Slingshot

Slingshot’s mission is to work alongside communities most impacted by environmental threats to take aim at polluters and build community power.

When communities facing a threat reach out, our experienced team of community organizers do thorough research to understand the problem, build relationships with residents, and support them through clarifying the change they want to create. Then we facilitate workshops and meetings to create an effective plan, and show up day in and day out as local leaders build the power needed to win that change.

Our goal isn’t just to win on local environmental problems—we are building a base of long-term member-leaders who can light the fire for change in their state and across the region. This base will be the driving force for our collective priorities moving forward. We believe in building an organization that is led by residents of the communities most burdened with environmental pollution and that will help combat systemic environmental injustice.

We will show up for communities and organize with compassion, humility, fierce love, and joy to build a more just world. As our name suggests, we are fearless in the face of powerful corporate greed, we generate momentum in the face of the inertia of an unjust and polluting status quo, and we are resourceful in the face of a system designed to exclude and ignore. Together with community leaders, we are building the movement that propels our region toward the future we envision.
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Are you and your community facing a threat to your health and future? Don’t hesitate to reach out so we can talk through how we might be able to support you. We always support communities for free.