Nuestra Casa works on several initiatives, and they seek to improve the lives of low-income immigrant communities in San Mateo County, California. Illustrative programming includes; Immigration Services, Health and Wellness Programs, Housing Support, Community + Civic Engagement, Education, and Career Development.
As a new organization, OCEJ is focused on building awareness and advocating for environmental justice issues in Orange County. The main initiatives illustrative of the organization’s work include; advocating for clean air, addressing water contamination, climate change action, and community engagement. They seek to advocate for marginalized communities disproportionately exposed to and impacted by environmental harms.
CCV has a range of programs that, from what is listed on their website, include: Promotoras, CCV employees of community health works to engage in health education and outreach within the community. Community Outreach Events where the CCV offers various services, including health screenings, education and advocacy, and other resources. Educator training, Health Education, and Environmental Health Research.
The CCV also hosts an Annual Environmental Health Leadership Summit that invites community members, advocates, and policymakers to discuss and strategize around environmental justice issues in the region.
CCAEJ engages in a range of initiatives to address environmental health and justice issues in California's Inland Empire region. Some illustrative examples of the organization's work include Environmental justice advocacy, community-based research, education and outreach, coalition building, and environmental health monitoring. CCAEJ's initiatives are designed to promote environmental health and justice in the Inland Empire by empowering community members, conducting research, providing education and outreach, building coalitions, and monitoring environmental health conditions.
This organization works on various initiatives: Climate Justice, Transit For All, Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities, Clean Air, Building Community Power, Voter Empowerment, and Lead-Free Candy. Each of these projects supports a range of diverse environmental justice issues that promote healthy communities, reduce environmental health risks, and advance environmental justice for low-income communities of color.
At PODER’s heart, their work is centralized around community organizing, advocacy, policy work, and Environmental justice campaigns. They also lean into the collective power of Youth Leadership Development and provide training and mentorship for young people to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to become environmental and social justice advocates.
The APEN’s initiatives that are illustrative of their work include Just Transition, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Power to the Frontlines, Safe Stable and Affordable Housing, Climate Resilience, and Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters. This is only a sample of the initiatives they have worked on in recent years.
The primary initiatives CBE has organized are generally to build power for low-income communities of color. The CBE conducts community-led research that extensively documents pollution's environmental and health impacts on low-income communities of color. Notably, they host Toxic Tours that visit sources of industrial pollution linked to many health disparities and ailments. Typically, they feature the personal stories of residents fighting to hold industry polluters and government officials accountable for the toxic exposure within their neighborhoods.
The CBE research team is also essential to the organizations' overall work because their team further examines the environmental and health harms that are often overlooked and the communities that become unaccounted for. Their work highlights the heavy concentration of polluters in the local community, critiques the continued reliance and increasing demand for fossil fuels in our society, and flaws within the government's regulatory systems.
The principal initiatives of CEJA campaigns are central to Policy Advocacy, Community Organizing, Research and Analysis, and Leadership development. They work to advance local, state, and federal environmental justice policies. A research and analysis team can provide evidence of the harmful effects of various pollutants that affect their communities, educate local stakeholders on these issues, and promote engagement of historically underrepresented groups to champion policy to address these concerns.
CRPE seems most proactive around legal advocacy work. They support and represent the needs of the communities they work with to help them reach their goals.