EJ Program Evaluation


We help other EJ organizations identify and record their impact by conducting community-centered, culturally-rooted program and organizational evaluation research.

✔️ For Sankofa Community Development Corporation in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, we evaluated their STEM Wetland Education Project.
📢 Looking for evaluation research support? Let’s work together.

📧 Contact our Executive Director, Louise Palmer: lpalmer@e2i2.org

Together, we can demonstrate the impact of your work to the community, funders, and your supporters.

Technical Assistance & Research


E2I2 offers ongoing technical assistance to community partners, including:

✔️ For the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Intellectual Concepts, LLC, we provide data analysis for environmental justice reports.
✔️ For the West Anniston Foundation, we are providing support to design and implement a community environment health assessment, including citizen science projects.

📢 Looking for environmental justice data support? Let’s work together.

📧 Contact our Executive Director, Louise Palmer: lpalmer@e2i2.org

Together, we can drive equitable solutions for healthier, more resilient communities.

Environmental & Maternal Health


🔬 How does pollution affect pregnancy?

• High temperatures during pregnancy are linked to premature births and stillbirths.
• Air pollution exposure can contribute to low birth weight, preterm birth, and worsened asthma—which, if untreated, can lead to dangerous conditions like pre-eclampsia.

💡 This is a critical but under-researched area. E2I2 is collaborating with maternal health organizations to develop community-driven research and education programs focused on environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes.

📩 Interested in collaborating? Contact our Executive Director, Louise Palmer: lpalmer@e2i2.org.

Environmental Justice Data Action Portal


Funded by the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), EJDAP is an interactive online portal providing environmental justice organizations with access to critical environmental health data.

📡 E2I2 serves as a technical subcontractor to Intellectual Concepts, LLC, providing:

✔️ Technical support and ongoing maintenance.
✔️ Data analysis and visualization.
✔️ Plain-language data interpretation.

🔗 Explore EJDAP at www.ejdap.org.

Community-Engaged Learning: Power Over Pollution


Access to environmental and health data is increasing, but communities need the tools to interpret and act on it.

🌱 Power Over Pollution is E2I2’s environmental health data literacy training program, designed to help EJ communities:

✔️ Understand environmental and health risks.
✔️ Navigate pollution-related data sources.
✔️ Interpret maps, charts, and reports.
✔️ Develop action plans for community advocacy.

This hands-on, interactive program integrates community-centered learning, participatory activities, and mindfulness exercises, ensuring that knowledge translates into real-world impact.

Community Air Pollution Monitoring


In a groundbreaking initiative, E2I2 with its partner Intellectual Concepts, LLC, developed prototype solar-powered, community-owned air pollution sensors to collect real-time pollution data. Our air monitors are tailored to the chemicals of concern in the communities we work with.

🤝 Partnering with Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Intellectual Concepts, LLC, we are:

✔️ Installing five air monitors in St. John The Baptist Parish.
✔️ Training residents to install, maintain, and interpret sensor data.
✔️Developing a community air quality data dashboard
✔️ Providing community education on using data for local advocacy efforts.

Data Analysis & Community Reports


E2I2 provides data-driven insights to help communities tell their environmental justice stories. We use tools like:

• EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Program and Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
• Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) to describe environmental burdens.
• EPA’s EJScreen to compare community data with national and state averages.
• CDC Places health data
• U.S. Census data

📊 We translate data into plain-language reports, interactive presentations, and cloud-based portals—empowering communities with data literacy training for effective advocacy.

Current and recent projects:

🔹 Georgia (Healthy Communities of Augusta & Savannah Riverkeeper): We mapped pollution data with racial and economic demographics to assess the disproportionate impacts of polluting industry on majority racial minority and low-income communities. See our work here: Augusta at Risk – Savannah Riverkeeper


🔹Mississippi (Dogwood Alliance and GridEquity): We are conducting a comparative analysis of the environmental and health impacts of a biomass facility.

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Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping & Community Data Analysis


Despite the abundance of environmental justice data, it is often scattered across various federal, state, and local agencies, making access and interpretation difficult.


E2I2 creates community-specific GIS maps to highlight pollutants such as toxic air emissions from Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) facilities and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our mapping overlays environmental data with socio-demographic factors (e.g., racial demographics, poverty levels) to visualize the communities most impacted. We also map health data, such as cancer and asthma rates to identify health disparities.


Ongoing GIS Mapping Projects:
🔹 Louisiana (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice): Mapping TRI and GHG emissions with socio-demographic indicators, social vulnerability index (SVI), and environmental burden models.
🔹 Texas (The Bullard Center, Texas Southern University): Analyzing pollution around 86 proposed petrochemical facilities.
🔹 Georgia (Healthy Communities of Augusta & Savannah Riverkeeper): Overlaying pollution data with racial and economic demographics to assess disproportionate impacts. 

See our work here:  Augusta at Risk – Savannah Riverkeeper 



Reducing Household Costs and Improving Health

We conducted community engagement with families facing fertilizer-contaminated water from household wells. Due to contamination, families were forced to spend money on bottled water.

📢 Together we identified a simple solution—digging deeper wells.

Impact: 

Improved health outcomes.

Reduced the financial burden of purchasing bottled water.

Supporting Environmental Health & Climate Resilience

Environmental Conferences & Brownfields Redevelopment Workshops

📍 Virginia Statewide Collaboration
✅ Partnered with Virginia Union University, Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation, and local nonprofits
✅ Hosted environmental health and redevelopment conferences to address pollution concerns
✅ Provided policy recommendations and community resources to drive sustainable development

📈 Impact:

✔️ Strengthened partnerships between community groups and environmental organizations
✔️ Supported long-term solutions for land reuse and pollution reduction