Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR)
AEHR provides legal services, community organizing support, public education, and advocacy campaigns focused on defending and advancing the human right to a healthy environment and advocates for the human rights of internally displaced Gulf Coast hurricane survivors.

Alabama Arise
Arise is a coalition of religious, community, and civic groups that promote state policies to improve the lives of low-income people.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Mississippi
The ACLU is a non-profit, non-partisan membership organization with affiliates in all 50 states dedicated to defending and expanding the civil liberties of all Americans. The ACLU's work is sustained by over 500,000 members and supporters. It handles nearly 6,000 court cases annually.

Back Bay Mission
Back Bay Mission was founded in 1922 as an outreach effort of the First Evangelical Church of Biloxi (later United Church of Christ), whose members responded with compassion and service to the needs of poor "fisher folk" living in deplorable conditions along the Back Bay of Biloxi, Mississippi. Since then, Back Bay Mission has continually grown its services and ministries, always keeping the impoverished and marginalized at the center of its concern.

Bayou Grace Community Services
Bayou Grace Community Services implements outreach, services, and advocacy that addresses the immediate needs of the 5 Bayou communities of Terrebonne Parish, giving residents opportunity and renewed strength to advocate and work towards the environmental health of their community. Through our programs, Bayou Grace strives to give hope for the future to the community it serves.

Coastal Women for Change
A non-profit community action organization, the mission of Coastal Women for Change is to make a difference in our communities through securing and revitalizing our neighborhoods.

Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
The DSCEJ Community/University Partnership, under the auspices of Dillard University in New Orleans, provides opportunities for communities, scientific researchers, and decision makers to collaborate on programs and projects that promote the rights of all people to be free from environmental harm as it impacts health, jobs, housing, education, and general quality of life.

Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FELIC)
FFLIC is an organization of mothers and fathers, grandparents, aunts and allies who fight for a better life for all of Louisiana’s youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.

Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
The mission of the JJPL is to transform the juvenile justice system of Louisiana into one that builds on the strengths of young people, families, and communities in order to instill hope and to ensure children are given the greatest opportunities to grow and thrive.

 

Katrina Information Network (KIN)
KIN is a collaboration of groups in the Gulf and across the country to build power for change. Through e-advocacy, grassroots pressure, local actions, resolutions, and selective buying, we can build greater pressure for what's right.

Kids Rethinking New Orleans Schools
Rethink is a group of students in New Orleans who want to rethink and rebuild our schools after Hurricane Katrina. The vision is simple: a great education for every kid in our city, no matter the color of their skin, what neighborhood they stay in or how much money their parents make.

Louisiana Justice Institute
The Louisiana Justice Institute is a nonprofit, civil rights legal advocacy organization, devoted to fostering social justice campaigns across Louisiana for communities of color and for impoverished communities.

Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation (MQVN CDC)
MQVN CDC was established by the Mary Queen of Viet Nam Church in May 2006 to assist Vietnamese-American Katrina victims in New Orleans East rebuild their lives and their community.

Loyola Law Clinic
The Law Clinic is a fully functioning legal clinic which allows third year law students the opportunity to represent indigent clients under the supervision of experienced attorneys. By participating in the law clinic, student practitioners not only have the chance to experience firsthand what representing clients is like, but they also have an opportunity to further the Jesuit ideals of scholarship and service at Loyola by providing legal representation to the needy.

Mississippi State Conference-NAACP
This state chapter of the NAACP advocates for affordable housing and public education for people of color and low-income people.

Moving Forward Gulf Coast
Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Inc. is a community effort, led by natives of the Gulf Coast region, who have personally identified families that want, but cannot afford or lack the information, to rebuild their lives in the Gulf Coast. Our main goal is to facilitate bringing together resources dedicated to rebuilding the Gulf Coast better in partnership with the communities in need.

National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies
The mission of NAVASA is to empower the Vietnamese community in the United States and facilitate the transition of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants from dependency to self-sufficiency. NAVASA works with national and local affiliates to support its member agencies; to strengthen national advocacy capability and, to promote the integration of the Vietnamese American community into American society.

People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)
PISAB is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.

Praxis Project
The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems. Committed to closing the health gap facing communities of color, we forge alliances for building healthy communities.

Project South
Founded in 1986, Project South acts as a regional hub for leadership development, movement-building, and long-term strategy development within community-based organizing for racial and economic justice. By creating collective spaces for communities and organizations to develop bottom-up grassroots organizing models, Project South shifts Southern-based organizing from reactive battles to visionary and strategic movement building on local, regional, and national levels.

El Pueblo
We are a nonprofit in Biloxi, Mississippi serving the Latino and Hispanic immigrant communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We approach the needs of the immigrant community by delivering programming that: Empowers Hispanic/Latino immigrants to speak on their own behalf, access vitally important means to legalization, build leadership and community, and engage in civic life, and; Changes the hearts and minds of the larger community by educating Gulf Coast citizens on the reality of the immigrant experience.

Safe Streets, Strong Communities (SSSC)
SSSC is a community-driven organization working to transform the criminal justice system by reducing police brutality, eliminating unconstitutional and inhumane conditions in prisons, promoting transparency, and improving the indigent defense system in New Orleans.

Steps Coalition
The mission of the Steps Coalition is to promote an equitable recovery and healthy, just, and sustainable communities in South Mississippi. The Coalition shares these interconnected values: affordable housing, community preservation, economic and environmental justice, and human rights.

Turkey Creek Community Initiatives
To conserve, restore and utilize the unique cultural, historical and environmental resources of the Turkey Creek community and watershed for education and other socially beneficial purposes.

United Houma Nation
The Houma Nation created the Fund to provide direct relief to people of the Houma Nation, who were especially hard-hit by the storms. One program trains women in non-traditional work roles to rebuild structures affected by the hurricanes.

Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans
VAYLA-NO is a multi-issue youth organizing group that emerged to combat environmental racism taking place in Eastern New Orleans during the post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction.