Verified charities working on Civil rights

25 organisations tagged Civil rights. Every one links to a filing you can open yourself — we don't rank them.

• ACLU Foundation — Litigation and education on US civil liberties
• The Aspen Institute — Non-partisan policy think-tank — leadership, programs across 30+ policy areas.
• The Carter Center — Disease eradication and democracy support in 80+ countries
• Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund — Civil-rights law firm advancing the rights of people with disabilities
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — Digital civil-liberties non-profit — privacy, free speech, encryption rights litigation.
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) — Bryan Stevenson's racial-justice legal-advocacy org — death-row defence + reparative-history museums.
• Equality Now — Legal advocacy to end violence and discrimination against women & girls
• Global Fund for Women — Public foundation funding women's-rights movements in ~175 countries — flexible, trust-based grants.
• GLSEN — Creates safer K-12 schools for LGBTQ+ students through research, policy and student-led GSAs.
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation — Education and research arm of the largest US LGBTQ+ rights org
• Human Rights Watch — Investigates and exposes human-rights abuses worldwide
• Innocence Project — Frees wrongly-convicted people via DNA evidence and reforms criminal-justice policy.
• Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund — Civil-rights litigation for LGBTQ+ people and people with HIV
• League of Conservation Voters Education Fund — 501(c)(3) educational arm of LCV — National Environmental Scorecard, voter education, civic engagement.
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) — Latino civil rights legal organisation — voting rights, education access, immigrants' rights.
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund — Civil-rights legal arm — racial-justice litigation since Thurgood Marshall (Brown v. Board of Education).
• National Federation of the Blind — Largest US membership-led organisation of blind Americans
• Ploughshares Fund — Public foundation funding nuclear-weapons-elimination grants since 1981.
• Polaris Project — Operates the US National Human Trafficking Hotline + research on trafficking patterns.
• RAINN — Largest US anti-sexual-violence org — operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline.
• Southern Poverty Law Center — US civil-rights org — anti-extremism research, hate-group tracking, impact litigation.
• Stonewall — UK LGBTQ+ rights and equality charity — Workplace Equality Index, education, family services.
• The Arc of the United States — Civil rights and supports for people with intellectual & developmental disabilities
• UnidosUS — Largest US Hispanic civil-rights & advocacy org (formerly NCLR — National Council of La Raza).
• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) — Refugee resettlement + global advocacy via World Refugee Survey.