People's Community Medics
Oakland, CA
2018
The People’s Community Medics (PCM) is a grassroots organization that teaches basic emergency first aid skills free of charge. We were founded in the summer of 2011 by...
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Persist Health Project
Brooklyn, NY
2014
Persist Health Project is a peer-led, community-based health organization based on Brooklyn, New York. We are by and for sex workers, trafficking survivors, and anyone who has traded...
Philadelphia Drug Users' Union
Drexel Hill, PA
2019
The Philadelphia Drug Users' Union is a collective of people at different points on the spectrum of drug use working to maximize the proven ability of drug users...
Philadelphia Workers Association
Philadelphia, PA
2014
The Philadelphia Workers Association is developing a worker-led organization in Northeast Philadelphia that builds power and economic self-sufficiency though organization, community education, and leadership development.
Pride at Work - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
2012, 2011
We go by a lot of names– some people know us as the San Francisco chapter of Pride at Work. Some people know us as HAVOQ– usually translated...
Prison Birth Project
Northampton, MA
2015, 2014, 2013
When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options,...
Public Health Organization
Chicago, IL
2014
The Public Health Organization (PHO), based in Chicago, Illinois, is a community/labor organization comprised of working class patients, current & retired nurses, nutritionist, clerical workers, physicians, therapists, healthcare...
Queerocracy
Brooklyn, NY
2013, 2012
QUEEROCRACY is an activist organization cultivating the leadership of queer folks and people living with HIV/AIDS in NYC. Through direct action organizing, membership led advocacy campaigns, educational trainings...
Rad Care
Seattle, WA
2019
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,...
Red Umbrella Project
New York, NY
2017
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...
Red Umbrella Project
New York, NY
2017
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...
Resilient Sisterhood Project
Boston, MA
2015, 2014
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...
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota (ROC-MN)
New York, NY
2019
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
2018
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...
Rockaway Wildfire
Far Rockaway, NY
2014
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, strangers from across New York City became first responders and colleagues. In this moment of crisis, Occupy Sandy stepped in to help...