ECO-Action helps Georgia communities organize against air, land, and water pollution. They focus on low-income communities and communities of color. They give organizing and technical help, connect groups with experts and agencies, and run learning programs for adults and teens.
This is the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club, a large group of members who work to protect nature and the planet. It posts a calendar of hikes, committee meetings, local group meetings, and talks on topics like data centers, transit, and politics.
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance is a community nonprofit that works to protect and restore nature in West Atlanta. It runs the Outdoor Activity Center, a forest and nature center, with youth camps, field trips, hikes, and volunteer service days. It also speaks up for neighborhoods hurt by pollution and other environmental problems.
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light helps faith communities across Georgia work on climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience. It coaches Green Teams, offers energy, solar, water, and waste assessments or audits, and helps congregations with native gardens, invasive plant removal, and tree planting. It also speaks up on clean energy and water policy and runs nonpartisan get-out-the-vote text banks.
UUCA is a Unitarian Universalist congregation on North Druid Hills Road in Atlanta. It holds Sunday worship in person and online, and has classes for all ages. It also works on racial justice, queer-affirming community and climate action.
SONG is a membership group for LGBTQ people across the South, with a focus on people of color, immigrants, rural people and working-class people. It runs organizing campaigns, member-led projects, working groups and gatherings. Members build skills and community together.
Black Sustainability, Inc. is an Atlanta group that runs a worldwide network of Black people who work in sustainability, own green businesses, or care about the planet. Members join online groups, share ideas and find projects and contracts. The group also runs hands-on training, such as a 4-week solar installation course in metro Atlanta with GRID Alternatives.
Black Voters Matter is a Black-led group that builds political power in Black communities. It works with local groups, runs one-day warrant clinics with a partner, and leads campaigns on health care, young leaders and more. Volunteers can help by texting, writing postcards and joining events.
This is the City of Atlanta office behind Climate Resilient ATL, the city's plan for dealing with climate change. The plan focuses on extreme heat, flooding, poor air quality and unfair access to resources. The office says it will keep working with residents, youth leaders and neighborhood groups as the plan is carried out.
The Chattahoochee Brick Company Descendants Coalition is a grassroots group founded by Donna Stephens to protect and remember the old Chattahoochee Brick Company site in Atlanta, where Black men were forced into convict labor in the late 1800s. The group works with the City of Atlanta and other partners to turn the site into a public park and memorial. It also holds a yearly ceremony to honor the people who worked and died there.
LCF Georgia is a nonprofit that serves Latino families, students, workers and business owners across Georgia. It gives free health screenings, runs a nonpartisan voter and civic program, and gives out scholarships and grants. It also helps other Latino-led groups with free coaching and training.
This Georgia nonprofit works for clean air, clean water, and fair energy bills. It teaches and organizes people to speak up on energy, the environment, and voting. You can volunteer, join the People's Power Union, or come to its events.
Building Kujichagulia makes a guidebook about community-led design and the fight against Cop City. The guidebook teaches about land healing, building with clay, and plans for a community kitchen in South Atlanta. You can buy it from the group's online book store.
BLKHLTH is an Atlanta-based group that works for fair health care for Black communities. It runs a leadership fellowship for students, maternal health and cancer programs, health guides, community events, and trainings. It also works in South Africa.
The Atlanta People's Campaign is a group of neighbors and organizers in Atlanta. They work on stopping Cop City, high Georgia Power bills, and community care. They hold meetings, trainings, canvasses and mutual aid efforts that people can sign up to join.
Rising Majority is a coalition that began in 2017. It brings together groups working on labor, youth, immigrant rights, climate justice, and economic justice. It works to line up these movements so they can act together and build lasting power.
UrbanHeatATL is a team of Georgia Tech and Spelman College people and Atlanta neighbors who map extreme heat. Community members use small temperature sensors to collect data, with a focus on communities hit hardest by heat. You can sign up to get a sensor and collect weekly temperature readings.
Weelaunee Coalition is a group of Atlanta teachers and families organizing to protect the Weelaunee Forest (South River Forest) and to oppose the police and fire training center project known as 'Cop City.' They share free educational zines, hold legal-rights information sessions for parents, and invite people to rallies and petitions about the forest and city planning decisions.
