. These partnerships have been developed in advance. Other partnerships may be added in the coming weeks. Be sure to check back before submitting your application. If you have an existing relationship with a different organization, you can request to work with that organization instead.
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Centro Legal de la Raza is a direct legal services provider located in the historically Latino Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland since 1969. Centro Legal's legal services are in immigrant rights, worker's rights, and tenant's rights. As a placement site for the Praxis fellowship you would be working with either the Tenant's Rights or Youth Law Academy programs. The tenant's rights program works to help advocate for low income tenants facing wrongful eviction or other problems with their landlord. The Youth Law Academy is a program for Oakland high school youth to help them learn about the field of law and help provide them with academic support and career awareness opportunities. Fellows with an interest in gentrification, or equity in housing, would be great fits for the tenant's rights program. The YLA is seeking fellows interested in the fields of ethnic studies, communications, education, diversity, government, and/or anything pre-law.
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San Francisco Rising is a new grassroots alliance that has united to make lasting change in San Francisco. Our members represent the rising majority of the city – low income and working class communities of color – who contribute to the wealth and unique beauty of this city but have not benefited from its prosperity. We have a long-term vision for the city and we are in it, together, for the long run. We are uniting African American, Latino, Chinese and Filipino communities and leaders from across the city to create a new, community-based political infrastructure capable of running sophisticated electoral operations each election cycle, and winning.
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Not In Our Town (NIOT) is a movement to stop hate, counter bullying, and build safe, inclusive communities. NIOT’s goal is to foster thriving, diverse, and equitable communities where all residents feel safe, accepted, and encouraged to participate in public life. NIOT programs and proven strategies—comprised of grassroots film screenings, town hall meetings, coalition building, creation and distribution of organizing tools, fostering collaboration across key institutions, and evaluating impact—inspire and sustain broad and diverse community-based movements. NIOT currently serves a national network of 140 communities that are standing against hate and inequity and working to bridge differences to advance inclusion. Storytelling and media are central to NIOT’s mission to build awareness about the dangers of bigotry and present inspiring models for action.
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Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) began as an ad-hoc coalition of immigrant rights activists and advocates in 1987 under the name Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Services (NIRRS) in order to develop a response to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. For over a decade, the NIRRS was central to statewide campaigns against all the anti-immigration legislation and ballot initiatives that followed.
SIREN’s mission is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees through community education and organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, civic engagement and legal services. We believe that all people regardless of legal status or nationality are entitled to essential services, human dignity, basic rights and protections, and access to full participation in society. |
The Black Organizing Project is a Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland, California.Our vision is to build a strong bottom up organization of Black people that will:
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Since 1973, FAJ has been an advocate for immigrant and civil rights by providing direct services, developing leaders, and organizing and advocating on issues important to the Filipino community as a historically underserved ethnic minority. We serve at-risk middle and high school-age youth, low-wage workers vulnerable to exploitation, and the newly arrived immigrants and undocumented, by helping them navigate the challenges of life in the US.
For more than 40 years, Filipino Advocates for Justice has nurtured leadership among Filipino and other youth to enhance their civic capacity and help them organize their communities for meaningful change. Our leadership development mission evolved from supporting low-wage workers in the early 2000’s displaced Airport workers to empowering and protecting vulnerable domestic workers, particularly caregivers in California and nationally |
The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) is a grassroots organization working to empower and organize our community towards justice and self-determination for all. AROC members build community power in the Bay Area by participating in leadership development, political education, and campaigns.
Recognizing the diversity of experiences and interests within the Arab community, AROC devises a multi-pronged strategy to meet those needs while prioritizing the most marginalized sectors of our constituency to inform our work. AROC provides a centralized space for analysis, strategy, and formulation of concrete campaigns to organize for change. |
We are leading a transition away from an extractive economy based on profit and pollution and toward local, healthy, and life-sustaining economies that benefit everyone.
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem, it’s a social, political, and economic problem, too. An economy based on extraction, exploitation, and endless growth has poisoned our air and water, intensified extreme weather events, and led to higher prices for basic necessities like food, housing, water, and energy. It has socialized the costs and privatized the gains, concentrating wealth in the hands of a powerful few, and concentrating poverty and pollution in communities with the fewest material resources to respond. This system cannot last; our planet can no longer sustain it and our people will no longer tolerate it. Just Transition is a vision and framework for moving toward a world where everyone has the resources they need to live full, dignified lives. |
Our vision as an organization is to empower and increase the visibility of all those that have been impacted by the criminal justice system as a whole. We are invested in building a base of power at the political, social, and economic level of formerly incarcerated persons across the State of California, addressing the root causes of poverty and the impact that the criminal justice system has had on black people and communities of color. This kind of collective power will drive larger political strategies by the formerly incarcerated at the state level as well as the National level and will increase mobilization to fight for the rights and opportunity for all persons coming home from incarceration to be legally protected from discrimination.
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