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WE ACT for Environmental Justice

New York City, New York

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.

West End Revitalization Association

Mebane, North Carolina

The West End Revitalization Association works to improve the quality of life for low income and minority residents in Mebane, North Carolina. It was founded in 1994 and is the first and only community development organization in Alamance County. 

https://www.elonnewsnetwork.com/article/2025/04/east-burlington-comes-together-protect-equity-provide-voice

https://www.selc.org/news/were-teaming-up-to-fight-federal-attacks-on-clean-transportation/

 

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

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