RISE: Healthy for Life transforms culture around bodies and beings from fear based to fact based, oppression to affirmation. We champion responsible, inclusive, trauma-responsive wellness education.

Race Matters in Education's mission is to address white supremacy and racism in a collaborative and uncompromising way, working closely with individuals and various school systems to ensure our schools prepare West Virginians to work and live in multicultural America.  

Racial Justice Action Center-Women on the Rise is a vibrant, multiracial organizing and support center that is building grassroots leadership and power of communities of color, and low income communities in order to fight for - and win - political and social transformation in Georgia and beyond.

Racial Justice NOW! (RJN) is shaping Black parents to become leaders in how their children are educated. We are committed to dismantling structural and institutional racism in all areas of people activity. Our primary focus is on the institution of education and lifting up the voices of dis-empowered Black parents and children. We are dedicated to stopping the school to prison pipeline and focus specifically on holding institutions accountable to equitable distribution of resources and services to Black people in Dayton and around the State of Ohio.

RAD Care stands for Radical Accessible & Decolonizing Community Care. They are led by those most disenfranchised (i.e. QTPOCs who also have disabilities, have HIV, have Hep C, who are also sex workers, are active drug users, are homeless &/or participate in street economies). RAD Care is working to provide better services to those most disenfranchised by society by creating leadership and economic opportunities

RAMPS is a non-violent direct action campaign based in the southern coal fields of West Virginia. We are dedicated to ending all forms of strip mining in Appalachia and believe our greatest contribution to reaching this goal is to undertake locally supported direct action.We are here to fight for the survival of the land and people of Appalachia, the right to a healthy and sustainable future with clean air and clean water, and the right to a livelihood that nurtures that future. To achieve these goals, we are up against much more than an unjust mining process. We are fighting decades of repression by the coal industry and its agents. We are fighting the inept, if not corrupt, regulation agencies and government. We are fighting out-of-state land companies who hold this land and therefore its people’s lives as a commodity to be auctioned off. We are fighting national ignorance and indifference to the oppression of the Appalachian people.Our direct action tactics are part of the larger movement to end mountaintop removal that includes many organizations using a wide variety of strategies. Only by working with and complementing the other aspects of this movement can we dismantle the system of oppression and destruction that enables mountaintop removal.As predominately outsiders in these communities, we are in a position of privilege. Our work here is guided by local residents whom themselves may not walk onto a mine site, but do support direct action in the coalfields. In solidarity, we offer our resources, our networks, our time, our bodies, and our personal freedom to this struggle.

RACCE's mission is to challenge systems of oppression by advocating for culturally competent educational practices. Therefore, we believe the most effective way to triumph over systemic forms of oppression is to have an educational system that serves the historically underserved and underrepresented. This can only be accomplished if we advocate for an educational system that is positioned to provide culturally competent school professionals and curriculum, human services, and disciplinary policies, which combat: generational poverty, achievement gaps, implicit and explicit biases towards race, ethnicity and gender.

Rainbow Beginnings creates an alternative, mutual aid system to assist LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers with housing, medical care, advocacy, and community as they begin a new life in the United States.

The Re-Entry Mediation Institute of Louisiana seeks to decrease recidivism rates and improve a person’s transition home from incarceration with the sustainable support of positive relationships with family and friends.

Mediation sessions create a unique opportunity for a person who is incarcerated to sit down face-to-face with a loved one in a confidential space inside a correctional facility to make a plan about their own re-entry.

Reclaim UGLY spreads awareness about uglification; how it’s been used to service white supremacy, patriarchal religious dogma, imperialism, fatphobia, and hetero-cissexism; how it validates bullying; and how we can reclaim UGLY to liberate ourselves.

Red Salmon Arts (RSA) is a cultural arts organization, with a thirty-year history of working with the indigenous neighborhoods of Austin. RSA is dedicated to the development of emerging writers and the promotion of Chican@/Latin@/Native American literature, providing outlets and mechanisms for cultural exchange, and sharing in the retrieval of a people’s cultural heritage with a commitment to social justice.Red Salmon Arts offers resources to Chican@/Latino@ and Native American communities living in working class neighborhoods of Austin to better understand the culture and arts of their families and ancestors. The founder of Red Salmon Arts, raúlrsalinas, was a world-renowned poet who developed his artistic technique through a life of hardship and experience, including time served in prison for non-violent crimes. His readings were dramatic and effective, helping young people who heard him understand the life circumstances of so many Mexican Americans in those days, and how poverty and racism still create challenges for Latin@s.

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The Red Umbrella Project (RedUP) is a small peer-led organization based in Brooklyn, New York, which does community organizing and advocacy to make policy and systemic change to support the rights of sex workers. We utilize media, storytelling, peer support, and direct action strategies to amplify the voices and power of sex workers to take greater control of our lives and livelihoods. Our programming supports the development of skills, confidence, and political analysis among our members so that we can better navigate systems of oppression and fight for our rights. We also promote health and safety, make referrals to health and social services, and provide in-house peer counseling, job assistance, and leadership opportunities to our members.

Redbird exists to further the abolition of prisons, the prison industrial complex, incarceration, slavery, carceral logics, and cages of all kinds, through prisoner direct-support as well as correspondence and engagement with incarcerated people.

Reflect and Strengthen's (R&S) mission is for young, working-class women, ages 14-30 from Boston's urban neighborhoods to create and nurture environments for positive social change through creative expression, political education, community building and organizing. Our overall goal is to create and maintain an institution led by young, working-class women, that nurtures and empowers ourselves and communities to challenge the power structures that impact our communities. We do this by creating a safe space to nurture sisterhood and solidarity, cultivating critical thinking skills and anti-oppressive power analyses and values through our community organizing, while celebrating our cultures and creativity.

The Refugee Dream Center was established to create opportunities within the refugee community to facilitate their resettlement process and integration into their new lives in the United States. The Refugee Dream Center creates these opportunities by providing supportive roles including referrals, social level assistance, and skills development including healthcare education and cultural orientation, mental health support services, after-school programs, role modeling, tutoring and mentoring for youth, adult English language and job skills development, and interpreting services.

Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) works to get elderly and infirm people out of New York State prisons. The number of people over age 50 in New York State has risen 81% since 2000; it now exceeds 9,000—more than 17% of the total incarcerated population.RAPP aims to establish a parole process in New York that is transparent, all inclusive, and fair, with parole decisions based on public safety risk and individuals’ demonstrated personal growth while in prison. Such a process would reduce the soaring population of incarcerated elders.We seek fair and objective hearings for everyone who comes before the Parole Board. We will not try to expand release opportunities for certain classes of offenses by denying opportunities for others. Instead, we insist that decisions be made on each person’s individual merits and experiences inside. This principle allows RAPP to challenge a fundamental pillar of mass incarceration: reliance on a system of permanent punishment, a culture of retribution and revenge rather than rehabilitation and healing.The RAPP Campaign mobilizes currently and formerly incarcerated people, their families, and other concerned community members. From this united base and through the RAPP Coalition, we work alongside other prison justice advocates to (1) raise public awareness about the destructiveness of mass incarceration and the benefits to society in releasing aging people, including those convicted of violent crimes who do not threaten public safety; and (2) promote the use of key mechanisms for releasing elderly people, such as parole, compassionate release, and policy changes.

Release MN8 strives to end the separation of families through bringing about social and political change, resulting in community power to protect human rights and allow families to live together.

Rematriation Magazine and Sisterhood is linking like-minded Indigenous women in cultural gatherings and our digital platform, to support the resurgence of healing and unity, and to reinstate the ancestral dignity and cultural leadership of Indigenous women. 

Rematriation Magazine is a storytelling platform where Indigenous women gather for collective healing from historical as well as current traumas—and for empowerment through rewriting our own narratives and the telling of new narratives. We deliver kitchen table conversations through an online platform, allowing women to participate from anywhere at any time.

Our mission, to create a green energy future that empowers people and communities, protects cultures and ecosystems while promoting local solutions to climate change -- is about much more than energy. It's about ushering in a new energy paradigm founded in the ideals and principles of Energy Democracy.We seek to expand the social, economic, health and environmental benefits of point of use renewable energy to people, small and medium business owners, communities and the public sector through education, outreach, coalition building, policy advocacy, project development and direct action.An equally important goal is to redirect and concentrate distributed renewable energy in the vast built environment already devoted to meeting human needs in order to protect our public lands, valuable cultural and ecological resources and maximize the cost effectiveness and efficiency of renewable energy generation.Thirdly, RCI is devoted to identifying, developing and advocating for grassroots solutions to climate change.

Reproductive Freedom for All organizes and mobilizes our 4 million members to fight for access to abortion, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination.

Our member chapters help us advance our mission: Reproductive Freedom for All - CT, Reproductive Freedom for All - Montana Foundation, Reproductive Freedom for All - South Dakota, Reproductive Freedom for All - Choice Texas, Reproductive Freedom for All - Wisconsin, Reproductive Freedom for All - Wyoming

The Resilient Sisterhood Project’s mission is to educate and empower women of African descent regarding common but rarely discussed diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect them. We approach these diseases and associated issues through a cultural and social justice lens, because we believe that poor knowledge of reproductive health is primarily related to health, racial, and socioeconomic disparities.

Resistance Ecology intends to help shape the new wave of animal and ecological activism in the United States. We are an organization that prioritizes movement building for animal and ecological liberation and resistance. However, we want to progress beyond the conventional one dimensional analysis and structure of mobilization and advocacy that has long been our calling card. Animal liberation and radical ecology do not need to be isolated, disparate, a-historical, and fragmented movements. They can and must become part of the language and dialogue of social justice.The alternative is to foster a movement that is multi-layered, unified, diverse and intersectional. We must understand that social, economic, cultural, environmental, historical, and political factors operate together in complex and intersecting ways. Accordingly, animal and ecological activists need to adopt an approach of intersectional organizing and coalition building. We must forge alliances with a broad spectrum of social and political struggle.As an organization, we intend to use our projects as a means of changing the framework of our movement to adapt to structures of power and domination. We focus on education and analysis, networking and resource sharing, identifying and mobilizing strategic campaigns, building sustainable relationships, cross-movement solidarity, and coalition building. Currently, we are working on a movement magazine, organizing an annual national conference, creating a news website, and planning networking and mobilization tours. We do not intend to help reinvent the wheel. We intend on collectively and horizontally devising novel solutions to the complex problems we face.Resistance Ecology envisions a movement for non-humans, both wild and captive, that is no longer fringe and isolated. We envision movements and coalitions that encapsulate the holistic struggle for freedom, beyond control, domination, deprivation, and captivity. The onus is on us, and we have much work to do.

Resources for Organizing and Social Change (formerly INVERT) was founded in 1977 by people who wanted an organization to promote nonviolence and social change through mechanisms of education, training, and organizing. Our mission is to build and support a movement for nonviolent social change that will educate, activate, & empower all Maine people through grassroots community organizing.

Respect(Ed) Peer Education Program is run by and for young people, working to provide students with the tools they need to set the standards for their own health education. They believe that early and accurate education around sexuality and consent allows youth to lead healthier, safer lives.

Respite in the Round is a Queer-stewarded, two-story round treehouse turned land-based retreat and campground offering individuals and small groups a place for rest, connection, creative making, grounding, and vision-setting.

The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN) is to improve the wages and working conditions of low-wage restaurant workers in our state.

Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) is a Black women-led reproductive justice organization dedicated to collectively restoring our well-being through self-determination, collaboration, and resources to meet the needs of women and families within communities.

Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.

Return Strong is committed to deconstructing the prison industrial complex by unapologetically fighting to center black and brown people and people experiencing poverty in all phases of the criminal legal and correctional systems.

The mission of the Sisterhood is to amplify the voice and power of Muslim women. We do that by building a network, storytelling, leadership development, and community engagement. We train and equip women with the necessary skills to engage and participate in civic life, become part of the solution-creating decision making process, and improve society as a whole.