National Partners

A Call to Men: National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women
A Call To Men is a leading national men's organization addressing men's violence against women and the eradication of sexism, while maintaining strong coalitions with women's organizations already doing this important work. We help to organize communities in order to raise awareness and get men involved in ending violence against women.

American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
The AACC is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's community colleges. The association represents 1,100 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions and more than 10 million students.

American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions and cultures.

Americans for Informed Democracy
AID fulfills its mission by coordinating town hall meetings on America's role in the world, hosting leadership retreats and publishing opinion pieces and reports on issues of global importance .

Amnesty International
Amnesty International has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Boys and Girls Clubs seek to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. A Boys and Girls Club provides a safe place to learn and grow, ongoing relationships with caring adult professionals, life-enhancing programs, character development experiences, hope and opportunity.

Campus Contact
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents—representing some six million students—dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service-learning in higher education.

Center for American Progress / Campus Progress
The Center for American Progress is a progressive think-tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We are creating a long-term, progressive vision for Americaóa vision that policy makers, thought-leaders and activists can use to shape the national debate and pass laws that make a difference. Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses and to empower new progressive leaders nationwide.

Center for Family Policy and Practice
The Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFFPP) is a nationally-focused public policy organization conducting policy research, technical assistance, training, litigation and public education in order to focus attention on the barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics and CultureóUniversity of Chicago
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting engaged scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity particularly how these ideas and their structural manifestations impact and shape peopleís daily lives.

Center for the Study of Sport in Society
The Center for the Study of Sport in Society utilizes the power and appeal of sport, working locally, nationally and globally to identify and address social problems in sport and in society. We conduct research, develop programs that offer solutions and educate and advocate on the emerging issues.

Common Cause
Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.

Critical Resistance
A national grassroots organization committed to ending societyís use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems, Critical Resistance believes that basic necessities such as food, shelter and freedom are what really make communities secure.

Declare Yourself
Declare Yourself is a nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign founded by award-winning producer Norman Lear, targeting all 18 year olds to register to vote in the 2008 presidential election.

Democracia
Democracia U.S.A. is a national nonpartisan Hispanic civic engagement program that seeks to increase the prominence and participation of Hispanics in the American democratic process through empowerment, leadership training and civic participation.

Demos
Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action is a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals.

The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) is a membership-driven organization that serves persons with all forms of dystonia. The DMRF has funded over 400 medical research investigations, provides awareness and educational resources and sponsors support groups throughout North America.

Family Violence Prevention Fund
The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) works to prevent violence within the home and in the community and to help those whose lives are devastated by violence. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe places for everyone to learn, grow and succeed whether or not they fit stereotypes for masculinity and femininity. The GenderYOUTH Network empowers youth leaders to build safer classrooms and communities where all youth can learn, grow and succeed, whether or not they conform to expectations for masculinity and femininity.

Global Fund for Children
The Global Fund for Childrenís (GFC) mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC makes small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the worldís most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live.

Hate Free Zone
Hate Free Zone's mission is to advance the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building power within immigrant communities, in collaboration with key allies.

Idealist
Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
The ILRC is a national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, they train lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. ILRC develops leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. HRW stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime and to bring offenders to justice.

International Child Resource Center
Helping children play and grow, the International Child Resource Center is an international organization committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout the world, enabling them to survive and succeed.

Just Think!
Just Think! (JT) is a leader in media education in America. JT teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. JT develops and delivers innovative programs and cutting-edge curricula emphasizing the professional training of educators in the area of media skills, literacy and scholarship.

Ms. Foundation for Women
The Ms. Foundation supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. Through its leadership, expertise and financial support, the Foundation champions an equitable society by effecting change in public consciousness, law, philanthropy and social policy.

National Black Law Students Association
The National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), the largest student-run organization in America, has over 200 chapters at law schools throughout the country. This represents almost every ABA accredited law school, plus several non-accredited law schools. These chapters represent over 6,000 black law students in six regions, which encompass 48 states including Hawaii and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

National Hip Hop Political Convention
The National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a developing national organization operating in 20 states throughout the U.S. working on issues facing the hip-hop generation. Our keystone event, the bi-annual National Hip Hop Political Convention, supports the movement towards increased civic and political participation within the hip-hop generation.

National Womenís Alliance
The National Womenís Alliance (NWA) is a community-driven, national advocacy organization dedicated to ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls of color. NWA envisions a world where the lives of women and girls of color are free from violence, have a full range of reproductive and sexual health options and achieve racial and economic equality.

Oxfam America
Forty percent of the people on our planetómore than 2.5 billionónow live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 a day. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization working to change that. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty and fights for social justice.

Media Tank
Media Tank is a nonprofit organization working to develop new ways to open up debate and build public awareness around media issues in order to engage the public in creating a more democratic media system.

Pax Christi
Pax Christi USA strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice and respect for creation.

Search for Common Ground
Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflictóaway from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. We work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice and alternatives to incarceration.

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is a national organization advancing the interests of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans through leadership development, capacity building and community empowerment.

Sports Leadership Institute ñ Adelphi University
The Sports Leadership Institute (SLI) was founded on the principle that sports, physical education and athletics are part of a comprehensive educational experience, providing innumerable opportunities to teach valuable life lessons. SLI leverages the powerful influence that sports have on our culture to provide proactive and innovative programs addressing myriad social issues, while working to return the positive, educational and fun experience to all sport participants.

Transfair USA
TransFair USA is one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO) and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between U.S. companies offering Fair Trade Certifiedô products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price.

United Nations Association
UNA is a membership-based organization whose mission is to reach out to national and local citizens, opinion leaders and our government to educate, mobilize and inspire Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, to strengthen the United Nations system, to promote constructive United States leadership in that system and to achieve the goals of the UN Charter.

United Students Against SweatshopsóSLU Affiliate
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights. USAS defines ìsweatshopî broadly and recognizes that it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us.

Uth TV
Uth TV fosters opportunities for young mediamakers to have their authentic voices heard by a vast audience. UthTV.com is an online community for creators of all levels to share their original work.

Whole Foods
Founded in 1980 as one small store in Austin, TX, Whole Foods MarketÆ is now the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with 187 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. To date, Whole Foods Market remains uniquely mission driven: it is highly selective about what is sold, dedicated to stringent quality standards and committed to sustainable agriculture.

Women of Color Resource Center
The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.

World Savvy
World Savvy's mission is to inform, empower and engage young people to become active and responsible lifelong participants in a global community. World Savvy aims to educate youth about international affairs and build their skills for "global citizenship" so that they become well-informed and responsible citizens.

Youth Movement Records
Youth Movement Records (YMR) is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project based in Oakland, California. Launched in 2003, YMR has reached over 15,000 youth with more than 100 safe, sober weekend events. YMR has engaged over 500 youth directly in producing four original CDís, planning and creating performances and giving youth the opportunity to gain and sharpen professional and life skills.

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