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SC Appleseed works to safeguard all immigrants’ rights, collaborating with state agencies to ensure that no unnecessary hurdles prevent immigrants from realizing the protections afforded by our laws. We also provide education and advocacy to our state’s legislative delegations on immigrants’ rights and the need for comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level. SC Appleseed gives special attention to the plight of immigrant children, who in many cases are here through no decision or effort of their own, but under current law have no path to citizenship and its benefits. These efforts include advocating for policy improvements through the Children’s Justice Act Task Force, a committee of the Children’s Law Center at USC School of Law, and providing training to the South Carolina Guardian ad Litem Program.

The mission of Good Shepherd Food Bank is to eliminate hunger in Maine by improving access to nutritious food for people in need, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public in the fight to end hunger.

The Mott Haven-Port Morris section of the South Bronx is a peninsula completely surrounded by highways, fossil fuel power plants, waste transfer stations, subsidized diesel truck-intensive facilities and an 850 acre significant maritime industrial area, the largest in New York City and a significant portion of which is public land. Our local AMI is $22,471; 49% of our children live in poverty; our asthma rate is eight times the national average; and we have the lowest rates per capita of access to green space (and no waterfront access at all). Rather than assistance and efforts to mitigate the life threatening impact of environmental injustice, our community continues to receive the fallout of windfall corporate subsidies incentivizing diesel truck-intensive business to relocate to our community (e.g., FreshDirect), renewal of permits to operate (what was supposed to be temporary) four fossil fuel power plants (New York Power Authority), increases to the capacity handled at two waste transfer stations along our waterfront, and no storm surge mitigation plan for our toxic, industry-lined, waterfront despite plans put forth by the community in collaboration with a range of universities, including MIT, UPenn, and Pratt, among others), and a New York State prioritized (but non-implemented) Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan.

SOUL (Sustaining Our Urban Landscape) is driving a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans by reforesting our urban landscape. They also work on advocacy projects.

Our clients in Detroit, where 16 percent of residents live in poverty, face a cold and impersonal bail regime. Arraignments happen over video conferencing, and judges do not typically ask about a person’s ability to pay bail. Statewide, the governor’s office has convened a taskforce to study the implementation of pretrial incarceration reform, but it appears that lawmakers want to increase investments in electronic monitoring. We’re working with the Detroit Justice Center to navigate this political landscape and connect with clients who need our services.

The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is a non-profit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities. We are committed to individual and collective liberation—and recognize the two as inseparable. We are committed to democratizing access to the law. We regard clients as partners in our mission. Rather than serving as gatekeepers, we aim to share tools so that people can understand, navigate, and transform disempowering systems.

Global Girls is a youth engagement and performing arts organization empowering African American girls and women primarily on Chicago’s south side. Focusing on arts education and presentation, social/emotional and leadership development, we facilitate school-based and after school programs, work with youth in partnership with other organizations, conduct parent and professional development workshops and present participant-driven theatre.

THE SOLUTIONS NOT PUNISHMENT COLLABORATIVE IS A BLACK, TRANS-LED, BROAD BASED COLLABORATIVE TO RESTORE AN ATLANTA WHERE EVERY PERSON HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND THRIVE WITHOUT FACING UNFAIR BARRIERS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM. We envision a vibrant, radically inclusive metro Atlanta where all our people are safe and free, and have the opportunity to live and thrive as their authentic selves. Includes the TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN FUND, which provides direct financial support for trans folks navigating personal emergencies.

Global Detroit is a regional economic and community development organization. We develop and implement immigrant-inclusive strategies to drive the growth, revitalization and broadly shared prosperity of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. We have organized our work around five key program areas: Talent, Entrepreneurship, Opportunity Neighborhoods, Inclusive Institutions and Research.

A community and mentoring program that uses running as a vehicle for setting and achieving seemingly impossible goals.