Local Organizations (Spokane)
BLM Terrain Spokane
Terrain Spokane displays the sixteen artists in Spokane that made their own statements and homage to Black Lives Matter in Spokane.
Spokane Community Against Racism (SCAR)
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
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.
Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane
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.
National Organizations
Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Black Youth Project 100
Founded in 2013, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) is a member-based organization of Black youth activists creating justice and freedom for all Black people. BYP100 was, at one point, just a hashtag for the 2013 “Beyond November Movement Convening” developed through the vision and leadership of Cathy Cohen.
Civil Liberties Defense Center
The Civil Liberties Defense Center supports movements that seek to dismantle the political and economic structures at the root of social inequality and environmental destruction. We provide litigation, education, and legal and strategic resources to strengthen and embolden their success.
Color of Change
Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, they move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and all people until they achieve justice.
Center for Policing Equity
The Center for Policing Equity’s (CPE’s) North Star is protecting, empowering, and supporting vulnerable communities—particularly Black and Brown communities—to redesign their public safety systems. CPE provides decision-makers with data, stories, and relationships to facilitate change that’s bold, innovative, and lasting.
Campaign Zero
Birthed from the protests in Ferguson, Baltimore, and a host of other cities over cases of civilians killed by police, Campaign Zero was launched in August 2015 as a research-based platform to move to an understanding of public safety beyond policing. Since its inception, Campaign Zero has designed and launched research and advocacy projects that have defined their respective field and there are more to come.
African American Policy Forum
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.
Civil Rights Project
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
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.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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.
International Organizations
Race & Equality - UN
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. They strengthen grassroots organizations, helping them become political actors to promote structural changes in the countries where they work. Our methodology consists of providing technical assistance in order to help their partners monitor and document human rights abuses and increase their advocacy capacity at the national, regional, and international levels.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its States parties.