Non-governmental organizations, Community Groups, and Grassroots Organizations
The American Immigration Council
The American Immigration Council strives to strengthen the United States by shaping immigration policies and practices through innovative programs, cutting-edge research, and strategic legal and advocacy efforts grounded in evidence, compassion, justice and fairness. The Council collaborates with diverse stakeholders, including policymakers, grassroots organizations, and immigrant communities, to advance results-driven solutions to the challenges facing immigrants and communities throughout the United States.
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum influences policy, mobilizes communities, and strengthens programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans & Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders.
Atlanta Doula Collective
The Atlanta Doula Collective (ADC) works to to help eradicate Black maternal and Infant mortalities in Georgia, by offering affordable perinatal support services, culturally-responsive, community-based education, and strengthening the sustainability of the Black perinatal workforce.
Birmingham AIDS Outreach
The mission of Birmingham AIDS Outreach (BAO) is to enhance the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS, at-risk, affected individuals, and the LGBTQ community through outreach, age-appropriate prevention education, and supportive services. BAO has been saving and transforming lives since 1985 as Alabama's first AIDS Service Organization. The agency was founded as a “grass-roots” response to the devastating and fatal impact HIV/AIDS was having on the Birmingham community. Today BAO provides free services to over 800 HIV positive individuals and touches thousands of lives through community events, HIV testing, and prevention outreach.
Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc.
The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice.
California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative
The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is a statewide grassroots organization that addresses health, environmental, reproductive justice, and other social issues faced by its low-income, female, Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workforce. Founded in 2005 by Asian Health Services, CHNSC emerged in direct response to an increasing concern of nail salon workers who exhibited serious health issues such as chronic asthma, skin rashes, and reproductive health issues.
The California Partnership for the Future of Learning
The California Partnership for the Future of Learning protects, strengthens, and advances racial and education equity and meaningful learning—and supports the policies and practices that get us there.
The Center for Black Health & Equity
The Center for Black Health & Equity envisions a world where all people of African descent are able to obtain their optimal health outcomes. They are a nonprofit organization that facilitates public health programs and services that benifit communities and people of African descent.
ChangeLab Solutions
ChangeLab Solutions is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity. ChangeLab Solutions partner with communities across the nation to improve health and opportunity by changing harmful laws, policies, and systems. ChangeLab Solutions interdisciplinary team works with community organizations, governments, and local institutions to design and implement equitable and practical policy solutions to complex health challenges.
First Nations Development Institute
First Nations mission is to uplift and sustain the lifeways and economies of Native communities through advocacy, financial support, and knowledge sharing. Founded in 1980, First Nations began its national grantmaking program in 1993. Through mid-year 2024, First Nations has successfully managed 3,473 grants totaling $85 million to Native American projects and organizations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territory American Samoa.
Focused Community Strategies
Focused Community Strategies partners with under-resourced neighborhoods to provide innovative and holistic development that produces flourishing communities. Focused Community Strategies value local living, believing proximity and diversity allow for mutually transformative relationships.
Forward Arkansas
Forward Arkansas is a non-profit organization established in 2015 by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Walton Family Foundation to improve outcomes for all students. Every student should graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace, but that isn’t the reality for many Arkansas students. Forward Arkansas's team helps bridge the gap by advancing public policy, accelerating progress and providing innovative solutions that can potentially be replicated statewide. Forward Arkansas partners with parents, educators, non-profits, government officials, business leaders, and community residents to move education forward in Arkansas.
Human Impact Partners
Human Impact Partners transforms the field of public health to center equity and builds collective power with social justice movements. Human Impact Partners' envision a society that centers health, healing, and belonging where everyone has what they need to thrive, and that it’s our collective responsibility to take care of each other and cultivate equitable and just communities.
Latino Commission on AIDS
The Latino Commission on AIDS is a nonprofit organization. In response to the critical, unmet need for HIV prevention and care for Latinos, a coalition of Latino leaders founded the agency in 1990. The Commission realizes its mission by spearheading health advocacy for Latinos, promoting HIV education, developing model prevention programs for high-risk communities, and by building capacity in community organizations. Through its extensive network of partner organizations and community leaders, the Commission works to mobilize an effective community response to meet the health challenges and address the impact of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis & STIs in communities nationwide. The Latino Commission on AIDS has proudly served the Latinx LGBTQ population and is committed in creating and promoting a safe space.
The National Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and other environmental specialists to confront the climate crisis, protect the planet's wildlife and wild places, and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
The National Education Association Foundation
The NEA Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC. Founded by educators, our mission is to work in partnership with others to promote the absolute best in public education. We believe that the most innovative and effective policies and strategies emanate from educators engaged in authentic partnership with policymakers, students, parents, and others who are committed to educational equity, excellence, and opportunity. Through the transformative power of these partnerships, we believe we can improve both students’ and communities’ educational experiences.
The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center provides leadership to end violence against American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women by supporting culturally grounded, grassroots advocacy.
Newark Water Coalition
The Newark Water Coalition (NWC) acknowledges that water, housing, and food is a human right. NWC's intention is to cultivate a self-determined local, national, and international community of people who recognize the connection between systemic environmental racism and capitalism. NWC fights to liberate natural resources whether it be food, land, air or water as sources of life for all.
Northwest Arkansas Continuum of Care
The Nortwest Arkansas Continuum of Care pledges to actively promote, diversity, equity, and inclusion and to pursue a collaborative and coordinated community response to lead equitable efforts to end homelessness in Northwest Arkansas.
Purpose Built Communities
Purpose Built Communities create culturally rich, generationally inclusive, and economically diverse neighborhoods for children and families where social connections across socioeconomic and racial demographics are commonplace; legacy residents feel valued and are part of the fabric of the growing community with newer residents; the built environment and investments in physical infrastructure support the ability for the community to thrive; all residents feel welcomed, valued, and integral to the composition of their neighborhood.
Rebalanced - Life Wellness Association
Rebalanced - Life Wellness Association works to ensure that Black men and boys living in under-represented communities, who bear the heaviest burden of disease and poor health status, have the opportunity to live fuller, healthier lives.
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT)
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) is a Black women-led reproductive justice organization dedicated to collectively restoring our well-being through self-determination, collaboration, and resources to meet the needs of women and families within communities. ROOTT was created by a collective who view the issues surrounding maternal and infant health as a consequence of structural and institutional racism.
ROSE Community Development Corporation
ROSE Community Development Corporation offers neighborhood-based solutions to deeply entrenched social problems by building housing and community. ROSE Community Development Corporation are an asset-based community development organization.
Save the Children
In 1919 Eglantyne Jebb founded the Save the Children Fund based on her conviction that children have the right to grow up healthy, educated and safe. The Save the Children Fund works in the United States and around the world and has changed the lives of over 1 billion children. Save the Children works in over 100 countries, doing whatever it takes to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.
Sovereign Bodies Institute
Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI) builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people.
Urban Growers Collective
Urban Growers Collective (UGC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that was co-founded by Laurell Sims and Erika Allen in the fall of 2017. Working closely with community partners, their approach is to demonstrate the development of community-based food systems and to support communities in developing systems of their own where food is grown, prepared, and distributed within the community itself.
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network
WAATPN has been collaborating with Wisconsin’s African American communities to eliminate racial disparities in tobacco burden and promote healthy tobacco-free life styles for African Americans.