A Just Harvest’s mission is to fight poverty and hunger in the Rogers Park and greater Chicago community by providing nutritious meals daily while cultivating community and economic development and organizing across racial, cultural and socioeconomic lines in order to create a more just society. Through Northside P.O.W.E.R., created in 2004, as a result of a strategic planning process undertaken by A Just Harvest’s board of directors we want to be a powerful organization so that we can improve our community and be effective in the fight against hunger and poverty. We also want to provide opportunities for people in relatively powerful positions to be effective voices for social change through our work.
City: Chicago, IL
E-mail: info@ajustharvest.org
Web: http://www.ajustharvest.org/
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SOUL is a social justice organization on the South Side and South Suburbs dedicated to the belief that all people ought to have decent, affordable housing, access to healthy, nutritious food in every neighborhood, a clean environment so our children will be able to breathe the air and drink the water, public transit that allows us to get to job opportunities, a full employment economy so everyone has the opportunity to work, and living wages so people who work full-time do not remain poor. SOUL is working to build a movement to create change, starting on the South Side and South Suburbs. SOUL’s inclusive, multi-generational membership includes religious congregations, affordable housing groups, block clubs, students, and neighborhood groups across the South Side and South Suburbs.
City: Chicago, IL
E-mail: wtanzman@soulinchicago.org
Web: http://www.soulinchicago.org/
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Action NC is a grassroots community organization that empowers low to moderate-income communities to take action and win victories on issues of concern to our communities. Action NC’s mission is to confront and reduce the root causes of poverty, underdevelopment, and social and economic inequality through grassroots education, training, organization and mobilization. Our priorities include: better housing conditions for tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, affordable health care, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, comprehensive immigration reform, and better public schools. We achieve these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes — through community direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
City: Charlotte, North Carolina
E-mail: info@actionnc.org
Web: http://www.soulinchicago.org/
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ACTION United was formed in January, 2010 by former members of PA ACORN and other concerned people in the state. Action United is a membership organization of low and moderate income Pennsylvanians working to build power through organizing communities to win changes on the issues that are important to them. ACTION United was formed to advance the interests of low and moderate income families around Pennsylvania on the issues that are of critical importance to us: economic justice for low income and working families; fair lending practices and a real solution to the foreclosure crisis; good schools; clean air and a safe environment ; and quality affordable health care. Action United’s 35,000 members are organized into 17 neighborhood chapters throughout the state.
City: Philadelphia, PA
E-mail: http://actionunited.org/contact
Web: http://actionunited.org
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The Alliance for a Just Society’s mission is to execute regional and national campaigns and build strong state affiliate organizations and partnerships that address economic, racial, and social inequities. The Alliance (formerly the Northwest Federation of Community Organizations), is a national coalition of eight state-based grassroots community organizations. Our goal is to make the movement stronger by stimulating growth in others and promoting the collective work of our partners. No amount of individual good work will ever transform our society, nor can they equal or replace the efforts that build movement consciousness and capability in others.
City: Seattle, WA
E-mail: info@allianceforajustsociety.org
Web: http://allianceforajustsociety.org
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Arkansas Public Policy Panel is a non-profit organization founded in 1963. Arkansas Public Policy Panel is a state-wide organization dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state, educating and supporting them to be more effective and powerful, and linking them with one another in coalitions and networks. The Panel seeks to bring balance to the public policy process in Arkansas. We work for social justice by helping community people to organize, to grow as leaders, and to influence public policy at the local level and the state level. The Panel provides organizing, training, leader development and strategic planning services.
In addition, the Panel also supports a diverse coalition of community groups and organizations that develop campaigns and lobby at the legislature as the Arkansas Citizens First Congress.
City: Little Rock, AR
E-mail: info@arpanel.org
Web: http://arpanel.org/
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The Granite State Organizing Project is the largest grassroots community organization in New Hampshire. We are comprised of 29 religious, community, and labor organizations, representing 40,000 New Hampshire families. Guided by faith and democratic values, we mobilize our many voices on issue oriented actions, building strong relationships and stronger communities. As the largest grassroots community organization in New Hampshire, GSOP unites to strengthen community members’ voices in decisions that shape their communities by taking issue-oriented actions. By doing so, GSOP broadens and deepens our own organizations’ leadership, builds community, and promotes a just society. The organization strives to create communities in which residents accept, respect, and value one another; justice, equity, and the democratic process are upheld in all interactions.
City: Manchester, New Hampshire
E-mail: Granitestateop@comcast.net
Web: http://www.granitestateorganizing.org
