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Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.
Based in Pierce County and active across western Wisconsin, GROWW brings dues-paying members together to run local-issue campaigns that push back on corporate power. A sister nonprofit focuses on leadership training and civic engagement.
Based on Milwaukee's North Side, this Black-led group sends neighborhood ambassadors door to door year-round. Residents shape the BLOC Agenda on gun safety, mental health, and housing discrimination, and candidates join "Silent Canvass" walks to listen rather than pitch.
Citizen Action of Wisconsin is dedicated to economic, racial, and environmental justice, and achieving a Wisconsin and an America where every human being has an equal opportunity to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. We believe that organizing is the only pathway to unlocking the true potential of democracy to fundamentally transform our society in the human interest and overcome structural racism, sexism, xenophobia, corporate domination, and other forms of oppression.
Milwaukee-based with members statewide, this immigrant rights organization holds May Day marches and campaigns to restore driver's licenses and in-state tuition for undocumented Wisconsinites. Its youth arm, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, organizes students on issues like school lunches.
Rather than working alone, Wisconsin Voices supports a statewide network of more than 50 smaller nonprofit partners, from Milwaukee outward, with voter education, advocacy training, and a youth program for 17- to 24-year-olds.
Faith communities across Wisconsin, from Milwaukee to Eau Claire and Kenosha, organize through this statewide Gamaliel affiliate for racial and economic justice. It includes EXPO, a network of formerly incarcerated people, and campaigns on prison reform and immigrant rights.
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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