WE ACT for Environmental Justice (formerly West Harlem Environmental Action) is a community-based nonprofit founded in 1988 and based in Harlem, New York. The organization works to build healthy, sustainable communities by ensuring that people of color and low-income residents participate meaningfully in environmental health and policy decisions, and it focuses on air quality, climate justice, energy justice, healthy homes, toxic-free communities, and movement building.
Environmental justice, clean air and air pollution control, climate justice and equitable climate policy, energy efficiency and community access to renewable energy, healthy homes and toxics reduction, environmental health research and community-based participatory research, equitable transportation and land-use, capacity-building for frontline communities
Foundation and philanthropic grants, government grants and contracts (federal, state, local), individual donations, membership support, and program/service revenue
Co-founders and leaders including Peggy Shepard, Vernice Miller-Travis, and Chuck Sutton; partnerships with local community groups and coalitions, EPA Region 2 and other federal/state agencies, and national environmental and public-health organizations
Non-profit environmental justice organization (501(c)(3))
