Creating a Multicultural Nation Without Racism
Ending racism requires the efforts of many people and organizations. All of our work can benefit from mutual sharing and support.
We encourage you to use the Directory to connect with others doing similar work.
You are invited to add your organization to the Ending Racism USA Directory.
If you have changes to an existing listing, please contact us.
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Asian Americans United empowers Asian Americans in Philadelphia to exercise leadership in their communities and come together to challenge oppression.
Type of Organization: Charitable, Nonprofit Organization, Social Advocacy
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Collective Climb is a Black feminist organization empowering Philly teens as world makers & Restorative Justice circle keepers. It's Black joy, security, and freedom, always.
Type of Organization: Charitable, Education, Nonprofit Organization, Social Advocacy
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Conversations on Racial Justice and Reconciliation is a faith based group within Christ the King Episcopal Church in Arvada, CO. We have been meeting twice monthly for two years. We read, study, learn, share and converse. Our goal is to be active and aware of every opportunity to end racism and racist policies in our community and beyond.
Type of Organization: Religious
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Ending Racism USA is a community of people who believe that the United States of America must end racism to survive. We are committed to making it happen.
Type of Organization: Nonprofit Organization
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Find Your Purpose Inc. aspires to elevate and empower individuals of all ages through mentorship, experiential learning, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Type of Organization: Education
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Free Migration Project works at the intersection of law and community organizing to promote freedom of movement as a basic human right.
We envision a world where free movement of people is the legal, social, and cultural norm. We call for a human right to migrate and the abolition of deportation.
Type of Organization: Charitable, Nonprofit Organization, Political Advocacy, Social Advocacy
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Students for the Preservation of Chinatown (SPOC) came to life in the wake of the organizers who laid the foundations of community investment and activism in Chinatown. The generations before us had not only fought and won against previous attempts of predatory development from the Vine Street Expressway to the Phillies Stadium and Foxwoods Casino, but they had stayed and built the institutions in Chinatown in place of where these developments would have been. These community centered and led institutions, including the Folks-Arts Cultural Treasures School and Asian Arts Initiative, continue to nourish generations of young advocates like SPOC that had the support, relationships, and knowledge to continue the legacy of community activism.
While student mobilization and opposing the arena are important, we believed that it was our role models and Chinatown institutions who encouraged and instilled trust in our capabilities and agency as young people. In a city where youth face the burden of school budget cuts, are increasingly policed, and neglected, we offer an alternative vision through Ginger Arts’ investment and empowerment of young people. Youth in Philadelphia have increasingly fewer spaces to gather and to be in community. With the decrease of public funding to spaces such as our schools, libraries, recreation and community centers, we as youth are expressing our demands to cultivate these third spaces by us and for us. While the Ginger Arts Center seeks to amplify AAPI histories and identities, we hope to cultivate a space that can be inclusive of all young people, and the diverse and intersectional identities they embody.
We are deeply committed to working in solidarity with grassroot community organizations and groups that serve historically marginalized communities across our city. Located in the heart of our city, Chinatown is cherished as a cultural treasure and a predominantly working class, immigrant neighborhood that brings together people of all racial, ethnic, linguistic, and generational backgrounds. For Ginger Arts Center, it is a priority and ongoing goal to build stronger relationships with community organizations that work with youth across the city. For example, we have cultivated partnerships with youth leaders in the People’s Townhomes, JUNTOS and VietLead, who work with Black, Latinx and Southeast Asian communities respectively. Through shared participation and support of each other’s work and future collaborative projects or events, we hope to cultivate youth power that spans across communities.
As an organization, SPOC formed in response to the proposed arena in Chinatown, and always seeks to work in alignment with the greater Save Chinatown Coalition. Similarly, one of the Ginger Arts Center’s main goals is to be responsive to the needs of our community and the youth who come through our space. Ginger Arts aims to cultivate a collaborative, inclusive space where young people can come to be in community, learn alongside each other, make art, and dream. Our goal is to equip another generation of young people with the history, mentorship, and confidence to feel empowered to advocate for their community. Ginger Arts will host free programming on community organizing, art, oral history, and cultural preservation. As a collective, we deeply value intergenerational learning, and we hope to always center our own elders and activists as we learn how to collectively build youth power. This type of intergenerational learning centers a horizontal approach to working alongside each other, where we hope youth who come to Ginger Arts Center can be invited to participate and lead in ways that resonate with them.
In the upcoming year, we hope to have regular programming throughout the year that will include film screenings and conversations, community-engaged teach-ins, art workshops, and an ongoing oral histories project. Each month, we seek to partner with a different organization and group to intentionally amplify their work. As an example, when we partner with Viet Lead, we hope to screen their wonderful docu-series, “Taking Root”, and lead teach-ins that focus on issues related to immigration rights, documentation status, and deportation countless members of the Southeast Asian community and members of the immigrant diaspora face broadly.
Type of Organization: Arts and Entertainment, Education, Social Advocacy
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Grace and Race Ministries, Inc. is an ecumenical ministry developed to equip and empower participants to provide leadership to help foster racial understanding, healing and reconciliation. Reconciliation requires an individual willingness to be transformed.
The scripture reference for this ministry is found in 2 Corinthians 5:20-21: “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled…”
The grace of God empowers us to do great things. The “church” has the opportunity to help strengthen our communities by increasing the attention given to racial understanding, healing and reconciliation as a means to live out our Christian beliefs. Two fundamental understandings inform the ministry: (1) Race, gender and power must all be addressed in the ongoing process of moving toward racial understanding and reconciliation, (2) reconciliation is never possible without truth.
Type of Organization: Nonprofit Organization, Religious
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: We are a local community group in Southern Maine, whose purpose is: To identify racial bias in ourselves, challenge racial injustice, and work together to build a more inclusive community.
Type of Organization: Social Advocacy
Focus, Purpose, or Goal: Through participatory public art, Mural Arts Philadelphia inspires change in people, place, and practice, creating opportunity for a more just and equitable Philadelphia.
Type of Organization: Arts and Entertainment, Education, Nonprofit Organization