Great Lakes Commons
Milwaukee, WI
2018
The Great Lakes Commons is a grassroots effort to establish the Great Lakes as a thriving, living commons—shared waters that we all take care of and protect in...
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Hawai'i Peace and Justice
Honolulu, HI
2014
Originally founded in 1968, the Hawai’i Area Program of the American Friends Service Committee has become Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice. The work of HPJ draws on the long...
IIRON North
Chicago, IL
2014
The IIRON Education Fund, NFP is a charitable organization devoted to training people to create public lives, to understand, build and exercise power through collective action and to...
Indian People's Action
Butte, MT
2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011
Indian People's Action (IPA) works in Montana urban areas to organize for social, economic and racial justice. Indian People's Action is being very deliberate through its training and...
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
Des Moines, IA
2012
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa is made up of people of faith and goodwill from across Iowa who believe in protecting religious freedom, respecting individual rights and uniting the...
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Detroit, MI
2013
Our mission is to nurture the transformational leadership capacities of individuals and organizations committed to creating productive, sustainable, ecologically responsible, and just communities. Through local, national and international...
Kentucky Student Environmental Action Coalition
Lexington, KY
2018
Beginning with Kentucky's campus communities, KSEC works toward an ecologically sustainable future through the coalescence, empowerment, and organization of the student environmental movement. We are a unified front...
Kootenai Environmental Alliance
Coeur d’Alene, ID
2011
We are a watchdog over the Idaho Panhandle National Forests and other federal lands. We monitor forest planning issues, timber sales, and overall management of our nearby federal...
L.A. Rooted
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
L.A. Rooted is a grassroots summer youth program which aims to cultivate youth leadership in the areas of environmental stewardship, community empowerment, food sovereignty and self-care. L.A. Rooted...
Manidoo Ogitigaan
Bemidji, MN
2019
The mission of Manidoo Ogitigaan is to work with our communities to preserve and revitalize the Spiritual knowledge, language, culture, and ceremonies of the Anishinaabeg to improve our...
Melange
Morristown, TN
2015
Melange hosts and organizes multicultural art, media and educational exhibits, events and performances for the general public with the goal of promoting equality, inclusion and community building. The...
Move Mountains Project
San Luis, CO
2016
The Youth Leaders of the Move Mountains Project are re-invigorating the rural Chicano Movement and the age-old land rights struggle between the Mexicano-Mestizo-Indohispano-Chican@ heirs to the Sangre de...
N-CITE Community Media
Worcester, MA
2014
N-CITE is a Media Collective based in Worcester, MA that employs the media arts to develop, produce and showcase counterstories to disrupt dominant media narratives. We work with...
National Institute for Healthy Human Spaces
Camden, NJ
2017
National Institute for Healthy Human Spaces is an advocacy organization for environmental justice communities inordinately affected by environmental racism and overburdened by environmental degradation, especially in communities of...
Native Village of Nuiqsut
Anchorage, AK
2014
Native Village of Nuiqsut is a federally regonized tribe in Alaska that is fighting for indigenous rights, racial, environmental, and economic justice.