WHAT CAN YOU DO TO FIGHT RACISM?
We have a problem in this country. Racism. And it’s up to us as Americans (and as people) to do our part to end it. For a lot of us, we WANT to help but we don’t know how. Well, here is how YOU can get involved and help:
Disclaimer: The organizations listed below are provided as suggestions only. There has been NO privacy or security review of these organizations. Always think careful before sharing your personal information, it is your responsibility.
Activism
- Vote Your Values: Democracy works when we all participate fully in our elections. If you’re not yet registered to vote, you can register at: https://vote.gov/. (In Person & By Mail in some jurisdiction)
- The census was designed as a tool to ensure adequate representation. Participating in the census is vital as it determines resources for your community that include federal funding, congressional representation, funding for new schools, hospitals, roads and more. The Census can be completed online, through the mail, or by phone, making it convenient for every citizen to participate. Fill out the 2020 Census: https://my2020census.gov/ (Virtual)
Sign a petition (Virtual)
- Join the NAACP “We Are Done Dying” campaign and demand justice for George Floyd: Advocate for Human Rights with Amnesty International and tell Congress to restrict the use of deadly force by police by advancing the Peace Act
- Demand justice for George Floyd withAmnesty International
- Ask that all the officers involved in Floyd’s death are brought to justice with Color of Change
- Join 10+ million reaching the attention of Mayor Jacob Frey and DA Mike Freeman to demand that all officers involved are brought to justice with Change.org
Volunteer
- Help lift up critical, at-risk missions related to Diversity & Inclusion with Catchafire Foundation (Virtual)
- Create maps that visualize data revealing incidence and occurrence of racial restrictive covenants in deeds with University of Minneapolis (Virtual)
- Provide feedback on poems written by incarcerated youth through Free Minds Book Club (Virtual)
- Get involved in grassroots organizing with HeadCount and promote voter participation (In Person)
- Join a local affiliate of the National Urban League, a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment, equality, and social justice and help elevate standards of living for African Americans and other historically underserved groups (Virtual)
- Fight Racism with the UN (Virtual)
- Take this quiz from the UN to test your knowledge and to celebrate the human rights defenders who have fought for the rights of others. (Virtual)
- Help Harvard researchers learn the best ways to break down stereotypes by taking Implicit Association Tests (Virtual)
- Help small businesses, many that are under-resourced and run primarily by diverse entrepreneurs, through Start Small Think Big! (Virtual & In Person)
- Increase the number of women of color in the digital space with Black Girls Code and encourage girls of color to become innovators in STEM fields (Virtual & In Person
- Mentor:
- UPchieve: UPchieve is a free, online platform that connects low-income high school students in the US with live, volunteer coaches any time they need it. (Virtual)
- CareerVillage: CareerVillage.org’s mission is to democratize access to career information and advice for underrepresented youth. This is done by crowdsourcing the answers to every question from every student about every career. (Virtual)
- iMentor: iMentor matches every student in their partner high schools with a college-educated mentor—a personal champion to help them on their college journey. (Virtual & In Person)
- America Needs You: mentor first-generation college students (Virtual & In Person)
- HEAF: mentor and/or inspire underserved young people beginning in middle school and continuing in college and beyond. (Virtual & In Person)
- All Starts Project Inc (DSY): help young people learn to perform as professionals by volunteering for various programs.
- Junior Achievement: JA’s volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire students to dream big and reach their potential. Virtual opportunities can be found here and here. (Virtual & In Person)
Donate (Virtual)
- Answer the call for equality by becoming a member of the NAACP*, the oldest civil rights organization in the nation
- Support the National Police Accountability Project, a project of the National Lawyers Guild that helps people find legal counsel
- Support Campaign Zero*, a police reform group that has been working on policy solutions informed by data and human rights principles
- Get involved with your local Black Lives Matter chapter: The full list is here.
- Support civil rights battles with ACLU*
- Support the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Fund
- Sponsor talented students from diverse backgrounds attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF)
- Change the lived experiences for LGBTQ people and make the world a more fair and equitable place by donating to the Human Rights Campaign
- Help the Black Voters Matter Fund increase political power in Black communities
- Advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization with Know Your Rights Camp
- Help exonerate the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system with The Innocence Project
- Fund novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice with The Antiracist Research & Policy Center (ARPC) and learn about their COVID Racial Data Tracker
- Celebrate black arts and culture through The National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Fund therapy for Black women and girls through The Loveland Foundation
- Help the Until Freedom support activists, organizers, movement lawyers, artists, and survivors of racial injustice
- Fight to end the incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice with Project Nia
- Help united black communities through arts with Black Table Arts
- Help Race Forward support racial justice
- Support journalism organizations focusing on issues related to criminal justice with The Marshall Project
- Help fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive, and just democracy by strengthening social justice with the Advancement Project
- Help The Census Project ensure a complete and accurate count