New Mexico Acequia Association protects water and our acequias, grows healthy food for our families and communities, and honors our cultural heritage.

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New Jersey Futures

New Jersey Future is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes sensible growth, redevelopment and infrastructure investments to foster vibrant cities and towns, protect natural lands and waterways, enhance transportation choices, provide access to safe, affordable and aging-friendly neighborhoods and fuel a strong economy.

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PATHE People's Alliance for Transportation Housing and Employment

The People's Alliance for Transit Housing and Employment (PATHE) is a coalition that came together because we were tired of city leaders working only for the interests of developers, big corporations, and the rich.

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Empower DC

Empower DC is a city-wide grassroots organization committed to building the power of low-income communities of color to create long lasting, positive change in our communities.

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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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Menikanaehkem (Menominee Tribe)

Menikanaehkem (Menominee Tribe) of Wisconsin has over 8,500 members worldwide and provides a platform for multi-generational community engagement geared towards holistic health and wellness.

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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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Media Mobilizing Project

"Media Mobilizing Project works with movements to communicate and organize to win. We amplify the voices of communities fighting for justice, equity and human rights…

Civic Participation, Community Infrastructure, Valued Cultures & Identities, Hope and Efficacy, Housing, Marketing & Retail EnvironmentGuest UserJanuary 10, 2020Media Mobilizing ProjectPennsylvania

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)

Since 1994, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization has strived to build a sustainable community that promotes the healthy development of youth and families, provide economic justice, and practice participatory democracy and self-determination.

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Cooperation Jackson

“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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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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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Since 1993, Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice.

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Student Immigrant Movement

“The Student Immigrant Movement is a MA-based statewide immigrant youth-led organization. We fight for the liberation of the undocumented community through the development of a network of immigrant youth organizers in high-density immigrant communities…

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PODER SF

After 5 years of organizing and gathering community input, PODER unveils Hummingbird Farm! The opening ceremony unveiled the new name and gathered the community to feast and plant seeds on the land around the farm.

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Boston-area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP)

Boston Youth Organizing Project is a youth-led organization supported by adults, with a common purpose to increase youth power and create positive social change. BYOP goals are to improve the lives of young people, increase real political participation and build community.

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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT (SWOP)

SWOP seeks to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. We work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources.

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Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI)

Pan-African Community Development Initiative (CDI) is an organization based in the Bronx, NY. PACDI realizes that in order to stimulate the Bronx community (the most unbanked community in the state of New York) they need to help establish a local credit union to relieve residents of this borough of all the predatory lending services that are available.

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Acta Non Verba (ANV)

Acta Non Verba: Youth Urban Farm Project (ANV) elevates life in the inner-city by challenging oppressive dynamics and environments through urban farming.