Miami Children's Initiative

Miami Children's Initiative was founded in 2006 and seeks to break the cycle of poverty in Liberty City, Miami with a “block-by-block approach”, and by focusing on the growth and development of the cities youth.

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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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Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Inc.

NJFC visualizes an energized and involved community where all people, young and old, are valued, nurtured and supported as we work together to build and sustain communities that are purposeful in ensuring that the environmental, political, cultural, recreational, educational, economic, and spiritual needs of its citizens are actualized and preserved.

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Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network

GSA Network helps LGBTQ students and straight allies organize GSA clubs focused on activism to create safer schools. GSA Network’s resources empower students to advocate for safe school policies, mobilize their peers to stand up for safety and equality, and train teachers to stop bullying.

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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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Philadelphia Student Union (PSU)

The Philadelphia Student Union is a youth-led organization that exists to build the power of young people to demand a high quality education in the Philadelphia public school system.

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SIKH COALITION

For 15 years, the Sikh Coalition has defended Sikh civil liberties in the courtroom, classroom, community and halls of Congress. Whether it’s working to secure safer schools, prevent hate and discrimination, create equal employment opportunities, or empower local Sikh communities, the Sikh Coalition’s goal is working towards a world where Sikhs, and other religious minorities in America, may freely practice their faith without bias and discrimination.

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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…

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Martinez Street Women's Center

"The Martinez Street Women’s Center transforms communities through women and girls by providing access to vital health services, quality education, and advocacy. We envision a world where women and girls achieve empowerment, equity, and justice." –MSWC's website

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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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La Plazita Institute

La Plazita Institute, Inc. is a non-profit grassroots organization in Albuquerque, NM. La Plazita engages New Mexico’s youth, elders and communities in a comprehensive, holistic and cultural approach.

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Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)

Founded in the 1960s, the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization has facilitated organizing campaigns that increased the resources and services available to families and residents of the North Kenwood and Oakland communities of Chicago.

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Freedom, Inc.

Freedom, Inc. has engaged low income communities of color in Dane County, WI since 2003, working to end violence against people of color, women, those that non-traditionally gender identify, youth, and elders, to promote a healthy lifestyle.

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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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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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Community Coalition (COCO)

The Community Coalition is a grassroots community based organization that was established in 1989 to create a more prosperous, safer and healthier South L.A.

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Healthy Black Families, Inc.

Healthy Black Families, Inc (HBF) formed as a non-profit organization in July 2013. However, since 2002 some of the individuals on the Board of Directors were on the Community Advisory Board of the Berkeley Black Infant Health (BIH), a program of the Berkeley Health Department.

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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.