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Founded in 1998, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition that builds power with systemically marginalized communities to resist climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.
Our Work
Organizing & Advocacy
NCEJN supports communities impacted by environmental injustices by organizing strategic workshops and conferences, offering training in community organizing, addressing communication needs through storytelling and visualization, uplifting intersectionalities, and facilitating networking across the state and beyond. When necessary, we assist with litigation through an external legal team.
Infrastructure & Development
NCEJN strengthens organizational capacities by providing resources to community-based organizations, including financial opportunities through our Mini-Fund and workshops to enhance Network members ability to further develop their infrastructure and increase sustainability. As a Justice40 Hub, NCEJN offers grant-writing workshops.
Research & Education
NCEJN works with communities to determine how data can advance community advocacy goals, facilitates relationships with researchers, and leads community science efforts to address these data needs. We also provide environmental justice education and training for both communities and academics.
Be A Link In The Chain
WE ARE INVITING COMMUNITIES TO JOIN OUR NETWORK AND HELP FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.
News & REFLECTIONS
North Carolina Candidates’ Positions on AI Data Centers
14 October 2026 – Rania Masri We sent this questionnaire, several times, to every NC candidate in the 2026 elections (including city council, county commissioner, NC House and Senate, and…
Resources on Understanding Data Centers and Their Environmental Impacts
Below you will find a number of resources that have been compiled over time for our NCEJN newsletter – Read NCEJN’s statement published in October 2026 – “Our organizing is…
The Performance of Public Participation
By: Dr. Rania Masri, NCEJN Co-Director of Organizing and Policy It was a similar scene. We filled the city council. We held up the posters. We signed up to speak.…
Fertile Ground “State of Our Coop Report”
Erin Dale McClellan, President, on behalf of the Fertile Ground Board of Directors Fertile Ground Food Cooperative (FGFC) started in 2011 as a dinner conversation about cooperative organizing among a…
Touring Richmond County
Laura Love, Orage County Resident Long-lived lineages weaving through Black, white and Indigenous families and a gentle abundance of green flowing everywhere were the first impressions of Rockingham and Richmond County…
Reflecting on E-I-E-I-O No! – a community-science initiative
Dr. Chris Lamont Brown & Corey Curtis, Research and Education Team, NCEJN Last week we launched “E-I-E-I-O No!” on Zooniverse, a community science initiative designed to map the hidden footprint…