ORGANIZATIONS

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE

Devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world based on belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America

Epsicopal Peace Fellowship

Lutheran Peace Fellowship

The Methodist Peace Fellowship

Presbyterian Peace Fellowship

The World Peace Prayer Society

pace e bene

Pace e Bene translates to “peace and all good.” Pace e Bene sponsors a national Campaign Nonviolence each September. This is a long-term movement to build a culture of peace and nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and the climate crisis.

PAX CHRISTI USA

U.S. Catholic peace organization that promotes four initiatives:  

• Spirituality of nonviolence and peacemaking

• Disarmament, demilitarization, and reconciliation

• Economic and interracial justice in the U.S.

• Human rights and global restoration

friends committee on national legislation

The Friends Committee on National Legislation lobbies Congress and the administration to advance peace, justice, opportunity, and environmental stewardship.

fellowship of REconciliation (FOR) usa

Fellowship of Reconciliation promotes nonviolence as a way of life, a moral commitment, and a social tool.

PEACE AND JUSTICE RESOURCES

CODEpINK

CodePink is a women led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights organizations, and redirect U.S. tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.

avp usa

The Alternatives to Violence Project–USA is an association of community, school, and prison-based groups offering experiential workshops that include games and exercises that focus on respect for self and others, non-judgmental communication, and cooperation as a basis for non-violent, creative conflict resolution. 

back from the brink

The Back from the Brink: Call to Prevent Nuclear War is part of a national grassroots initiative seeking to fundamentally change U.S. nuclear weapons policy.

don’t bank on the bomb

Assists those who want to divest in war and invest in peace, the environment, and socially responsible practice.

international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

madison veterans for peace

Clarence Kailin – Chapter 25

National Priorities Project

The National Priorities Project fights for a U.S. federal budget that prioritizes peace, economic security and shared prosperity. It offers well-researched information about U.S. defense spending compared with that of other countries and creates valuable charts displaying this information.

The Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice and Public Understanding

nuclear age peace foundation

Includes a monthly newsletter, The Sunflower.

nukewatch

Based in Luck, WI. They have been working for a nuclear-free future since 1979.

wisconsin network for peace and justice

Founded in 1991, WNPJ is an umbrella organization to which 153 organizations in Wisconsin that are working for a peaceful, just and sustainable world belong.

watson Institute Costs of War Project

The Costs of War Project uses research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. Economists associated with the Institute have also shown that investing government money in defense rather than civil projects like education, renewable energy, health care, and infrastructure actually costs jobs since more jobs can be created per dollar of investment in those areas than in defense.

The Poor Peoples’ Campaign

The Poor Peoples’ Campaign works to free U.S society from what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, called the three evil triplets of poverty, racism and militarism as well as climate change and other forms of ecological devastation from all of which poor people suffer disproportionately. It also committed to building unity across racial, class, gender and religious lines and to equipping members of oppressed groups for leadership. It embraces non-violent tactics and non-partisan activism.

Peace Action Wisconsin

Wisconsin Institute for Nonviolence and Conflict Studies

women’s international league for peace & freedom

CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES

Campaign Zero

Campaign Zero supports the analysis of policing practices across the country and provides technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns.

Justice Policy Institute

Justice Policy Institute that works on justice reform and advances policies that promote well-being and justice for all people and communities. It has researched how poverty programs can improve public health and safety.

The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project is a non-profit news organization focused on police accountability, policing tactics, and prisoners’ rights.

National Police Accountability Project

The National Police Accountability Project protects the human and civil rights of individuals in their encounters with law enforcement and detention facility personnel.

RACIAL JUSTICE & ANTI-POVERTY RESOURCES

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.

Coalition Communities of Color

The Coalition of Communities of Color's mission is to address the socioeconomic disparities, institutional racism, and inequity of services experienced by our families, children and communities; and to organize our communities for collective action resulting in social change to obtain self-determination, wellness, justice and prosperity.

Movement for Black Lives

The Movement for Black Lives aims to mobilize million people in service of racial justice — on the streets and at the ballot box.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Showing Up for Racial Justice is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and promote racial justice, moving white people to act as part of multi-racial majority via community organizing, mobilizing, and education.

BRIC Resources for Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement

BAIL FUNDS

ActBlue

ActBlue will split your donation between 38 community bail funds.

The Bail Project

The Bail Project provides bail relief in 22 cities, including New York, Chicago, and Houston.

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT RESOURCES

psr – wisconsin

The Wisconsin chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility seeks solutions to the gravest threats to human health and survival: nuclear weapons, climate change, and environmental toxins.