Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California (KIWA)

Mission

KIWA is one of the first and most well-established worker centers in the United States. A multi-racial, multi-industry worker center based in central Los Angeles, KIWA's mission is to build the power of immigrant workers and residents and to organize a grassroots leadership to transform our workplaces and communities, in Los Angeles and beyond.

Chin Human Rights Organization US

Mission

1) To provide accurate and reliable information about the human rights situation facing Chin and marginalized communities in Myanmar2) To protect and promote human rights and democratic principles3) To empower people to defend and promote their human rights

Energy Independence Now

Mission

EIN is an environmental nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and harmful particulate matter from the transportation sector by advancing clean hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

Kasem Cares Inc.

Mission

To educate the public and raise awareness about the dangers of elder abuse.

Praxis Peace Institute

Mission

Hosting peace education forums, peace conferences, workshops in conflict resolution and study-seminars abroad.

Senhoa Foundation

Mission

To support vulnerable persons and survivors of human trafficking through prevention, rehabilitation and advocacy programs.

Women S Center for Creative Work

Mission

The Women's Center for Creative Work is a volunteer-run not-for-profit organization. Your donations help us pay rent at our work center, support our artists in residence, and continue to provide free and low cost programming to our community of creative professional women in Los Angeles.

Balanced View

Mission

Balanced View is a global movement dedicated to the power of awareness as the basis for a world of friendly, happy, creative, cooperative and productive people.

Exodus Cry

Mission

Break the cycle of exploitation and help those sold for sex because every person should be free.

Lady Freethinker (LFT)

Mission

Animals can’t speak out to tell the world of their suffering. But you can. With our voice and our actions, we can evolve into a peaceful, compassionate and flourishing world – for every species.

National Center For Lesbian Rights

Mission

Mission: NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education. Our Impact: NCLR’s legal, policy, and legislative victories set important precedents that improve the lives of all LGBTQ people and their families across the country. Our free legal assistance empowers individuals to assert their own legal rights. Our community and public education broadens public support for LGBTQ equality. Projects and Legal Issue Areas Include: Asylum & Immigration; Elders; Employment; Family & Relationships; Federal Legislation & Policy; State Legislation & Policy; Hate Crimes; Healthcare; Housing; Low Income & Poverty; Prisons; and more.

VoteAmerica

Mission

VoteAmerica uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy.

VoteRiders

Mission

VoteRiders’ mission is to ensure that no eligible voter is prevented from casting a ballot that counts due to voter ID laws, either directly from lack of acceptable ID or indirectly because of voter confusion.

San Francisco CASA

Mission

SFCASA's mission is to transform the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each child’s needs in the court and community. SFCASA’s vision is that every child and youth is in a safe and loving home, and has equitable access to the resources, community support, and opportunities they need to thrive.

ACLU Foundation of Southern California

Mission

The ACLU Foundation of Southern California's (ACLU SoCal) mission is to ensure that all persons are afforded the equality, liberty, and justice guaranteed to them in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Through our integrated approach of community education, advocacy, and litigation, we challenge unconstitutional and unjust policies and practices. We focus our resources on those whose rights are consistently denied or compromised including people of color, women, immigrants, the poor, members of minority religions, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, unhoused people, incarcerated people, and other marginalized groups. With offices in Los Angeles, Orange County the Inland Empire, and Kern County, ACLU SoCal has been serving Southern California since 1923.

Life Legal Defense Foundation

Mission

The mission of Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) is to give innocent and helpless human beings of any age, particularly children in the womb, a trained and committed defense against the threat of death, and to support their advocates in the nation's courtrooms. Life Legal will accomplish its mission through the law and education.

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GLAAD Inc.

Mission

GLAAD is the world's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means to build a culture that embraces full acceptance of the LGBT community, thereby eliminating homophobia, transphobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Advocacy Inc.

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide the highest level of advocacy and rights protection for client issues concerning long-term care, quality of life and mental health facilities placement guidelines and procedures.

Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law

Mission

To protect and further the legal, civil, human, and constitutional rights of immigrants, refugees, children, indigenous peoples, and the indigent through the provision of technical support to non-profit legal services programs including litigation support, advocacy support, training, information distribution and policy analysis.