Equity Action Plan Pre-Qualified Organizations Fund

We the Protesters Inc

We The Protesters is a national organization focused on ending racism and police violence in the United States. Since 2015, we’ve built the most comprehensive database of police violence in the nation, used the data to identify effective policy solutions and supported movement organizers to enact these policies at every level of government.

Website: http://www.wetheprotesters.org/

Urban League Of Portland

Our mission is to empower African Americans and other Oregonians to achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Website: https://ulpdx.org/

Tides Center

The Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and policy initiatives in areas such as the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and human rights.

Website: https://www.tides.org/

The Justice and Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco

The Justice & Diversity Center advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.

Website: https://www.sfbar.org/jdc/

Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.

Website: https://www.splcenter.org/

Ryse Inc

RYSE creates safe spaces grounded in social justice that build youth power for young people to love, learn, educate, heal and transform lives and communities.

Website: https://rysecenter.org/

NAACP Empowerment Programs, Inc.

Founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. We have over 2,200 units and branches across the nation, along with well over 2M activists. Our mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Website: https://www.naacp.org/

Jackie Robinson Foundation, Inc.

Founded in 1973 by Rachel Robinson, the Foundation has advanced higher education by providing generous, multi-year scholarship awards coupled with a comprehensive set of support services to highly motivated JRF Scholars and Extra Innings Fellows attending colleges and universities throughout the country.

Website: https://www.jackierobinson.org/

Equal Justice Initiative

EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Website: https://eji.org/

Dream.Org

The Dream Corps brings people together to solve America's toughest problems. We back initiatives that close prison doors and open doors of opportunity for all. We are reshaping "what's possible" in the field of social justice.

Website: https://www.thedreamcorps.org/

Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth

Coleman Advocates believes that all children and families deserve access to high quality education, living wage jobs, family-supporting benefits, affordable housing, and a voice in the decisions that affect us. Since 1975, Coleman Advocates has pioneered programs and policies to expand opportunity for San Francisco’s children, youth and families, Many of these hard-won programs and policies have served as models adopted by communities all over the country.

Website: https://colemanadvocates.org/

Black Artists & Designers Guild Inc

BADG is building a more equitable and inclusive creative culture by advancing a community of independent Black artists, makers and designers in creative industries. We are committed to honoring our ancestral legacy in design, by taking ownership of our narrative, and by creating spaces to celebrate Black excellence and culture in design.

Website: https://www.badguild.info/

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon

The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) is a statewide, grassroots organization, uniting Asians and Pacific Islanders to achieve social justice. We use our collective strengths to advance equity through empowering, organizing and advocating with our communities.

Website: https://www.apano.org/

American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Foundation

Founded in 1952 as the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Minnesota continues to promote, protect, and extend the civil liberties and civil rights of people in Minnesota through litigation, lobbying, and community engagement.

Website: https://www.aclu-mn.org/en

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Of Northern California

The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) is an enduring guardian of justice, fairness, equality, and freedom, working to protect and advance civil liberties for all Californians. The ACLU-NC has been the leading champion of civil liberties in our state.

Website: https://www.aclunc.org/home

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.

For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

Whether it’s achieving full equality for LGBT people, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age of widespread government surveillance, ending mass incarceration, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.

Website: https://www.aclu.org/