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Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.
Parents, youth, and neighborhood groups across Detroit come together in this citywide education organizing network. They push for every Detroit child to get an excellent education regardless of race or income, and press school and city leaders for educational justice.
Working-class and BIPOC Michiganders build their own volunteer-led campaigns through this statewide group, from Detroit to Bay City. The work follows The People's Agenda, a platform written with residents in 2018, and includes immigrant justice organizing.
We depend on the unique expertise and support of our membership to set priorities, build power, and organize in Detroit and throughout. To create the long-term change we want to see in our communities, we're actively building out our network of members who will sustain our organization and support the work we're doing both in Detroit and across Michigan.
Clergy and grassroots leaders in Detroit and across Michigan organize through this faith-based network on immigrant justice, voting rights, and gun violence, and helped launch the LIVE FREE Detroit coalition's COVID-19 cash assistance for Detroit residents.
With offices in Detroit, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Flint, this statewide group organizes marginalized Michiganders around immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, environmental justice, and universal family care, through both nonprofit and political arms.
MOSES Action advocates for policies that will improve the quality of life for underserved Michigan residents. A Black-led organization, MOSES Action develops grassroots leaders of color, promotes widespread civic participation, and empowers community members to act as powerful advocates for themselves and their communities in the public arena.
Mothering Justice is a nonpartisan grassroots, women-of-color-led multi-state organization working to shift policies and culture to create the conditions for mamas of color, birthing people, and caregivers in the US can thrive.
Soulardarity is building a brighter future in Highland Park with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. We are working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with our neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all.
Linked to the national United for Respect network, which organizes current and former retail workers at companies like Walmart and Amazon. The network campaigns for fair workweeks, safer jobs, and accountability from retail employers and Wall Street investors.
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.
50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.
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.
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.
Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.
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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