Around the United States, many organizations are focused on pursuing justice. This page contains an ever-growing list of nationally, regionally, state, and locally-focused secular organizations (state and local orgs are indicated by their state abbreviation).

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Children

Civic/Political Engagement

Climate Change/Creation Care

Economic

Tides | Provides fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, impact investing, and a variety of grantmaking solutions to advance social justice and equity.

Equipping Organizations

Training for Change | A training and capacity building organization for activists and organizers.

Human Rights

Human Trafficking

Freedom Network USA | Mobilizes its collective strength to build a transformative approach to human trafficking that is grounded in anti-racism and anti-oppression.

Hunger/Food

Immigration/Migration (et Al.)

National Immigrant Justice Center | Establishing and defending the legal rights of immigrants regardless of background and transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all.

Mass Incarceration/Criminal Justice System

The Bail Project | Advances bail reform nationwide and provides bail assistance and supportive services in select jurisdictions across the country.

Innocence Project | Works to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

Just Detention International | A health and human rights organization that seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention.

Measures for Justice | Helps communities access criminal justice data as the basis for informed decision-making about how to reshape the system.

Partners for Justice | Envisions a world where the legal system reflects the humanity, complexity, and potential of those who experience it and its outcomes ensure the opportunity to move forward with one's future intact.

Vera | Works to transform the criminal justice and immigration system so that money doesn’t determine freedom; fewer people are incarcerated; and everyone behind bars is treated with dignity.

Media Organizations

Poverty

Justice in Aging | A national organization that uses the power of law to fight senior poverty by securing access to affordable health care, economic security, and the courts for older adults with limited resources.

Poor People’s Campaign | Bringing paople together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

Racial Justice

Color of Change | Challenges injustice, holds corporate and political leaders accountable, commissions game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advances solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) | Mobilizes white people for justice across the country. Through campaigns, education, and action opportunities, SURJ moves people to reject racism and complicity– and to join movements for change.

Research

Columbia University Justice Lab | Conducts research on incarceration, community supervision, reentry, youth development, community safety, narrative change, and racial justice.

Restorative Justice

National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (NACRJ) | Advances community and restorative justice as a social movement by serving people and organizations committed to building community and addressing harm.

Women

The Azadi Project | Provides leadership skills and psychosocial support to marginalized and migrant women and youth anywhere in the world.