Homes Not Borders
- purpose: to provide refugees and other forced migrants in the D.C. area with what they need to thrive and feel at home in the United States
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local
Bristol Refugee Rights
- purpose: works primarily with asylum seekers and new refugees in the Bristol area
- more info: Charity Commission, Fundraising Regulator
Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
- purpose: to foster and strengthen the civic participation, economic, social and cultural development, as well as the resistance of the indigenous communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
The Guatemalan-Maya Center
- purpose: to foster a nurturing, stable and culturally diverse environment to empower those victimized by violence to seek justice and to build community
- more info: Charity Navigator, Nonprofits First
PARS Equality Center
- purpose: to catalyze social, civic, and economic integration of immigrants from Persian-speaking and other underrepresented communities into American society
- more info: Charity Navigator
AsylumWorks
- purpose: empowers asylum seekers and other immigrants fleeing violence to rebuild their lives in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, and provides expert tools and training to increase the effectiveness of immigrant-serving organizations nationwide
- more info: Charity Navigator, Spur Local
Japan Association for Refugees
- purpose: to give refugees who have come to Japan the support they need to overcome their difficult situation by their own strength and live with hope for a better future, and to improve the legal system and social environment of refugees in Japan
- more info: CAF America
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- purpose: to work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people
- more info: Charity Navigator, Media Bias/Fact Check
7 Star Horse Therapy
- purpose: to enhance the lives of individuals through equine-assisted therapy
- more info: Charity Navigator, PATH International
Braille Institute
- purpose: to positively transform the lives of those with vision loss
- more info: Charity Navigator
Culmore Clinic
- purpose: a nonprofit healthcare clinic offering free, compassionate, culturally-sensitive medical care, counseling, and specialty referrals to uninsured adults in the Falls Church, VA area
- more info: Spur Local, Charity Navigator
Arts for the Aging
- purpose: to engage older adults and caregivers with diverse abilities and backgrounds in health improvement and life enhancement through regular participation in the multidisciplinary arts
- more info: Spur Local
Adopt-A-Native-Elder
- purpose: to help reduce extreme poverty and hardship facing traditional Elders living on the Navajo Reservation
- more info: Charity Navigator
LYRIC Center for LGBTQQ+ Youth
- purpose: to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities
- more info: CenterLink, Charity Navigator
CHAMP Assistance Dogs
- purpose: to improve and enhance life skills and promote companionship through the placement of specially selected service dogs with qualified individuals, and further, to always celebrate the mystery and joy inherent in the canine/human bond
- more info: BBB Charity, Charity Navigator, Assistance Dogs International
Electronic Frontier Foundation
- purpose: to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world
- more info: Charity Navigator, Media Bias/Fact Check, SourceWatch
Hepatitis Education Project
- purpose: to make viral hepatitis less deadly
- more info: Charity Navigator
AIDS Alabama South
- purpose: dedicated to eliminating new HIV infections and improving the health and well-being of people living with HIV through inclusive and empowering support services and HIV prevention education
- more info: Charity Navigator
Cancer Support Community Los Angeles
- purpose: to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care
- more info: Charity Navigator
The Brigid Alliance
- purpose: supports people who must travel long distances for abortion care
- more info: Charity Navigator
Visual AIDS
- purpose: utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over
- more info: Charity Navigator
Anchor Health Initiative
- purpose: to embrace and promote the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and gender diverse individuals through compassionate, comprehensive, and science-based care in a safe, welcoming, and affirming space
- more info: Charity Navigator
Sikh Women's Aid
- purpose: to act as a stimulus to develop lasting positive change by actively challenging harmful belief systems and practices that act as the root cause of all forms of abuse within the Sikh and Panjabi community
- more info: Fundraising Regulator
Partners for Clean Streams
- purpose: striving for abundant open space and a high quality natural environment; adequate floodwater storage capacities and flourishing wildlife; stakeholders who take local ownership in their resources; and rivers, streams and lakes that are clean, clear and safe
- more info: Charity Navigator
Free Mom Hugs
- purpose: empowering the world to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community through visibility, education, and conversation
- more info: Charity Navigator
Bamyan Foundation
- purpose: dedicated to promoting and providing support in the following key areas: 1). Education and Humanitarian Aid Initiatives in the marginalized and persecuted Hazara communities in Afghanistan; 2). Community Development efforts to support the Hazara diaspora and the new evacuees in the United States; 3) Hazara refugees scattered around the world; and 4) Our priority is to support women and girls in said three key areas
- more info: GlobalGiving
She's the First
- purpose: teams up with grassroots leaders to make sure girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hindus for Human Rights
- purpose: provide a Hindu voice of resistance to caste, Hindutva (Hindu nationalism), racism, and all forms of bigotry and oppression
- more info: Wikipedia
Jewish Voice for Peace
- purpose: organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people
- more info: Charity Navigator
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
- purpose: to amplify the voices of Canadian Jews in support of justice in Israel-Palestine and at home
- more info: Wikipedia