Advocacy Organizations
Types of Organizations:
- Immigrant Rights Organizations
- Human Rights Organizations
- University Programs
- Legal Organizations
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Organized Labor
- Campaigns
- Government Agencies
Immigrant Rights Organizations
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (MIRAc)
http://mirac1.wordpress.com/
MIRAc is an organization that organizes the immigrant community and their allies to try to win legalization for all and equality in all aspects of life. We struggle for legalization, for a moratorium on raids and deportations, and for drivers’ licenses for all regardless of immigration status.
National Immigrant Justice Center (Chicago, IL)
http://www.immigrantjustice.org/
Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. NIJC provides direct legal services to and advocates for these populations through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education.
Resource Center of the Americas (Minneapolis, MN)
http://www.americas.org/
The Resource Center of the Americas is a non-governmental, 501 (c)(3) organization that informs, educates and organizes to promote human rights, economic justice, democratic participation, and cross cultural understanding in the context of globalization in the Americas.
Immigration Advocates Network (IAN)
http://www.immigrationadvocates.org/
The Immigration Advocates Network (IAN) is a collaborative effort of leading national immigration advocacy organizations designed to increase access to justice for low-income immigrants.
National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
http://www.nilc.org/
The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) offers resources to defend and promote rights of low-income immigrants and their family members.
Human Rights Groups
The Advocates for Human Rights
http://www.mnadvocates.org/
The Advocates for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights. The Advocates documents human rights abuses, advocates on behalf of individual victims, educates on human rights issues, and provides training and technical assistance to address and prevent human rights violations.
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
http://www.midwesthumanrights.org/
The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights is a network of 48 advocacy organizations, service providers, and university-based human rights centers collaborating to promote and protect human rights in our Midwest region, in the U.S., and internationally. Working together we provide broader visibility for urgent human rights issues in the Heartland and project a strong Midwest advocacy voice in the national and international human rights debate.
University Programs
University of Iowa Human Rights Center (Iowa City, IA)
http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/human-rights/
The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) has as its mission the promotion and protection of human rights at home and abroad through distinguished multidisciplinary leadership in human rights research, education, and public service to The University of Iowa, its surrounding communities, the State of Iowa, and beyond.
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) (Twin Cities)
http://www.hacer-mn.org/
HACER’s mission is to provide the Minnesota Latino community the ability to create and control information about itself in order to affect institutional decisions and public policy.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/default.html
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Center assists human rights advocates, monitors, students, educators, and volunteers access effective tools, practices, and networks to promote a culture of human rights and responsibilities in our local, national, and international communities.
Legal
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
http://aclu.org/
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) functions as the nation’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. It also works to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including people of color; women; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; prisoners; and people with disabilities.
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
http://www.immigrantlawcentermn.org/
We are a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide quality immigration legal services and law-related education to meet the steadily increasing needs of Minnesota's growing immigrant and refugee communities. We work to support a fair and just immigration process that keeps the American dream alive, embodies the rule of law, and strengthens families and communities across Minnesota.
Nebraska Appleseed (Omaha, NE)
http://www.neappleseed.org/
Nebraska Appleseed focuses on advancing policies and practices that promote self-sufficiency for Nebraska’s working poor families, promote the integration and participation of immigrant populations in communities across Nebraska, provide safe and adequate child welfare services to children who need protection, increase low-income people’s access to the legal system and support democracy by removing barriers to low-income people’s participation in the electoral and public policy decision-making processes.
Faith-based Organizations
American Friends Service Committee, Great Lakes Regional Office (Chicago, IL)
http://www.afsc.org/chicago/
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.
ARISE Chicago
http://arisechicago.org/
With knowledge that the basic tenets of all faith traditions support the rights of workers, Arise Chicago organizes the religious community to bring about just resolutions to workplace injustice.
Center for New Community (Chicago, IL)
http://www.newcomm.org/
The Center for New Community is a national organization committed to building community, justice, and equality. The Center is grounded in many faith traditions, and builds community where the dignity and value of all humanity is manifest.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (New York, NY)
http://www.iccr.org/
Through the lens of faith, ICCR builds a more just and sustainable world by integrating social values into corporate and investor actions.
Jewish Community Action (Twin Cities)
http://www.jewishcommunityaction.org/
Jewish Community Action's mission is to bring together Jewish people from diverse traditions and perspectives to promote understanding and take action on social and economic justice issues in Minnesota.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (Chicago, IL)
http://www.jcua.org/site/PageServer
The mission of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs is to combat poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago’s diverse communities.
Workers Interfaith Network (Minneapolis, MN)
http://workersinterfaith.org/
Workers Interfaith Network unites religious leaders, labor leaders, and workers to address economic disparities by demanding improved wages, benefits, and working conditions assuring that our community’s economic abundance is shared by all.
Organized Labor
Teamsters
http://www.teamster.org/
Teamsters, the largest trade union in North America, invests in providing resources to local as well as international labor unions and organizations.
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
http://www.ufcw.org/
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) organizes workers in meatpacking and poultry industries, food processing and manufacturing, and retail food and stores. It addresses such issues as health care, immigration, employee free choice, minimum wage, and worker safety.
Campaigns
Progress by Pesach
http://www.jewishcommunityaction.org/
The Jewish Call for Immigration Reform, Not Raids – Jewish Community Action is asking President Obama to end immigration raids immediately.
Magen Tzedek
http://www.magentzedek.org/
The Magen Tzedek Campaign is a new initiative to improve working conditions, treatment of employees, environmental standards, and business practices in kosher food-producing businesses.
Government Agencies
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
http://www.osha.gov/
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for promoting the safety and health of America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health.
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts; protecting human health and the environment.
