots works to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
Green Technical Education and Employment
Green Tech offers innovative workforce skills to youth and young adults in frontline communities with an emphasis on environmental protection, justice and economic development. Our activities focus on career opportunities in construction, manufacturing, utilities, transportation and environmental management.
Green Village Initiative
Our mission is to grow food, knowledge, leadership and community, through urban gardening and farming, to create a more just food system in Bridgeport.
Groundswell
Groundswell builds community power through equitable community solar projects, clean energy programs that reduce energy burdens, and pioneering research initiatives that help light the way to clean energy futures for all.
Grow Greater Englewood (GGE)
Grow Greater Englewood is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.
Grow Smart Rhode Island
Grow Smart RI's mission is to lead and engage Rhode Islanders in advancing neighborhood revitalization, environmental stewardship, and economic opportunity for all.
Gulf South for a Green New Deal
Gulf South for a Green New Deal (#GulfSouth4GND) is a regional formation of more than 350 organizations advancing long-existing work towards climate, racial, and economic justice in five states and one colonial territory across the Gulf South: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Puerto Rico. Rooted in bottom-up organizing and driven by frontline leadership, we move together on policy, regional action campaigns, and strategic communications. As the nation’s first formation advancing a regional vision for a just climate transition, we are committed to the realization of a uniquely Gulf South version of a Green New Deal that is anchored in the histories, realities, and power of the region.
Gwich’in Steering Committee
The Gwich’in Steering Committee was formed in 1988 in response to proposals to drill for oil in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Habitat for Humanity
We are Habitat for Humanity, East Bay/Silicon Valley, We build strength, stability and self-reliance through homeownership because when you empower families, an entire community can thrive.
HandsOn Bay Area Sutro Native Plant Nursery
To propagate and distribute native plants for restoration projects in Golden Gate Park.
Harlem Grown
To empower Harlem residents to grow healthy food and build community through urban agriculture.
HBCU Green Fund
Our mission is to advance sustainability at HBCUs and in the communities they serve. We aim to empower HBCUs to become resiliency hubs and sustainable development anchors, working towards justice and equity for people of African descent.
HEAL Food Alliance
HEAL’s mission is to build our collective power to create food and farm systems that are healthy for our families, accessible and affordable for all communities, and fair to the working people who grow, distribute, prepare, and serve our food — while protecting the air, water, and land we all depend on.
Healthy Black Families
To promote the health and well-being of Black families and communities through education, advocacy, and support services.
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
HEAL Utah promotes renewable energy and clean air, and protects public health and the environment from dirty, toxic and nuclear energy threats.
Heartland Environmental Justice Center
Building capacity to make advances towards environmental and energy justice.
Heart of the Rockies Initiative
To ensure connected habitat and working lands for people and wildlife by increasing the pace of durable conservation in the Central Rockies of North America.
Higher Purpose Co
Higher Purpose Co.'s® mission is to build community wealth with Black residents in Mississippi by supporting the ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Our theory of change is anchored by an integrated model: asset building, narrative change, and advocacy.
Hike Clerb
To equip Black, Indigenous, women of color with the tools, education, resources and experiences they need to collectively heal in nature.
Hip Hop Caucus
Our mission is to use the power of our cultural expression to empower communities who are first and worst impacted by injustice.
Hip Hop is Green
WE ARE EDUCATING YOUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND BRINGING HEALTH AND WELLNESS TO COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA BY USING THE GLOBAL POWER OF HIP HOP CULTURE.
Homeless Garden Project
To provide dignified work and training opportunities for homeless individuals and families through urban agriculture and culinary education.
Honor the Earth
Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.
Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Molokai
Hoʻāhu Energy’s mission is to produce community-owned, affordable, renewable energy for the benefit of our members, the community, and environment.
Idaho Environmental Education Association
We support and promote the activities of all educators working to clarify our understanding of the natural world and our role in it.
Idaho Environmental Forum
The Idaho Environmental Forum is an informal, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational association whose sole mission is to promote serious, cordial, and productive discourse on a broad range of environmental policies affecting Idaho.
Inclusive Louisiana
Our mission is to spread enlightenment and educate the community about the injustices we see daily in our health, air, water, and soil.
Indigenous Environmental Network
IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law
Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance (IMFA)
The Alliance improves the civil liberties of Indigenous people through research, advocacy, and nation building by employing the core values of integrity, inclusivity and transparency.
Indigenous Regeneration
Our mission is to foster sustainable development, preserve cultural heritage, and promote self-determination among our indigenous communities in Southern California.
Institute for Climate and Peace (ICP)
ICP’s mission is to advance effective and inclusive processes to build peaceful and climate-resilient futures for the wellbeing of all.
InterEthnica
To empower and connect immigrant communities to promote social justice and environmental sustainability.
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
The ISSRNC is a community of scholars interested in religion, nature, and culture. We are dedicated to helping scholars think across disciplines and foster critical inquiry and engaged scholarship.
Iowa Environmental Council
IEC's mission is a just, healthy environment and sustainable future for all Iowans.
Iowa Gives Green
Iowa Gives Green is a day for Iowans to unite in their support for Iowa’s environment. By making gifts of financial support for nonprofit organizations doing great work for our future, you are building the capacity for a stronger environmental movement right here in Iowa.
Ironbound Community Corporation
Founded in 1969, Ironbound Community Corporation’s (ICC’s) mission is to engage and empower individuals, families, and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community.
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance
Protecting the wildlife, wild places, and community character of Jackson Hole by empowering the whole community to live in balance with nature.
Jewish Veg
Jewish Veg educates and builds community to encourage plant-based lifestyles through celebrations and conversations about Jewish values.
Jubilee Justice
Our mission is to heal and transform the wounds suffered by the people and the land through reparative genealogy and regenerative agriculture.
Just Roots Chicago
We work in collaboration with communities to develop access to local, sustainably grown food.
Just Transition Northwest Indiana
JTNWI is committed to educating and organizing Northwest Indiana communities and workers, giving voice to our shared stories, and supporting a just transition to a regenerative economy that protects the environment, climate, and future generations.
Ka'ala Farm
To cultivate a sustainable and pono (righteous) food system that nourishes the land, people, and culture.
Kaw Valley Heritage Alliance
To promote greater awareness, appreciation & stewardship of the cultural and natural resources of the Kansas (Kaw) River Valley.
Keep Growing Detroit
Keep Growing Detroit’s mission is to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits. Our strategic approach to achieving our mission facilitates beginner gardeners becoming engaged community leaders and food entrepreneurs, addressing the immediate needs of the community while promoting sustainable change in our food system. To these ends, KGD operates a number of nationally recognized programs including the Garden Resource Program, which supports a network of more than 2,000 urban gardens and farms in the city and Grown in Detroit, which provides urban growers with low-barrier opportunities to sell the fruits and vegetables they grow at local market outlets. KGD also operates a 1.38-acre urban farm and teaching facility located in Detroit’s historic Eastern Market District
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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