Dear Friends,

I write to ask for your support.

Last August, Katherine Egland from Gulfport, Mississippi contacted us. She’s a local, civil rights leader working with two, mostly African American communities that regularly flood due to commercial development on sensitive wetlands. She urgently needed a pro bono lawyer to file an injunction to stop even more environmentally destructive development. Within hours, we matched her up with a prominent attorney from the University of Mississippi.
 
Those construction plans are now on hold.

In 2019, we provided mini-grants to 23 flood advocates from across the country. The money paid for room hire, local travel, group meals, T-shirts, FOIA requests, and planning appeal fees. Though modest, this support can be decisive in determining if a community group succeeds or fails.