Stakeholders

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a nonprofit civil rights organization operating nationally since 1991. Their mission is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans, in addition to working towards a fair and equitable society for all Americans. The work of AAJC spans education, litigation, and public policy. They provide localized services such as legal aid and advocacy to help empower the Asian American community, and aims to increase visibility by advocating for family immigration and ensuring accurate census counts.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a national organization working to protect and promote the civil rights of Asian Americans. Founded in 1947, the organization focuses on critical issues including immigrant rights, voting rights and democracy, economic justice for workers, and more. Their outreach spans litigation, education, and policy. AALDEF litigates cases that impact the Asian American community, in addition to providing education on legal rights, organizing free legal advice clinics and commenting on proposed legislation and public policy.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization[6][7] founded in 1920 “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States”. The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases when it considers civil liberties to be at risk. Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments when another law firm is already providing representation.

Brennan Center

The Brennan Center for Justice is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that combines the elements of a think tank, a legal advocacy group, and a communications hub. Their programs focus on democracy, criminal justice, securing the balance of power, and protecting fundamental freedoms.The policy reforms it has developed have helped form a new agenda for reform in states and nationally.

Center for Popular Democracy

The Center for Popular Democracy works to promote equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with innovative base-building organizations, organizing networks and alliances, and progressive unions across the country. We currently work with more than 53 affiliates in 34 states and Puerto Rico, and build the strength and capacity of democratic organizations to envision and advance a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda. We are a rapidly-expanding, changing organization that partners with organizations across the country to build political power and win tangible victories that improve the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, and communities of color.

The Center for Urban Research (CUR)

The Center for Urban Research (CUR) mobilizes researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center to undertake basic research addressing the issues facing New York and other large cities. We also undertake applied research for public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other clients, train students in research techniques, and organize forums on urban policy issues.

Change Illinois

CHANGE Illinois is a nonpartisan nonprofit that researches, educates, advocates and engages Illinoisans in the fight for improved ethics and efficiency in government and elections. Based in Chicago, CHANGE Illinois leads the Illinois Redistricting Collaborative, a growing group of people, organizations and community groups working to achieve independent, equitable and transparent remapping in both Chicago and Illinois. CHANGE is supporting the creation of a Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission to advance the creation of a ward map for Chicago, by Chicago residents. CHANGE Illinois also is a steering committee member of the Just Democracy Illinois collaborative that worked to see automatic voter registration approved, helped advance census efforts and educated residents about safe voting options during the pandemic.

Common Cause

Common Cause is a watchdog group based in Washington, DC with chapters in 30 states. They work at both the state and local level to win pragmatic, common sense solutions and build a national movement to protect and strengthen democracy. Their work focuses on ensuring that every vote counts, that every eligible voter has an equal say, that our elections represent the will of the people, and that the government is of, by, and for the people.

GeoCivics

GeoCivics, a project of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, provides interactive tools and practices to prepare people to advocate for fair districts in their states. These educational resources support students, teachers, and community members as they engage in conversation about prioritizing the criteria guiding construction of electoral districts and in understanding the geospatial technology platforms used to map districts. Paying attention to where lines are drawn, by whom, and under what circumstances informs how people are governed. Making historic, geographic, and technical materials widely available allows more voices to participate in this process, with the expectation that electoral districts will reflect everyone in the community.

Latino Justice

LatinoJustice PRLDEF works to create a more just society by using and challenging the rule of law to secure transformative, equitable and accessible justice, by empowering our community and by fostering leadership through advocacy and education. For more than 40 years, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has acted as an advocate against injustices throughout New York and beyond.

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a civil rights organization dedicated to fighting racial and ethnic discimination. They formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to enlist the aid and resources of private lawyers in fighting racial discrimination in the courts. They engage in a variety of legal campaigns, ranging from criminal justice to voting rights.

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is one of the nation’s leading Latino civil rights organizations. It is committed to protecting and defending the rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans.

NAACP LDF

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit civil and human rights law firm founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Their mission has been transformative—to achieve racial justice, the recognition of human dignity, equality, and an inclusive society. LDF’s litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education programs in the substantive areas of political participation, criminal justice, economic justice, and education, seek to ensure the fundamental and basic human rights of all people to the right to vote and fully participate in democracy, a fair and just judicial system, economic opportunity, and quality education.

Native American Rights Fund

Since 1970,The Native American Rights Fund has provided legal assistance to Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide who might otherwise have gone without adequate representation. NARF has successfully asserted and defended the most important rights of Indians and tribes in hundreds of major cases, and has achieved significant results in such critical areas as tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, natural resource protection, and Indian education. NARF is a non-profit 501c(3) organization that focuses on applying existing laws and treaties to guarantee that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations.

National Congress of American Indians

The National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities. NCAI, a non-profit organization, advocates for a bright future for generations to come by taking the lead to gain consensus on a constructive and promising vision for Indian Country.

New York Law School New York Census and Redistricting Institute

The New York Law School New York Census and Redistricting Institute advises the public, organizations, and government officials on best practices and strategies on federal, state, and local redistricting processes as well as how to learn about and work with federal census data. It also serves as a “New York State hub,” providing information, assistance, and guidance on current activity in Albany and across the state. The Institute partners with organizations involved with redistricting to provide them with technical guidance and assistance on the law, legislative process, and mapping. It offers briefings, educational materials, and training to members of the U.S. Congress, State Legislature, local governments, the media, and organizations on all aspects of redistricting. It also provides resources, education, and training programs on new state election laws, such as the John R. Lewis state voting rights act, and on how to learn about and work with census data throughout the decade.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative

Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) is a grassroots people-centered power organization. We unite base-building community organizing groups, student associations and faith organizations, with labor unions, and policy institutes throughout Ohio. It is our mission to organize everyday Ohioans, building transformative power organizations for racial, social, and economic justice. Our vision is to build a democratic multi-racial populist governing coalition in Ohio.

Orange County Civic Engagement Table

Orange County Civic Engagement Table is a progressive AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmental Justice Alliance that seeks to build transformation by serving low income immigrant Latinx and Asian American communities work on issues of immigrant, economic, and racial justice across the county. The OCCET is dedicated to increase the quality, scale, and effectiveness of civic participation in communities of color and among low-income populations in Orange County.

Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a nonprofit organization founded by a multidisciplinary, predominantly people of color group striving to provide a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers, and media specialists to support families and communities engaged in social justice struggles. This is achieved through a combination of legal advocacy, research, organizing, and communications.

Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people. Our issues include hate and extremism, children’s rights, immigrant justice, LGBTQ rights, economic justice, criminal justice reform, and voting rights.

State Voices

State Voices network consists of a group of multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural communities of advocates, activists, and organizers committed to building people power to transform communities. The network of nonpartisan state coalitions works with grassroots organizations to bring underrepresented and marginalized populations to the center of public discourse on top of providing access to enhanced data and tools through the Tools For All program.

Virginia Public Access Project

Virginia Public Access Project elevates public understanding of politics and government by organizing and presenting information in ways that are easily accessible and free of partisan bias. VPAP is fiercely nonpartisan. They do not lobby or take positions on issues. Their singular focus is to give Virginians information they need to make their own decisions.