LibGuides: Black Lives Matter Resource Guide: PA &amp; National Orgs.

Legal Organizations

Law for Black Lives
Law For Black Lives is a Black femme-led national network of nearly 4,000 radical lawyers and legal workers committed to building a responsive legal infrastructure for movement organizations and cultivating a community of legal advocates trained in movement lawyering.
Movement Law Lab
Movement Law Lab is committed to building power in black and brown communities by incubating legal projects that combine law and community organizing to protect, defend, and embolden racial justice movements.
National Lawyers Guild
NLG is a national non-profit that provides legal assistance and technical support to many underserved populations. Their Mass Defense Committee (MDC) provides legal support for political activists, protesters and movements for social justice. They also run a National Police Accountability Project (NPAP). Its members are plaintiffs’ attorneys, paralegals and advocates who work on law enforcement misconduct cases, including civil actions against prison and jail personnel.

Justice Reform Organizations

Campaign Zero
An organization that analyzes policing practices across the country, provides research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.
National Police Accountability Project
A project of the National Lawyers Guild dedicated to holding law enforcement accountable for misconduct in our communities through both legal action and education. They provide training and resources to lawyers and law students.
Prison Policy Initiative
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting-edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
National Black Women's Justice Institute
This organization works to reduce racial and gender disparities across the justice continuum affecting black women, girls, and their families, by conducting research, providing technical assistance, engaging in public education, promoting civic engagement, and advocating for informed and effective policies.
Until We Are All Free
A collaboration between CultureStrike, Mobilize the Immigrant Vote, and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, with the goal of using art and culture to transform the justice and immigration systems.

Social Justice Organizations

Black Lives Matter
Poor People's Campaign
Popular Democracy
Bread and Roses Community Fund
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity
BOLD is a national Leadership Training Program designed to help rebuild Black (African-American, Caribbean, African, Afro-Latino) social justice infrastructure in order to organize Black communities more effectively and re-center Black leadership in the U.S. social justice movement.
Black Women's Blueprint
This organization works to place Black women and girls’ lives as well as their particular struggles squarely within the context of the larger racial justice concerns of Black communities and is committed to building movements where gender matters in broader social justice organizing so that all members of our communities gain social, political and economic equity.

Food Distribution Organizations

National Programs

Why Hunger:

https://whyhunger.org/map.php
This map is incredibly user friendly and helpful for those with minimal internet knowledge or access. On the top right corner of this site, there is a section for volunteering opportunities. It's a national program so it has a very wide range for assistance.

Aunt Bertha:

https://www.findhelp.org/
Aunt Bertha is more than just food. It is a site that provides all basic needs and allows folks to choose how they would like to contribute. Cool site- lots of info! Takes a bit of time to sort through, but provides extensive options based off someone's zip code.