Get Involved
Join Crossroads Coalition in driving the Just Transition forward!
Whether through volunteering, attending events, or contributing your skills, your involvement makes a difference in empowering frontline communities and fostering a regenerative economy.
Together, we can dismantle systemic inequalities and build an economy that prioritizes people and environmental justice. Be part of the movement—your voice and actions matter!
Consider getting involved with one or more of our member organizations. Each member of the Crossroads Coalition is working on the Just Transition from different perspectives including community organizing, the arts, advocacy, cooperative business development, youth education and entrepreneurship, and many more important pieces of a people-first economy.
Open Buffalo
Open Buffalo is a civic initiative to make major, long-term improvements in justice and equity in the City of Buffalo. It is an unprecedented collaboration among a diverse group of partners and allies. Our mission is to advance racial, economic, and ecological justice. We do so through skill building, network connecting, and activating leadership opportunities. Our goal is for all communities in Western New York to thrive free from discrimination and poverty.
Ujima Company, Inc.
Ujima Company Inc. is a multi-ethnic and multicultural professional theatre whose primary purpose is the preservation, perpetuation, and performance of African American theatre by providing working opportunities for established artists and training experience for aspiring artists.
Massachusetts Avenue Project
MAP's mission is to nurture the growth of a diverse, accessible, and equitable local food system, promote economic opportunities, and empower youth through social change education. We imagine a community in which all youth and families have access to fresh, healthy, and culturally appropriate food, where people of all incomes have economic opportunities, where vacant lots are transformed into productive green spaces, and where youth and their families are engaged in their communities.
African Heritage Economic Initiative
Coalition for Economic Justice
CEJ Buffalo is a permanent coalition that unites labor, faith, and the community for workers' rights and economic justice.
PUSH Buffalo
The mission of PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in Buffalo.
Cooperation Buffalo
Cooperation Buffalo is a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. We mobilize workers to achieve economic security through cooperative business ownership, generating wealth and power in communities most affected by inequality.
Partnership for the Public Good
Partnership for the Public Good is a community-based think tank that builds a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant Buffalo Niagara through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.
The WASH Project
Using the creative impulse as a common denominator, The WASH Project establishes an outlet for its users to access the arts, while advocating for the equitable advancement of its immediate community, including refugees, low-income renters, and historically disenfranchised people, by presenting creative pathways and intersections for advancement and action-based change. From this effort, we continue to cultivate the development of a small, yet dynamic center of local community life, a place that people of all ages and walks of life come to. A place, that by the way it is designed and the way it is operated, strengthens its neighborhood, creatively and collaboratively.
Public Accountability Initiative
The Public Accountability Initiative – known more broadly as LittleSis – is a nonprofit public interest research organization focused on corporate and government accountability. At LittleSis we conduct and facilitate power research to generate a specific understanding of social-political-economic power in order to inform movement strategies, build coalitions and directly support campaigns that challenge power structures. A deep analysis of power structures helps create a more strategic and interconnected movement that wins more campaigns and is increasingly effective in working toward our movement’s shared liberatory vision.