Organizations

These organizations are central to climate justice, intersectional environmental, and ecofeminist movements around the globe.

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• Friends of the Earth International is the world’s largest grassroots environmental federation with 73 national member groups and millions of members and supporters around the world.
• The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) rallies the collective power of women’s rights and environmental justice movements around the world. Their vision is a world where women’s rights to water, food security, and a clean, healthy, and safe environment are recognized and respected.
• Green Worker Cooperative builds, grows, and sustains worker-owned green businesses to create a strong, local, and democratic economy rooted in racial and gender equity.
• The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice raises funds and makes grants to organizations that have historically lacked access to funding and are essential to making progress in addressing intersecting climate, gender, and racial justice crises in the U.S.
• Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country.
• Established in 1990 within the United States, Indigenous Environmental Network was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues
• Land Loss Prevention Project’s advocacy for financially distressed and limited resource farmers involves action in three separate arenas: litigation, public policy, and promoting sustainable agriculture and environment.
• The Maldives Coral Institute is a science-led body that aims to help coral reefs to survive and adapt to the changing climate.
• Movement Rights works for climate justice, the rights of Indigenous peoples and Mother Earth/Nature.
• Off Grid In Color is a sanctuary for health and wellness providing quality meat and education.
• Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading, cutting edge network that celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature.
• Rise St. James is a faith-based grassroots organization that is fighting for environmental justice as it works to defeat the proliferation of petrochemical industries in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
• Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
• Solar Sister trains and supports women to deliver clean energy directly to homes in rural African communities. We provide essential services and training that enable women entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses in their own communities.
• Te Ara Whatu is a small group of young Māori & Pasifika dedicated to the wellbeing of our people and the earth.
• TreeSisters is a social change and reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands. TreeSisters has so far funded the planting of over 19 million trees across 12 locations in Brazil, Borneo, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nepal, and West Papua.
• WE ACT expands political participation among communities of color and low income residents in order to impact environmental planning and decision making.
• WECAN – The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a solutions-based, multi-faceted organization established to engage women worldwide in policy advocacy, on-the-ground projects, trainings, and movement building for global climate justice.
• WECF International – Women Engage for a Common Future is a nonprofit network dedicated to a gender just and healthy planet for all.
• WEDO – Women’s Environment and Development Organization is a global women’s advocacy organization for a just world that promotes and protects human rights, gender equality, and the integrity of the environment.
• Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) – The WEA catalyzes women-led, grassroots solutions to protect our environment and strengthen communities from the inside out.
• WoMin African Alliance is an African ecofeminist alliance for climate justice and to advance women-centered, community-driven development alternatives.
• 1 Million Women – Women & girls from every corner of the planet tackling the climate crisis through the way they live.
• 350 Pacific is a youth-led grassroots network working with communities to fight climate change from the Pacific Islands and diaspora.