Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)

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NGO Profile: Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)

ACAT is a growing, progressive environmental health and justice organization that engages individuals, tribes, and other communities to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment. ACAT has a solid track record of base-building, organizing, and advocating for social and policy change. We work locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.

Founded in 1997, ACAT is an environmental health and justice organization that engages individuals, tribes, and other communities to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment. We assist communities in implementing effective strategies to limit their exposure to toxic substances and to protect and restore the ecosystems that sustain them. ACAT has a solid track record of base-building and advocating for social and policy change. We have considerable experience organizing Indigenous peoples, as well as strong ties to other non-governmental organizations and tribes, 29 national and international groups, and 39 Alaska groups. ACAT’s mission is to assure justice by advocating for environmental and community health. We believe everyone has the right to clean air, clean water, and toxic-free food. ACAT engages a broad diversity of people. Six of our ten-member governing board as well as five of our ten permanent staff members are from the ethnically- and culturally-diverse Indigenous peoples of Alaska (Alaska Natives).

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT): ACAT is a growing, progressive environmental health and justice organization that engages individuals, tribes, and other communities to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment. ACAT has a solid track record of base-building, organizing, and advocating for social and policy change. We work locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.; -10.4417982 -10.6196553