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Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.
With organizing centers in Allentown, Reading, and Philadelphia, this largely Latinx membership group brings together Black and Brown working-class Pennsylvanians. Members run local and statewide campaigns on immigrant rights, education, climate, and voter engagement.
Working-class Pennsylvanians in rural towns and cities organize through local chapters in Lancaster, Berks, the Lehigh Valley, and Northeast PA, running a statewide housing justice team, defending democracy, and electing candidates who stand with everyday people.
Through county chapters such as Allegheny, Erie, and Beaver County United, this political group recruits local movement candidates and organizes on renters' rights, health care workers' pay, clean rivers, and policing, mainly in western Pennsylvania.
Over 50 congregations in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania organize together through POWER for fair school funding, affordable utilities, climate justice, and voting rights, working across lines of race, income, and faith through four regional chapters.
Black, Brown, and white working-class Philadelphians organize through neighborhood chapters in Northeast and South Philly on public schools, fair housing, gentrification, and worker rights, including the Our City Our Schools campaign and a restaurant workers' committee.
API PA organizes Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Philadelphia / statewide, Pennsylvania to build civic and political power. Its work centers community education, leadership development, voter engagement, and advocacy for an inclusive democracy.
Based in Washington, Pennsylvania, the Center for Coalfield Justice organizes coalfield residents who live with the daily impacts of mining and fossil fuel extraction, pairing community education and organizing with legal work to push for stronger oversight and protect public and environmental health.
Working people across Pennsylvania, including students, parents, seniors, retirees, and people with disabilities, use One PA to follow the money, hold elected officials accountable, and campaign for good jobs, healthy communities, and corporate accountability.
Pennsylvania's chapter of the Working Families Party recruits, trains, and backs progressive candidates up and down the ballot, from Philadelphia City Council to Congress. It also runs door-knocking, get-out-the-vote, and voter protection programs for working-class voters.
Community, labor, faith, and environmental groups in Pittsburgh team up here to make development work for residents. Campaigns include community benefit agreements in the Hill District, good union jobs, affordable housing, and keeping the city's water publicly controlled.
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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