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Wisconsin Green Muslims, a statewide grassroots environmental justice group formed in 2005, intends to educate the Muslim community and the public about the Islamic environmental justice teachings, to apply these teachings in daily life and to contribute to coalitions and collaborations working toward a just, healthy, peaceful and sustainable future.

Wisconsin Green Muslims is a nonprofit program hosted by the Center for Community Stewardship (Fiscal Sponsor), a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

The West End Revitalization Association works to improve the quality of life for low income and minority residents in Mebane, North Carolina. It was founded in 1994 and is the first and only community development organization in Alamance County. 

https://www.elonnewsnetwork.com/article/2025/04/east-burlington-comes-together-protect-equity-provide-voice

https://www.selc.org/news/were-teaming-up-to-fight-federal-attacks-on-clean-transportation/

The West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, founded to fight discriminatory wastewater practices, now works to protect greenspace and water quality in West Atlanta’s watershed basins and educate residents on environmental justice issues.

​​https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/wawa-community-spotlight/

https://news.gatech.edu/features/2025/04/students-build-outdoor-classroom-serve-community-and-nature

WE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan membership-based organization whose 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. WE ACT has offices in New York and Washington, D.C.

The mission of the Tallahassee Food Network, Inc. is to grow community-based food systems that will provide healthy, affordable food for all. TFNI’s vision is an educated world that has access to food that is healthy, green, fair, accessible, and affordable.

https://www.wtxl.com/northwest-tallahassee/teaching-northwest-tallahassee-how-to-grow-their-own-food-to-help-reduce-costs-in-a-food-desert

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (t.e.j.a.s.) empowers communities to build sustainable, healthy environments through education on pollution impacts, environmental laws, and community action tools to promote public participation and enforcement. 

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2025/04/texas-environmental-justice-tejas-founders

https://earthjustice.org/press/2024/advocates-notify-epa-of-intent-to-sue-over-federal-operating-permit-for-valero-houston-refinery

Sowing Justice uses Environmental Justice principles, citizen science, and voter registration to foster civic engagement beyond voting, empowering communities to advocate for policies that ensure clean air, water, and soil, and to hold decision-making processes transparent and accountable.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/03/17/environmental-racism-memphis

https://www.nashvillepost.com/elections/what-s-next-for-marquita-bradshaw/article_c1052300-0ca8-5736-beaa-e18b1932ead1.html

South Bronx United advances environmental, health, and social justice in Mott Haven-Port Morris through community organizing, advocacy, and research, working toward a thriving South Bronx with clean air, affordable housing, quality healthcare, living-wage jobs, and community-led decisions. 

​​https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2025/02/03/500k-grant-to-ccny-enables-platform-for-stories-of-south-bronx-environmental-issues/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/nyregion/congestion-pricing-air.html

7 Directions of Service (7DS) is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in environmental justice and grassroots power, operating on the ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi-Saponi in rural North Carolina.

Our mission is to protect Sacred Places, advocate for the legal recognition of Rights of Nature, and establish a land, language, and cultural center grounded in traditional Yesah teachings. Through educational and cultural programming, community projects and civic engagement, 7DS is an essential force of coalition-building and cultural shift towards environmental justice and Indigenous visions of the future.

We are committed to serving as a powerful voice for the lands, waters, and the interconnected more-than-human world.