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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 & Events
NCEJN’s Summit 2025
We Are Still Here: 27 Years of Holding Our Ground Resisting Injustice, Organizing the People, Mapping the Path, Building Power To Register visit: tinyurl.com/ncejn-summit2025-register Address: Franklinton Center At Bricks …
From Exploited Workers. To Dehumanized Detainees.
Munir Abdul-Hakim, Muslims for Social Justice / People’s Power Lab Rania Masri asked me to write a reflection on “the surge in kidnappings by ICE.” She’s right to call it…
NCEJN Joins 25 NC Groups In A National Effort to Pass a Nationwide AI Data Center Moratorium
500+ Groups from 47 States Call for Nationwide AI Data Center Moratorium In a letter sent to Congress, more than 520 organizations from 48 states called for the enactment of a full…
Press Release: Under The Pretense of Protection, Senate Bill 730 Shifts Financial Risks to North Carolinians
PRESS RELEASE 3 June 2026 Pretense, Not Protection: Senate Bill 730 sidesteps needed AI data center development regulations and 2050 carbon reduction goals in favor of nuclear buildout and Duke…
On Community-Managed Historic Preservation of Environmental & Racial Justice
Emma Jo Donnelly, NCEJN’s Public Historian I inherited my strong commitment to justice from my parents and my grandmother. My grandmother was the first woman to become president of her…