Co-Chairs
Beverly Wright
Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

Tom Goldtooth
Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network

Member Organizations

Black Leadership Forum
The mission of the 25-year old Black Leadership Forum (BLF) is to promote creative and coordinated black leadership, and to be diverse in its membership, but clear on its priority: the empowerment of African Americans to improve their own lives and to expand their opportunties to fully participate in American social, economic, and political life. There are 28 BLF members, CEO's of the nation's most prominent and prestigious civil rights and service organizations.

Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis
Indiana Faith Based Global Climate Change Campaign is a new program of The Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis. The religious community must use its voice and actions to undergird the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring with both a moral and a spiritual consensus that something must be done to stop it.

Church of the Brethren

Communities for a Better Environment
Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities. CBE's unique three-part strategy provides grassroots activism, environmental research and legal assistance within underserved urban communities.

CorpWatch
CorpWatch's Climate Justice Initiative works with communities affected by the oil, coal and natural gas industry in the U.S. and internationally to address the connections between local pollution and global warming. CorpWatch is helping to build a new movement for Climate Justice - one that aims to hold corporations accountable by bringing local battles for human rights and environmental justice together with the international efforts to protect the world's climate.

The Corporation for Enterprise Development
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) envisions widely shared, sustainable economic well-being and an inclusive economy where everyone is fully engaged and appropriately rewarded. CFED promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies--primarily in low-income and distressed communities--that bring together community practice, public policy, and private markets in new and effective ways.

Council of Athabascan Tribal Government

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Community/University Partnership at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, provides opportunities for communities, scientific researchers, and decision makers to collaborate on programs and projects that promote the rights of all people to be free from environmental harm as it impacts health, jobs, housing, education, and a general quality of life.

EcoEquity
EcoEquity is a new organization aimed at advancing the principle of equal rights to global common resources. More immediately, we've founded EcoEquity to fill the need for a U.S.-based organization focused on clarifying and promoting the principles of equity necessary for a just and effective climate treaty.

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University
The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth.

Georgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda
The Georgia Coalition For The Peoples' Agenda (GCPA) is an advocacy organization that is made up of people from the state of Georgia who want to improve the quality of governance in Georgia, to have a more informed electorate, and to have participatory and accountable elected officials. The GCPA supports efforts to bring environmental justice to communities in Georgia that are exposed to environmental contamination.

Indigenous Environmental Network
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was formed as an alliance to help Indigenous Peoples and their Nations to learn and share information on environmental problems that our communities are facing.

Intertribal Council On Utility Policy
The Intertribal Council on Utility Policy (COUP) is composed of federally recognized Indian tribes in North and South Dakota and affiliates throughout the northern Great Plains. Organized in 1994, it is chartered and headquartered on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation to provide a tribal forum for policy issues dealing with telecommunications and energy utility operations and services. COUP strongly adheres to the principles of tribal self-determination and ecological sustainability, supporting the development of sustainable homeland economies built upon renewable energy resources.

Just Transition Alliance
The Just Transition Alliance unites frontline workers and fenceline communities for economic and environmental justice. In the Alliance, people of color, Indigenous peoples, workers and unions in polluting industries in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. work to hold governments and polluting corporations accountable for health, safety, labor and environmental conditions in the workplace and communities.

National Black Environmental Justice Network
The National Black Environmental Justice Network, formerly known as the Interim National Black Environmental & Economic Justice Coordinating Committee, is a network of environmental justice advocates representing over 100 communities in 30 states across the country.

Kids Against Pollution
Kids Against Pollution (KAP) is a multinational organization of active youth dedicated to solving and preventing pollution problems through interactive educational projects and events with the goal of protecting children¹s health and the environment.

Native Village of Unalakleet

New York Public Interest Research Group
The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is New York State's largest consumer, environmental and government reform organization. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates.

North Baton Rouge Environmental Association

Redefining Progress
Redefining Progress is a nonprofit public policy organizaton that creates policies and tools to encourage accurate market prices, to protect our common and natural assets, and to foster social and economic sustainability.

Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice
The Southern Organizing Committee (SOC) for Economic & Social Justice is a Southwide multi-issue, multi-racial network of people working in our communities against racism, war, economic injustice and environmental destruction. SOC is a leader in the movement for environmental justice. As this movement continues to grow, it will save the lives and the health of all of our people and perhaps the earth itself.

Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
Established in 1990, SNEEJ serves over 70 multi-racial and multi-issue community organizations throughout six states across the western and southwestern regions of the U.S. and northern Mexico. Their activities include border and worker justice, EPA accountability, high-tech industry accountability, sustainable indigenous communities and youth leadership development.

Southwest Workers Union
Mission Statement: To empower people of color, workers, youth and grassroots communities through education, local leadership development, training, hands-on organizing and mobilizing. We strive to build membership based organizations, coalitions and networks to gain power to achieve environmentally safe and sustainable communties, jobs and fair wages with dignity and justice.

United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries
Justice and Witness Ministries, one of four Covenanted Ministries in the United Church of Christ, helps local congregations and all other settings of the church respond to God's commandments to do justice, seek peace, and effect change for a better world. The Public Life and Social Policy Ministry Team, based in Washington, D.C., coordinates the public policy advocacy work of the church in collaboration with all settings of the UCC.

United Methodist Church

West County Toxics Coalition
The West County Toxics Coalition is an organization based in Richmond, CA that works to create awareness of toxics and pollution in Richmond and the San Francisco Bay. WCTC has initiated campaigns aimed at petrochemical companies which contaminate the air, soil, and quality of life for West County residents.

West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT)
WE ACT is an organization working to improve environmental quality and to secure environmental justice in predominately African-American and Latino communities. Since 1988, WE ACT has worked with citizen groups, youth, community residents, environmentalists, local/state/federal governments, and educational & medical institutions. Based in Northern Manhattan, WE ACT advances its mission through research, public education, advocacy, mobilization, litigation, legislative affairs & sustainable economic development.