Detroit REPRESENT! is a small collective of LGBTQ youth of color from Detroit, Michigan. We use media-organizing to creatively transform the oppression faced by Detroit’s LGBTQ youth of color, while building community.The mission of Detroit REPRESENT! is to inspire and support media organizing in Detroit lead by LGBTQ youth of color, in order to resist erasure, transform oppression, and create authentic portrayals of our communities, our lives, and our selves. Detroit REPRESENT! is a media-based community project, created and lead by LGBTQ youth of color from across Detroit. We began meeting in 2011, when a group of LGBTQ youth of color from all corners of the city started gathering at a nearby church, every week, to teach each other photography, and discuss the oppression within mainstream media. Since that time, our collective has evolved. Some of our first members have gone on to become adult activists, some of us have pursued other dreams and goals, and some of us have taken on greater levels of leadership within the collective.

Detroit Women of Color's mission is to integrate film, social justice and collaboration to advance dialogue and community engagement to radically challenge oppressive systems, and to raise the voices of girls of color who are marginalized and ignored.

DJC dismantles stereotypes around race and prison in America by amplifying the voices of justice-impacted musicians and artists.

Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens creates and promotes spaces for the liberation of immigrants in the United States through education, celebration of culture, and activism.

Dignity Power was born out of a movement to provide dignity for incarcerated women and girls+. We operate with a mission to build political power amongst the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, with a focus on impacting women and girls+.

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a grassroots organization based in Los Angeles that fights for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities. In doing so DPN wages a fight for all lives because the prison industrial complex forms an imaginative limit on everyone’s capacity to envision freedom and liberation.Dignity and Power Now has several projects including an activist coalition, an artist collective, a zine, a research and reporting group, a leadership institute, and even a reentry program inside a state prison. Immediate campaign focuses include establishing comprehensive and effective civilian oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and allocating the money from the two billion dollar jail plan into mental health diversion programs and community health centers.

The Disabled Rights Action Committee (DRAC) works to establish equal rights for people with disabilities through enforcement of federal and state laws.

The Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA) is a membership organization. Our members include farmworkers and their organizations, farmers and farmer groups, retailers, NGOs, and marketer, processors, and manufacturers.Membership in our organization is by application. We set the high bar and expect our members to be committed to the principles of domestic fair trade and continually improving their practices.Our members are diverse in terms of function and geography. The strength of DFTA is in our ability to bring together such diverse businesses and organizations as an independent cooperative grocer in Washington, a farmworker organization in Florida, a farmer cooperative with a nationally recognized brand, a non-profit advocating for pesticide reform, and a non-profit helping local cooperatives in one place to advocate for a common vision for our agriculture system and our system of trade and commerce.

The mission of Don't You Feel It Too? (DYFIT) is to create a participatory public dance practice that reconnects people to the wisdom of their bodies, cultivates our powerful selves in public space, and demonstrates creative, joyful social action.

Don’t Shoot Portland is a Community Action Plan that incorporates activism, education and strategic partnerships to foster community liberation from violence and oppression.

ESTHER aims to bring together people of faith and communities of faith to build community and to identify and act on issues of injustice. Faith communities covenanting with ESTHER are united based on shared values such as equality and human dignity. We work with congregations and individuals in collaboration with community partners and public officials so that everyone can have a voice and role in bringing about strong and just communities.

The Earthlodge Center for Transformation is a spiritual sanctuary for people to transform their trauma into healing and justice. We service queer (LGBTQ+), POC, womyn, children & men who support the rise of the feminine.

Eastern Woodlands Rematriation mobilizes folks at the grassroots level to decolonize their current food, economic, and political systems as well as reconnect spiritually, mentally, and physically to the natural systems of which we belong. They prioritize the return of Native womxn and youth to traditional territories and relationships with the earth. 

The purpose of the Eastside Solutionaries Collective is to create a safe space where community-led solutions are birthed from the transformed consciousness within the people of the east side of Detroit.

Economic Justice Coalition (EJC) promotes justice for workers and builds avenues for workers to succeed. Our programs and campaigns are helping workers get a fair wage, helping low-income families achieve sustainability, and connecting workers, business, and consumers.

Educated Little Monsters is a local grassroots arts organization and movement dedicated to providing an artistic outlet for Brooklyn youth of color while empowering them to become socially responsible and aware of the changes affecting them in their communities.

Elmahaba Center's mission is to strengthen their communities through collective care, cultural awareness, and knowledge towards liberation and social justice.

Encuentro Diaspora Afro was created in 2004 to provide a vital space for Afro-Latinos and all people of African descent - exploring and embracing our complex and multiple socio-political identities across the US, and throughout the world. EDA is dedicated to dismantling racism, improving the lives of women and men of African descent, and creating a just society for all. Our mission is multi-faceted and captures a distinctive role in the broader grassroots movement for racial and social justice: to empower women and girls of color across nationalities and ethnicities while strengthening the voice of Afro Latinos and promoting racial healing.Using dialogue, community education, training, and advocacy, we: (i) mobilize Afro-Latinos into action for racial and social justice; (ii) empower youth of color to be leaders within their communities and agents of social change; and (iii) promote racial healing within communities of color, including misinformation and mistrust between Latino/a and African American communities and across the broad diversity of people of African descent in the Americas. We create a space to address the miseducation, misassumptions, in US public schools about Black/Brown histories in all the Americas.

Epsilon Spires is a center of communication, illuminating the relationships between creative arts, natural sciences, and sustainability using multimedia platforms.

Equal Action is an anti-racist, multigenerational organization that mobilizes the LGBTQ community to join the fight for social justice. Equal Action was created in 2008 when its founders recognized that, although youth and people of color were active in the anti-Prop 8 actions of the time, they were not in positions of leadership nor were their concerns being prioritized within a largely well-to-do, white, cisgendered, male-dominated, adult-centered gay rights movement. In March of 2009, Equal Action held LA’s first queer high school youth march, named “Youth Today: Walking for Equality” by its team of 15 youth organizers, most of whom identified as queer and/or of color. 350 youth, adult allies, and community partners marched through the streets of Chinatown and ended with a rally at LA City Hall, calling for an end to bullying, homophobia, homelessness, and suicide

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a people of color-led, multi-national grassroots organization that does anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification organizing in the Flatbush and East Flatbush communities of Brooklyn, NY. Ultimately our goals are to end NYPD murders and to stop the displacement of low to middle income people within our community. Equality for Flatbush was founded in June of 2013 and is currently a volunteer–run organization. We seek to organize our communities for social change and justice through street outreach, social media campaigns, political advocacy and direct action.

Erie Rising is a grassroots, mom powered organization, dedicated to protecting our children, our health, our environment and our community, as well as those beyond our reach. Erie Rising specializes in empowering moms with information to make effective change. Founded by accomplished women, mothers and business owners, Erie Rising is quickly becoming an effective grassroots mom-powered organization bringing awareness to the issues related to hydraulic fracturing and concerns for children’s health in Colorado.

We believe that social change can only be led by the people who most need the change. No one can give power to someone else. Therefore, those of us who have the least advantage, the least power within the traditional system, have to work together to change the situation ourselves.We in EPOCA have realized that we cannot sit around and wait for the world to realize that the last two decades of “criminal justice” policy have been a hideous failure – we have to get together, register to vote, and build a constituency behind sane policies that build people up rather than tearing them down.In organizing the way we do, we not only win the policy changes we seek, but we change the way decisions are made and power is held in our communities. No one knows the flaws in our society better than we do, and no one is more ready to take action to erase those flaws than we are.Beyond issues of incarceration and re-entry policy, we see ourselves as potential leaders in the social movement as a whole, and particularly as strong allies to youth organizing. In the end, we are more ready and willing to fight for all kinds of progressive change than almost any other group in society, and therefore we have no choice but to lead.

FOCUS Initiatives LTD works to provide reentry support to activists who have been imprisoned so that they can be involved in movement organizing in communities targeted by the prison-industrial complex after their release from prison.

Fair Chance Project (FCP) was formed in mid 2009 by newly released lifers who came out thru the courts and were committed to the men and women they left behind as the road was, by all accounts, long and difficult one. We represent a movement led by liberated lifers (formerly incarcerated men and women), prisoners and loved ones of term to life prisoners organized around the demand for just sentencing laws and fair parole practices. Additionally, the group integrates formerly incarcerated men and women back into society enabling them to “give back and to help build strong, self-sustaining communities“.

Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) exists to allow its members to live out our common, faith-based values by engaging in actions that challenge the systems that perpetuate poverty and injustice. We balance social, economic, and community activity with a deep spiritual commitment. Our spiritual centeredness empowers us to return hope and love to the public arena.FACE is the only organization of its kind in Hawaii.While rooted primarily in religious congregations, FACE invites the membership of other community groups as well. A church or civic organization is accepted for membership when the senior pastor, church council, or equivalent body formally signs our Covenant Statement.We currently have a membership base of 27 institutions on Oahu, 24 on Maui, and one statewide institution. Combined on both islands, we are made up of 38 churches, a Buddhist temple, 2 Jewish congregations, 10 community groups and non-profit organizations, and one labor union. FACE’s membership reflects the cultural and socio-economic diversity of our community.

Faith Matters Network (FMN) catalyzes personal and social change equipping faith leaders, community organizers, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

Missouri Faith Voices gathers and equips a diverse and non-partisan, state-wide network of congregations and faith based community organizations to positively impact issues affecting Missouri’s communities. We believe in the potential for transformation - of people, institutions, and of our larger culture - and the power of people of faith to lead this transformation. We believe that government can play a vital role in improving society, and that civic leaders and organizations need to claim the power to shape policy and hold public officials accountable. We value the racial, ethnic, religious and regional diversity that has shaped American society.We believe that religion can bring us together rather than divide us; that our varied faith traditions inform and inspire us to make our communities and state better places to live.

Familias Unidas en Accion is creating a more just, inclusive, and equitable society for families in Louisiana. They were founded in 2018 with the vision of providing immigrant families in the greater New Orleans area and Louisiana with the resources needed to thrive in a new community without forgetting their own culture and history.

Familias Unidas en Acción es una organización de familias inmigrantes impactadas dedicadas a empoderarnos a nosotros mismos, a nuestros hijos y a nuestras comunidades. Se fundó en 2018 con la visión de brindar a las familias inmigrantes en el área metropolitana de Nueva Orleans y Louisiana los recursos necesarios para prosperar en una nueva comunidad sin olvidar su propia cultura e historia.

At Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH) we organize formerly incarcerated women to join the movement toward creating alternatives to mass incarceration. Our membership advocates for community wellness, with women as a focus, and rejects the current U.S. drug policies that prioritize criminalization and incarceration. We believe that if we are serious about eradicating drug related illness, crime and violence we must commit to the evidence based solutions that address poverty, addiction and trauma.Our staff is small and in need of funding. We are driven by the fight for basic human rights denied to the women and children we stand for. Our mission is huge but we know for sure that it’s ordinary people that create extraordinary change.