Connecticut
Women's Rights
Connecticut Women's Education & Legal Fund
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Internships
Environmental Initiatives
Environment Connecticut
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP)
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Become an Advocate
Helps low-income immigrants improve their legal status, pushes for more just immigration policy
Immigrant Resource Center of Maine
Website | Donate
Provides immigrant/refugee women and children across Maine with culturally competent services
Massachusetts
Civil Rights
Muslim Justice League
Website | Donate
Educates, organizes and advocates for human and civil rights violated/threatened under national security pretexts; provides Know Your Rights workshops at mosques, schools, and community centers, and provides pro bono legal representation to persons approached for FBI questioning
Other Initiatives
AFSC Healing and Transformative Justice Program
AFSC Cambridge Page
Dedicated to practices of healing and transformative justice
New Hampshire
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
Catholic Charities New Hampshire
Website | Donate | AmeriCorps VISTA
Offers immigration and refugee services, including casework, support and guidance
LGBTQ+ Initiatives
Merrimack Valley Assistance Program
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Housing assistance and supportive services for straight or LGBTQ+ people with HIV/AIDS
Rights and Democracy NH
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Grassroots organizing, education and advocacy. Multiple areas of service including trans rights, advocating for a livable minimum wage, and climate
Women's Rights
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Internships
YWCA New Hampshire
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Provides crisis services for victims of domestic and sexual violence, operates 24-hour hotline, operates confidential emergency shelter for women and their children; operates domestic and sexual violence support groups, and works in community outreach
New Jersey
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program: Newark
Website | Donate | Keep informed
Provides high quality, social-justice oriented immigrant legal representation to detained and non-detained immigrants fighting deportation
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice
Website | Volunteer | Jobs & Internships
Statewide coalition creating policies that welcome and support immigrants to become rooted economically, politically, and socially within the state of New Jersey
Civil Rights
New Jersey Citizen Action
Website | Donate | Jobs & Internships
NJ’s largest citizen watchdog coalition, working towards social and economic justice for New Jersey families, seniors and workers
Civil Rights
Arab American Association of New York
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Supporting and empowering the Arab American/Arab immigrant community by providing services to help them adjust to their new home. Manages form for New Yorkers willing to accompany their neighbors on their commute, in light of recent harassment and threat toward people of color, LGBTQ people, and Muslims
CUNY Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR)
Website | Donate
Aims to address the unmet legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and other communities in the NYC area that are particularly affected by national security and counterterrorism policies and practices; staffed by law students from across CUNY School of Law’s clinical program, including the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic, the Defenders Clinic, the International Women’s and Human Rights Clinic, and the Economic Justice Project
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
A member-led organization of South Asian New Yorkers, fighting for the rights of Muslims and South Asians in NYC through direct legal services and campaigns for policy change
Gathering for Justice/Justice League NYC
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Events
Working to build a movement to end child incarceration while working to eliminate the racial inequities in the criminal justice system that enliven mass incarceration
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ)
Website | Donate | Become a Member | Events
Pursues racial and economic justice in NYC by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in people’s everyday lives
Make the Road New York
Website | Donate | Jobs/Internships/Volunteering
Builds power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services
MinKwon Center for Community Action
Organizing, educating, and advocating for the Korean American community in New York
NYC Shut it Down/Black Lives Matter
Website | Donate | Contact & Events
Multiethnic group of activists fighting against militarized policing and racial injustice; work through speak outs, direct action, and community outreach, including Cop Watch patrols and distributing Know Your Rights information in marginalized communities/communities of color
AFSC NY Metro Healing Justice Program
AFSC NY/NJ Page
Empowers individuals harmed by violence and by criminal justice policies to transform the conditions under which they live, advancing the dignity of all people in and around the criminal justice system
LGBTQ+ Initiatives
Audre Lorde Project
Website | Donate | Become a Member | Internships
NYC center for gender variant people of color. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, works for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences to responsibly reflect, represent and serve NYC’s various communities
Urban Justice Center
Website | Jobs & Internships | Pro Bono Opportunities
Provides direct legal service, systemic advocacy, community education and political organizing to LGBT New Yorkers (+ also offers several immigration-related projects)
Women's Rights
National Organization for Women: NYC Chapter
Website | Join | Internships | Become a Clinic Escort
Activist organization, foundation, and PAC that advocates for equal rights for women
NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Job Opportunities
Organization working to prevent sexual violence and reduce its impact through education, research and advocacy, representing the needs of NYC sexual assault/abuse survivors and influencing city policies
Planned Parenthood of New York City
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
Central American Legal Assistance
Website | Donate | Join Mailing List
Small grassroots nonprofit providing immigration direct legal services to hundreds of Central and South Americans refugees in removal proceedings, as well as DACA and TPS
Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans (CIANA)
Nonprofit social services agency serving new immigrants in New York City, providing culturally competent services to newcomers from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
CUNY Citizenship Now!
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Join Volunteer Advisory Committee
Provides free, high quality, and confidential immigration law services, and coordinates initiatives to help expand opportunities for NYC’s immigrant population
Families for Freedom
Website | Donate | Join a Campaign
Multi-ethnic human rights organization by and for families facing and fighting deportation
New York State Youth Leadership Council
An organization by and for immigrant youth, led and operated entirely by immigrant youth. A frontline fighter for DACA and other protections and opportunities for the undocumented
Pennsylvania
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
Civil Rights
Bread & Roses Fund
Website | Donate | Community Calendar
Organizing donors at all levels to support community-based groups in building movements for racial equity and economic opportunity
LGBTQ+ Initiatives
Equality PA
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Works for equality and opportunity for LGBT people across Pennsylvania
The Mazzoni Center
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Offers healthcare services to the LGBT population in Philadelphia, including trans clinical care services, walk-in HIV and STI testing, primary care, and addiction/recovery services
PA Youth Congress
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Pennsylvania’s statewide LGBTQ youth advocacy organization
PERSAD Center
Website | Donate | Internships
LGBTQ counseling, education and advocacy organization, has seen a 300% increase in calls for clinical mental health services over the past year; locations in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Washington
William Way Center
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Provides educational, recreational, and supportive programming for LGBT people of all ages
Women's Rights
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
Website | Donate | Volunteer | Internships
Pittsburgh-based organization providing rape crisis services, including advocate services
Women’s Center of Greater Pittsburgh
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Provides shelter, advocacy, and crisis resources for victims of domestic violence
Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR)
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Philadelphia’s only rape crisis center, also offers education and outreach, as well as a helpline at 215-985-3333
Women Against Abuse
Website | Donate | Volunteer
Provides direct services to victims of domestic violence including legal help, housing, crisis helplines, education, and training; also offers 24/7 counseling to assist people in crisis
Women’s Law Project
Website | Donate | Join
Advances the rights and status of women through legal advocacy in a variety of contexts
Women’s Medical Fund
Website | Donate
Protects and expands access to abortion through direct service, advocacy and education
Other Initiatives
Community Legal Services (CLS)
Website | Donate | Jobs & Internships
Provides free civil legal assistance to low-income Philadelphians, offers 8 areas of specialization
Education Law Center
Website | Donate | Jobs & Internships
Legal advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring PA students’ access to quality public education
Juvenile Law Center (JLS)
Website | Donate | Join an Initiative | Relevant Listservs
Public interest law firm advocating for the rights of children in PA, primarily in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems
Philadelphia Legal Assistance (PLA)
Website | Donate | Jobs & Internships
Provides free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families in Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Immigrant/Refugee Rights & Resources
Coalition for Safer Rhodes
Facebook Page | Driver's License Campaign [Spanish + English]
Advocating for safe access to driver's licenses (and roads!) for all Rhode Islanders
Civil Rights
American Friends Service Committee: Rhode Island
Quaker-based organization working on two interwoven themes: peace building and community justice
George Wiley Center
Website | Donate | Volunteer/Intern
Grassroots agency organizing the low-income community to advocate for systematic changes to alleviate problems associated with poverty
Resist Hate Rhode Island
Facebook Group | Join Listserv
Organizes phone-banking and community action, hosts monthly meetings at Hope High School
Other Initiatives
Providence Student Union
Building student power to ensure young people a fair say in improving their education
RI Working Families