Racial and Economic Justice and Leadership Development

The Center for Reflective Community Practice, works toward a more just and equitable society by expanding access to and engagement with the knowledge developed by people working on the ground in disenfranchised, low income communities. CRCP aims to empower and learn from individuals who, in the face of injustice, inequality and exclusion, have dedicated themselves to making their communities healthier and more vibrant places to live. Link

The National Conference for Community and Justice, founded in 1927 as the National Conference of Christians and Jews, is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in America. NCCJ promotes understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution and education. Link

The Jonathan Daniels and Samuel Younge Forum For Social Justice is a national organization that uses the arts, research, action, spiritual reflection, coalition building, and education to dismantle injustice and to build a nonviolent movement for social change. Link

The Center for Democratic Renewal is a national research institute based in Atlanta, Georgia that fights racism through research and analysis, community empowerment and changing public policy. Link

The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc strives to steer our city away from chaos and toward a new community based on economic and racial justice using a Village Concept where all family, social, political, religious, educational and economic relations affirm the dignity, worth and potential of everyone. Link

The Congress of Racial Equality is a civil rights group that aims to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background. In pursuing its aim, CORE seeks to identify and expose acts of discrimination in the public and private sectors of society. The national headquarters of CORE is located in New York City. Link

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the USA’s oldest and largest anti-discrimination membership organization. It employs litigation, mobilization and coalition to achieve its goals and has a long and illustrious history of advocating for the expansion of democracy in America. Link

Change is a project of the Tides Center with a mission of promoting democratic ideals through the removal of barriers that sustain racial and ethnic disparities. Link

The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice is a Southwide multi-issue, multi-racial network of people working in communities against racism, war, economic injustice and environmental destruction. Co-chairs of this organization are Fred Shuttlesworth and Anne Braden. Link

Southern Empowerment Project is a multi-racial association of member-run, member-based organizations. It stands with the oppressed in challenging racism and social injustice. It recruits and trains community leaders to become organizers. It assists organizations in the South and Appalachia to solve community problems. Link

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
This is a multi-racial anti-racist network of veteran organizers and educators dedicated to building a movement for justice by ending racism and other forms of institutionalized oppression. Link

James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit.
The organization’s activities are designed to help community activists develop themselves into visionary leaders and critical thinkers. Link

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference With Martin Luther King, Jr at its helm, and many others such as Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy and C.T. Vivian among its officers, SCLC was one of the major organizations of the southern freedom movement. It continues to work toward human rights in the United States and internationally. Link

Healing the Heart of Diversity is a professional leadership development program that fosters a deeper understanding of diversity issues and encourages ways of living and working with the complexities and beauty of diverse relationships. Link

Environmental Justice/ Environmental racism
The African American Environmental Association is dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing the human ecology, and working to ensure the efficient use of natural resources. It provides an opportunity for minorities to participate in the environmental movement. The organization resolves environmental racism and injustice issues through the application of practical environmental solutions. Link

The Alternative for Community and Environment is based in Roxbury, Massachusetts and works in partnership with low income communities and communities of color to achieve environmental justice. Link

The Asian Pacific Environmental Network seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander communities to achieve environmental and social justice. Link

The Colorado People’s Environmental and Economic Network was formed by residents of Northeast Denver in 1994, as a proactive, grassroots response to grave environmental injustice perpetrated against their communities. COPEEN grew out of a Citizens for a Toxic-Free Community, an ad-hoc group of residents who took on the ASARCO Plant in a class–action lawsuit and won. Link

Xavier University of Louisiana, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice works for universal protection from nuclear testing, extraction, production, and disposal of toxic wastes, poisons, and nuclear testing that threaten the fundamental right to clean air, land, water and food. The center has developed and embraced a model for community partnership that is called “communiversity.” The model emphasizes a collaborative management or partnership between universities and communities. Link

The Environmental Justice Foundation trains, equips and supports communities and organizations that are directly affected by environmental abuses. Link

The Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University is a research and information clearing house on related to issues that include environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility citing, land use planning and transport of hazardous materials. Link

The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of mother earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and natural laws. Link

The Green Belt Movement is a grassroots non-governmental organization based in Kenya that focuses on environmental conservation, community development and capacity building. The goal is to create a society of people who consciously work for the improvement of their environment, and a greener, cleaner Kenya. Link

Conflict Resolution and Peace
The Center for Conflict Resolution, CECORE, based in Uganda is an initiative of the Ugandan people working to seek alternative and creative means of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts. It promotes African Traditional Conflict resolution methods. Link

The American Friends Service Committee is an organization that works on issues of peace and justice based on the Quaker religious tradition. Link

The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century is an international peace institute that envisions a worldwide network of global citizens developing cultures of peace through dialogue and understanding. We believe that the best hope for the realization of this vision is through the active cultivation of an inclusive sense of community, locally and globally. Link

The Fellowship of Reconciliation is an interfaith organization that is committed to active nonviolence as a personally transforming way of life and as well as a means of radical social change. Link

The Center for the Healing Racism
The center’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for the healing of racism through the education and empowerment of individuals.
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Peace Brigade International is non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.Link

Peace Jam provides an opportunity for today’s youth to have personal contact with Nobel Prize winners. The organization creates a meaningful forum in which young people can study the lives of recognized peacemakers and then dialogue about them and practice their own fresh approaches.Link