SCAR's mission is to identify and address racial disparities through a variety of community efforts which include education, advocacy, research, community engagement, policy impact, and challenges to the existing organizations and structures.
YWCA Spokane is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, standing up for social justice, helping families, strengthening communities, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all. We empower women, families, and communities through a combination of prevention, education, outreach, and response work.
PJAL's mission is to engage everyday people to build a just and nonviolent world through community organizing and leadership development. The Peace and Justice Action League community is intergenerational, cross-class, multiracial, urban and rural, and disproportionately LGBTQ.
The African American Policy Forum was founded in 1996 as a media-monitoring think tank and information clearinghouse and works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse related to inequality, discrimination, and injustice. The AAPF seeks to build bridges between academic, activist, and policy-making sectors in order to advance a more inclusive and robust public discourse on the challenge of achieving equity within and across diverse communities.
The Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles is a multidisciplinary research-and-policy think tank based at UCLA whose mission is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, to be a preeminent source of intellectual capital within that movement, and to deepen the understanding of the issues that must be resolved to achieve racial and ethnic equity as society moves through the great transformation of the 21st century.
The Praxis Project’s 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, and includes several tools that have explicit racial equity perspectives that can be transferable beyond those working on public health.
The NAACP envisions an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. They are committed to a world without racism where Black people enjoy equitable opportunities in thriving communities.
It is an international, human rights capacity-building organization that works alongside activists in Latin America to enhance their ability to promote and protect the human rights of marginalized and vulnerable people who suffer from discrimination based on their national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We strengthen grassroots organizations, helping them become political actors to promote structural changes in the countries where we work. Our methodology consists of providing technical assistance in order to help our partners monitor and document human rights abuses and increase their advocacy capacity at the national, regional, and international levels.