Building on the legacy of Black liberation in Rochester. Abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist. Changing the material conditions of oppressed people through leadership development, political education, organizing, and direct service.

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation’s foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights.

Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities. We accomplish this through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, participatory research and direct action.

Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society is an interfaith community organizing project of multi-racial, interfaith, urban and suburban congregations and groups that will train and empower citizens to create systemic change and shape the political, social and economic decisions that impact their lives.

PPG is a community-based think tank that provides research and advocacy support to a broad range of partners. Each year, our partners use a democratic process to create a Community Agenda: ten ways that state and local government can act to improve Buffalo Niagara in the coming year.

Founded in 1996, a diverse group of faith, labor, business and community leaders saw injustices happening in their community. Public officials and unofficial power brokers who make the key decisions weren’t prioritizing regular folks. Our founders asked, “Who stands up for the common citizen? When government and private sector decisions ignore the needs of the people, who will speak up for them?” The answer? Regular folks, acting collectively and using our VOICE.

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Through their community-driven civil rights model NYLPI has developed a track record of successful legal expertise focused on health, disability, immigration, racial, and environmental justice.

A Black-led, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational coalition of organizations, activists, and community members who are working to ensure genuine public safety for all Long Island communities.

Showing Up for Racial Justice Rochester. As a chapter of the national SURJ organization, SURJ ROC's purpose is to support the missions of People of Color-led racial justice groups in the Rochester area in their fight against oppression and inequality. We educate white people about privilege and white supremacy and organize white people to act for racial justice with passion and accountability.

Fountain House is a national mental health nonprofit fighting to improve health, increase opportunity, and end social and economic isolation for people most impacted by mental illness.

NY Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services is a statewide coalition of people who use and/or provide recovery oriented community based mental health services. We value difference and promote cultural competence in all aspects of our work.

Free The People WNY is a coalition of formerly incarcerated people, directly affected people, activists, organizers, and attorneys that envision a world free from the violence and death of mass incarceration. We act together to dismantle a justice system built on white supremacy and oppression, one that dehumanizes people, and we work to create in its place anti-racist systems with the values of collective liberation and true justice at their core.

CJI strives to dismantle white supremacy in the Greater Rochester region in areas of education, economics, politics, housing, healthcare and all other arena influencing Afrikan people, while simultaneously empowering our communities in the same areas.

Our mission is to help families and individuals affected by mental illness build better lives through education, support, and advocacy. We are the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC).

We are a coalition of activists, community and non-profit members, and other advocates working to transform how New York City responds to the 200,000+ mental health crisis calls now responded to by the NYPD. CCIT-NYC seeks a peer-led health team response to these crisis calls.

NNLB is a collective of leaders who work to address the needs of Black people at all intersections of gender, ethnicity, social and economic class. We are dedicated to Black Liberation, Direct Reparations, Abolition, and the Decriminalisation Of Poverty.

Community Access is a pioneer of supportive housing and social services, and, both in NYC and nationally, we promote human rights, social justice, and economic opportunities.

Friends of Recovery NY works to demonstrate the power and promise of Recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and the value Recovery provides to individuals, families, and entire communities throughout New York State.

The Working Families Party is leading the fight for social, racial, and economic justice in New York state. By pushing for progressive legislation and by also training, recruiting and supporting progressive leaders to run for office, we form a unique bridge between progressive activism and electoral success.

Established in 2008 East Flatbush Village, Inc. had a vision of developing our community and enriching the lives of the youth to have a colorful future. Today we are committed to providing support and information to low income and underserved communities.

Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.  We work to connect people in NYC on local racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ NYC provides a space to build relationships, skills, and political analysis to act for change.

The Roadmap began as a group of advocates joining forces to push interconnected legislative action in our state to address the criminalization of immigrants and Black and brown communities. United as a platform, we shine light on the way our criminal and immigration legal systems interplay to separate, isolate, expel, and cage people. The Roadmap is a guide for New York’s elected officials to address some of the worst harms caused by these systems.

We act in partnership with others to end racial, social, environmental and economic injustice within our own community, in greater Rochester and the world.