The Intersectional Environmentalist Database
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Coal River Mountain Watch
The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.
Color of Climate
To center Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth voices, experiences and narratives within the climate change crises and within environmental justice issues, especially because BIPOC communities and individuals are often the most impacted by these issues.
Color of Climate Maine
Color of Climate is a group centered on BIPOC youth, their voice, experiences, and perspectives regarding climate change and environmental justice. ME
Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico
Achieve the sustainable management of solidarity food and education projects through collective work.
Comite Civico del Valle
Through partnerships improve access to health services, research, community service programs, and environmental justice to disadvantaged communities by way of education, capacity building, and civic participation.
Comité Diálogo Ambiental
El Comité Diálogo Ambiental esta comprometido con el diálogo deliberativo y participativo, para la protección ambiental y el desarrollo sostenible
Common Vision
Common Vision is creating a Healthy and Just Society by growing fruit tree orchards in low-income schools.
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
The mission of CBE is to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low income communities to achieve environmental health and justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy and sustainable communities and environments.
Community Action of Napa Valley
To empower people and families to achieve self-sufficiency through education, advocacy, and support services.
Community Engineering Corps
Community Engineering Corps brings underserved communities and volunteers together to advance local engineering solutions.
Community Housing Empowerment Connection Inc. (CHEC)
It is the mission of the Community Housing and Empowerment Connections Inc. (CHEC) to build just, healthy and strong communities through advocacy, education and community partnerships.
Community to Community
We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.
Concerned Citizens of St. John
Our mission it to advocate for the health and safety of all citizens by working to hold government officials and industry accountable for the quality of our air, water and soil. To collect all facts about our environment and share that information with the citizens of St. John Parish. To aggressively advocate for the safety and future of the children of our parish and provide leadership in moving our community forward in all avenues that impact our daily lives.
Conejos Clean Water
We work to build public awareness and encourage advocacy and education around environmental, social, economic, and food justice issues in the Conejos Land Grant Region.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Our purpose is to improve urban environmental health, primarily in Connecticut, through educating our community, through promoting changes in governmental policy, and through promoting individual, corporate and governmental responsibility towards our environment. We define environment as including the places where we live, work, play and go to school.
Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs
CRCJ engages in collective action to win substantive policies that protect the climate and create good local jobs.
Conservation Nebraska - Our Legacy Nebraska
Conservation Nebraska protects our state’s natural legacy by educating the public, supporting communities, and increasing civic engagement.
Cooperation Jackson
Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.
Coshocton Environmental and Community Awareness, Inc.
Our mission is education, civic action promoting health and environmental justice, and coalition-building with like-minded grassroots organizations.
Cultivate Oregon
Through education and advocacy, we are growing a diverse and equitable food system that promotes biodiversity, pollinator and soil health, heritage seeds, and resource conservation.
Dakota Resource Council
DRC works with communities across the state to organize around common goals of securing a thriving North Dakota and putting people first. Members take action to create public awareness and shape public policy to ensure safe and responsible development, to protect North Dakota’s agricultural economy, and to establish a foundation for a just transition to a diverse energy economy.
Dakota Rural Action
Dakota Rural Action (DRA) organizes people and builds leadership while developing strong allied relationships. We protect environmental resources, advocate for resilient agriculture systems, and empower people to create policy change that strengthens their communities and cultures.
Deep Fork Community Action Partnership
Community Action changes people’s lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region through research, education, community and student engagement for policy change, as well as health and safety training for environmental careers.
Defend the Sacred Alaska
We see a future Alaska that offers a place and a role to ALL people. We envision an Alaska that is guided by Indigenous knowledge and place-based knowledge in a post-oil economy.
Delaware Association for Environmental Education
DAEE promotes environmental and outdoor education to facilitate positive impact on the conservation, protection, and sustainability of Delaware’s natural resources by connecting communities to nature.
Delaware Concerned Residents for Environmental Justice
Our mission is to inform and empower communities to protect clean & healthy air, water, land & food.
Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates (DDSAE)
The Destination Design School of Agricultural Estates was started to help understand community voices in search of solutions that enhance inter-generational access to traditional lands and resources. Our school works with artists and individuals, culture and sustainability organizations, funders and policymakers, offering curriculum on how the cultural sector can contribute to environmental sustainability.
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Led by a team of activists, advocates, organizers, artists and storytellers, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) advocates for a healthy environment through innovative community and policy action that values all people.
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
DARE’s mission is to organize low-income families living in communities of color for social, economic, and political justice.
Disability Justice Culture Club
The Disability Justice Culture Club is an activist house in East Oakland, CA designed w accessibility in mind. It serves as a gathering place for disabled BIPOC community via events, meetings, meals.
Disabled Hikers
Disabled Hikers mission is to build disability community and justice in the outdoors towards a vision of an outdoor culture transformed by representation, access, and justice for Disabled and all other marginalized people.
Dogwood Alliance
Dogwood Alliance advances environmental justice and climate action by mobilizing diverse voices to protect Southern forests and communities from industrial logging.
Dream Defenders Education Fund
Young, powerful Black and brown people organizing towards a new vision for safety away from police and prisons.
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (DRCC)
Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife . We promote place-keeping and prioritize community capacity and resilience.
Eagle Eye Institute
PURPOSE is to offer learning programs/opportunities for primarily Black and Brown youth to experience well being, belonging and empowerment through a relationship with nature.
Earth Charter Indiana
Earth Charter Indiana exists to inspire and advance sustainable, just and peaceful living in Indiana by promoting the values and principles of the Earth Charter.
Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light
Earth Ministry/WA IPL transforms faith into action for the well-being of communities and the environment. We organize people of faith and conscience to advocate for strong environmental policies and provide strategic guidance to religious communities working toward environmental justice.
East Bay Food Not Bombs
East Bay Food Not Bombs was formed in February of 1991. We have served in People’s Park since the beginning, and have a long connection to that land, which is occupied Ohlone territory. Food Not Bombs is a loosely linked network of autonomous collectives across the country and the world, all focused on providing nutritious, free vegetarian food to anyone who wants it. We are horizontally organized and committed to food justice and food waste reduction as well as houseless advocacy. The East Bay chapter is the longest continually operating chapter of Food Not Bombs — for 29 years we haven’t stopped.We serve hot food five days a week in People’s Park, two days a week in Oakland, and do mobile outreach at encampments around Oakland and Berkeley 3-4 days a week. We are based out of the Omni Commons on Shattuck Ave but have cookhouses scattered across the East Bay. We get our produce from grocery stores and farmer’s markets that donate things to us, and the staples from the food bank. Almost all of the produce we cook with is organic and sustainably farmed.East Bay Food Not Bombs is a testament to the sustainability of mutual aid in the long term. We are committed to supporting and loving our community in the East Bay.
East Michigan Environmental Action Council
East Michigan Environmental Action Council works to build a movement to produce environmental justice as a transformation of society.
East Oakland Collective
Working to increase Black resident knowledge and unity around collective and/or cooperative economic opportunities in the areas of savings, home and commercial ownership, small business and entrepreneurship.Food Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to bring resources to Oakland’s most vulnerable residents. Alleviate food insecurity in marginalized communities through the distribution and redistribution of food (food rescue), essential supplies and Housing Justice // Advocacy, organizing and policy efforts to increase traditional and innovative housing options for no to low income residents of Oakland. Shift the paradigm on what housing is and means for vulnerable communities. Change the narrative on homelessness and hold the powers that be accountable for housing being a basic human right.resources. Expand the access to fresh and nutritious food options in East Oakland.
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.
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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