Movement Building

American Friends Service Committee

The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine.

Featured issues include: economic justice in the U.S., Iraq campaign, Immigrants Rights, LGBT Rights and Recognition, Paletinian-Israeli Conflict, Toward a New Africa, Trade Matters, and Voter Information.

View information about the programs at AFSC's Seattle office.

Rockridge Institute

The mission of the Rockridge Institute is to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society.

Rockridge works to reframe the public debate, tell the progressive story in moral terms, build links, advance public policies, and nurture a unified voice.

Project South

Project South creates popular education to build grassroots leaders. Project South provides opportunities for organizers to learn and develop movement building tools. Project South strives to build a stronger movement for social and economic justice by connecting local organizing efforts to consciousness, vision, and strategy.

National Interfaith Committee of Worker Justice

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Center for Community Change

The Center for Community Change is a progressive social justice organization whose central project is to support the emergence of one or more movements for social and economic justice in the U.S. The Center strives to transform the national debate and national politics as well as the institutions, economic systems and policies that affect low-income people and working class people, especially people of color.

Campaign for Communities

Campaign for Communities is a joint coalition of Earth Day Network, NAACP National Voter Fund, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and Project Vote/ACORN. This historic coalition is committed to a long-term project building healthy communities through participatory democracy. As a new coalition representing the multiple cultures and demographics of America, Campaign for Communities is focused on fully engaging and uniting the interests of environmental and community development problems that persist in our communities.

Apollo Alliance

The Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities in support of good jobs and energy independence. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and 23 international labor unions as well as a majority of national environmental organizations. The Alliance is developing public education campaigns and communications strategies to link allies and build a new national constituency for a bold, broad based, and immediate program of public policy to achieve energy independence.

Independent Progressive Politics Network

The Independent Progressive Politics Network is composed of organizations and individuals committed to the achievement of a national, non-sectarian, independent progressive political party, or an alliance of such parties, as an alternative to the corporate-controlled, Democratic/Republican system. Organizations that join the IPPN maintain their independence while coordinating with other IPPN groups to the extent they find appropriate.
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