Community-Based Organizations

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A frontline community-based organization is a local, state, or Indigenous nonprofit organization, unincorporated group, or small for-profit business that represents and/or supports a specific frontline community and its residents and stakeholders. Frontline CBOs also represent or serve a particular population from many communities and geographic areas, but which face shared experiences of environmental injustice and climate challenges.

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