Maven Leadership Collective
Miami, FL
2019
Maven Leadership Collective is building a movement of social impact leaders of color and our allies to radically redefine leadership, the spaces we occupy, and the impact that...
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Soul City Movement
Brooklyn, NY
2019
To empower a diverse collective of artists and youth to explore creativity as a tool for personal and community development.
The New 3RS
New York, NY
2019
The New 3Rs is an inclusive leadership development program, creating a more civic and compassionate society one child at a time.
#NoCopAcademy
Chicago, IL
2019
An effort led by young Black folks in Chicago to stop the construction of a $95 million police academy, and fund communities and youth instead.
1Love Movement
Philadelphia, PA
2016
1Love Movement formed in response to a deportation crisis that targeted Cambodian-Americans with past criminal convictions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What began as a campaign to release loved ones...
3rd Eye Youth Empowerment
New Bedford, MA
2011
3rd Eye Youth Empowerment develops youth leadership through mentoring, skill building, and social justice organizing campaigns.
Action of Greater Lansing
Lansing, MI
2017
Action of Greater Lansing addresses root causes of community problems by organizing for systemic change. We are not a direct service organization, nor are we a political organization...
Action4Ashley
Winston-Salem, NC
2018
Action4Ashley's mission is multi-dimensional and focused on fully obtaining an equitable education for students. Action4Ashley began in the Spring of 2018 in response to parent and teacher concerns...
Activist San Diego
San Diego, CA
2015
Activist San Diego is a social justice organization that promotes and facilitates the development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San Diego through networking, culture and electronic...
Aloha Dream Team
Honolulu, HI
2015
Aloha DREAM Team is a youth advocacy group with members who have benefited from the DACA program and focuses on outreach efforts and support of immigration policy reform.
Anti Police-Terror Project
Oakland, CA
2018
The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable...
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
We're a Western MA low-income rights organization which believes we have the right to speak for ourselves. Our members are poor, homeless, at-risk, working, unemployed and people pushed...
Assata's Daughters
Chicago, IL
2015
Assata's Daughters is a grassroots, intergenerational, organizing collective of Black women who love and support each other. Inspired by the Radical Monarchs, Assata’s Daughters was started to hold...
Barrio Writers
Austin, TX
2018
Barrio Writers (BW) is a creative writing program founded by author Sarah Rafael García, which provides free college level writing workshops to teenagers in underserved communities. In the...
BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth
Oakland, CA
2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011
BAY-Peace supports and empowers Bay Area youth to confront militarism and other forms of violence through youth organizing and artistic resistance. We are the only group of our...