Food Justice

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.

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.

The Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) is a non-profit public interest organization providing comprehensive legal services and technical support to North Carolina’s financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners seeking to preserve their farms, homes, land and rural livelihoods. The LLPP protects vulnerable landowners from land loss and environmental degradation through legal representation and outreach statewide and empowers farmers to access business resources including credit in a timely manner.

Established in 1990, the Indigenous Environmental Network was formed by community-based American Indian, Alaska Natives and First Nations of Canada, including youth, women, elders and traditional indigenous societies, to address environmental, economic, climate, energy and food justice issues in North America. IEN uses the frame of INDIGENOUS RISING recognizing Indigenous Peoples rising for systemic change that involves challenging humanity to re-evaluate its relationship to the sacredness of Mother Earth and Father Sky. This involves taking action towards Just Transition and Indigenous-based Green New Deal policies and building the cultural, spiritual, social, economic and political POWER of Native Nations/Indigenous Peoples under the principles of Self-Determination, Free, Prior and Informed Consent and implementation of Treaty Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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.

** Celebrating 20 Years (in 2025)… Connecting Faith, Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Healing through Education and Service **

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

The Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) is a statewide environmental health and justice research and advocacy organization. ACAT believes everyone has a right to clean air and water and toxic-free foods. Driven by a core belief in environmental justice, ACAT empowers communities to eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals through collaborative research, shared science, education, organizing, and advocacy. ACAT works to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources; ensure the public right-to-know; achieve policies based on the precautionary principle; and support the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Go Austin/Vamos Austin (GAVA) organizes and mobilizes community power to reduce barriers to health while increasing institutional capacity to respond to people most impacted by historic inequities. GAVA understands that their neighborhoods of focus are disproportionately impacted by chronic disease, climate shocks and stressors, and other social determinants created by racism and structural inequities. With this context in mind, they build upon the expertise, ingenuity, and collaboration of directly impacted communities, focusing on climate resilience, food justice, early childhood health, and neighborhood stability. GAVA co-designs goals in which people with lived experience contextualize strategies alongside trusted and aligned content experts and shape the tactics used to drive change.