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)
- North Carolina Raise Up Fight for 15
- Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
A healthy world
- 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
- Citizens' Climate Lobby
- 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
- Greenpeace
- 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
- Sunrise Movement
- Third Act North Carolina
- Toxic Free NC
- Toward Zero Waste
- Triangle Land Conservancy
- 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
- Outer Banks Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition
- Quaker House
- Veterans for Peace Triangle Area of North Carolina (VFP chapter 157)
- Veterans for Peace Western North Carolina (VFP chapter 099)
- Witness for Peace Southeast
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Triangle chapter)
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
Education, public schools
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 Jews for Justice
- Carolina Justice Policy Center
- Center for Responsible Lending
- Common Cause NC
- Democracy North Carolina
- Democracy Out Loud
- Friends Committee on North Carolina Legislation
- League of Women Voters of North Carolina
- North Carolina Council of Churches
- North Carolina Stop Torture Now (NC STN)
- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
- North Carolina Poor People's Campaign
- Prison Books Collective
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
- Equality North Carolina
- LGBT Center of Raleigh
- LGBTQ Center of Durham
- 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 Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- North Carolina MomsRising
- North Carolina chapter of National Organization for Women (NOW)
- NC Stop Human Trafficking
- Planned Parenthood Health Systems
- Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina
- 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
- Institute for Southern Studies
- North Carolina Justice Center
- Ready the Ground Training Team
- Richir Outreach
- Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- Southern Vision Alliance
- Third Space Studio
- Triangle Free Press, trianglefreepress@frontier.com
- Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe