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Ohio

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

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★ Priority group
Columbus / statewide

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

A statewide network linking unions, faith groups, student organizers, and neighborhood groups across Ohio, with offices from Youngstown to Cincinnati. Its work spans voter registration, criminal justice reform, environmental justice, caregiving, and an annual leadership training.

★ Priority group

Undivided

Churches, clergy, and residents work through this faith-rooted community organizing group to move people into action for healing and justice. Based in Cincinnati and expanding to Seattle, it offers leadership training and runs local justice campaigns.

★ Priority group

Undivided

Churches, clergy, and residents work through this faith-rooted community organizing group to move people into action for healing and justice. Based in Cincinnati and expanding to Seattle, it offers leadership training and runs local justice campaigns.

★ Priority group
Cincinnati

Communities United for Action

A Cincinnati coalition of residents and neighborhood groups that trains low- and moderate-income members to lead campaigns. Members knock doors on issues like high utility bills, vacant foreclosed buildings, bank reinvestment, and environmental justice.

★ Priority group
Columbus

Ohio Voice

Based in Columbus, this statewide table supports Ohio groups doing year-round civic engagement with people of color, youth, women, LGBTQ+ people, and working-class residents, offering resources, training, and programs like the Vision for Ohio Fellowship and Ohio Movement Builders.

★ Priority group
Cincinnati

The AMOS Project

A network of Cincinnati congregations, The AMOS Project organizes people of faith and their neighbors around public policy, and is known for leading the grassroots campaign for universal preschool for the city's children.

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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