The Mission of Clean Air Muscatine is to improve air quality in the Muscatine area which will enhance the community’s health, economy, and quality of life.Clean Air Muscatine uses the acronym (CLAM) because of our community’s historical connection to the clamming industry. Local entrepreneurs capitalized on the clamshells in the Mississippi River, which were used to manufacture buttons and make Muscatine the button capitol of the world for almost 100 years.

In October 1965, 100 clergy members met in New York to discuss what they could do to challenge U.S. policy on Vietnam. Believing that a multi-faith organization could lend credible support to an anti-war movement often labeled as Communist, they created the Clergy Concerned about Vietnam.

Clevelanders for Public Transit are riders that believe in safe, accessible, affordable, reliable and sustainable public transit for Clevelanders.

The Coalition For Alternatives to Militarism in Our Schools is a non-profit group of educators, students, parents, and community activists working against increased militarism in American public schools,

Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) is a grassroots, multiracial, membership organization whose purpose is to advocate for the needs of students, parents, and teachers with a focus on low-income communities of color. CEJ is commited to improving the learning and working conditions of students, parents, and teachers while increasing a variety of educational opportunities to bring equity and justice to the public educational system.

The Coalition for Prisoners' Rights fights systemic change by challenging the social and economic injustice inherent in the US punishment system. They have been publishing their Newsletter for 36 years.

CRSH is a worker-led organization fighting to end sexual harassment and gender violence in the Philadelphia restaurant industry.

The Coalition of African Communities' (AFRICOM) vision is to build a strong and inclusive African and Caribbean immigrant and refugee community with all the nationalities. 

AFRICOM’s mission is to advocate and organize so that immigrants and refugees feel a sense of empowerment, belonging, and self-sufficiency.

AFRICOM seeks to achieve this mission by: 

• facilitating family access to health and social services, with a focus on women,  children and the youth;
• promoting economic development;
• facilitating the resolution of inter and intra-group conflicts;
• advocating on issues of concern to African communities; 
• educating the media and the broader public on African cultures and experiences. 

The mission of the MidweMidwestCoalition to SAVE the Menominee River is to prevent the Back Forty Mine, a metallic sulfide mine in close proximity to the Menominee River and sacred sites of the Menominee Tribe.

Coffee Strong is a veteran-operated service member and veterans rights center located next to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. We help service members with military discharges, grievances and complaints, and other GI Rights. We assist veterans with getting their benefits, including disability, healthcare and education including discharge upgrades. At Coffee Strong, we also have free coffee and snacks, access to the internet, alternative information, and referrals for legal, medical, mental health and other forms of assistance.

Our mission is to build the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through advocacy, education, and legal services.Low-income and immigrant communities face the greatest barriers to justice. We seek to provide access to free and/or low-cost, quality, respectful legal services for low-income immigrant people. We also seek to build coalitions across community lawyering organizations in the Northwest and between local community groups.

Our mission is to educate, organize and research to strengthen the anti-racist and decolonizing work leading to generate changes, psycho-social, cultural, economic and political in and out of Puerto Rico community, academic, spiritual realm.We aim to form partnerships through community organization with various sectors of society to affirm African roots and eradicate institutional, cultural and individual racism in spaces inside and outside of Puerto Rico.

The Collaborative, through this leadership and advocacy training project, seeks to organize around issues impacting Black girls and women and to develop and advance political education and strategy development with the larger goal of creating movement-building spaces at the local and national level.

The Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine is a diverse, community-based group dedicated to organizing activities and educational events that advance the cause of peace and justice for both Palestinians and Israelis.

The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) is a grassroots solidarity organization that has been supporting the Salvadoran people’s struggle for social and economic justice since 1980. We organize strategic campaigns against US government and corporate intervention in El Salvador and accompany the Salvadoran popular movement in its work to realize an inspiring vision of participatory democracy and economic justice.

Common Ground CLT establishes and maintains permanently affordable, democratically controlled, non-commodified housing for the poorest and builds communities where every member is supported so they can participate in the ways they find meaningful.

Communities United for Revitalization and Engagement: CURE endeavors to impact the quality of life in an effort to improve our community as a whole through collaborative planning, revitalization, preservation efforts, engagement, and policy advocacy.

The 1966 mission of CALC was to mobilize opposition to the Vietnam War. Over forty years later, CALC continues to challenge militarism, but has deepened our mission to educate and mobilize for peace, human dignity and social, racial and economic justice.We address root causes of oppression by seeking to change attitudes, behaviors, and policy through education, activism, and cultural means.We challenge ourselves and others to address privilege and power, to work collaboratively as effective allies, and help build leadership, especially for dis-empowered and marginalized people.We work with and for a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-gendered, multi-generational movement on social justice issues and projects.

Community Education Project of New Orleans is a diverse collective of families, students, teachers, and community allies nurturing the movement for education justice through grassroots organizing, transformative workshops, and collaborative events.

CIVIC works to end the isolation and abuse of people in US civil immigration detention through structured visitation combined with nationwide detention monitoring and advocacy. CIVIC was founded on the belief that true immigration detention reform can only be achieved through broad civic engagement.

Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a 501(c)(3) member based collective of black people dedicated to being a force for creating sustainable self-determining communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing. Our mission is rooted in Black love and equity.

Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively supports self determination in the Black community in nine specific areas. 

Their use of the framework of the nine areas of self-determination gives voice and power to the unique identities and experiences across the Black community. It is their aim to listen and empower people, building solidarity across the Black community using a variety of methods: from listening sessions to incubating youth leadership; from providing security for movement events that enables those impacted to safely organize to providing funds to diverse Black organizing efforts from their Black Solidarity Fund.

Our beliefs are based on the notion that society should arrange its relationships so that everyone has equitable access to fundamental democratic processes affecting their everyday lives. C2C is led by women of color that have lived the reality that U.S. history reveals; that people of color, women, and poor and low income communities have been excluded from the promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” so eloquently expressed in our great country’s Declaration of Independence. We also know that many have been denied access to the justice guaranteed in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.Because of this knowledge based on real life experience; Community to Community’s mission and work is influenced by the community organizing model of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker’s movement in California and Washington State and the values and principles of the World Social Forum process developed in Porto Alegre Brazil.At C2C we strive to develop projects that come from and are led by the folks from communities that need to affect change for improving the lives of their families and future generations. We work to identify common goals and actions among people from marginalized communities and those that believe in sustainability with social justice as a way of life. We strive for solutions with dynamic participatory processes with equity that will guide our communities beyond the shifting of power and towards system transformations.We are inspired by the successful participatory democracy models in Porto Alegre Brazil and strive to enact its principles both within our organization and as a fundamental piece of our community building efforts. Our social justice work is focused on creating movement towards the creation of communities that: empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes that affect their lives; develop and strengthen cross cultural awareness; restore justice to our food, land and cultural practices, promote community relationships towards self reliance and stand in solidarity with organizations working for human and civil rights.At the core of our programmatic work is the belief in and commitment to eco-feminism and food justice. Our program work is structured in three major program areas: Participatory Democracy, Food Justice and Movement Building. The program areas are taken to action via projects that are hands-on, community based and led. They are linked to each other and eco-feminism and food justice in an intersecting circular process.

The Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Acción (CIMA) connects, strengthens and organizes communities to take action for immigrants’ rights in Western North Carolina. CIMA strives for inclusive communities with justice, freedom, and equality for all.

The mission of Comunidades Enraizadas Community Land Trust is to obtain and permanently secure land for the use and benefit of the community so that low-income people, regardless of their immigration status, can achieve long-term housing stability and be stewards of the land.

Concerned Citizens for Justice (CCJ) was originally founded in August of 1984 by Maxine Cousin, Annie Thomas, and Ms. Thomas' two daughters, Lisa and Lydia. The organization was founded in the wake of the Wadie Suttles Case to address, publicize and protest against police brutality.CCJ became known in the city, state and nation by organizing demonstrations and protests to end police brutality and was influential in creating the Ad Hoc Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality. This important coalition joined together likeminded southern organizations who were active in the struggle against the Ku Klux Klan and police violence within their communities. In 1987, this Coalition filed a class action lawsuit detailing federal voting rights violations in the city of Chattanooga. This lawsuit resulted in the election of a new nine-member Chattanooga City Council, adding four new Black elected officials to the city government, and the hiring of the first Black police chief in the city of Chattanooga.In 2012, the tragic murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin sparked the flame for social justice in a new generation of young people in Chattanooga. Building on the legacy of CCJ, we have joined together in the struggle:* for racial justice* to end police brutality* to educate ourselves and each other about social injustices in our city* to create awareness and implement meaningful solutions* to address gang violence in our city through the elimination of root causes of violence--not through the mass incarceration of our youth.We have come together to build on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans of CCJ who came before us. Using their experience, counsel and participation, we will promote and create a city which prioritizes social justice for all people. Join us in making Chattanooga the best city it can be!

In 2013 three brave African American women came together with the help of o Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and founded Concerned Citizens of Richmond County in south central North Carolina to address the current toxic pollution and the approved expansion of turbines from our local power plant known as the Duke Energy Combustion Turbines. Duke Energy is the largest investor-owned electric company on earth. As such, it enjoys a huge measure of political power. This power, however, is misused, and the impacts of this misuse are evident in Hamlet, NC, and many other places.Our current goal is to stop the environmental and social injustice of our area of continuing to be a pollution dump ground for the region especially by Duke Energy. In the past many African American residents have been hit hard by a toxic soup of asbestos and chemicals from local railroad company CRX. Members of CCRC have lost multiple love ones and friends to this injustice from cancer and respiratory diseases. It appears that many in the community have been indoctrinated to be passive on these issues because they involve a major company that bring jobs to the area and tax revenue for the local government.When we have requested to be on the local county commissioner's monthly meeting agenda to address some of these issues we have been rejected. Our state representative for this area is in complete denial. Our greatest challenge and goal is to shift the thinking of the community. They need to be educated and empowered to know that they have the capacity to provide a safer and healthier community.

The Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) is a statewide alliance of immigrant,faith, labor, youth, community, business and ally organizations founded to improve the lives of Connecticut’s diverse immigrant community. CIRA exists to facilitate the efforts of organizations and individuals in Connecticut who are working to improve the lives of immigrants in our society. We seek to strengthen family unity through the pursuit of social justice and civil liberties. We achieve this mission through non-partisan civic engagement, public education, and advocating for workable, fair and humane immigration policies.

Connecticut Students for a DREAM is a statewide organization of DREAMers and alies that seek to empower undocumented students and their families by advocating for their rights and raising awareness about issues they face.

Located in one of Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods, the Contact Center has a forty one year history of community service and organizing. We work on the local, state and national level to be the grassroots voice on issues affecting our members. We work specifically on neighborhood issues in Over-the-Rhine of resident safety concerns and improving the neighborhood schools. In 1992 the Contact Center started organizing recipients on public assistance issues to make changes in government policy. This group is the Benefit Rights Advocacy Group (BRAG). Our statewide group, The People's Empowerment Coalition of Ohio (PEC), organizes to help lift families & individuals out of poverty.