raizescollective.org/programs ALMAS LIBRES is a membership organization. ALMAS Libres offers immigrant & Indigenous women access to information, know-your-rights training, leadership development and policy campaigns. ALMAS LIBRES currently helps to lead the Northern California Coalition For Just Immigration Reform, which aims...
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motheringjustice.org Mothering Justice is a grassroots policy advocacy organization that provides mothers of color in America with the resources and tools to use their power to make equitable changes in policy. We are dedicated to improving the quality of life...
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jointheff.org The Feminist Front (The FF) is a POC-led organization uniting 15-35 year olds for gender, reproductive, racial, and queer justice. We build feminist power. We are an organization of young people fighting white supremacist cishetereopatriarchy and all systems of...
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wearedissenters.org Dissenters is leading a new generation of young people to reclaim our resources from the war industry, reinvest in life-giving services, and repair collaborative relationships with the earth and people around the world. Dissenters is a new national movement...
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elcentroculturaldemexico.org El Centro Cultural de Mexico is an alternative space in Santa Ana where the community can find cultural, educational, and artistic activities that strengthen their identities, develop their talents and develop a sense of leadership in their community. By...
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beyondthebars.com Beyond the Bars is a worker organization fighting for better working conditions for low-wage, criminalized workers in South Florida. Through education, advocacy, and organizing, we challenge the exploitation of workers with arrest records — especially those bound by probation...
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storybasedstrategy.org Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power. We believe in everyone’s innate and collective capacity to understand our own selves and our communities’ needs...
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uprose.org Founded in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. An intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally recognized community organization, UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood through community organizing, education, indigenous and youth leadership development, and cultural/artistic expression....
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tejasbarrios.org T.e.j.a.s is dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environmental pollution, empowering individuals with an understanding of applicable environmental laws and...
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puebloactionalliance.org Pueblo Action Alliance is a community driven grassroots organization that protects Pueblo cultural sustainability and community defense by addressing environmental and social impacts in Indigenous communities. We are the descendents of Pueblo revolutionaries and carry the revolutionary spirit of...
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palestinianyouthmovement.com The Palestinian Youth Movement (“PYM”) is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide as a result of the ongoing Zionist colonization and occupation of our homeland. Our belonging to Palestine and our...
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organizacionboricua.blogspot.com The Boricuá Organization of Ecological Agriculture of Puerto Rico is a non-profit organization that brings together people from all over the archipelago of Puerto Rico who are willing to work for agriculture in harmony with the environment. Boricuá has...
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indigenousclimateaction.com Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) is an Indigenous-led organization guided by a diverse group of Indigenous knowledge keepers, water protectors and land defenders from communities and regions across the country. We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are...
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hawaiipeaceandjustice.org Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice (HPJ) works to promote peace, social justice, and ea (life, sovereignty, rising, breath) in Hawaiʻi through community organizing, popular education, art and nonviolent direct action as tools for social change. As a multigenerational and multi-ethnic...
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chainbreaker.org Chainbreaker is a membership-based economic and environmental justice organization. We work to expand access to affordable transportation and sustainable communities for working people in the Santa Fe, New Mexico region. We believe that all people have a right to...
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abisa.org ABISA works to build stronger communities where Blvck immigrants can thrive. We engage administrations and communities to collaborate with Blvck immigrant constituents in all aspects of societal life....
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drumnyc.org DRUM – Desis Rising Up and Moving is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrant workers and youth in New York City. Founded in 2000, DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of...
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www.equalitylabs.org Equality Labs is a Dalit civil rights organization dedicated to ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, Islamophobia, white supremacy and religious intolerance. We build power through multiple strategies including community organizing, art, research, training, and digital security. We center the...
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micronesia-climate-change-alliance.myshopify.com Micronesia Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) is a grassroots network of individuals and organizations dedicated to creating community-centered solutions to climate change. We construct the importance of climate change as a threat multiplier to pacific islands. Our network seeks to...
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freedom-inc.org Freedom, Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI. Our mission is to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing....
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araborganizing.org The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) is a grassroots organization working to empower and organize our community towards justice and self-determination for all. AROC members build community power in the Bay Area by participating in leadership development, political...
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womenworkingtogetherusa.org Women Working Together USA is an organization of working women, mostly domestic workers who seek to empower other women through education. The women of WWT is a multicultural group that seeks to highlight the values of each member converging...
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garmentworkercenter.org Garment Worker Center is a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to improve conditions for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers. Through direct organizing, GWC develops leaders who demand enforcement of strong labor laws and accountability...
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smash.miami SMASH’s Mission is the creation of a Community Land Trust that will adequately address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification (slumlords, rising rents, lack of community control), and that is shaped, developed and...
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curyj.org CURYJ unlocks the leadership of young people to dream beyond bars. We look to young people to lead the way by transforming our community and investing in their healing, activism, and aspirations....
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We are Fuerza Unida, the women that organized for workers’ rights when the Levi’s Strauss Co. closed their Southside San Antonio factories in the early 1990s. For 26 years, we have maintained a non-profit organization offering a monthly food pantry...
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empoweryouthnc.org The Youth Organizing Institute (YOI) is a popular education program centered on the lives and experiences of young people. We develop leadership skills through political and people’s history workshops. Our dynamic workshops include interdisciplinary visioning practices, discussions, presentations, hands-on...
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youngwomenunited.org Young Women United (YWU) leads policy change, research, place-based community organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in New Mexico. We work to build communities where all people have access to the information, education,...
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weact.org WE ACT for Environmental Justice is a Northern Manhattan membership-based organization whose mission is to build healthy communities by assuring that people of color and/or low-income participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair environmental health and protection...
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usas.org Formed in 1997, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a grassroots organization of youth and students who believe that a powerful and dynamic labor movement will ensure greater justice for all people. We use our unique roles of students...
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ueunion.org The UE Union: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) is a democratic national union representing some 35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector and private non-profit sector jobs. UE is an independent union...
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tenantsandworkers.org Based in Alexandria, Virginia and with a satellite office in the Culmore area of Fairfax County, Tenants and Workers United (formerly known as the Tenants’ and Workers’ Support Committee) is the largest member-based, low-income community organization in Northern Virginia....
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swunion.org The Southwest Workers’ Union (SWU) is an organization of low-income workers and families, community residents, and youth, united in one organizational struggle for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment....
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swop.net The SouthWest Organizing Project was founded in 1980 by young activists of color to empower our communities in the SouthWest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice. We seek to redefine power relationships by bringing...
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maineworkers.org The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a nonprofit membership organization committed to creating a grassroots, people-powered movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for working and poor people in Maine. We believe that we must...
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right2survive.org Group of houseless and formerly houseless individuals and supporters dedicated to teaching about and defending the human, civil and constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness....
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projectsouth.org Founded in 1986, Project South acts as a regional hub for leadership development, movement-building, and long-term strategy development within community-based organizing for racial and economic justice. By creating collective spaces for communities and organizations to develop bottom-up grassroots organizing...
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progressivetech.org The Progressive Technology Project (PTP) works nationally, primarily with progressive base-building organizations made up of low-income, people of color, immigrant, and other marginalized communities working to build power in order to improve conditions for themselves. We exist to help...
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pcasc.net PCASC educates and mobilizes the community, workers, and students in the fight for human rights and social justice in the Americas. We have three important functions:
podersf.org PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color....
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phillystudentunion.org The Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) exists to build the power of young people to demand a high quality education in the Philadelphia public school system. We are a youth led organization and we make positive changes in the short...
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movimientopoder.org The Freedom to Learn Campaign is based on the belief that education is a RIGHT, not a privilege! We believe that ALL students, regardless of race, income, or immigration status, deserve equal access to high-quality public schools that prepares...
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opalpdx.org OPAL stands for Organizing People, Activating Leaders. Founded in 2006 by and for people of color and low income, OPAL is the grassroots-driven hub at the center of our region’s movement for Environmental Justice. We develop community members’ leadership...
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nodutdol.org Based in New York City, Nodutdol is a community of first through fourth generation Koreans living in the U.S. We are a community that has families in both, the south and north of Korea. We are diverse in our...
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nativemovement.org Native Movement provides support for grassroots-led projects that endeavor to ensure Indigenous Peoples’ rights, the rights of Mother Earth, and the building of healthy and sustainable communities for all....
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nnirr.org The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. As part of a global movement for social and economic justice, we are committed to...
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mujeresunidas.net Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice....
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migrantjustice.net Migrant Justice emerged in response to critical issues affecting migrant dairy farm workers. Interviews with workers during 2009 and 2010 led to a participatory education project in which teachers and students in 10 Vermont High School Spanish Classes heard...
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miamiworkerscenter.org The Miami Workers Center is a strategy and action center. We build the collective strength of low-income people of color and our communities for power and self-determination. We initiate and support grassroots projects, known as Grassroots Councils, that are...
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movementalliance.org Movement Alliance Project builds power with community organizations working at the intersection of race, technology and inequality. We run strategic campaigns, lift up untold stories, and build infrastructure for poor and working people to win lasting power and a...
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mxgm.org Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend its people’s human rights and promote self-determination. With an understanding of the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism at the root...
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mataharijustice.org Matahari Women Workers’ Center (“Matahari”) is a Greater Boston organization where women of color, immigrant women, and families come together as sisters, workers, and survivors to make improvements in ourselves and society and work towards justice and human rights....
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lvejo.org Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO,) also known as La Organización de Justicia Ambiental de La Villita, is a collective of community members based in Little Village, Chicago striving for a clean and just environment. We seek to empower...
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jtalliance.org The Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a coalition of environmental justice and labor organizations. Together with frontline workers, and community members who live along the fence-line of polluting industries, we create healthy workplaces and communities. We...
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jwj.org Jobs with Justice engages workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live. JwJ was founded in 1987 with the vision of lifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of a...
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jfrej.org For 25 years, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) has pursued racial and economic justice in New York City by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in people’s everyday lives. We are inspired by Jewish tradition...
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ironboundcc.org Founded in 1969, ICC’s mission is to engage and empower individuals, families, and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community. ICC upholds and builds upon the principles of Justice and...
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ienearth.org The Indigenous Environmental Network is a network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions....
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grassrootsonline.org Grassroots International works in partnership with social movements to create a just and sustainable world by advancing the human rights to land, water, and food through global grantmaking, building solidarity across organizations and movements, and advocacy in the US....
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gotgreenseattle.org Got Green is a people of color-led organization based in South Seattle working to ensure the benefits of the green movement – green jobs, access to healthy food, energy efficient and healthy homes, and public transit – reach low-income...
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floridaimmigrant.org The Florida Immigrant Coalition is a statewide alliance of more than 62 member organizations, including farmworkers, students, service providers, grassroots organizations and legal advocates, who come together for the fair treatment of all people, including immigrants.We accomplish our mission...
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floc.com FLOC began in the mid-1960s, when Baldemar Velásquez convinced a small group of migrant farmworkers in northwest Ohio to come together for their common good. FLOC has built a membership of tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers by incorporating...
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ejlri.org The Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island (EJ League) is an alliance of individuals and organizations working together to promote environmental justice in Rhode Island through advocacy, education, networking, organizing, and research. Our mission is to build power in...
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emeac.org For almost fifty years, EMEAC has been working in the legislature, in the courts, in township halls and in schools. We played a role in the enactment of most of Michigan’s environmental laws. We have used those laws in...
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domesticworkersunited.org Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United [DWU] is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation...
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designaction.org Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive social change organizations. By providing these high-quality professional services, we seek to contribute to building a broad and effective progressive movement and participate in the struggle for social justice....
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daretowin.org DARE organizes low-income families in communities of color for social, economic and political justice....
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cooperationjackson.org The broad mission of Cooperation Jackson is to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises....
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cvhaction.org Community Voices Heard (CVH) is an organization of low-income people, predominantly women with experience on welfare, working to build power in New York City and State to improve the lives of our families and communities. We are working to...
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foodjustice.org Community to Community works to Empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes; Develop cross-cultural awareness; Restore justice to our food, land and cultural practices; Promote community relationships towards self-reliance; Work in solidarity with those...
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cbecal.org Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is a social justice organization with a focus on environmental health and justice. We organize in working class communities of color because those communities suffer the most from environmental pollution and toxics. CBE...
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ciw-online.org The CIW is a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida....
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cpasf.org Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and...
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cjjc.org Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC) brings together two organizations that evolved different organizing models in their respective communities. St. Peter’s Housing Committee was founded on a service provision model, and later brought service provision and organizing together in...
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cata-farmworkers.org CATA – The Farmworkers Support Committee – a non-profit organization, was founded by migrant farmworkers in southern New Jersey in 1979. We are a membership organization open to all farmworkers and members of the community who support our work....
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caaav.org Our work originally came out of a response to rising anti-Asian violence that was happening across the country. We engaged in anti-police brutality campaigns, participated in anti-war demonstrations, protested unfair working conditions. And we developed community-based projects rooted in...
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blackworkersforjustice.com The BWFJ is an organization of Black workers formed in 1981 out of a struggle led by Black women workers at a K-mart store in Rocky Mount, North Carolina against race and gender discrimination. After organizing a boycott of...
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blackmesawatercoalition.org BMWC was formed in 2001 by a group of young inter-tribal, inter-ethnic people dedicated to addressing issues of water depletion, natural resource exploitation, and health promotion within Navajo and Hopi communities. We continue to be led strongly by young...
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apen4ej.org APEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that...
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aboutfaceveterans.org We are Post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. As people intimately familiar with the inner workings of...
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activistsandiego.org Activist San Diego is a social justice organization that promotes and facilitates the development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San Diego through networking, culture and electronic technology....
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