CELDF works with communities to establish Community Rights – such that communities are empowered to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their residents and the natural environment, and establish environmental and economic sustainability.

Communities across 7 states are coming together and creating a peoples movement! A movement that recognizes our inherent and inalienable right to create authentic democracy in our own communities and municipalities across the nation. Oregon joins Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Colorado and Washington as states with community rights networks, all receiving assistance from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Learn More.

The network of Community Rights Chapters organizing in Oregon. The ORCRN provides support and resources for existing and emerging Community Rights Chapters throughout Oregon.