1. WE ACT: WE ACT’s mission is to build healthy communities by ensuring that people of color and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection policies and practices. They operate out of Washington DC and New York City and started in 1988 when three fearless community leaders saw that environmental racism was rampant in their West Harlem neighborhood https://www.weact.org/
2. Sunrise Movement: This is a U.S. based, youth led, environmental activist group seeking to raise awareness about and push policy for progressive climate action. They’ve helped popularize the Green New Deal as well as put pressure on representatives across the U.S. to create policy mitigating climate change. https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
3. Indigenous Environmental Network: This is a grassroots network/alliance of indigenous people working across the U.S. to raise awareness about and address environmental and economic justice issues. They were a major organizer in the protests again the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
4. Earth Justice: As they say on their website, they are the lawyers for the environment. They’re a U.S. based team of lawyers working through the legal system to fight for wilderness preservation, healthy communities and clean energy. ****https://www.ienearth.org/about/
5. 350: A global grassroots organization that seeks to end the age of fossil fuels and transition to community-led renewable energy for all. 350 has had their hand in actions to stop the construction of Keystone XL pipeline as well as spearheaded the divestment movement. https://350.org/
6. Sustainable South Bronx: This is an organization based in New York City. They empower low-income residents of the South Bronx and beyond through comprehensive job training and transitional employment programs focused on green construction and building maintenance. https://www.ssbx.org/
7. Gardeneers: A Chicago based organization that builds gardens at schools in food-insecure areas of the city. They then use those gardens to educate underprivileged kids about growing food and eating well. http://gardeneers.org/
8. Friends of Earth: An international organization primarily based in the U.S. that focuses on issues ranging from climate change, pollution, deforestation, and pesticides. Among other actions, Friends of the Earth also successfully advocated for a ban on the dumping of sewage and other wastewater from cruise ships and large ocean-going vessels in the five west coast National Marine Sanctuaries. https://foe.org/
9. ClientEarth: ClientEarht is an England based charity that uses the power of the law to protect the planet and the people who live on it. They are lawyers and environmental experts who are fighting against climate change and to protect nature and the environment. ****https://www.clientearth.org/
10. Treedom: This Italian run company gives resources to local farmers all over the world to plant trees in conjunction with their crops or orchard. Under the model of agroforestry, Treedom seeks to aid farmers and the environment through trees planted that can bring food, money, and environmental health to the surrounding area. https://www.treedom.net/en/
11. Rainforest Trust: This non-profit seeks to protect old-growth and already existing rainforest in South America. The particular project that we would be donating to is the land conservation of Amazon forest in Peru. The project “seeks $4,583,920 to title 220 communities covering more than six million acres in order to legally protect indigenous lands. It is crucial to close the unprotected gaps between indigenous territories to prevent colonists and industries from negatively affecting the integrity of the ecosystems.” https://www.rainforesttrust.org/projects/final-push-to-protect-indigenous-lands-in-the-peruvian-amazon/
12. Climate Justice Alliance: The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to “create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force.” Among other areas, they’re involved in recovery efforts during climate disasters as well as demonstrations and protest efforts to push the state to act boldly on climate change. https://climatejusticealliance.org/primary/
13. Indigenous Climate Action: is an Indigenous-led organization based in Canada, guided by Indigenous peoples from communities & regions across the country. Indigenous communities contribute the least to climate change yet are first to experience the effects of it. https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/our-story
14. Seed: Australia’s first Indigenous youth­led climate network. They are building a movement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people for climate justice with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Their vision is for a just and sustainable future with strong cultures and communities, powered by renewable energy. https://www.seedmob.org.au/
15. Movement Generation: This project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. We are rooted in vibrant social movements led by low-income communities and communities of color committed to a Just Transition away from profit and pollution and towards healthy, resilient and life-affirming local economies. https://movementgeneration.org/our-work/
16. 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. https://gotgreenseattle.org/home/who-we-are/#about
17. WoMin: An African gender and extractives alliance, which works alongside national and regional movements and popular organisations of women, mining-impacted communities and peasants, and in partnership with other sympathetic organisations, to advocate and campaign for reforms that go beyond short-term reformism to contribute towards the longer-term structural changes that are needed. They also seek to advance, in alliance with numerous others, an African post-extractivist eco-just women-centred alternative to the dominant destructive model of development. https://womin.org.za/who-we-are/what-is-womin.html
18. CoolEarth: Cool Earth shares the most effective conservation methods around the world and invests in those with the potential for best outcomes for people and rainforest. They work with communities who want to protect their forest. From setting up an in-country team to working directly with communities and local NGOs to develop their capacity, their partnerships are community-led and adaptable to each location. ****https://www.coolearth.org/
19. Zero Hour: This youth-led organization is creating a movement that will ensure that U.S. elected officials and leaders at every level of society stop ignoring the needs of young people and their right to a safe, healthy, and clean environment. http://thisiszerohour.org/