Racial Justice Organizations

You can check out mutual aid funds or local organizations (or start some!) in your own communities in addition to those below. I found this link to be a helpful place to start. Though the following list includes organizations led by members of the communities with whom they work alongside for liberation, some are 501(c)(3) organizations; INCITE! is a great resource for learning more about the drawbacks of non-profits. May there be an abundance of avenues toward justice.

  • Asian Prisoner Support Committee | “The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.”

  • Black & Pink National | “Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.”

  • Black Visions Collective | “Black Visions is a Black-led queer and trans centering organization with a commitment to shared leadership, shared resources and self determination. From our beginning, we have been working to embody a commitment to sustainability, strategy, and long term vision, toward building a thriving and intersectional, Black organizing ecosystem.”

  • Black Trans Travel Fund | “The Black Trans Travel Fund is a grassroots, Black Trans led Collective, providing Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and accessing safer travel options.”

  • Equal Justice Initiative | “The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American Society.”

  • Indigenous Women Rising | “Indigenous Women Rising is committed to honoring Native and Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health options through accessible health education, resources and advocacy.”

  • The Loveland Foundation | “The Loveland Foundation was established in 2018 by Rachel Cargle in response to her widely successful birthday wish fundraiser, Therapy for Black Women and Girls… The Loveland Foundation is the official continuation of this effort to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially Black women and girls.”

  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA | “MMIW USA’s number one mission is to bring our missing home and help the families of the murdered cope and support them through the process of grief… Our broader goal is to eradicate this problem so that the future generations thrive.”

  • The National Bail Out | “The National Bail Out Collective is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration. We are people who have been impacted by cages — either by being in them ourselves or witnessing our families and loved ones be encaged. We are queer, trans, young, elder, and immigrant.”

  • Red Canary Song Collective | “We are a grassroots massage worker coalition in the U.S. There are over 9000 workplaces like these across the country with no political representation, or access to labor rights or collective organizing. Anti-trafficking NGO’s that claim to speak for migrants in sex trades promote increased policing and immigration control, which harms rather than helps migrant sex workers.”

  • The Red Nation | “We are a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students, and community organizers advocating Native liberation. We formed to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing, and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land.”

  • Seeding Sovereignty | “Seeding Sovereignty; an Indigenous-led collective, works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation. By investing in Indigenous folks and communities of the global majority, we cross the threshold of liberation together.”

  • Sins Invalid | “Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performances work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment, and the disabled body…”

  • Stop LAPD Spying Coalition | “The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community organization founded in 2011. We work to build community power toward abolishing police surveillance. We are rooted in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, based out of the Los Angeles Community Action Network.”

  • Trans Women of Color Collective | “Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) was created to cultivate economic opportunities and affirming spaces for trans people of color and our families, to foster kinship, build community, engage in healing and restorative justice through arts, culture, media, advocacy and activism.”