Disaster Resilience & Recovery

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.

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

Our mission is to bring attention to the community led solutions in resistance to chemical exposures, environmental toxins, environmental racism and ecological destruction- all of which negatively impact the health and well-being of fenceline communities.

https://www.kmuw.org/2025-03-31/city-of-wichita-cuts-community-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals

 https://huella-zero.org/cuales-son-las-implicaciones-de-los-cambios-del-plan-de-resiliencia-comunitaria-de-la-ciudad-de-wichita-en-kansas/

PODER (People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources) is a women-led people of color grassroots organization in East Austin working sincere 1991 to advance environmental, social, and economic justice through community education, advocacy and action. 

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/05/01/transformation-austin-texas-tech-red-state-liberal

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2024/04/10/susana-almanza-austin-poder.html

People for Community Recovery (PCR), founded in 1979 by Hazel Johnson, the mother of the environmental justice movement, works to enhance quality of life for pollution-impacted residents through education, advocacy, and programs addressing environment, health, housing, and economic equity.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/03/07/hazel-johnson-environmental-justice-chicago-trump-epa-cheryl-johnson-altgeld-gardens

https://grist.org/cities/chicago-law-would-change-where-polluting-companies-operate/

North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low income communities and people of color on issues of climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.

https://www.wxii12.com/article/buc-ees-opposition-groups-present-environmental-impact-report/64896668

https://ncnewsline.com/2024/12/09/coalition-demands-excessive-heat-protection-for-laborers/

NC Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC) works with frontline communities to build grassroots power and movement infrastructure for a just transition to a regenerative economy where all people and the planet can thrive.

https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article271593212.html

https://newrepublic.com/article/162942/north-carolinas-democratic-governor-ignoring-black-native-communities

The New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance is an alliance of New Jersey-based organizations and individuals committed to working together to create healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and communities of color. Together we support and work with communities through local, state, and national policy development, targeted campaigns and organizing, education, advocacy, training and technical assistance focused on critical environmental justice issues.

https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/02/construction-can-start-on-power-plant-in-one-of-njs-most-polluted-cities-regulators-say.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-eviscerates-bedrock-public-health-environmental-law-1235280240/