Member Directory

As the largest state association of nonprofits in the country, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) works to inform, promote, connect, and strengthen individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

MCN accomplishes its mission in five ways: 1. Education and professional development for nonprofit managers and leaders; 2. Public policy education and civic engagement; 3. Cost saving product partnerships; 4. Research on nonprofit sector trends and tax and budget issues; and 5. Advocacy at local, state, and federal levels.

MCN strives to lead by example by creating and sharing internal policies that strengthen nonprofits as employers, producing critical research that are used by decision makers, ensuring nonprofits have a voice at decision making tables centering the needs of small, rural-based, and/or communities of color serving organizations, and advocating on behalf of the sector with philanthropy and government agencies. Most recently MCN opposed harmful oversight legislation of nonprofits and supported legislation that strengthens ability for employers to attract and retain critical talent such as paid medical family leave (which was passed during the 2023 MN legislative session), among other public policy priority areas.

EBC’s membership program advances political analysis, organizing, and advocacy among those who the criminal justice system has most harmed.

Our work is restoring community power through reinvestment, driving people-powered policy, which expands pathways to freedom. Restore Oakland is EBC’s brick-and-mortar response to the question “What do we build instead of prisons? What keeps our communities safe?” The prison mail program is a key artery for EBC’s inside-outside organizing. We currently correspond with 9,000+ people (and growing), providing important resources for people inside prisons and receiving feedback on our bills. We drive a ambitious slate of policies, influenced by currently incarcerated people that directly shape the following year’s legislative agenda. This input also plays a key role in policy campaigns, providing feedback on draft bills, collecting data from inside, and strengthening advocacy.

EBC’s membership program builds deep democracy by supporting the civic leadership of historically marginalized community members. At Restore Oakland, through EBC and our organizational partners, community members can access restorative justice sessions that heal harms, re-entry support, job training, tenants’ rights tools, a community-powered entrepreneurship fund, and meeting spaces to come together and strategize. Our popular toolkit, Back to Court: A Resentencing Guide supports currently incarcerated people to advocate for their freedom. Additional resources we share include updates on new legislation that expand resentencing opportunities, re-entry information, and resources to uphold human rights during confinement. People across California prisons are leveraging these resources as they organize inside. They also communicate back with EBC, sharing policy ideas, uplifting needs and concerns, and driving powerful advocacy with their artwork, letters, and testimonies.

Texas abortion clinics are closed and that means that abortion funds in Texas are THE resources equipped, poised, agile and determined to continue supporting Texans in accessing care outside of the state. My, Choice, Not a Crisis is the beginning stage of the campaign in which we partner with local nonprofits and community members to provide free infant care resources to families. Via TEA Fund’s Post Abortion Truth and Healing (PATH) group, we are able to further engage the community by sharing stories and planning PATH events. It’s no coincidence that we named this group PATH since we believe that people who we mutually benefit must have a role in shaping our future, i.e., helping shape the path forward. We work as a leadership pipeline for our community as we are a mutual aid organization that provides more than simply paying for abortion care.

Through our advocacy, we have rallied the cities of Dallas and Denton to de-prioritize abortion related "crimes". We have also rallied several small towns in east Texas where East Texan Right to Life had been agitating small towns to create "sanctuary cities for the unborn". We created a network with information about how these municipal abortion bans are unconstitutional and many of these small towns have backed away from them on the advice of their attorneys.

Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. 75% of Gen Zers worldwide said the future is frightening and nearly 4 in 10 say they do not want to have children because of climate change. In the US, 68% of Gen Zers said the climate crisis negatively impacts their mental health.

Through intergenerational engagement, the Climate Mental Health Network address the mental health impacts of the climate crisis through education, engaging communities and families, and by harnessing the power of media and technology. We work across sectors to bring tools and programming to educators, parents and caregivers and youth to help them feel supported and emotionally resilient and be able to take meaningful actions to address the climate crisis.

Our communications and programs help to destigmatize climate emotions through stories, media representation, programs, resources and events. We have created research informed resources in English and Spanish for teachers, parents/caregivers, youth and the general public. This includes a short documentary film, classroom tools, guides for parents, art therapy and worksheets. We work in partnership with organizations across sectors, including education, health, communications, and technology to bring the resources to their existing audiences. Our vision and work is informed by our Gen Z advisory board and our scientific advisory board.

To build a robust and successful immigrant rights movement in the Southeast there need to be more, stronger / better resourced, and better connected groups across the region who are immigrant-led, grassroots in focus, and intersectional in analysis.

(1) Our Hummingbird Institute provides grassroots leadership development training to a cohort of 25+ immigrant and refugee leaders over more than a year. (2) Our Weaving Solidarity program facilitates trust-building, collaboration, and transformative solidarity across distinct communities within the immigrant rights movement. (3) Our Cultivating Resistance Fund provides mini-grants to grassroots immigrant-led groups to advance their organizing efforts and support collaborative work with other immigrant and refugee communities. (4) Our annual conference convenes 150+ leaders from across the South for connection, healing, celebration, shared strategy, learning, and growth. (5) Our membership program provides regular peer-to-peer exchange and capacity support spaces to over 40 immigrant-led grassroots groups. (6) Our healing justice work is woven throughout all our programs, and includes practical training/resources, ancestral healing practices, and cultural celebration to promote resilience in immigrant leaders, groups and communities in the Southeast.

SEIRN is the only Southern regional organization bringing together grassroots immigrant and refugee rights orgs to form a unified strategy, voice, and community. SEIRN provides: (1) grassroots leadership development for immigrant and refugee leaders (2) capacity building and resource support for grassroots groups (3) strong intersectional focus, centering those most deeply and directly impacted; fighting anti-Blackness, trans-misogyny and homophobia, and other isms; and weaving movement solidarity across diverse communities (4) political and popular education to develop critical analysis and context so we are working strategically and in alignment with our intersectional values (5) healing justice and politicized wellness support to build healthier and more resilient leaders, groups, and movement

About 822,775 Virginians live in poverty. They face racial and economic inequities perpetuated by oppressive systems. Such inequities can only be dismantled by strategic community-led efforts.

We work through campaigns to achieve community goals by integrating organizing, policy advocacy, narrative change, legal representation, and impact litigation across a wide range of issues.

We provide legal, organizing, and logistical support to community-led efforts. Recent wins include passing criminal records expungement, increased school funding, and COVID workplace safety standards.

re:power directly addresses the lack of infrastructure and capacity our movement experiences by creating spaces for people to show up, learn the skills they need, and create the change they want to see through building power together.

We work toward our vision by offering training and strategic support to BIPOC leaders, community organizations, and coalitions across the progressive ecosystem, focusing on elections and governance, movement building, and movement technology. re:power?s programs are structured to support and prepare progressive leaders and organizations to do the following: 1) Plan - set bold visions and strategies, 2) Activate - move their communities into action, 3) Engage - retain people and develop their leadership, and 4) Build - build community and collective power for the long-term.

re:power has helped support over 100,000 leaders in creating change. We play a key (and often unseen) role in the eco-system of supporting and training BIPOC folks to build power in their communities.

The oppression facing women in this country cannot be disconnected from oppression based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression. Gender oppression intersects with and is magnified by other forms of oppression.

The National Women?s Law Center fights for gender justice?in the courts, in public policy, and in our society?working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us?especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families. For nearly 50 years, we have been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women.

For nearly 50 years, NWLC has been at the forefront of virtually every major advance for women?getting new laws on the books and enforced, litigating groundbreaking cases all the way to the Supreme Court, conducting sophisticated advocacy campaigns, and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families.

Black and immigrants' rights

Work to build a network of refugee and immigrants leaders to advocate for issues of interest to their communities

Our community building campaigned led to the Mayor's office revitalized the International Relations Commision.

The masses of Black children have been miseducated, maligned, misunderstood and underserved since they were first allowed to be taught in this country.

We run STEM programs that have closed the gap for Black children, we offer professional development for people who work with Black children in educational settings, we promote education-related policies designed to help Black children thrive, we teach Black parents how to successfully navigate school systesms, and we serve on committees focused on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.

Our ED has served on CA's statewide Fix School Discipline Committee for nearly 9 years and we have helped promote legislation that led to the banning of willfull defiance in grades K-8 as a reason to suspend students. Suspensions of Black and Brown students have fallen in some CA school districts. Our ED serves on the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) coordinating committee and decides what national legislative policies to advocate for. DSC has had a number of legislative wins.

LA Voice is a multi-racial, multi-faith community organization that awakens people to their own power, training them to speak, act, and work together to transform our County into one that reflects the dignity of all people.

We believe all people have power and a voice. Every day we amplify that power by uniting diverse faith voices to stand-up for what their communities need, winning changes that improve the lives of all Angelenos.

LA Voice?s organizing presence is based throughout LA County, across 5 county supervisorial districts and 28 strategic cities. Throughout the county, we have 65 congregations, 26 with teams, and 17 of them with teams that can deliver.

JWJ fights against our lack of public health investment, our bankrupt healthcare infrastructure, an economic system that treats women and people of color as expendable, within an economic system built upon centuries of racism.

JWJ is a national network of nearly 40 local coalitions comprised of labor unions, worker centers, community, faith-based, and student organizations. We bring together labor, community, student and faith voices at the national and local levels to win improvements in people’s lives and shape public discourse on workers’ rights and the economy.

JWJ has often acted as the beating heart behind the scenes of worker power coalitions at both the national and local levels. Without JWJEF, the worker power movement would be missing a vital bridge that connects interlocking struggles, opens up dialogue between organizations that wouldn’t otherwise communicate, and the movement would be holistically weaker and less aligned. JWJ has always served as the glue that advances the shared interests of working people overall, not just the members of one organization.