Our work is one of providing alternative structures and possibility models for organizations, collectives, and communities locally, all while dreaming up the future and remembering our past survival ways.

Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change is a network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community organizers, and documentary artists that use oral history to further movement building and transformative social change. Our network grew out of an initial in-person gathering of 15 activist oral historians in the fall of 2011. Today the Groundswell network includes hundreds of individuals from all across the United States, as well as from other countries.We believe that oral history can be a source of power, knowledge, and strength in our struggles for justice. Oral history provides a unique space for those most impacted by injustice to speak and be heard in our own voices. Groundswell's mission is to provide mutual support, training, and resources in the practice of applied, community-based oral history in order to build the creativity and power of social justice movements.In seeking to create a supportive community we welcome practitioners of all skill levels and backgrounds. We believe that oral history is both an art and a skill demanding thoughtfulness, preparation, research, training, practice and a high degree of integrity and follow-through. We promote high standards of quality and celebrate the many forms in which movement-relevant oral history and storytelling work happens.

Gwinnett SToPP works to fulfill its mission of dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline by empowering the students and parents most impacted by that pipeline to demand safe, supportive public schools. We work under the theory that schools must be accountable to the communities they serve, and parents and students should be active participants in decision-making about their schools. The current system that criminalizes students of color is embedded with systemic racism and decisions are made by those with political power.Gwinnett SToPP works to empower those impacted by the STPP by providing parents, students, and community members with information and data needed to understand the systemic problem of pushout, and through trainings on how to use that information and data to hold elected officials and policymakers accountable when schools are not serving all children equitably and fairly. We also work with parents, students, and community members to bring a pro-active vision of discipline in schools that minimizes out of school time and promotes healthy school climate, recognizing that we must lead with a strong vision of what we want to see.

HOME of Daytona Beach, Inc., (Homeless and Others for a Meaningful Exchange) aims to improve public perception of the homeless individual and to raise public awareness of homeless issues such as the decriminalization of homelessness. H.O.M.E. is formed and organized for the recognition of the right to shelter, emergency assistance, and freedom from harassment.

The Houston ISD Student Congress is a student-run, student-led organization that advocates for youth power and educational justice in Houston.

Founded in 1992 to respond to the refugee crisis faced by Haitian immigrants in the U.S. and Guantanamo Bay, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) has provided support to hundreds of families who sought asylum in the US after being persecuted in Haiti. The organization has worked on various relief projects, including disaster relief for Haitian victims of hurricane George in 1998, and tropical storms and hurricanes that hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 2004, 2007, and 2008. HWHR had a relief program for September 11th victims who were displaced immigrant workers. Through this program we provided case management and financial assistance to over 200 individuals and families from Haiti, West Africa and other Caribbean Islands. Currently, HWHR provides comprehensive and culturally sensitive programs that include community education, supportive services and community organizing. Over the past decade, HWHR has also provided solidarity support to communities in Haiti to recover and rebuild in the wake of natural and man-made disasters.

HICHRP’s mission is two-fold: to raise Hawai’i’s awareness of Philippine human struggles and their intersection and impacts on Hawai’i and to train advocates for human rights through linking work between Hawai’i and the Philippines.

Originally founded in 1968, the Hawai’i Area Program of the American Friends Service Committee has become Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice. The work of HPJ draws on the long tradition of organizing and struggle in Hawai’i for workers’ rights, land and sovereignty, environmental protection and human dignity. HPJ is working to grow an alternative future based on meeting human needs, protecting the environment and preserving culture, self-determination and human rights. We also support grassroots struggles that resist the destructive impacts of war and militarization and unjust social and economic policies.

Healing Communities is a framework for a distinct form of ministry for men and women returning from or at risk of incarceration, their families, and the larger community. Healing Communities challenges congregations to become Stations of Hope for those persons affected by the criminal justice system and sexual exploitation.

Healing by Choice! is a circle of women of color health and healing practitioners in Detroit who offer a range of healing modalities for self-care and the reduction of racial harm in mind, body, spirit, and institution.

Health Care is a Human Right - Douglass Homes educates, organizes and mobilizes people in Douglass Homes and beyond for housing, health care and education for a safer community and a better life.

The Health Justice Commons (HJC) works at the intersections of racial, economic, gender, disability, and ecological justice to support marginalized communities to re-imagine and re-design healthcare and healing for our times.

Healthcare for All Oregon Education Fund strives to ensure that all people in Oregon have access to affordable, quality, and comprehensive health care; particularly those populations who are under served, such as low-income families, members of minority groups, those who are uninsured or under-insured, and those who have difficulty gaining access to health care.

We are a youth-led social justice organization in working to create systemic change in the education system in New London, Connecticut.We do this by supporting the development of youth organizers through participatory action research (PAR) projects, intensive political education workshops, and arts-based cultural work. Hearing Youth Voices is committed to building the political power of people of color, queer and transgender folks, undocumented people, and women. Through campaign work, direct action, and art we fight to end the oppressive systems that harm our people and communities.

It is the mission of the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom to create opportunities for workers to learn and exercise their rights, realize their collective power, and develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate for a racially and economically just society.

The Heaux History Project (HHP) is a Black-led project that aims to gather the stories and histories of Black and brown sex workers through collecting oral interviews, writings, and artistic representations.

Herbal Gardens Wellness provides Indigenous holistic health, lifestyle, and integrative therapeutic practices through individual sessions and Community Health Education. We propose that the inclusion of traditionally held positions in councils will provide a sustainable means of direction to learn and acquire education to provide as a resource to other communities world-wide suffering from environmental damage and inhumane acts.

Hilltop Urban Gardens (HUG) is a community-based urban agriculture, justice, and equity organization in Tacoma, Washington. HUG partners with the community to grow healthy food, young people and neighbors. We seek to inspire our community to live with abundance while understanding and interrupting the root causes of economic poverty and wealth accumulation and systems of oppression. We believe growing our own food independence is an important strategy in this process.We see food as a basic human right. Everyone deserves access and the ability to produce and distribute fresh, affordable, healthy, clean, sustainable, safe, and culturally appropriate food. We call this FOOD JUSTICE.HUG’s mission is to develop systems for food sovereignty and create racial and economic justice. Our vision is communities that take care of each other. We strive to put the we back in me! HUG values interdependence, abundance and community building. We also recognize the importance of having a practical understanding of the issues that can act as barriers in our communities. While we dig our hands into the earth, HUG aims to build community-based solutions to these barriers.HUG is led by and centers economically poor people and people of color in our work and leadership. We are an anti-racist, anti-oppression organization that is putting those principles into practice. This means that we walk it, more than talk it.

Hispanic Black Gay Coalition (HBGC) is one of few non-profit organizations in Boston dedicated to the unique and complex needs of the Black, Hispanic and Latin@ LGBTQ community. Founded in 2009, we work to inspire and empower Latin@, Hispanic and Black LGBTQ individuals to improve their livelihood through activism, education, community outreach, and counseling.We envision a world where Black and Latin@ LGBTQ individuals can unite to support and empower each other.We also envision a world where Latin@ and Black LGBTQ individuals can comfortably and unapologetically incorporate themselves into their racial/ethnic community and the mainstream LGBTQ community simultaneously.We believe by directly addressing the lack of services, resources and opportunities available for Hispanic, Latin@, and Black LGBTQ individuals and by working in solidarity with our allies, we can make our vision a reality.

The Hoʻopae Pono Peace Project seeks to build strength in the Hawaiian community, and in its connections with others, through culture-based support for the prevention and resolution of family and community issues, support for youth as nonviolent warriors, and promotion of nonviolent solution-building and activism.

Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality (H.O.P.E.) is an organization whose members are exclusively people who are currently experiencing or have formerly experienced homelessness. Fresh off the heels of victory in our ROAD HOME campaign, where H.O.P.E. won more than $500,000 of County funding for homeless and veterans' issues, this organization is eager to continue the fight for our people.

Homes For All Nashville is community association dedicated to ending displacement by building the organizing capacity of working-class renters and home-owners in Davidson Co., Tennessee.

Community Voices for Public Education (CVPE) is a diverse organization that unites Houston parents, educators, students, and community members of all identities to advocate for policies that defend and strengthen Houston’s public school system.

HDC was founded in 1992 as part of a statewide movement to oppose a virulent anti-gay constitutional amendment, Measure 9. We have been working to advance human rights, human dignity and equality for LGBTQ people ever since.We promote equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, (LGBTQ) and allied community in Central Oregon.

The Human Rights Coalition (HRC) is a group of predominately prisoners' families, ex-prisoners and some supporters. Our ultimate goal is to abolish prisons. The prison system is based on a foundation of exploitation, punishment and corruption. Most of the people in prisons are poor, brown, urban, functionally illiterate, unemployed or under-employed before they were locked down, and are there for non-violent crimes. The prison system reflects all inequalities in our society, and it does not work in its current incarnation.Our goal is to empower prisoners' families to be leaders in prison organizing, while at the same time reduce the shame of having a loved one in prison or being formerly incarcerated. Our goal is to make visible to the public the injustice and abuse that are common practice throughout our judicial and prison systems across the country, and eventually end those abuses.We also work to encourage the rehabilitation of prisoners. HRC understands that prisoners are human beings with problems that need to be addressed. Many prisoners have led horrendous lives of drug abuse, child abuse, or neglect, in addition to impacts of racism, sexism, classism and homophobia. We as citizens should demand that the prison system focus on the rehabilitation of prisoners so that they can return to society as productive citizens with the skills needed to take care of their families.

FedUp! is the Pittsburgh chapter of the Human Rights Coalition dedicated to upholding the rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustices, and building relationships with people in prison and their advocates. They are an organization of concerned citizens, people in prison, and their loved ones.

Hunters of Color aim to create a more equitable community for people of color by dismantling barriers to entry through educational opportunities, mentorships, and resources for new hunters.

Founded by a trans man of color, I Am Human was created to empower the lives of LGBTQIA individuals. Their goal is to create a safe space for individuals who are homeless, living with HIV, and trans youth, with a focus on those who experience discrimination due to their lifestyle or gender identity. They aim to break the barriers with regard to the societal disparities in education, employment, healthcare, and housing.

I Did the Time is a group of formerly arrested or incarcerated individuals, advocates, and criminal justice professionals who strive to create a society where people with arrest and conviction records, who have served their time and focused their efforts on rehabilitation, are able to re-enter society with support and respect from our families and communities.We envision a world where the formerly arrested or incarcerated have the opportunity to fully recover and reintegrate into society with safe and stable housing and meaningful occupations. We hope to educate the public to reduce stigma associated with past offenses by engaging those who represent and support us in political action.Our democracy only works when we register as voters and engage with our elected officials to create system change. As part of the voting populace we have the civil right to ask our elected officials to serve our needs

IOETN is a grassroots organization that works to build community alternatives to ICE and policing in East Tennessee.