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Los Angeles / Oakland
ACCE Institute
ACCE fosters transformative community change across California through ground-up organizing with low-income residents, especially in Black and Brown communities.
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San Fransisco
Coalition on Homelessness
Coalition on Homelessness organizes people in its community around housing justice and the right to safe, stable, and affordable homes. The group builds tenant leadership, supports community campaigns, and advocates for policies that put residents ahead of landlords, developers, and corporate interests.
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Fresno / Central Valley
Faith in the Valley
Faith in the Valley is a faith-based grassroots community organization in California’s Central Valley representing families in Fresno, Kern, Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties. Our work is led by volunteer leaders who are among the people most impacted by equity issues: low-wage workers, young people, immigrants and the formerly incarcerated.
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Los Angeles
LA Voice
Working through dozens of partner congregations across Los Angeles County, this multiracial, multifaith network trains people to act together on housing, immigrant dignity and public investment, and runs its Faith Votes program to talk with voters about ballot measures.
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NorCalResist
We're community members organizing for a better world, and we invite you to join us. We believe that as activists and organizers, we must not only stand in opposition to policies, politicians, and systems that harm our communities, but also begin building the better world we want to live in. That's why it's our mission to fight injustice through making a positive impact in our communities.
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Oakland
PICO California
A multifaith, multiracial organizing network that develops community leadership and builds power for racial and economic justice across California.
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PowerCA
Working through community partners in urban, suburban, and rural California, Power California helps young people of color and their families register, vote, and step into leadership so that elected officials better reflect the state.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Rising
San Francisco Rising is a grassroots alliance united to make lasting change in San Francisco. Our members represent the majority of the city—low-income and working-class communities of color—who contribute to the wealth and unique beauty of this city but have not benefited from its prosperity. We have a long-term vision for the city and we are in it, together, for the long run.
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Eureka / Humboldt County
True North Organizing Network
Builds community power to solve complex problems in rural and Tribal communities on California’s North Coast.
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Working Families Party California
A grassroots political party organizing California’s multiracial working class to put working people ahead of wealthy and well-connected interests.
national groups with chapters near you
These national organizations have local chapters, hubs, or groups in most states. Click through to find the one closest to you, or to start one.
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50501
50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.
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Authors Against Book Bans
A national network of writers, illustrators, and other creators fighting book bans and challenges. Members back local grassroots groups, speak at school board meetings, meet with legislators, and stand with librarians, educators, parents, and students defending the freedom to read.
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Black Voters Matter
Co-founded by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter boosts voter registration and turnout in Black communities, mostly across the South, funds and trains local partner groups, and tours on its "Blackest Bus in America" to highlight voter suppression.
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Common Defense
Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.
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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
The largest socialist organization in the U.S. Local chapters organize tenants, workers, and neighbors to build an economy run for human need, not profit. Look up your chapter by zip code.
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Dream Defenders
Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism. We envision communities where safety is built through solidarity, care, and self-determination rather than through punishment and surveillance. Founded in 2012 in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Dream Defenders has grown into a powerful force advocating for liberation, justice, and dignity for Black and marginalized people across the United States and beyond.
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Indivisible
A network of thousands of local groups that hold elected officials accountable and defend democracy. Use the group map to find one near you, including groups marked newcomer-friendly.
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NDN Collective
Rapid City-based and Indigenous-led, this collective backs Native communities through organizing, grants, and loans to Indigenous groups and entrepreneurs. Its campaigns include LANDBACK, which seeks the return of Lakota lands in the Black Hills, along with climate justice and education equity.
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Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
A national network organizing white people to fight racism and economic injustice as part of multiracial movements. Find a local chapter or join a regular online orientation.
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Sunrise Movement
A youth-led movement of local hubs working to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. No hub near you? Sunrise will help you start one.
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Third Act
Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.
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Working Families Party
Building a multiracial party of working people. WFP recruits and elects progressive candidates and organizes between elections, with state parties in 18 states and volunteer actions everywhere.
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