The Covenant is in action
Below is a sampling of organizations that exemplify the spirit and action of The Covenant. Explore the Covenants in the left navigation for more organizations!
Children’s Defense Fund
www.childrensdefense.org/ The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. They work to ensure that all American children, particularly poor and minority children and those with disabilities have health insurance so they can get health care and mental health services.
The mission of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program is to create supportive, nurturing, literature-rich environments that set high expectations for all children through a focus on literacy, cultural heritage, parental involvement, Servant-Leadership, and social action. The Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program empowers children to embrace their responsibility to make a difference in themselves, their family, their community, their country, and their world. At Freedom Schools®, children are engaged in activities that nurture their minds, bodies, and spirits.
W. Haywood Burns Institute
www.burnsinstitute.org/ The Burns Institute works intensively with local jurisdictions to reduce the overrepresentation of youth of color in their juvenile justice systems. The Burns Institute's Community Justice Network for Youth supports and strengthens community-based organizations that serve youth of color with advocacy, technical assistance and services. The focus on specific issues affecting youth of color in the juvenile justice system -- such as the juvenile death penalty, school discipline policies and mental health matters -- as well as on international juvenile justice concerns. ACLU Northern California
www.aclunc.org The ACLU of Northern California works to preserve and guarantee the protections of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. They aim to extend these freedoms to segments of the population who have traditionally been denied their rights. The ACLU of Northern California’s Police Practices Project monitors police abuses and promotes accountability and oversight. Using legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, litigation, and public education, the Project works to ensure that police officers do their jobs without violating individuals’ constitutional rights. PolicyLink
www.policylink.org PolicyLink is a national research and action institute that works collaboratively to develop and implement local, state, and federal policies to achieve economic and social equity. PolicyLink collaborates with a broad range of partners to implement strategies to ensure that everyone—including those from low-income communities of color—can contribute to and benefit from economic growth and prosperity. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
www.civilrights.org The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is the nation's premier civil rights coalition, and has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957. Its mission is to promote the enactment and enforcement of effective civil rights legislation and policy. With a new strategy in place, LCCR plans to further their strong record of legislative achievement in 2007. What remains unchanged is uniting all Americans as one nation true to its promise of equal justice, equal opportunity and mutual respect. Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund
www.federationsoutherncoop.com/ The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund strives toward the development of self-supporting communities with programs that increase income and enhance other opportunities; and they strive to assist in land retention and development, especially for African Americans, but essentially for all family farmers. The Federation does this with an active and democratic involvement in poor areas across the South, through education and outreach strategies which support low-income people in molding their communities to become more humane and livable. They also work to assist in the development of cooperatives and credit unions as a collective strategy to create economic self-sufficiency. Opportunity Agenda
www.opportunityagenda.org/ Opportunity Agenda believes that true opportunity requires a commitment to a core set of values. These values are integrally related to the principle of human rights. Equal treatment, a voice in societal decisions, a chance to start over, and the tools to meet our own basic needs are not just good policy ideas. They are the right of every human being simply by virtue of his or her humanity. Their 6 Core Values are Mobility, Equality, Voice, Redemption, Community, and Security. Environmental Justice Resource Center
www.ejrc.cau.edu/ The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was founded in 1994 to assist, support, train, and educate people of color, students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making. The center serves as a national clearinghouse, repository, and archive of the largest collection of environmental justice materials in the world. Through informal networks and an interdisciplinary approach, the EJRC has forged bonds with impacted communities and developed common strategies to increase environmental literacy and educate at risk communities. Career Communications Group/ Black Family Network
www.blackfamilynet.net/v2/index.php The Career Communications Group’s mission is to promote significant minority achievement in engineering, science and technology. As a minority-owned media services company, they recognize the mandate to promote excellence to our youth by telling the stories of the thousands of unheralded people striving for success. It is through their continuous research and relationships that they are addressing need to promote opportunities for the Black Community to take a leadership role in developing and teaching its children and professionals about the work of technology, and to ensure that we will have a role in this phenomenon, if we are prepared.
