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A small list of organizations associated with #BLM and the LGBTQ+ rights that we’ve researched and encourage you to donate to.

 

D.R.E.A.M

Developing Responsible Economically Advanced Model-Citizens is a nonprofit organization committed to providing youth with financial skills that will eventually lead to the eradication of the current wealth gap between low-income, urban citizens and the broader American population.

 

Equal Justice Initiative

EJI is a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons. We challenge the death penalty and excessive punishment and we provide re-entry assistance to formerly incarcerated people. EJI also provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of criminal justice reform.

 

The Bail Project

The Bail Project™ National Revolving Bail Fund is on a mission to combat mass incarceration and reshape the pretrial system in the United States. 100% of online donations are used to bring people home. Since bail money comes back to us when cases close, we're able to recycle every dollar donated at least twice per year.

 

GLAD

Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.

BEAM

A collective of advocates, yoga teachers, artists, therapists, lawyers… committed to the emotional/mental health and healing of Black communities. Our mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing. We do this through education, training, advocacy and the creative arts. 

Prison Book Program

Prison Book Program mails books to people in prison to support their educational, vocational and personal development and to help them avoid returning to prison after their release. We also aim to provide a quality volunteer experience that introduces citizens to issues surrounding the American prison system and the role of education in reforming it.

 

NAACP

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. Through its scholarship programs, LDF also helps students to attend and graduate from many of the nation’s best colleges, universities, and law schools.

 

Black Visions Collective

Black Visions Collective (BLVC) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to Black and collective liberation. “By claiming love for our own bodies, our own psyches, our own experiences, and by building the resources we need to integrate healing justice into all that we do, we are insisting on conditions that can carry us towards the next generation.”

ACLU

The nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With more than 1.5 million members, nearly 300 staff attorneys, thousands of volunteer attorneys, and offices throughout the nation, the ACLU of today continues to fight government abuse and to vigorously defend individual freedoms including speech and religion, a woman’s right to choose, the right to due process, citizens’ rights to privacy and much more. 

 

No New Jail NYC

An organization formed to ensure that Rikers Island in New York City closes immediately without the construction of new jails. Their plan is an open door for community and political stakeholders to join us in envisioning abolition in NYC, by divesting from police and prisons, and investing in community.

 

The Loveland Found…

The Loveland Foundation aims to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, and especially to Black women and girls. Through fellowships, residency programs, listening tours, and more, ultimately we hope to contribute to both the empowerment and the liberation of the communities we serve.

 

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.