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Regional Projects When the Sierra Club believes its expertise and resources will benefit a community fighting an environmental justice battle, it does not march organizers into town to take over the effort. The Club will enter a community to provide grassroots organizing assistance only when invited to do so. That assistance is defined through the program's Organizing Guidelines. Once invited, the Sierra Club works to support communities, respecting their right to define their own agenda, encouraging the empowerment of the members of the community, and fostering community self-reliance. Because the nature of this work is fundamentally different from much of the Sierra Club's conservation advocacy, the EJ Program is initiated and maintained through a series of protocols to ensure success. In that spirit, Sierra Club organizers support communities working on environmental justice issues in the following locations: Arizona Central Appalachia Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Tennessee U.S.-Mexico Border Washington, D.C. Up to Top