The Central Valley Urban Institute serves as the conscience of California's San Joaquin Valley speaking up and out to protect our most vulnerable residents.

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Youth Empowered In the Struggle

YES is a multicultural social justice organization that fights for immigrant, student, and worker's rights. YES is the youth arm of Voces de la Frontera.

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Innercity Struggle

Intercity Struggle is a multi-issue organization to build stronger schools, grow our civic engagement, and prevent housing displacement for a stronger and more powerful Eastside.

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Providence Student Union

Providence Student Union builds student power so that young people can improve their education and well-being.

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North Bay Organizing Project

North Bay Organizing Project Graton seeks effective ways to address the divide. We stand with other progressive organizations, immigrant rights organizations and unions, we know that no matter how hard poor people work, without organizing for structural change the conditions that keep them poor will continue.

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Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)

SEIRN envisions a shared struggle between the immigrant community and other marginalized communities to build a movement that transforms the Southeast into a place that respects the dignity and the human rights of all.

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Grassroots Leadership

Grassroots Leadership believes no one should profit from the imprisonment of human beings.

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Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)

CARECEN SF empowers and responds to the needs, rights and aspirations of Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area — building leadership to pursue self-determination and justice.

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Genesee County Hispanic/Latino Collaborative

The Genesee County Hispanic/Latino Collaborative advocates for the Hispanic-Latino populations in Genesee County in the areas of education, cultural awareness and social need.

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Multicultural Institute

Since 1991, under the leadership of its Founder and Executive Director: Rigoberto Calocarivas, MI has worked with different immigrant communities in three areas; Alameda, San Mateo and Contra Costa counties.

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Community to Community Development

“Our beliefs are based on the notion that society should arrange its relationships so that everyone has equitable access to the fundamental democratic processes affecting their everyday lives.

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Fe y Justicia Worker Center (FJWC)

Fe y Justicia Worker Center is a safe space for low-wage workers to learn about their workplace rights and organize to improve working conditions. - FJWC's Website

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La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)

César Chávez and Dolores Huerta founded LUPE, a community union, rooted in the belief that members of the low-income community have the responsibility and the obligation to organize themselves.

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Mothers on the Move (MOM)

Mothers on the Move/Madres en Movimiento (MOM) is a member-led community organization which was founded in 1992 as a vehicle for low-income people of color to take strategic leadership in campaigns to transform ourselves and our communities.

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Organization for Human Rights & Democracy (OHRD)

Founded in 2014, the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy (OHRD) (formerly, the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance) engages in multi-issue, grassroots, radical, and intersectional human rights organizing to transform communities and the world using Metro-Atlanta as the model.

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Padres y Jóvenes Unidos (PJU)

Padres & Jóvenes Unidos is a multi-issue organization led by people of color who work for educational equity, racial justice, immigrant rights and quality healthcare for all.

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DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving

DRUM - South Asian Organizing Center (formerly Desis Rising Up and Moving) is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian immigrant workers and youth in New York City that was founded in 2000.

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Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)

Founded in 1972, Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) conducts tenant and worker organizing, youth and student organizing, civic engagement, and movement and alliance building for low-income Chinese immigrant communities in San Francisco.

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Causa Justa Just Cause

Causa Justa::Just Cause was formed in 2010 as the product of three different grassroots organizations (St. Peter’s Housing Committee, Just Cause Oakland, and People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in 2015). CJJC fights for tenant and immigrant rights in Oakland and San Francisco.

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Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)

Since 2001, the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) has developed various interactive and participatory programs to help the large population of Mixtecs in Ventura County overcome everyday obstacles and build community pride.