Membership

Thank you for your interest in joining the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum (EJLF)!

EJLF is a national coalition of environmental justice advocates who work to catalyze and inform state and federal, political and legislative action that will result in the development of just policies and mechanisms that equitably reduce carbon emissions in all communities. The Forum was initiated in 2008 in response to the emerging concerns around possible mitigation strategies and regulations that were being presented as options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and had the potential to amplify the disproportionate environmental burden on communities of color, and/or low income communities. 

The criteria for membership are as follows:

• Members of the applicant organization must be made up of at least (1) 51% people of color, Native American, Indigenous Peoples, and/or (2) low income, 
• Members of the organization must uphold and support (1) Environmental Justice Principles, and drafted and adopted at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held in October 1991 in Washington, DC, (2) Climate Justice Principles  developed at the initial 2008 EJLF Convening and (3) Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing.
• Organizations can be all voluntary, non-profit C3 or C4 organizations, or fiscally sponsored, but must be grassroots, community-based organizations.