Artivism Virginia is creating a supported connection between Virginia artists & activists working for environmental justice with strategy, messaging, event & campaign production, music, spoken word, visual design, sound, videography & photography.

Wild Virginia is a grassroots non-profit organization that protects Virginia’s wild lands and waters through advocacy, education, and influence. For more than twenty years, Wild Virginia has strongly advocated environmental protections and empowered citizens to become active in the decision-making processes that affect our wild lands’ future. The organization’s three central programs are: 1) water and energy, 2) outings and education, and 3) habitat connectivity. For seven years, Wild Virginia has opposed dangerous natural gas pipelines that would carry fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia, threatening sensitive and valuable natural areas and communities. Wild Virginia helped lead effective opposition against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) still faces multiple legal and regulatory hurdles that could prevent its completion. MVP has already harmed waters and people in a path across southwest Virginia, and Wild Virginia intends to prevent further damage.

Appalachian Mountain Advocates is a non-profit public interest law and policy organization dedicated to fighting for clean water and a clean energy future. We use law and science to protect our region’s people, land, forests, air and water. Our pipeline litigation has, thus far, successfully stalled the MVP indefinitely and added billions in costs. Recent filings and statements indicate the MVP is on precarious financial footing — we hope our work over the next year will force the builder to fully abandon the project.

Akiing, the Anishinaabe word for “the land to which the people belong” is a regional integrated community development initiative, aimed at restoring an culturally based Anishinaabe economy focused on food, energy, and value added production. Akiing is intended to restore health and well being economic opportunities for Anishinaabe people in the Great Lakes region, through the promotion of education and outreach on sustainable development, research, pilot projects and regional collaboration on economic development, cultural events , research and policy work for tribal nations. Akiing is home to the Rights of Nature program, which Equation Campaign most recently supported with a grant for legal support for tribal water protectors.

The Tiny House Warriors is a group of women, families, and Indigenous land defenders
from the Secwepemc Nation and beyond whose mission is to defend and reclaim our lands in
the face of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (TMX) through interior British
Columbia. Tiny House Warriors is a mission to stop the Alberta Tar Sands infrastructure including the 1152km Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, pumping stations, terminal stations, tankers and refineries that threaten the existence of Indigenous Peoples, culture and territorial land base.

Future Economy Collective is a community-led, volunteer-run 501c3 on Tutela land in so-called Southwest Virginia. We strive to build community strength and support grassroots organizing to model the world we want to live in, by offering alternative forms of collaboration; collective growth, education, and liberation; skill-sharing; and mutual aid. We are currently working to provide support for frontline community organizers as well as mutual aid projects throughout the New River Valley Region.

The Niibi Center is a catalyst for research, advocacy, and activism, grounded in Indigenous culture and knowledge to protect and advance Anishinaabe prophecy, sovereignty, and cultural survival. The Niibi Center provides programs, education and events aimed at language preservation, protecting the rights of niibi (water) and manoomin (wild rice), healing of historical trauma and building traditional women’s leadership.