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Rainbow PUSH Coalition was formed in December 1996 by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. through the merging of two organizations he founded earlier, People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH, 1971) and the Rainbow Coalition (1984). With headquarters in Chicago and offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Oakland, we work to make the American Dream a reality for all our citizens and advocate for peace and justice around the world. We are dedicated to improving the lives of all people by serving as a voice for the voiceless.
The Arab American Institute Foundation is a national civil rights advocacy organization that provides strategic analysis to policy makers and community members to strengthen democracy, protect civil rights and liberties, and defend international human rights. AAIF organizes the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country to ensure an informed, organized, and effective constituency is represented in all aspects of civic life.
Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition of more than 30 national Church communions and organizations working to encourage U.S. policies that actively promote just, lasting, and comprehensive resolutions to conflicts in the Middle East. CMEP uses three primary strategies to encourage U.S. policies that promote a just peace: Educate; Elevate; and Advocate.
Faith for Black Lives Action Fund is a 501c(4) organization dedicated to building a beloved community through radical love in action. Grounded in the principles of Kingian nonviolence, we empower faith leaders and communities for social change through advocacy, activism, and the arts.
An interfaith organization, FOR-USA’s mission is to organize, train, and grow a diverse movement of people of conscience committed to using the transformative power of nonviolence to create peace, end structures of violence and war, and build the beloved community.
IfNotNow is a movement of American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all: our neighbors, ourselves, Palestinians, and Israelis. We are Jews of all ages, with ancestors from across the world and Jewish backgrounds as diverse as the ways we practice our Judaism. We organize in cities across the country to demand our community take action in the struggle for mutual liberation. Our strategy is inspired by a long legacy of social movements in this country — from the Labor Movement to the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy to Black Lives Matter — that have used nonviolent action to create urgency around moral crises and catalyze massive changes in the mainstream.
JVP Action is a multiracial, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies working towards justice and equality for Palestinians and Israelis by transforming U.S. policy. We organize American Jews and allies to win progressive legislation, change public conversation, and elect progressive candidates – from City Councils to the White House. JVP Action is mapping out a path for Palestinian rights to become a core part of the progressive agenda.
Muslim Civic Coalition is a partnership of hundreds of activists, changemakers, and organizations from across the state and nation. Our mission is to convene, collaborate, and amplify social and civic efforts with diverse races, faiths, and communities towards civic justice. Civic justice means laws are made for us—and with us. Public officials understand us—and more look like us. Our data and stories—drive action towards equity.
Progressive Democrats of America is guided by the progressive vision of a renewed nation, fully integrated into the community of nations and peoples, respectful of the rule of law at home and abroad, and committed to the universal values of human dignity, justice and respect, and stewardship of the planet on which we live. Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country with a vision rooted in the aspirations of all people for liberty, economic opportunity, guarantees of civil and human rights, peace, and social justice.
Staying true to the foundation of combining Jesus and justice, Red Letter Christians(RLC) mobilizes individuals into a movement of believers who live out Jesus’ counter-cultural teachings. RLC began in 2007 as a community of Christian authors and speakers meeting for a time of fellowship to discuss the pressing issues of the day, including Western Christianity losing its focus on Jesus and concern at the growing misuse of the word “evangelical” to identify a voting bloc. Their desire was a church that looked like Jesus and a recapturing of the term evangelical to mean a people who bring good news to the world. Since, Red Letter Christians has grown as a media and movement building organization reaching hundreds of thousands of Christians in emulating Jesus’ love, mercy, and countercultural way of life.
Sojourners is an ecumenical Christian media and advocacy organization that works towards social and racial justice. Sojourners publishes an award-winning magazine, produces daily news and commentary on sojo.net, and mobilizes people of faith for social justice through its advocacy initiative SojoAction. We seek to inspire hope and build a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world by articulating the biblical call to racial and social justice, life and peace, and environmental stewardship. Sojourners are Christians who follow Jesus, but who also sojourn with others in different faith traditions and all those who are on a spiritual journey. Together we seek to discover the intersection of faith, politics, and culture. We actively campaign to advance voter and democracy protection, immigration rights, just policing, economic justice, gender justice, peacebuilding and more.
Tsuru For Solidarity is a grassroots project of Japanese Americans working to close all U.S. concentration camps and fight against racial and state violence. We stand on the moral authority of Japanese Americans who suffered the atrocities and legacy of U.S. concentration camps during WWII and we say, “Stop Repeating History!”
US Palestinian Council (USPC) is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization that aims to represent, educate and advocate on issues of concern to Palestinian Americans, strengthen ties between the US and Palestine, and push forward a vision based on liberty, justice, and human rights for all. The views of the majority of Palestinian Americans have been ignored in our politics. USPC aims to change that and in the process transform our national conversation about what it means to be a Palestinian American and Pro-Palestine. We advocate and engage on every level to ensure that Palestinian Americans are represented and their voices are heard.