Take Action

A healthy democracy depends upon citizen participation. Here’s a shortlist of resources to help you find a platform for your civic voice.

National Organization for Women (NOW): As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.

NARAL - Pro-Choice America The 2.5 million members of NARAL Pro-Choice America fight for reproductive freedom for every body. Each day, we organize and mobilize to protect that freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination.

Flippable: flippable.org  Providing regular actions we can take to drive targeted political change. By acting collectively and strategically, we can flip our state legislatures, Senate, House, and Presidency – and maintain the progress we have fought so hard to make.

Find your representatives at the LWV.org:  The League of Women Voters website makes it easy to find the contact information for your elected officials, just enter your zip code.

350: 350 is building a future that's just, prosperous, equitable and safe from the effects of the climate crisis.

Indigenous Environmental Network: Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth, and a key path forward for the climate movement is to center indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground. Please support these efforts if you can with a financial contribution.

Sunrise Movement: The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process; building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and well being of all people.

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project: (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Trans Lifeline: Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Black Visions Collective MN:  Since 2017, Black Visions Collective, has been putting into practice the lessons learned from organizations before them in order to shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota.

Friends of the Mississippi River: works to protect the Mississippi River (recently named one of the "most endangered rivers in the United States) and its watershed through land conservation, watershed protection, and river corridor stewardship.