2024 Community Water Justice Award Recipients

  • 7 Waters Canoe Family Cultural Riparian Survey and Restoration
    • Seven Waters Canoe Family provides invasive species management, native planting (such as planting the Wapato, Tule, and Camas), trash removal, planting buffer zones along with their community partners.
  • Friends of Tyron Creek
    • A proudly indigenous-led organization, they seek to provide restoration of this land through indigenous practices and a Cultural Restoration Plan.
  • Ethiopian Eritrean Cultural and Resource Center
    • The EECRC Water Justice Initiative will engage their communities through educational trips to reservoirs, workshop sessions, and engagement that fosters a sense of responsibility within their people.
  • Portland Harbor Community Coalition
    • The PHCC, together with those who work with this organization, support healthy fish access, advocate for the concerns of river safety, and perform remarkable community-based research.
  • Verde
    • Verde looks forward to hosting a legislative advocacy day where community members engage with the Oregon capital, meet state representatives, and build relations to advocate for water justice.
  • Traditional Ecological Inquiry Program
    • TEIP will be hosting a cultural fire exchange, using this as an opportunity to use cultural burning as a tool to restore meadows, provide floodplain restoration, and honor indigenous perspectives.
  • Coalition of Communities of Color
    • The CCC aims to expand their team in order to address the water justice needs of people of color.
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Water Program
    • ATNI seeks a long-term water advocate and coordinator who will be able to recruit new tribal members and foster overall growth within the program.
  • Necanicum Watershed Council
    • Aware of the disenfranchisement of the Necanicum Basin’s indigenous community, NEWC established a partnership with the Chinook Indian Nation. Together, they aim to combine their knowledge, skills, and passion for restoration and conservation and create a paradigm shift from the stereotypically white-dominated conservation community, to one of union with the Chinook people.