North Carolina's organizations, a highly incomplete list
Here you'll find a list of organizations active in North Carolina. Most entries link to a website for the organization. Otherwise, you'll find some other contact information for them.
Obviously this list doesn't include all organizations in North Carolina. Not even close. This prototype list just illustrates the format this list will take when complete.
Please help improve this list. Please submit corrections and additions.
We can sort the organizations that make up our movement into three categories:
- 1. Issue organizations
These organizations seek to unite and represent people that share their views on a particular issue (or on a set of issues).
- 2. Identity organizations
These organizations seek to unite and represent people who share some commonality, often the commonality of belonging to the same oppressed group.
- 3. Infrastructure organizations
These organizations seek to serve the whole movement by providing something needed by many organizations.
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Issue organizations
Economic justice
- Action NC
- North Carolina Fair Share
- North Carolina Justice Center
- Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA (RAFI-USA)
Workers' rights
(Though one could think of them as issue organizations addressing the issue of workers' rights, you'll find labor unions under Identity organizations.)
- Black Workers For Justice
- Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN)
- Hear Our Public Employees (HOPE)
- National Farm Worker Ministry's North Carolina office (NFWM-NC)
- North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health (NCOSH)
- Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
- Western North Carolina Workers Center
A healthy world
- Albemarle Environmental Association
- American Rivers
- Appalachian Voices
- Audubon North Carolina
- Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
- Canary Coalition
- Cape Fear River Watch
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
- Carteret County Crossroads
- Catawba Center for the Environment
- Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation
- Citizen Action for Responsible Roads
- Citizens for a Safe Environment
- Clean Water for North Carolina
- Dan River Basin Association
- Dogwood Alliance
- Eno River Association
- Environment North Carolina
- Environmental and Conservation Organization
- Environmental Defense Fund, NC Office
- Friends of State Parks
- Friends of the Deep River
- Friends of the Rocky River
- Haw River Assembly
- Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance
- North Carolina AIDS Action Network (NCAAN)
- NC Alliance for Transportation Reform
- NC Coastal Federation
- NC Environmental Justice Network
- NC Interfaith Power & Light, a program of the NC Council of Churches
- NC League of Conservation Voters
- NC League of Conservation Voters Foundation
- NC Native Plant Society
- NC PIRG
- NC Rail-Trails
- NC Sierra Club
- NC Waste Awareness Reduction Network
- Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation
- Pamlico-Tar River Foundation
- PenderWatch & Conservancy
- Physicians for Social Responsibility, Western NC Chapter
- Piedmont Environmental Alliance
- Roanoke River Partners
- Scotland County of Tomorrow
- Sewage Sludge Action Network
- Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- SouthWings
- Student Environmental Action Coalition - Wake Forest University
- Toxic Free NC
- Umstead Coalition
- Wake Up Wake County
- Western NC Alliance
- Yadkin Riverkeeper, Inc.
Peace
- Coalition for Peace with Justice
- Code Pink North Carolina
- North Carolina Peace Action
- Quaker House
- Veterans for Peace Western North Carolina (VFP chapter 099)
Immigrant rights and issues
- North Carolina DREAM Team
- El Cambio
- Immigrants and Allies United for Justice / Inmigrantes y Aliados Unidos por la Justicia
- Uniting NC
Electoral politics and parties
Multi-issue coalitions
Social reform, general human rights, good government, and miscellaneous
- American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU-NC)
- Carolina Justice Policy Center
- Center for Responsible Lending
- Common Cause NC
- Democracy North Carolina
- Education Justice Alliance
- League of Women Voters of North Carolina
- North Carolina Council of Churches
- North Carolina Heroes Emerge Among Teens (NC HEAT)
- North Carolina Stop Torture Now (NC STN)
- Parent Advocacy Work Group
- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
- Prison Books Collective
- YWCA of the Greater Triangle
Identity organizations
African-Americans and allies
- North Carolina State Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NC NAACP)
- Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ)
Latinas and Latinos
- El Pueblo
- Latin American Coalition / Coalición Latinoamericana
- Coalición de Organizaciones Latino-Americanas (COLA)
- Asociación de Mexicanos en Carolina del Norte, Inc. (AMEXCAN)
- El Centro Hispano (ECH)
- Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County / El Vínculo Hispano
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Two-Spirit, Questioning, Asexual, and allies
- All of Us NC
- Coalition to Protect North Carolina Families
- Equality North Carolina
- LGBT Center of Raleigh
- North Carolina Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride
- Q-Notes
- Southerners On New Ground (SONG)
Local community areas
- Beloved Community Center of Greensboro
- Concerned Citizens of Tillery
- Center for Community Action, Lumberton, phone 910-739-7851
- Durham People's Alliance
- El Kilombo Intergalactico, Durham
Unions
- North Carolina State AFL-CIO
- State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC, SEIU Local 2008)
- International Worker Justice Campaign of North Carolina Public Service Workers Union (UE 150)
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Women
- North Carolina Women United
- AAUW North Carolina
- Interact
- Ipas
- NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina
- North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service
- North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- North Carolina MomsRising
- National Organization for Women (NOW) chapters in North Carolina
- NC Stop Human Trafficking
- NC Women's Political Caucus
- Planned Parenthood Health Systems
- Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
- Triangle Older Women's League
- Women NC — North Carolina Committee for CSW/CEDAW
- Women's Forum of North Carolina
Infrastructure organizations
- Blueprint North Carolina
- Center for Participatory Change
- Fund for Democratic Communities
- Grass Roots Press, Inc.
- Institute for Southern Studies
- Internationalist Books and Community Center
- North Carolina Community Shares
- North Carolina Justice Center
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- stone circles and The Stone House
- Third Space Studio
- Triangle Free Press, trianglefreepress@frontier.com
- Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe