The South Ward Environmental Alliance (SWEA) is a coalition of residents and community-based organizations committed to advancing environmental justice in Newark’s South Ward. SWEA’s mission is to build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods by ensuring residents are informed, empowered, and engaged in decisions that affect their health and environment. Through advocacy, education, and community-driven research, SWEA works to reduce pollution, promote sustainability, and strengthen resident leadership. Rooted in the belief that every person, regardless of race, neighborhood, or income, deserves access to a clean and safe community, SWEA unites partners and residents under one vision: One Ward | United for Environmental Justice.
Environmental Health
Focus Area: Environmental Health
Back to Directory
Los Jardines
Albuquerque,, New Mexico
The purpose of Los Jardines InstituteTM (The Gardens Institute) is to build and support healthy and sustainable communities and workplaces. It does this by creating opportunities that promote multigenerational learning, sharing and movement building.
Recycle and Reinvest
Nashville, Tennessee
Based in Nashville, TN, Recycle And Reinvest empowers justice-impacted youth and underserved communities through educational and art-based programs focused on sustainability. By offering job readiness opportunities, the organization helps cultivate future leaders dedicated to environmental and social change.
Seven Directions of Service
Mebane, North Carolina
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.
South Bronx Unite
Bronx, New York
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://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/nyregion/congestion-pricing-air.html
RISE for Environmental Justice
Kansas City, Kansas
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
PODER – Austin
Austin, Texas
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