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New York

Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.

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Local Bases Statewide

Community Voices Heard

OUR MISSION Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a Black and brown-led, power-building organization committed to fighting for dignity for people with low incomes and all New Yorkers. Guided by members, we center women’s voices and create unity to win financial security, a fully participatory democracy, and truly affordable homes for every New Yorker. CVH leads community organizing across the state because we will only achieve an equitable New York when we organize and fight together.

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Statewide

Faith in New York

Faith in New York (FINY) is a multifaith, multicultural organizing network of over 100 faith communities throughout New York City. We are committed to the work of social justice through faith-rooted community organizing in order to influence policies and systems that will create a more just and equitable New York for all New Yorkers.

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Hudson Valley

For the Many

For the Many is building a grassroots movement of everyday people to transform New York so it works for all of us. For too long, greedy corporations, billionaires, and political elites have rigged our country to work against us. We are coming together across race and age to fight for laws and win elections that put the power back in our hands and create lasting change.

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Queens / Brooklyn

Make the Road New York

Immigrant and working-class New Yorkers come together here through organizing, policy campaigns, adult and youth education, and legal and survival services, with community centers in Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island and Westchester.

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Brooklyn

New Sanctuary Coalition

Standing with New York immigrants facing deportation, this coalition runs a pro se legal clinic and sends volunteers to accompany people to immigration check-ins and court. It also hosts community assemblies and know-your-rights trainings.

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Brooklyn

New York Communities for Change

New York Communities for Change brings neighbors together to build community power. NYCC members use that power to improve their lives and their communities. We use direct action, legislative advocacy, and community organizing to fight for a safe and healthy New York.

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Buffalo

PUSH Buffalo

Buffalo residents organize through PUSH for affordable housing, local hiring, and climate justice, reclaiming abandoned property and running the Green Development Zone, a tenant bill of rights campaign, and a clean-energy workforce training center.

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Brooklyn / statewide

VOCAL-NY

Low-income New Yorkers affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration and homelessness lead VOCAL-NY's campaigns, from closing Rikers to housing vouchers and harm reduction funding, with chapters statewide and a Brooklyn drop-in center.

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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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