List of organizations that work towards Racial Justice Policy Change
Hello,
Below is a list of organizations doing incredible work to advance racial justice through policy change. These groups are making a meaningful impact, and I’m honored to share their efforts with you.
Clients can request a donation to a specific organization, and anyone can suggest an organization they think should be added to the list—I’d love to hear from you!
Thank you!
Flip The Vote
Since 2020, we have organized over 500 house parties and events, built a community over 14,000 strong across the country, and raised over $18 million. These donations directly support trusted partner groups in key swing states working to combat voter suppression while educating and galvanizing their communities. Our partner groups register and inspire millions of voters who tip the balance toward Democratic victories in crucial geographies.
Dēmos
Our name means “the people.” It is the root word of democracy, and it reminds us that the true source of our greatness is the diversity of our people.
Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity.
The Texas Organizing Project
The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) operates the following issue-based campaigns in Harris, Dallas, and Bexar counties year-round. Click the links here to learn more and join the fight.
TRHT
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
Support one of the following local Chapters doing important work.
Battle Creek, MI - www.bctrht.org
Baton Rouge and New Orleans, LA - https://www.foundationforlouisiana.org
Buffalo, NY - https://www.cfgb.org
Dallas, TX - https://dallastrht.org
Flint, MI - https://www.cfgf.org
Greater Chicago, IL - https://www.woodsfund.org/news/truth-racial-healing-and-transformation-trht
Kalamazoo, MI - https://www.kalfound.org/truth-racial-healing-transformation
Lansing, MI - https://www.oneloveglobal.org/trht
Los Angeles, CA - https://socalgrantmakers.org
Richmond, VA - https://us.iofc.org/truth-racial-healing-and-transformation
Selma, AL - https://blackbeltfound.org
Saint Paul, MN - https://spmcf.org
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) is a comprehensive, multi-year national and community-based process to bring about transformational and sustainable change. Through TRHT, partners address the historic and contemporary effects of racism in their communities and institutions. They work to replace the deeply held belief system that fuels racism with one that sees the inherent value of all people. This holistic approach addresses mind and heart, the interpersonal and systemic, and places the power of authentic, trust-based solidarity at the center.
Racism impacts all of us, whether we are aware of it or not. The effects of racism are evident everywhere: in the places where we live, learn, work and play, in our social interactions and in our systems and policies. People experience these effects when they take their children to school, apply for jobs, rent or buy a home, visit a doctor, try to access healthy food, in interactions with the police and more. Systemically, racism is one of the biggest obstacles to solving the challenges we face in our communities.
Through TRHT, participants build relationships, trust and collective power at the community and institutional level. These relationships lay the groundwork for powerful systemic change, as community partners re-envision and reshape their institutions, policies and practices.
Racial healing is at the heart of racial equity. Racial healing is about:
the people work that leads to the transformation of systems;
the telling of hard truths about past wrongs and present consequences;
repairing the harm of racism;
replacing the deeply held system that fuels racism with one that sees the inherent value of all people;
authentic relationship-building across real and perceived differences.
Without racial healing and building trust, changes in policies or practices are short-lived. Through healing and relationship-building, we can collectively develop new values that affect our everyday decisions in areas of policy making, hiring, education and housing – to name just a few.
The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP is leading the fight for equality. Ensure that Black lives are a priority in all spaces. From police brutality to COVID-19 to voter suppression, Black communities are under attack. We work to disrupt inequality, dismantle racism, and accelerate change in key areas including criminal justice, health care, education, climate, and the economy. When it comes to civil rights and social justice, we have the unique ability to secure more wins than anyone else. Help make racial equity a reality.
Equal Justice Initiative
EJI provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of criminal justice reform. We publish reports, discussion guides, and other educational materials, and our staff conduct educational tours and presentations for thousands of students, teachers, faith leaders, professional associations, community groups, and international visitors every year.
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
The Center For Antiracist Research
https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/
The mission of the Policy Office is to identify racist policies and to ascertain, craft, and elevate evidence-based antiracist policies that can be embraced by communities, advanced by advocates, and implemented by policymakers and courts to create a more racially just and equitable society.
Race Talks
Mission: RACE TALKS’ mission is to support interracial and cross-cultural communication and relationships through the development of sensitivity and understanding, and social justice activism supported by educational panels / or films, good food, and great discussions.
RACE TALKS believes that establishing relationship is the most important action needed to help us
learn about and support others. As such RACE TALKS encourages its participants to
Become diversity and equity activists
Make friends across cultural, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual orientation lines
Put your beliefs into action and get actively involved in community reform and developing cross-cultural relations
Be the change you want to see
Racial Equity Tools
https://www.racialequitytools.org
We offer tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
African American Policy Forum
Mission: Founded in 1996, The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality. We utilize new ideas and innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. We promote frameworks and strategies that address a vision of racial justice that embraces the intersections of race, gender, class, and the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society. AAPF is dedicated to advancing and expanding racial justice, gender equality, and the indivisibility of all human rights, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Race Forward
A Just, Multiracial Democracy: It Takes All of Us. Take action by supporting Race Forward today. Your donation supports Race Forward in our work to catalyze movement building for racial justice - advancing racial justice in our communities, policies, institutions, and culture.
Advancement Project
https://advancementproject.org
Mission:Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization. Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, we exist to fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. We use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change.
Vision: We envision a future where people of color are free – where they can thrive, be safe and exercise power. Driven by the genius of ordinary people and their movements, racism will no longer exist and justice will be radically transformed.
Philanthropic Initiative For Racial Equity
Mission: The goal of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) is to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and structural racism in communities through capacity building, education, and convening of grantmakers and grantseekers.
Anti-Defamation League - ADL
https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/protect-civil-rights
Since our founding, ADL has sought justice for marginalized members of society. We fight for equal treatment before the law through our civil rights work on behalf of targeted individuals and communities. We are plaintiffs in voting rights cases. We file or join amicus briefs in cases concerning religious freedom, immigrants and refugees, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equity and other civil rights issues. We join and convene coalitions to protect civil rights, and we advocate for strong hate crimes laws and online hate laws to support those who are targeted victims and hold perpetrators responsible.
Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org/issues
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
We’re working to reform the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems so they operate fairly and equitably; to ensure the dignity and humanity of those interacting with these systems; and to reduce the population of jailed, detained, and incarcerated juveniles and adults in the United…
VOTING RIGHTS
We’re working to empower voters and eliminate disenfranchisement and discriminatory voting practices in the Deep South.
HATE & EXTREMISM
We monitor hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and expose their activities to the public, the media and law enforcement.
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
We’re working to ensure that vulnerable children in the Deep South have equal opportunities to reach their full potential.
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
We’re working to protect the rights of immigrants and their children to ensure they are treated with dignity and fairness.
LGBTQ RIGHTS
We’re dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights, dignity and freedom of the LGBTQ community in the Deep South and to removing barriers to equality.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
We’re working to ensure that people living in poverty in the Deep South, especially communities of color, are not punished or exploited because of their economic status.
Fair Fight
Founded by Stacey Abrams in 218, Fair Fight promotes fair elections around the country, encourage voter participation in elections, and educate voters about elections and their voting rights. Fair Fight Action brings awareness to the public on election reform, advocates for election reform at all levels, and engages in other voter education programs and communications.
Voter suppression, particularly of voters of color and young voters, is a scourge our country faces in states across the nation. Georgia’s 2018 elections shone a bright light on the issue with elections that were rife with mismanagement, irregularities, unbelievably long lines and more, exposing both recent and also decades-long actions and inactions by the state to thwart the right to vote. Georgians and Americans are fighting back, and Fair Fight Action was founded to organize collective efforts to expose, mitigate, and reverse voter suppression. We engage in voter mobilization and education activities and advocate for progressive issues.
Fair Fight PAC has initiated programs to support voter protection programs at state parties around the country and is engaging in partnerships to support and elect pro-voting rights, progressive leaders.