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The focus of Equal Justice America's mission has always been to protect children and families in need. EJA's program puts law students and lawyers to work across the country on the front lines assisting our most vulnerable fellow citizens: Abused and neglected children. Families threatened with foreclosure and homelessness. Returning soldiers facing housing, employment and health issues. Women assaulted by violent and abusive husbands and boyfriends. The elderly victimized by unscrupulous business practices. The disabled fighting to have needed benefits restored.

To create a just society by mobilizing the next generation of lawyers committed to equal justice, work with law schools, law firms, corporate legal departments and nonprofit organizations to provide the training and skills that enable attorneys to provide effective representation to vulnerable populations. 

Justice for Sierah, Inc. is a nonprofit organization working to protect communities by implementing the Ohio violent offender database, known as Sierah’s Law, in all 50 states. Our work also includes empowering our youth by establishing self-awareness and self-defense into school curriculum and communities through the Sierah Strong Program.

Urban Justice Center advocates for and empowers NYC's most vulnerable residents through a combination of direct legal service, systemic advocacy, community education and political organizing. We assist our clients on numerous levels, from one-on-one legal advice, to helping individuals access housing, to filing class action lawsuits to effect systemic change.

Justice in Aging is a national organization that uses the power of law to fight senior poverty by securing access to affordable health care, economic security, and the courts for older adults with limited resources. Since 1972 we've focused our efforts primarily on populations that have traditionally lacked legal protection such as women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, immigrants, and people with limited English proficiency.

Racial Justice NOW! is committed to dismantling structural and institutional anti-Black racism in all areas of people activity. Our primary focus is on the institution of education and lifting up the voices of disempowered Black parents and children. We are dedicated to stopping the school to prison pipeline and focus specifically on holding institutions accountable to equitable distribution of resources and services to Black people in Dayton and around the State of Ohio.

The SJC is a human rights organization, providing public education on Third World poverty as a human rights issue. We are committed to social change through a three-step process of analysis, popular education, and response, with a special focus on Third World debt, the democratization of international financial institutions, and struggles for community rights in Mesoamerica.

The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family and prisoner-led movement to challenge race, gender and class inequality in Los Angeles County's and California's juvenile injustice system. The YJC is working to transform a system that has ensured the massive lock-up of people of color; widespread police violence, corruption and distrust between police and communities; disregard of youth and communities' Constitutional and human rights; the construction of a school-to-jail track; and the build-up of the world's largest prison system.

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. Our translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. We believe that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition.

Season of Justice (SOJ) is a nonprofit dedicated to providing funding to investigative agencies and families to help push their unsolved cases closer to resolution. By providing grants for DNA analysis, such as forensic genealogy and next-gen sequencing, SOJ strives to bridge the funding gap preventing agencies from accessing resources that could help solve these complex cases. SOJ also works directly with families to fund comprehensive awareness campaigns and other initiatives that can push their unsolved cases forward.

Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society. IJ litigates to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. In addition, IJ trains law students, lawyers, and activists in the tactics of public interest litigation. Through these activities, IJ illustrates and extends the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by the government.

People’s Justice League is a grassroots community organization working to support safe streets, campuses, establishments, and gathering places in Southeast Ohio through community education and activism. We know that for many people, navigating public space is fraught with harassment and violence simply because of who they are. Our programming works to address this with a variety of platforms designed to eradicate bias, harassment, discrimination, and abuse targeting any part of a person’s perceived identity. This includes but is not limited to race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. We work to create long-term networks of support that will empower our spirits to continue to thrive, despite the oppressions we face.