- Environmental Justice
- Health Justice
- Immigrant Rights
- Legal Organizations
- Opportunity to Learn
- Power & Democracy
- Racial, Social, Ethnic & Economic Justice
- Urban Peace/Policing
- Workers' Rights
- Youth Activism
Alternative for Community and Environment (ACE): Ace builds the power of communities of color and lower income communities in New England to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice. ACE believes that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and to be decision-makers in issues affecting their community.
People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER): The mission Of PODER is redefining environmental issues as social and economic justice issues, to collectively set an agenda to address these concerns as basic human rights. PODER seeks to empower community through education, advocacy and action. PODER aims to increase the participation of communities of color in corporate and government decision making related to toxic pollution, economic development and their impact on our neighborhoods.
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT): WE ACT is a non-profit, community-based, environmental justice organization dedicated to building community power to fight environmental racism and improve environmental health, protection and policy in communities of color. WE ACT accomplishes its mission through community organizing, education and training, advocacy and research, and public policy development.
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The Praxis Project: Praxis’ mission is to support and partner with communities to achieve health justice by providing resources and capacity for policy development, advocacy and leadership. Praxis uses innovative participatory approaches that bridge theory, research and action.
Muscogee Creek Nation: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tobacco Prevention & Control Program was developed April 1999 through grant cooperate agreement no. 99065. Located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the program is designed to assess the prevalence of tobacco abuse among Oklahoma Native Americans and Alaskan Natives while supporting sacred tobacco use and discouraging commercial tobacco abuse.
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CASA of Maryland: CASA of Maryland is a community organization founded in 1985 by Central American refugees and North Americans. CASA was created in response to the human needs of the thousands of Central Americans arriving to the D.C. area after fleeing wars and civil strife in their countries of origin. While CASA was established to meet the special needs of the Central American population, it serves immigrants from virtually every country in Latin America, as well as Africans, Asians, and U.S. citizens, as needed.
Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA!): MIRA is a formal coalition of immigrant and non-immigrant groups that advocate for immigrant’s rights in Mississippi, through legislation and policy changes and all levels of government. MIRA works to expand the rights of all immigrants in Mississippi and make them welcome in the community. MIRA members are from union, religious, community, social service, civil rights, and immigrant groups.
National Immigration Law Center: The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is a national support center whose mission is to protect and promote the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members.
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC): TIRRC is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state.
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The ACLU is the nation’s guardian of liberty working daily in courts, with legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Asian American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (AALDEF): Founded in 1974, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is the first legal rights organization on the East Coast serving Asian Americans. AALDEF focuses on critical issues affecting Asian Americans, including immigrant rights, civic participation and voting rights, economic justice for workers, language access to services, Census policy, affirmative action, youth rights and educational equity, and the elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct, and human trafficking.
Georgia Justice Project (GJP): Founded in 1986, GJP's mission is to ensure justice for the indigent criminally accused and to take a holistic approach to assisting them in establishing crime-free lives and being productive citizens.
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL): JJPL is a nonprofit, statewide law and advocacy center dedicated to juvenile justice reform. JJPL works on a number of fronts to demonstrate that rehabilitation and education are more cost-effective and humane ways to not only prevent recidivism but save the lives of children.
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR): LCCR was founded in 1950 and is the nation’s premier civil rights coalition, and has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF): MALDEF’s mission is to foster sound public policies, laws, and programs to safeguard the civil rights of the 40 million Latinos living in the United States and to empower the Latino community to fully participate in our society.
Mississippi Center for Justice: The Mississippi Center for Justice creation was responsive to a specific and urgent need to resurrect a capacity for statewide, systemic legal advocacy on behalf of racially disadvantaged and low-income people and communities.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF): LDF was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall and is America’s legal counsel on issues of race. Through advocacy and litigation, LDF focuses on issues of education, voter protection, economic justice, and criminal justice.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) is a not-for-profit legal office. NYLPI finds unique ways to tackle the problems facing low-income and underrepresented people throughout New York City.
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Community Alliance for Reform in Education: The Community Alliance for Reform in Education (C.A.R.E), is an alliance of grassroots organizations, parents, and concerned citizens, whose primary mission is to achieve systemic educational reform that will ensure equitable access to quality education for all students in Palm Beach county’s schools.
Padres/Jovenes Unidos: With roots in the struggle for educational justice, Padres Unidos has evolved into a multi-issue organization led by people of color fighting for educational equity, student rights and justice for immigrants. Out of these struggles for justice, Jovenes Unidos has emerged. Both Padres and Jovenes Unidos challenge the root cause of discrimination, racism and inequity by exposing the economic, social and institutional basis for injustice as well as developing effective strategies and tactics to change it. Parents and students are empowered to organize, develop new leadership and realize meaningful change.
Soundout.org: SoundOut contains tools for students interested in changing classrooms, schools, and the whole education system. There are examples of what is working in schools and the community, success stories and publications to inspire.
Teaching for Change: Provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
Tutor/ Mentor Connection: A program of the grassroots Chicago nonprofit, Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connections was created to help youth entering the 7th grade have mentoring support to help them finish high school and move on to a job and career. The Tutor/Mentor Connections mission is to provide an organized structure that empowers and encourages volunteers to give their time, talent, and dollars in seeking life-changing solutions for children who live in educationally disadvantaged environments.
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ACORN: ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation’s largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to their members. Their priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. They achieve these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
American Civil Liberties Union: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation’s guardian of liberty. They work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The ACLU of Florida, with headquarters in Miami, is the local affiliate of the national organization.
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: Founded in 1974, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is the first legal rights organization on the East Coast serving Asian Americans.
Black Youth Vote: Part of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Black Youth Vote coalitions include student governments, Greek, community, women’s hip hop, LBGT organizations, labor unions, grassroots movements, churches, and others working to build the young Black electorate.
The Century Foundation: Since The Century Foundation’s founding in 1919, this institution has called attention to facts and analyses that have corrected widespread misconceptions and provided policymakers with new ideas for addressing the challenges facing the nation.
Civilrights.org: Civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its mission is to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.
Common Cause: Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization founded as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest. Common Cause is committed to honest, open, and accountable government as well as encouraging citizen participation in democracy.
Election Reform Information Project: Electionline.org, produced by the Election Reform Information Project, is the nation’s only non-partisan, non-advocacy website providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election reform. Whether it’s hanging chads or HAVA, absentee ballots or touchscreen machines, legislation or commission reports, electionline.org is ready to be your first stop on the Internet for any election reform information you’re seeking.
The Freechild Project: The Freechild Project seeks to build active democracy by engaging young people in social change, particularly those who have been historically denied participation.
Justice Policy Institute: The Justice Policy Institute, a project of the Tides Center is a Washington, DC-based think-tank that is committed to reducing society’s reliance on incarceration.
The League of Women Voters: The League has fought for more than eighty years to improve our systems of government. The enduring vitality and resonance of the League as a trusted force for change and good government comes from its unique decentralized structure: a national organization with potent partners at the grassroots level: 1,000 local and 50 state Leagues, and Leagues in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund: MALDEF’s mission is to foster sound public policies, laws and programs to safeguard the civil rights of the 40 million Latinos living in the United States and to empower the Latino community to fully participate in our society.
NAACP: The primary focus of the NAACP continues to be the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities.
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) was founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall. Although LDF’s primary purpose was to provide legal assistance to poor African Americans, its work over the years has brought greater justice to all Americans.
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation: The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation envisions a nation in which all citizens from children to seniors, have the tools to participate fully in the democratic process at the local, state, national and global levels. By continuing to lead the fight to eliminate remaining barriers to civic participation, the National Coalition will promote greater social and economic justice to enhance the quality of African American life.
The National Commission on Federal Election Reform: The National Commission on Federal Election Reform was organized by The Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia and The Century Foundation. Formed in the wake of the 2000 Presidential election, the agenda of the Commissioners is to formulate concrete proposals for election reform that will help ensure a more effective and fair process in elections to come.
National Council of La Raza: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
People for the American Way: People for the American Way is an energetic advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society.
Policylink: At a time when the nation is searching for innovative leaders and answers to the continuing question of how to achieve equity in America, PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization, is enlarging the sphere of influence that affects policy so that those closest to the nation’s challenges are central to the search for their solutions. PolicyLink believes that the pursuit of equity must be guided by the wisdom, voice, and experience of local constituencies.
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF): PRLDEF, on behalf of Puerto Ricans and the wider Latino community, seeks to: secure, promote and protect full civil and human rights; attain full civic participation, engagement and empowerment; preserve a healthy and vibrant Latino culture; realize our participation in a strong civil society that enjoys fully- developed community-based institutions; Ensure our access to the legal and other professions; achieve educational excellence; become a recognized and respected leader in national civil rights and international human rights communities.
Virginia Organizing Project: The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. VOP especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, VOP strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
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RACIAL, SOCIAL, ETHNIC & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
ACORN: ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation’s largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country.
The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, North Carolina: The Beloved Community Center is striving to develop and implement ways that can steer their city away from chaos and toward a new community based on economic and racial justice.
Center for Economic and Social Justice: The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), established in 1984, promotes a free enterprise approach to global economic justice through expanded capital ownership. CESJ is a non-profit, non-partisan, ecumenical, all-volunteer organization with an educational and research mission.
City Life/Vida Urbana: City Life/Vida Urbana is proof that local residents, when active and organized, can significantly improve their own lives. Created in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston in 1973 by political activists influenced by the civil rights, feminist, and anti-Vietnam War movements, City Life/Vida Urbana’s successful strikes and eviction blockings quickly made the organization visible with tenants, landlords, urban planners, and public officials.
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV): CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers.
The DART Center: The Direct Action and Research Training Center, Inc. (DART) was founded in 1982 to develop congregation-based community organizations. It grew out of two organizing experiences in South Florida. One was an organization of African-American churches that was developed after the 1980 riots in Miami. The second was a coalition of Senior Citizen groups addressing issues of concern to low-moderate income seniors.
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM): FAMM is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to promote fair and proportionate sentencing policies and to challenge inflexible and excessive penalties required by mandatory sentencing laws.
Justice Policy Institute: The Justice Policy Institute, a project of the Tides Center is a Washington, DC-based think-tank that is committed to reducing society’s reliance on incarceration.
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC): The mission of LULAC is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, as well as health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United States.
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE): Since 1993, LAANE has been finding innovative ways to reduce poverty. Integrating legislation, research and organizing, they have created an exciting new model for improving the lives of working men and women in the Los Angles Area. Combining a vision of social justice with a practical approach to social change, they have forged a powerful coalition of community organizations, unions, religious leaders, academics and elected officials.
MANNA, Inc.: Since 1982, Manna has been serving low and moderate-income families, assisting them to fulfill the dream of homeownership. In that time, they have created and preserved over 800 units of affordable housing for low and moderate-income DC residents and their homeowners have accrued over $50 million in equity. Their financial literacy and homeowner training program has been replicated more than 200 times across the nation.
The Miner’s Canary: Like the canary’s distress, which alerted miners to poison in the air, issues of race point to conditions in American society that endanger us all. In this pioneering new book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres warn us that we ignore race at our peril, and propose a dramatic, hopeful shift in the way we think about race and put it to political use.
NAACP: The primary focus of the NAACP continues to be the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities.
National Council of La Raza: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
National Low Income Housing Coalition: The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s mission is to eradicate the crisis in America concerning affordable housing. Their main objective is to cater to lowest income households, who they consider to be at greatest risk for severe housing problems.
Partnership for Safety & Justice: Partnership for Safety & Justice unites people convicted of crime, survivors of crime, and the families of both to advance approaches that redirect policies away from an over-reliance on incarceration to effective strategies that reduce violence and increase safety.
Peace and Justice Center: The Peace and Justice Center’s mission is to work for the creation of a just, peaceful, and ecologically healthy world through education, advocacy, training, and non-violent activism.
Pico Youth & Family Center: In the wake of a series of Pico Neighborhood youth shootings in October 1998, the concept for the Pico Youth & Family Center emerged. The Center was open to the public and the community of Santa Monica after the “Forum on Youth Violence and Social Justice” defined the problem of gang violence as a product of deeply rooted social and economic inequalities. Participants discussed issues of segregation, institutionalized racism and poverty as the root cause of violence. Youth and families joined with elected officials to develop a community-based response to violence and youth related issues resulting in the Pico Youth & Family Center.
Policylink: PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization, is enlarging the sphere of influence that affects policy so that those closest to the nation’s challenges are central to the search for their solutions. PolicyLink believes that the pursuit of equity must be guided by the wisdom, voice, and experience of local constituencies.
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT): Founded in 2000, South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in the civic and political life of the United States. There are approximately 2 million South Asians in the United States today.
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE): SAJE is an economic justice and popular education center that has been building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles since 1996. SAJE believes that ordinary people have the power to make big changes in economic policy through organizing, education, and coalition building.
Tenants’ and Workers’ Support Committee: The Tenants’ and Workers’ Support Committee is a democratically-controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice and power for the people of Northern Virginia - Latinos/as, African Americans, tenants, immigrants, workers, women, youth and low-income people.
Virginia Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (VA C.U.R.E.): Virginia C.U.R.E. is a nonprofit — 501(c)(3) — membership organization whose focus is on the Virginia criminal justice and prison systems. Virginia C.U.R.E. is a chapter of a national effort to reduce crime through criminal justice reform. National CURE is located in Washington, D.C.
Virginia Organizing Project (VOP): VOP is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. VOP especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, VOP strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
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Fuerza Latina Unida (FLU): FLU is a group of concerned Memphis residents determined to address three primary concerns and challenges of the Latino community: crime, access to health care, and employment. Their mission is to unify Latino leaders and organizations in order to work toward obtaining justice and equal opportunity for all Latinos in Memphis.
The Inter-Faith Coalition for Neighborhood-Police Partnerships: The Inter-Faith Coalition for Neighborhood-Police Partnerships is a diverse group of clergy, religious leaders and lay persons from different faith traditions in New York City dedicated to establishing a true partnership between local residents and the officers who serve them, a partnership based on mutual respect, fairness and openness.
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Centro Campesino: The mission of Centro Campesino is to improve the lives of migrant workers and rural Latina/os and to create a strong southern Minnesota Latino/a voice. Guided by their values of faith, hope, unity and justice, they are a membership organization that was born and exists to create positive social change.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers: The CIW is a community-based worker organization. The members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
The Farmworker Justice Fund: The Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. (FJF) is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the living and working conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers throughout the United States. Using a multi-faceted approach, FJF engages in litigation, administrative and legislative advocacy, training and technical assistance and public education.
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO: The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC) is a union representing migrant farmworkers - the people who do some of the most important work in America and who pick the food we eat.
Garment Worker Center/El Centro de Trabajadores de Costura: The Center is a place for garment workers to organize. There are monthly educational workshops that explain issues such as wage and hour laws, health and safety regulations and discrimination. Garment workers also come to find help with their work problems - if they have not gotten paid, if they were fired unfairly or if the factory is engaging in unfair and unsafe practices. The center also provides a space to centralize all the efforts happening against sweatshops and to help garment workers.
The Miami Workers Center: The Miami Workers Center is based in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida and was founded as a volunteer organization in 1999 by former union organizers. The Center helps working class people build grassroots organizations and develop their leadership capacity through aggressive community organizing campaigns and education programs. The Center also actively builds coalitions and enters alliances to amplify progressive power and win racial, community, social, and economic justice.
National Employment Law Project: NELP advocates on behalf of the low-wage workers, the poor, the unemployed, and other groups that face significant barriers to employment and government systems of support. NELP relies on proven strategies that have resulted in success over the years, including litigation; policy advocacy; research; analysis and technical assistance in support of organizing; and publications, training sessions, and other educational activities.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU): SEIU is focused on uniting workers in four sectors–-hospital systems, long term care, property services, and public services. SEIU is the largest health care union, the largest property services union, and the second-largest public employees union. SEIU members are winning better wages, health care, and more secure jobs for our communities, while uniting their strength with their counterparts around the world to help ensure that workers, not just corporations and CEOs, benefit from today's global economy.
Soundout.org: SoundOut is packed with the tools needed for students to change classrooms and school, and the whole education system. There are examples of what is working in schools and the community, success stories and publications to inspire.
Tenants and Workers United: Tenants’ and Workers’ United is a democratically-controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice and power for the people of Northern Virginia - Latinos/as, African Americans, tenants, immigrants, workers, women, youth and low-income people.
Unite! A new chapter in the history of the U.S. labor movement began in 1995 with the founding of UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees). The new union was formed by the merger of two of the nation’s oldest unions, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). UNITE members work in apparel, textile and related industries; in industrial laundries; in distribution and retail; in auto parts and auto supply; in Xerox manufacturing and many other industries in the United States and Canada.
Wal-Mart Watch: In Spring 2005, Wal-Mart Watch began its nationwide public education campaign to challenge the world’s largest retailer to become a better employer, neighbor, and corporate citizen. By connecting and supporting the myriad efforts already underway across the country, Wal-Mart Watch serves as a catalyst for coordinated action, a fact-based presence on the truths about Wal-Mart’s business model, and the nation’s premiere online resource center for Wal-Mart educational tools.
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Alexandria United Teens: Initiated in February 2001, Alexandria United Teens grew out of the TWU-sponsored Grupo Juvenil de Arlandria/Arlandria Youth Group, which led successful campaigns in the early 1990s for the first bilingual high school counselor in Alexandria as well as to gain in-state tuition rates for immigrant students at Northern Virginia Community College. Alexandria United Teens (AUT) was created to develop young leaders—with a special focus on girls and young women of color—with the skills and vision to be agents of change in our community and region.
Books not Bars: Books Not Bars fights to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities. We engage in grassroots campaigns using media advocacy, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and alliance building.
Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP): CRYP is a grassroots, non-profit youth organization, located on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Located in one of the nations 5 poorest counties, CRYP serves the community by offering youth programs and family services that immediately improve lives and create opportunities for the future.
Hope Street Youth Development (HSYD): Since 1990 HYSD has fostered a caring community of empowered middle and high school youth leaders who take an active role in the improvement of their own lives. HYSD’s unique holistic approach to youth development is unparalleled in producing informed, confident, and successful youth who believe in meaningful civic contribution and social responsibility.
Southwest Youth Collaborative (SWYC): SWYC is a community-based network of youth and community development organizations working together in five diverse southwest Chicago neighborhoods. The SWYC mission is to unleash the potential of youth to become successful and actively contributing members of society.
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