Organizations Working for Justice and Equity

Listing organizations and groups that are working to resist Trump's agenda so that communities can support, connect, and build together.

Organizations to Get Involved With (accepting volunteers)

These are volunteer-based organizations and/or organizations with a significant volunteer (nonprofessional) presence. For organizations seeking volunteer involvement from lawyers, teachers, and other professionals, see Tools of Resistance.

Sites for Finding Volunteer/Activism Opportunities

• Activism Engine
• ATN Works
• Create the Good
• Movement Match
• Resistance Dashboard
• Rise Stronger's interactive database of groups
• Togetherlist
• Volunteer Switchboard
• VolunteerMatch

Civic Engagement

• 100 Days, 100 Dinners—self-organized structures for community-building
• Pen Plus Pals: Red Plus Blue—creating a dialogue between conservatives and liberals

Civil Rights and Social Justice

• 866 Our Vote, advancing and defending the right to vote
• Ella Baker Center
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Help for Flint
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
• People Power, a project of the ACLU
• Southern Coalition for Social Justice
• Stand With Me Now, responding to hate incidents and connecting communities in crisis
• Tahirih Justice Center
• Women's Economic Agenda Project
• Young Invincibles

Climate/Environment

• Academia United on Climate Change
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network
• The Climate Mobilization—Ten years; zero emissions; full employment. Make it a reality Central volunteer opportunities.
• Citizens' Climate Lobby
• Food and Water Watch
• #IAmStillIn: Sign to say you're still committed to the Paris Accord
• NextGen Climate
• People's Climate Movement
• Power Shift Network—sign up to get involved here
• Rising Tide North America
• Terrapass—fighting climate change

Culture/Arts Activism

• Artifax: fax a work of art to Congress (in support of the National Endowment for the Arts)
• Backbone Campaign: strategies, support, and training for activists, often through art
• Define American—conversations about immigration and identity
• Groundswell: art, community, and change (New York)
• Repeal Hyde Art Project
• Trump Won't Stop Us, a movement by artists
• US Department of Arts and Culture (not a government agency)—an act of collective imagination fueled by all who believe that art and culture are among our most powerful and under-tapped resources for creating a more just, equitable, and vibrant world: create your own outpost, enlist as a citizen artist, or volunteer
• Watch Paint Dry, art and resistance—more info here

Democracy

• Coffee Party USA, for civility and representative democracy
• Congressional Management Foundation: building trust and effectiveness in Congress (includes citizens' guides to interacting with Congress)
• Democracy Spring
• Issue One, dealing with the problem of money in politics
• Onward Together, "dedicated to advancing the vision that earned nearly 66 million votes in the last election"
• Roots Action DIY

Disability Rights

• Autism Women's Network
• Be HEARD: helping educate to advance the rights of the deaf
• I Am Alive: volunteer with the online crisis network (training provided)

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• Blue Bench: putting an end to sexual assault through prevention and care
• It's On Us: inviting everyone to participate in the fight against sexual violence
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• RAINN
• #MeToo Movement founded by Tarana Burke. Join the movement to support survivors and end sexual violence.

Education

• Network for Public Education—become an ally
• EduColor Elevating voices of public school advocates of color on educational equity and justice - get activated, get networked.

Elections

See also Upcoming Elections in Tools of Resistance for groups focused specifically on electing progressive candidates in upcoming elections.

• All of Us and affiliated #WeWillReplaceYou campaign
• Adopt a State
• Knock Every Door
• Road to 2018
• Sister District Project, connecting people in blue and red districts to make a bigger impact
• Unrig the Map
• If Then Fund, reshaping Congress by empowering small-dollar donors
• Flippable
• Justice Democrats
• ProLog: sign up to donate your professional skills to Democratic campaigns
• Resurgent Left
• VoteRiders, get the info you need about voting and IDs
• Swing Left
• Win the City

Foreign Policy/Military/Veteran Affairs

• Global Giving: find international-focused volunteer opportunities
• Heroic Hearts—help for international crisis zones, including Syria
• International Rescue Committee
• Islamic Relief USA, working in Syria, among many other places
• PEG, a spoof site aiming to build a campaign to hold politicians accountable for their actions/inactions in Syria
• UNICEF USA

Free Speech and Media-Related

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Protect My Public Media

Health Care

• Campaign for Guaranteed Health Care
• Message in a Pill Bottle—send a message in a pill bottle to your members of Congress
• Payback Project, actions aimed at reps who voted to repeal Obamacare
• Resist Repeal, an official effort from House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer

Housing

• Carson Watch, keeping track of Secretary Ben Carson and Housing and Urban Development

Immigration

• Alto Trump
• Border Angels
• Black Alliance for Justice Immigration
• Cara Pro Bono Project
• CIVIC: immigrant detention visitation
• Here to Stay Network
• HIAS (refugee protection network)
• I Am an Immigrant
• Immigration Justice
• International Rescue Committee
• Libraries Serve Refugees
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service: help with resettlement; do visitation
• Miry's List, collecting donated items for refugees
• Movimiento Cosecha
• National Justice for Our Neighbors
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Reform Immigration FOR America
• Sanctuary Not Deportation: #SanctuaryRising
• Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

LGBTQ+ Equality

• Casa Ruby
• Equality Federation
• Gender Spectrum
• GLAD Legal Advocates and Defenders
• Immigration Equality—LGBTQ immigrant rights
• Lambda Legal
• National Black Justice Coalition
• Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• Trans Youth Equality Foundation
• Trevor Project: regional cities
• Victory Fund: electing LGBT candidates

Mass Incarceration

• CLASP (Community Legal & Advocacy Services Project): supports prisoners in their fight against mass incarceration
• Black and Pink: LGBTQ+ prisoners and free-world allies—become a pen pal
• #cut50
• No More Money Bail/Mama's Bail Out Day
• Project NIA: Building Peaceful Communities

Muslim Issues and Islamophobia

• Register Me First

Policing and Gun Violence

• Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America—sign up to be connected with a local chapter

Political Party–Affiliated

• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Progressive Change Campaign Committee
• Our Revolution

Racial Justice

• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Ella Baker Center
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Iranian American Council
• Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
• Sikh Coalition
• South Asian Americans Leading Together
• StayWoke
• WeTheProtesters

Voting Rights

• Carpool Vote
• Ranked Choice Voting online activist group
• Rock the Vote
• Spread the Vote—online and in-person activism to help voters get IDs
• Value the Vote
• Voting Rights Alliance
• VotoLatino

Women's Rights and Reproductive Justice

• Hollaback, fighting street harassment
• The New Agenda
• Planned Parenthood
• Reproductive Health Access Project
• #VOTEPROCHOICE

Workers' Rights and Consumer Protections

• American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees volunteer member organizers
• IRS Tax Volunteers (government-affiliated)
• Move to Amend
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Sustainable Economies Law Center

General/Other

• Bedrock Initiative
• Dream Corps and affiliated Love Army
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• Peace First
• State Innovation Exchange—advancing and defending progressive policies in states across the country

Resistance

See also Upcoming Elections in Tools of Resistance for groups focused specifically on electing progressive candidates in upcoming elections.

• Action Together Network
• Always Forward—sign up here
• Attrition Coalition
• Beyond the Moment, a coalition of [for Black Lives] and The Majority
• Democratic Coalition Against Trump
• Families for Resistance
• FOIA the Trump Administration
• Get Your Pack to Act: form a mini advocacy group
• Impeach Trump Now
• Our Next Four Years: creating animated progressive PSAs
• Our States: guides/info on advocacy at the state level
• People's Power Assemblies
• Pussy Hat Project
• Resistance Party
• Save Democracy
• Sincerely, the Resistance, create postcards to send to your reps
• Strike for Democracy
• Take On Hate
• This Is My Oath
• Women's March

Organizations with State/Local Presences

These are umbrella organizations that work with state and local partners or that have wide networks of local affiliates. These local groups usually have volunteer/activism opportunities or are volunteer-led, and the larger organizations unite local efforts. See also State and Local Pages for organizations working exclusively in individual states.

Civic Engagement

• Bus Federation Civic Fund: prompting youth civic engagement
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Civic Dinners
• Coffee Party USA, civic engagement and civility
• Homecoming Project, prompting people to engage with their local communities
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation affiliates
• National Coalition on Dialogue & Deliberation

Civil Rights and Social Justice

• ACLU affiliates
• Appleseed Public Interest Centers
• Anti-Defamation League: state offices
• Bend the Arc, a Jewish partnership for justice: chapters and affiliates
• Catholic Charities USA network
• Code Pink: find your local peace economy or join an action team
• Common Cause: holding power accountable
• Gamaliel, a faith-based organization working to empower people for social justice
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance members
• Jewish Social Justice Roundable, 57 linked groups for social justice
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• National Action Network chapters (Al Sharpton's organization)
• National Council of Jewish Women
• National People's Action network—economy-related activism
• Resource Generation: organizing privileged young people to work toward equity for all
• Southern Poverty Law Center: state offices

Climate/Environment

• 314 Action, getting STEM-trained candidates elected to office: find a group on your campus
• 350: grassroots environmental activists all over the world
• Clean Water Action state campaigns and offices
• Climate Justice Alliance: Our Power Communities
• The Climate Mobilization local chapters—Ten years; zero emissions; full employment.
• EarthJustice
• Food and Water Watch
• Greenpeace
• Interfaith Power and Light, a religious-based organization fighting global warming
• League of Conservation Voters state affiliates
• People's Climate Movement sister marches
• Our Children's Trust: YouCAN (Youth Climate Action Now) groups
• We Are Still In: mayors, governors, college and university leaders, businesses, and investors committed to upholding the Paris Agreement

Culture/Arts Activism

• Americans for the Arts: state/local groups they have worked with
• Americans for the Arts: State Arts Action Network
• US Department of Arts and Culture (not a government agency!) field offices

Democracy in America

• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Coffee Party USA, for civility and democracy
• Freedom From Religion Foundation

Disability Rights

• Find your Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC)
• Find your local Center for Independent Living (CIL)
• Find your regional ADA canter
• ADAPT: organizing disability activists—start your own chapter
• Find a chapter of The Arc, for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Autistic Self Advocacy Network—chapters across the US
• Learning Disabilities Association of America: State/Local affiliates
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Find your local NAMI
• United States Brain Injury Alliance

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• No More: ending domestic violence and sexual assault—find allied organizations

Education and Educational Justice

• Network for Public Education—national and state grassroots education network
• US Students Association

Foreign Policy/Military/Veteran Affairs

• World Beyond War chapters

Free Speech and Media-Related

• Media Action Grassroots Network

Health Care

• Campaign for Guaranteed Health Care: partners
• Healthcare-NOW local advocacy groups and Southern States Network
• Physicians for a National Health Program chapters, activists, and allied groups
• Universal Health Care Action Network local groups

Immigration

• Catholic Legal Immigration Network
• Detention Watch Network
• FWD.us: working for immigration and criminal justice reform
• HIAS resettlement partners
• Immigration Works USA
• Informed Immigrant: list of organizations by state
• Local Immigrant Ally Map, compiled by Ragtag
• National Iranian American Council: advancing peace and the Iranian-American community
• Sanctuary Not Deportation
• Welcoming America network

See also crisis resources for immigrants.

Jewish Issues and Anti-Semitism

• J Street
• Jewish Voice for Peace

LGBTQ+ Equality

• Equality Federation
• GLSEN, LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education
• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
• PFLAG
• Southerners on New Ground
• Trevor Project

Mass Incarceration

• Black and Pink, LGBTQ+ prisoners and free-world allies
• Critical Resistance (California, New York, Oregon)
• FWD.us: working for immigration and criminal justice reform
• Million Hoodies for Justice

Muslim Issues and Islamophobia

• CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) local chapters
• Emerge USA

Policing and Gun Violence

• Cure Violence US partners

Political Parties

• Association of State Democratic Chairs: find your state chapter
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Progress Now affiliates
• Working Families Party
• Young Democrats of America

Racial Justice

• Asian Americans Advancing Justice community partners
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee chapters—or form your own
• Black Lives Matter chapter listing
• Black Youth Project
• League of United Latin American Citizens—map of local councils
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
• National Council of La Raza local affiliates
• National Network for Arab American Communities—state members
• Showing Up for Racial Justice—affiliated groups and local contacts

Voting Rights

• America Votes
• League for Women Voters: local leagues
• VoteRiders state partners
• American Association of University Women: university chapters and branches
• All Above All partner organizations (fighting for abortion access)
• NARAL state affiliates
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• Planned Parenthood: opportunities for local involvement

Women's Rights and Reproductive Justice

• Hollaback near you—or learn about creating a chapter
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

Workers' Rights and Consumer Protections

• AFL-CIO state and local labor councils
• American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union directory
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance chapters
• Communication Workers of America locals
• Democracy Is for People—map of local efforts
• Jobs with Justice network
• Move to Amend local groups (fighting Citizens United)—and other affiliates and events here
• National Day Laborer Organizing Network
• New Economy Coalition
• SEIU (scroll down for locals)
• Working America
• Teamsters locals

General/Other

• National Association of Regional Councils
• National Security Watch state activist National Security Watch sign-up
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• Students for Sensible Drug Policy chapters
• US Action

Resistance

• Action Together Network
• Action Groups local groups—see also their listings of other local groups
• Indivisible Guide: directory of affiliated local groups
• Mapping the Resistance, a map of grassroots organizations
• Meetup's directory of resistance groups
• Movement 2017, a map of organizations by state
• People's Power Assemblies
• Project 1461: Go Local
• Pussy Hat Project
• Refuse Fascism
• Save Democracy
• Solidarity Sundays
• Together We Will
• Action Map from What Do I Do About Trump

Organizations Offering Trainings

These are organizations that offer trainings on various topics. For organizations offering political and leadership training, see Tools of Resistance: Political Training.

Activism

• Backbone Campaign: activism trainings and workshops
• Bolder Advocacy trainings and workshops on advocacy and activism
• Democracy for America activism trainings
• Democracy Spring
• Gamaliel: leadership/activism trainings
• Galvanize Program, hosted by the United State of Women
• Management Center (focused mainly on nonprofits)
• National LGBTQ Task Force: activism trainings
• National People's Action training program
• People Power, an ACLU initiative
• Resistance 101 from Rhize: trainings for people who are leading the fight for a reimagined U.S. democracy
• Resistance Summer, from the Democratic Party
• Resistance Summer, from MoveOn
• Voices, helping advocacy groups amplify their message

Civil Rights and Social Justice

• Anti-Defamation League trainings
• Equality Labs, South Asian women/gender-nonconforming/trans technology startup (offers security workshops)
• Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative trainings

Climate Change/Justice

• The Climate Mobilization—Ten years; zero emissions; full employment. Make it a reality: Get trained now!

Culture/Arts Activism

• Americans for the Arts webinars

Disability Rights

• ADAPT: organizing disability rights activists
• #CripTheVote: regular online conversations encouraging action
• Icarus Project
• National Disability Rights Network meetings and trainings
• National Council on Independent Living webinars and trainings
• Sins Invalid workshops

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• Victim Rights Law Center: trainings for lawyers, advocates, and educators

Education and Educational Justice

• US Students Association

Free Speech and Media-Related

• Center for Media Justice workshops
• Ida B. Wells Society, focusing on empowering journalists of color
• Library Freedom Project workshops for librarians
• Poynter Institute trainings

Immigration

• Catholic Legal Immigration Network trainings and webinars
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center webinars and other trainings
• National Immigration Law Center webinars
• National Immigration Project trainings and webinars
• National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Forum

See also crisis resources for immigrants.

LGBTQ+ Equality

• Gender Spectrum
• GSA Network trainings and summits
• National LGBTQ Task Force trainings
• Safe Zone Project: resources for creating LGBTQ+ workshops
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project trainings

Muslim Issues and Islamophobia

• Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative trainings
• Muslim Public Affairs Council workshops to empower American Muslims
• One America Coalition: speakers about anti-Muslim bigotry

Racial Justice

• Anti-Defamation League A World of Difference Institute
• National Network for Arab American Communities webinars
• People's Institute for Survival and Beyond: Undoing Racism programs and trainings
• Race Forward trainings
• Racial Equity Tools, workshops and curricula on racial equity
• South Asian Americans Leading Together trainings and workshops

Voting Rights

• Rock the Vote: "democracy class" for high schools

Women's Rights and Reproductive Justice

• Backline trainings
• HEART Women and Girls: events and workshops and webinars
• Hollaback—trainings on starting a chapter
• National Women's Law Center webinars
• New Agenda: educational videos and events
• Sister Song: Reproductive Justice Training Program (and others)
• AAUW offers salary negotiation workshops

General/Other

• Women's Action for New Directions

Resistance

• Refuse Fascism—teach-ins occasionally on Facebook Live

Organizations Collecting Information

These are organizations that are developing databases of information and that rely on volunteer contributions. See also Crisis Resources for more organizations collecting information on hate crimes and ICE raids, and Data Analysis in Tools of Resistance for more databases and data sources.

Civil Rights

• Stand With Me Now, amassing a map of hate incidents

Disability Rights

• AXS Map, find, rate, and share accessible places

Immigration

• Latino Rebels' MigraMap, collecting details of ICE raids

See also crisis resources for immigrants.

US Government Corruption

• Trump Inaugural Donors Crowdsourced Research—contribute what you know about donors to Trump's inauguration
• The Moscow Project

Organizations to Learn From (education and online activism)

These organizations provide valuable sources of information and toolkits for activism. Most have advocacy wings that include calls to action, newsletters, petitions and pledges. Most do not have a significant volunteer base (though some do have opportunities).

Civic Engagement

• Bolder Advocacy
• Center for Community Change, building social movements
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Citizen University TV
• First Amendment Schools
• Funders' Committee for Civic Participation
• National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• Off the Sidelines, Kirsten Gillibrand's organization to encourage women's civic engagement
• The Civil Conversations Project
• What Do I Do About Trump—Action Hub, listing action alerts from 80+ groups

Civil Rights, Social Justice, Human Rights

• Advancement Project
• Advocates for Human Rights
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
• Anti-Defamation League
• Appleseed Public Interest Centers
• Bend the Arc, a Jewish partnership for justice
• Brennan Center for Justice
• Casa
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Forward Together
• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
• The King Center
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
• MALDEF: The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America
• Muslim Advocates
• National Action Network, Al Sharpton's civil rights organization
• National Council of Jewish Women
• People for the American Way
• Policy Link, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity
• Public Justice
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• Repairers of the Breach, a faith-based organization working for progressive goals
• The Sanders Institute, founded by Bernie Sanders, provides resources to create an informed electorate on economic, environmental, racial, and social justice issues
• Social Justice Learning Institute
• Southern Coalition for Social Justice
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Standing on the Side of Love, based in the Unitarian Universalist church—an advocacy campaign to end oppression
• Tahirih Justice Center
• Transformative Justice Coalition
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, "a nonsectarian human rights organization powered by grassroots collaboration"
• Women's Economic Agenda Project

Climate/Environment

• Alliance for Climate Education
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network
• Blue Green Alliance, bringing together union members and environmental advocates to fight for a strong economy and a clean environment
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Clean Water Action
• Climate Justice Alliance: Our Power Campaign
• Compact of Mayors—cities committing to climate initiatives
• Data Refuge, a refuge for federal climate and environmental data
• EarthJustice
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Grantmakers Association
• Environmental Integrity Project
• Food and Water Action Fund
• Friends of the Earth
• Global Witness
• Greenpeace
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Interfaith Power and Light, a religious-based organization fighting global warming
• Lakota Law, providing legal representation for Water Protectors
• League of Conservation Voters
• Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, or the Climate Mayors
• National Resources Defense Council
• Nature Conservancy
• Our Children's Trust
• Sierra Club
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• SustainUS, a youth-led organization advancing justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in advocacy

Culture/Arts Activism

• Allied Media Projects, supporting art, media, and technology projects working for social change
• Alternate ROOTS, arts, community, and activism
• Americans for the Arts: Arts Mobilization Center
• American Muslim Storytellers
• Animating Democracy, fostering civic engagement through arts and culture
• Art in the Armed Forces
• Brave New Films
• Center for Story-Based Strategy, narrative for social change
• CultureStrike and CultureStrike Magazine
• Define American, using the power of story to transcend politics and shift the conversation about immigrants, identity, and citizenship
• Future of Music Coalition
• Groundswell
• Not an Alternative, combining art, theory, and activism
• United We Slam

Democracy in America

• Alliance for Justice, working to ensure that the federal judiciary advances core constitutional values
• American Family Voices
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Bridge Alliance
• Campaign for America's Future
• Center for American Progress
• Democracy Alliance
• Democracy for America
• Democracy Initiative
• Demos
• Every Voice
• Freedom From Religion Foundation, promoting separation of church and state
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Independent Voter Project
• Liberty Tree, building a democracy movement for the USA
• One America
• Public Citizen, Protecting Health, Safety and Democracy
• Roots Action
• Stand Up Republic: conservatives for democracy
• The Centrist Project
• United to Protect Democracy, fighting authoritarianism

Disability Rights

• American Badass Activists, peer activism for the neurodiversity civil rights movement
• Autism Women's Network
• Autistic Self Advocacy Network
• Bazelon Center
• Be HEARD: helping educate to advance the rights of the deaf
• Disability Rights Advocates
• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
• Divas with Disabilities
• National Disability Rights Network
• National Council on Independent Living

Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• Blue Bench Project: putting an end to sexual assault through prevention and care
• HEART Women & Girls: promoting sexual health and sexual violence awareness in Muslim communities
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; more resources here
• Joyful Heart Foundation
• No More: ending domestic violence and sexual assault
• RAINN
• Victim Rights Law Center, responding to sexual violence

Education and Educational Justice

• American Federation of Teachers
• Educators for Fair Consideration, empowering undocumented young people to achieve educational and career goals
• GSA Network
• Higher Ed Not Debt, fighting (with many partner organizations) to end student debt
• Know Your IX: empowering students to stop sexual violence
• National Education Association
• Network for Public Education
• Teach Progress: strengthening our democracy, one school at a time
• United States Student Association
• Young Invincibles

Foreign Policy/Military/Veteran Affairs

• Common Defense, "a grassroots organization of U.S. veterans and military family members who are fighting to preserve the core values we swore to uphold and defend"
• Doctors Without Borders—their Syria page
• Hand in Hand for Syria (UK organization—included here just for information)
• International Rescue Committee—and information on Syria
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Islamic Relief USA (Syria page)
• Life for Relief and Development, working in Syria, among many other places
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• Syrian American Medical Society
• The Syria Campaign
• Syria Relief (UK organization—included here just for information)
• Syria Relief and Development
• UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency) section on Syria
• UNICEF USA—and there is information about Syria here
• White Helmets, volunteers saving lives in Syria
• Win Without War
• World Beyond War

Free Speech and Media-Related

• Access Now
• Center for Media Justice
• Center for News Literacy
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Echoing Ida, amplifying the voices of Black women and nonbinary writers—a project of Forward Together
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Fight for the Future: "mission is to ensure that the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core"
• Free Press
• Freedom of the Press Foundation
• Free Speech for People
• Index on Censorship
• Library Freedom Project
• Media Matters for America
• National Hispanic Media Coalition
• The News Literacy Project
• PEN America
• Poynter Institute
• ProPublica
• Protect My Public Media
• Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Voices for Internet Freedom
• Witness, use video and technology to protect and defend human rights
• World Wide Web Foundation

Health Care

• Families USA, dedicated to achieving health care for everyone
• Healthcare Now!
• Kaiser Family Foundation, filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
• Physicians for a National Health Program, fighting for a single-payer health system

Housing

• Carson Watch, keeping track of Secretary Ben Carson and Housing and Urban Development

Immigration

• American Immigration Council
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Black Alliance for Just Immigration
• Border Angels
• CIVIC: the national immigration detention visitation network
• Desis Rising Up and Moving
• Detention Watch Network
• Freedom Cities
• Immigration Advocates Nonprofit Resource Center
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• Immigration Works USA
• Informed Immigrant
• International Refugee Assistance Project
• International Rescue Committee
• Kids In Need of Defense
• Libraries Serve Refugees
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
• Migration Policy Institute
• Movimiento Cosecha
• National Immigration Forum
• National Immigration Project
• National Immigration Law Center
• National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
• National Justice for Our Neighbors
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• National Partnership for New Americans
• Not One More Deportation
• United We Dream
• We Belong Together: women for common-sense immigration policies
• Welcoming America
• Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

See also crisis resources for immigrants.

Jewish Issues and Anti-Semitism

• J Street, fighting for a two-state solution
• Jewish Voice for Peace

LGBTQ+ Equality

• Equality Federation
• Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement
• Galaei, queer [email protected] social justice organization
• Gender Spectrum
• GLAAD
• GLAD Legal Advocates and Defenders
• GLSEN, LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education
• Lambda Legal
• Shepard Foundation
• Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• National LGBTQ Task Force
• National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Association
• PFLAG
• Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
• Trans Youth Equality Foundation
• Transgender Law Center
• Trans Student Educational Resources

Mass Incarceration

• Black and Pink, LGBTQ+ prisoners and free-world allies
• CLASP (Community Legal & Advocacy Services Project): supports prisoners in their fight against mass incarceration
• Critical Resistance
• Death Penalty Information Center
• Defy Ventures
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Fair Punishment Project
• Innocence Project
• Just Leadership USA
• Pretrial Justice Institute
• Right on Crime
• Safety and Justice Challenge
• Sentencing Project

Muslim Issues and Islamophobia

• CAIR, The Center for American-Islamic Relations
• Emerge USA
• MPower Change
• Muslim Advocates
• Muslim Public Affairs Council
• International Muslim Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment

Policing and Gun Violence

• Americans for Responsible Solutions, fighting gun violence
• Arms with Ethics
• Campaign Zero
• Center for Policing Equity
• Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
• Cure Violence
• Everytown
• Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
• Policing Project
• Sandy Hook Promise

Political Parties and PACs

See also Upcoming Elections in Tools of Resistance for groups focused specifically on electing progressive candidates in upcoming elections.

• Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, fighting for progressive causes through ballot measures
• Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Democracy for America
• Democratic Attorneys General Association—Democratic attorneys general committed to acting as a line of defense against the Trump Administration
• Democratic Coalition
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• The Democratic Party
• Democratic Socialists of America
• Equality PAC
• Progressive Democrats of America
• Progress for All
• Resurgent Left
• Women Legislators' Lobby
• Working Families Party

Racial Justice

• 18 Million Rising, Asian and Pacific Islanders' civic engagement
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committe
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
• Black Lives Matter Network
• BYP100
• Color of Change
• Dream Defenders
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Galaei, queer [email protected] social justice organization
• Indigenous Action Media
• Latino Justice
• League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
• MALDEF, the Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America
• Mijente
• Movement for Black Lives
• NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Council of La Raza
• National Indian Child Welfare Association
• National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
• National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Association
• Native American Rights Fund
• People Demanding Action
• People's Institute for Survival and Beyond: Undoing Racism
• Presente, the largest national Latinx online organization advancing social justice with technology, media, and culture
• Racial Equity Institute
• Racial Equity Tools
• Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
• Sikh Coalition
• South Asian Americans Leading Together

Voting Rights

• Brennan Center for Justice
• Campaign Legal Center
• Fair Elections Network
• FairVote
• League of Women Voters
• Let America Vote
• National Democratic Redistricting Committee
• Nonprofit VOTE
• Our Time
• Project Vote
• Registration Project
• Rock the Vote
• Unrig the Map: electing Democratic governors to end gerrymandering
• Value the Vote
• Voting Rights Alliance

Women's Rights and Reproductive Justice

• The Activist Cartel
• American Association of University Women
• Backline, pregnancy resource center
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Emily's List
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• Moms Rising
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• LWV League of Women Voters
• National Abortion Federation
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• National Network of Abortion Funds
• National Women's Law Center
• Reproductive Health Access Project
• UltraViolet
• Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Workers' Rights and Consumer Protections

• AFL-CIO
• Alliance for American Manufacturing
• AFSCME, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
• Blue Green Alliance, bringing together union members and environmental advocates to fight for a strong economy and a clean environment
• BSR, working for sustainable business strategies
• Caring Across Generations, working for the rights of home care workers (and other issues)
• Centro de los Derechos de Migrantes
• Communication Workers of America
• Corporate Accountability Lab, holding corporations accountable
• Corporate Accountability International
• Democracy Is for People, fighting Citizens United
• Democracy at Work Institute, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
• Fight for 15
• Jobs with Justice
• Labor Network for Sustainability
• Move to Amend, fighting Citizens United
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• National Day Laborer Organizing Network
• National Employment Law Project
• Rebuild the Dream, working for economic justice (and climate and criminal justice)
• Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
• Rural Coalition
• Sustainable Economies Law Center
• US PIRG, a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests
• Working America

General/Other

• Clinton Global Initiative
• Life After Hate, combating violent extremism in the US
• MoveOn—mainly petitions
• National Association of Regional Councils
• National Security Watch
• National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
• Neighborhood Funders Group, working for economic and social justice for people in low and moderate income communities
• PEW Charitable Trusts, Improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life
• Roosevelt Institute
• State Innovation Exchange—advancing and defending progressive policies in states across the country
• Students for Sensible Drug Policy
• Transform Finance, bridging the worlds of finance and social justice
• US Food Sovereignty Alliance
• Women's Action for New Directions, focused on national security and war and peace

Resistance

• Action Together Network
• Action Alliance, a collaboration of 80+ call-to-action resistance organizations
• Americans Resisting Overseas
• Occupy Democrats
• People's Action
• Popular Resistance, a resistance news site and more
• Refuse Fascism
• Resistance Toolkit
• RISE Stronger
• Solidarity Sundays
• This Is My Oath—includes resources for getting involved in a range of issues
• Together We Will
• Unite for America
• Unstoppable Together
• What Do I Do About Trump—resources and aggregated calls to action
• Win the City
• Women's March