Abolitionist Law Center
- purpose: a public interest law firm and community organizing project that challenges the criminal punishment system in Pennsylvania
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass
Causes & issues
Innocence Project of Texas
- purpose: dedicated to correcting past injustices, preventing future wrongful convictions, and giving hope to people who feel that they are out of options
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison
- purpose: provides college education, life skills, and reentry support to currently and formerly incarcerated people so they can make a positive impact on their own lives, their families, and communities, resulting in lower rates of recidivism and higher rates of employment, community regeneration, cohesiveness, and reciprocity
- more info: Charity Navigator
Prisoners' Legal Services of New York
- purpose: to provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, help them to secure their civil and human rights and advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Freedom Project
- purpose: works alongside the community to dismantle systems of oppression and heal from the traumatic effects on people who are targeted and impacted by incarceration, on their loved ones, and on our community
- more info: Charity Navigator
Children of Prisoners Europe
- purpose: to safeguard the social, political and judicial inclusion of children with an imprisoned parent, while fostering the pursuit and exchange of knowledge which enhances good practices, and contributes to a better understanding of the psychological, emotional and social development of these children
- more info: GlobalGiving, Wikipedia
Ka Joog
- purpose: to create a better world by providing community-based, culturally specific programs and services to youth and their families through education, the arts, and economic development
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hmong Cultural Center
- purpose: to promote the personal development of children, youth, and adults through education while providing resources that enhance cross-cultural awareness between Hmong and non-Hmong
- more info: Charity Navigator
Tracy's Small Batch Granola
- proceeds fund Urban Gleaners, sells granola
- more info: Urban Gleaners
Bahini Educare Foundation
- purpose: implementing an innovative and all-encompassing program based on provision of the basic needs, education, vocational training, communication and social mobilization for preventing human trafficking
- more info: GlobalGiving
Alwan Foundation
- purpose: to advance LGBT rights in the Middle East with a focus on the Gulf region
- more info: Give OUT Day
Syrian American Medical Society
- purpose: dedicated to delivering life-saving services, revitalizing health systems during crisis, and promoting medical education via a network of humanitarians in Syria, the US, and beyond
- more info: Charity Navigator, GreatNonprofits, Wikipedia
United Palestinian Appeal
- purpose: empowers Palestinians to improve their lives and communities through socially responsible and sustainable programs in health, education, and community and economic development
- more info: Charity Navigator
Karen Hilltribes Trust
- purpose: to partner with Karen communities to improve their health, livelihoods and access to education
- more info: Myriad USA, Fundraising Regulator
The Cambodian Family
- purpose: to promote social health by providing refugee and immigrant families the opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and desires for creating health and well-being in their lives
- more info: Charity Navigator
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota
- purpose: to maintain the identity of Minnesota’s Vietnamese community while addressing the basic economic, education, and health needs of refugees and immigrants statewide while promoting healthy and thriving communities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Saheli
- purpose: to empower South Asian and Arab women and families to lead safe and healthy lives
- more info: Charity Navigator
Asian Health Services
- purpose: to serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee Asian community, and to ensure equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture
- more info: Charity Navigator
American Muslim Senior Society
- purpose: empowers the county's diverse 55+ and caregivers by giving them access to culturally sensitive tools and resources to improve their quality of life and give them the opportunity to live with dignity in their communities
- more info: Spur Local
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank
- purpose: to improve the health and survival of the Pacific Northwest’s most vulnerable infants
- more info: Charity Navigator, HMBANA
Meals on Wheels of Arlington, Virginia
- purpose: delivering meals to homebound residents in Arlington, Virginia
- more info: Charity Navigator
Palestine Action
- purpose: take direct action against Israel’s arms trade in Britain
- more info: Wikipedia
Canaan Palestine
- fair trade business, sells olive oil, spices, and spreads
- more info: Fair Trade Federation, Fair for Life
Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Inc.
- purpose: to offer life-saving services while promoting violence-free, equitable relationships and creating the social changes necessary to end domestic and dating violence
- more info: Charity Navigator, Nonprofits First
New River Conservancy
- purpose: to protect the waters, woodlands, and wildlife
- more info: Charity Navigator, Land Trust Alliance
Waggle
- purpose: to ensure the lives of pets are not cut short because a pet owner or rescue is without the necessary funds to cover the cost of medical care
- more info: Charity Navigator
DC Jobs With Justice
- purpose: dedicated to protecting the rights of working people, supporting community struggles, and promoting racial justice to build a more just society
- more info: Charity Navigator
Association for Dalit Women Advancement of Nepal (ADWAN)
- purpose: to bring Dalit women into the mainstream of state governing mechanism by empowering and sensitizing them to establish human right, democracy, sustainable peace and equitable society
- more info: GlobalGiving
Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes
- purpose: provide pasteurized donor human milk to premature and critically ill babies, distribute donor milk to outpatients, and support donor families, including those who are donating after loss
- more info: Charity Navigator, Human Milk Banking Association of North America
The Billie Holiday Theatre
- purpose: to provide audiences with complete and authentic portrayals of the experiences of people of African descent across the world
- more info: Charity Navigator, Giving Compass