Tompkins Conservation

The Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment (CRPE) is a national environmental justice organization that aims to achieve healthy and sustainable communities through collective action and the law. They provide legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color, with a focus on California's San Joaquin Valley. CRPE combines community organizing, legal representation, policy advocacy, and coalition building to create power and systemic change, believing that social change comes from the ground up. Founded in 1989 by Luke Cole and Ralph Abascal, CRPE operates with the understanding that legal advocacy needs to be community-based to be successful. They work directly with communities to represent their needs and help establish community groups that can advocate for their goals. With a rich history of resiliency, culture, and power, the San Joaquin Valley is where the farmworkers movement originated, and CRPE builds on this tradition to scale up their work at the state and national levels.Generated from the website