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ACCESS
With 11 locations and more than 120 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS offers a wide range of social, economic, health and educational services to a diverse population while honoring its Arab American heritage. It is based in Dearborn.
Adrian Dominican Sisters
This congregation makes peace, seeks truth and reverences life through its ministries: education, health care, pastoral and retreat ministry, the arts, social work, ecology, and peace and justice advocacy. Although based in Adrian, its vowed women and associates span across four countries.
Alliance to Halt FERMI 3
ATHF3 works to halt the construction of a DTE nuclear boiling water reactor through a public education campaign based on non-violent resistance to nuclear power. It also advocates for the closure of DTE's existing nuclear reactor and the advancement of renewable energy and energy efficiency. It is based in Livonia.
Bees in the D
Bees in the D creates healthy honey bee and native pollinator populations in Detroit and southeast Michigan with cooperative, educational programs between residents, schools, organizations, and businesses.
CLEARCorps/Detroit
CLEARCorps/Detroit works to create healthy homes in the Detroit area by eliminating lead and asthma triggers, replacing refrigerators, and testing furnaces.
Clinton River Watershed Council
This Rochester-based organization enhances and celebrates the Clinton River, its watershed and Lake St. Clair through educational programming, watershed stewardship, watershed research and promoting proper water recreation.
The Conservancy Initiative
The Conservancy Initiative is a group of volunteers in and around Northville who demand legal compliance at the Arbor Hills Landfill and are opposed to expansion of the landfill. The volunteers work with local government entities and state departments alike.
Detroit Audubon
Detroit Audubon brings people and nature across metro Detroit together. Through education, research and advocacy, it promotes awareness and protection of birds and the clean air, water, wetlands, grasslands, woodlands and other natural resources they depend upon.
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority
The Environmental Council's first governmental member group promotes maritime trade, economic development, and healthy stewardship of the Great Lakes. It's also creating a plan to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the Port of Detroit.
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
DWEJ, Michigan's first environmental justice organization, advocates for a healthy environment through innovative community and policy action that values all people and reflects the will of impacted communities.
Detroit Greenways Coalition
This Detroit-based group works to promote and build a network of greenways, Complete Streets, and bike lanes that will connect people and places, improve the quality of life, beautify neighborhoods, and stimulate neighborhood-level economic development in Detroit.
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
Detroit RiverFront Conservancy is responsible for the establishment, improvement, operation, maintenance, security, programming and expansion of the Detroit RiverWalk and associated green spaces. Through its public and private partnerships, the DRFC supports the development of Detroit's riverfront district and facilitates community access to the waterfront.
East Michigan Environmental Action Council
EMEAC empowers the Detroit community to protect, preserve and value the land, air, and water. We build community power through environmental justice education, youth development, and collaborative relationship building.
Ecology Center
From its Ann Arbor headquarters, Ecology Center develops and advances innovative solutions that lead to cleaner energy, better chemicals and less waste. These, in turn, make for healthy people and a healthy planet.
Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South-Central Michigan
This Hudson-based nonprofit serves as a watchdog of confined animal feeding operations, called CAFOs, whose large amounts of manure pose health threats to both people, watershed and ecologies. It also supports sustainable agriculture.
Friends of the Detroit River
This Detroit-based nonprofit improves the quality of life for the people, plants and animals in southwest Michigan and southwestern Ontario. It does so as a watchdog, grassroots advocate, partnership creator and a policy developer.
Friends of the Rouge
This Plymouth-based organization restores and is a steward of the Rouge River ecosystem. It does so through education, citizen involvement and other collaborative efforts.
Huron River Watershed Council
The Huron River is considered to be the cleanest urban river in Michigan, and this Ann Arbor-based organization is largely responsible for making and keeping it that way. It has influenced decisions made by various local agencies, businesses, and individuals through technical data, factual information and citizen stewardship.
Legacy Land Conservancy
Legacy’s mission is to secure for current and future generations a land base for nature, agriculture, freshwater and recreation in Washtenaw and Jackson Counties and beyond. Its office is in Ann Arbor.
Make Food Not Waste
This Detroit-based nonprofit keeps food out of landfills and slows climate change by creating lasting solutions to food waste. It does this through education, food upcycling, advocacy, all while feeding those in need.
Sahayata Balamitra Charitable Trust
This Bloomfield Hills-based nonprofit was created by high school students that prevent non-infectious diseases caused by drinking water, which are often chronic and have devastating consequences in children. The Trust currently helps install water filters in India and advocates for drinking water protections in Michigan.
Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Urged by the love of God, IHM Sisters work with others to build a culture of peace and a right relationship among people, with churches and with the Earth. Environmental justice and sustainability are among its core tenets. It is based in Monroe.
Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy
From the natural areas of the Thumb to the fragmented ecosystems of rural Macomb to the urbanized communities across southeast Michigan, this Rochester-based group conserves, sustains and connects natural areas, lands and waters.
Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy
The Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy conserves natural land and open space including forests, wetlands, meadows, agricultural land,and places of scenic beauty to provide habitat for wildlife and to enrich the lives of people. It serves all of southeast Michigan from its office in Superior Township.
Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision
SDEV strengthens the environment and economy of Southwest Detroit through partnerships with residents, community organizations, government agencies, schools, businesses and volunteers.
Transportation Riders United
This Detroit-based organization's mission is to improve transportation access and mobility in greater Detroit. It improves and promotes public transit across the state as a tool for urban revitalization, to prevent sprawl and to decrease global warming pollution.
Treeline Conservancy
This nonprofit manages, improves and advocates for the Treeline Urban Trail in Ann Arbor, which connects the people, places and cultures of Ann Arbor together.
Voices for Carbon Neutrality
This group of University of Michigan faculty, staff and alumni serve as a catalyst and accelerator for their employer's strides toward carbon neutrality with consideration toward the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports and on the university's own announcements.
Voices for Earth Justice
This interfaith network based in Detroit is committed to prayer, education, and actions of environmental and social justice that deepen everyone's senses of wonder, responsibility and gratitude for all creation.
Statewide members with southeast Michigan offices
Alliance for the Great Lakes
The Alliance for the Great Lakes seeks to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource using policy, education and local efforts, ensuring healthy Great Lakes and clean water for all generations. It is based in Chicago and has a Detroit office.
Clean Water Action
Clean Water Action is a national organization with local offices in East Lansing, Ann Arbor and Clinton Township. Together, they work to promote clean water, making democracy work and environmentally safe, and water-related jobs locally and statewide.
Environment Michigan
Although based in Ann Arbor, this citizen-based environmental advocacy project of Environment America defends the state's environment through independent research, tough-minded advocacy and spirited grassroots action.
Michigan Electric Vehicle Alliance
This Allen Park-based nonprofit increases the production, use and accessibility of electric vehicles in Michigan through equitable legislation, programs and other changes.
Michigan Interfaith Power & Light
This coalition of faith communities across the state seeks to help all Michigan faith communities become better stewards of the earth by promoting and implementing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and related sustainable practices through education, advocacy and action. It is headquartered in Detroit and has 300 member congregations from 20 different faith traditions across the state.
Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
Michigan LCV's Education Fund engages elected officials, business leaders and Michigan residents to take action on the most pressing land, air and water issues facing the state. It conducts nonpartisan civic engagement work - such as "get out the vote" efforts and citizen organizing on specific policy issues - from its Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Traverse City offices.
Michigan NAACP
The NAACP ensures the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminates racial hatred and racial discrimination. Environmental justice has long been a tenant of this national organization and its local chapters, including its 47 Michigan chapters and its statewide branch in Detroit.
Scenic Michigan
This Ann Arbor-based organization seeks to preserve, protect and enhance Michigan's beautiful rural and urban landscapes. Through its parent group, Scenic America, it combats billboard blight, advocates for thoughtful sign and lighting controls, supports dark skies initiatives, enhances scenic byways, protects Michigan’s vistas.
The Stewardship Network
TSN, an Ann Arbor-based organization, exists to connect, equip, and mobilize people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities. Through shared experiences, knowledge, and resources, this group continues to build an ever larger and more impactful network of place-based collectives (TSN Member Communities) to care for our natural environment.
