REPARATIONS ORGANIZING
The Reparations Movement has been active for centuries and continues to grow. This interactive map identifies organizations at the local level and allows for filtering across several data points.
Restorative Actions Initiative
Restorative Actions is an interfaith initiative born from the intersection of theology, justice, and economics. It allows U.S. Americans who benefit from institutional racism, to provide a credible witness for justice by surrendering ill-gotten gains toward the establishment of just relationships with Afro-American and Indigenous communities.
Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light
Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light works in partnership with faith and spiritual communities and all Minnesotans to build transformative power and bring the lights of people’s unique gifts to addressing the climate crisis. We grow the climate movement in Minnesota by empowering individuals and communities across the state to take action that is authentic, effective, and energizing in their context.
Sacred Reckonings Year-End Report
Christian churches are called to reckon with histories of colonization and White supremacy that have broken lives, bodies, relationships, and the Earth. Sacred Reckonings is a holistic process teaching that reparation is more than just dollars. The annual report details trainings, partnerships, and deliverables from the current past year.
The Truth Telling Project supports and implements grassroots, community-centered truth-telling and reparations processes to achieve Black liberation and BIPOC solidarity, amplify traditionally silenced and disenfranchised voices, and abolish white supremacy.
Reconstructing Judaism cultivates, provokes and inspires a deeply rooted, boldly relevant and co-created Judaism that provides individuals and communities with tools to lead lives of meaning and joy. Diverse, connected and engaged Judaism meaningfully contributes to a just and compassionate world.
ISAIAH is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) statewide multiracial group of faith communities, Black barbershops, childcare centers, and more fighting for racial and economic justice in Minnesota.
Faith in Minnesota, the 501(c)(4) arm of ISAIAH, is a political home for people of faith who are acting boldly and prophetically to create a new, people-centered politics in our state — one rooted in abundance, where everyone is in and no one is out; and a vehicle for creating a Minnesota that is inclusive and just for every person.
We Make the Future (WMTF) was founded in 2021 and is built on the implementation work of Race Class Narrative Action with ASO Communications and Faith in Minnesota and rooted in Race Class Narrative research. Our goal is to increase the capacity of state, local and national partners to move a race forward narrative on our economy and democracy so they can make a compelling case for a better future for all. By combining empirically based messaging and coalition building we partner on the development and distribution of shared narratives rooted in place that motivate our base and persuade the middle.
Black Lives Matter | Minnesota
Minnesota is ground zero for the fight against police brutality and systemic racism and Black Lives Matter Minnesota stays at the forefront of the fight. We mobilize against racial injustice against Black Lives to make a real difference. Our goal is to end police brutality and institutional racism.
The members of RJR are ordinary people who are troubled by the persistent racism that plagues this country. Believing that the damage caused by racism must be repaired before our society can be whole, we work for just and respectful treatment for all. While much of our work is focused in our local area based in Franklin County, Massachusetts, we reach out to and are connected with the broader movements in our region and the nation.
Fresh Energy’s mission is to shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies. Together we are working toward a vision of a just, prosperous, and resilient future powered by a shared commitment to a carbon-neutral economy.
ORGANIZERS & TRAINERS
Almost 40 years ago, a group of Christian leaders created Crossroads as a resource for historically white Christian institutions declaring a desire to meet the needs of People of Color within and outside their membership as part of a commitment to multiculturalism.
We don’t offer hollow training or box-checking exercises. We challenge you. We call you to action. And then we walk with you. We empower you to solve real problems and make lasting change — grounded in the reality of where we are today, informed by the history of how we got here, and oriented toward the world we’re building together.
The Cultural Wellness Center (CWC) is a community-initiated multidimensional organization focused on promoting health, healing, and Cultural Wellness within diverse communities, especially among people of African descent. Located in South Minneapolis, the center offers a variety of programs and services, including community development and research, health and wellness initiatives, leadership development, cultural education and reconnection, and entrepreneurship support.
We train and support people who grow teams, launch chapters, and expand trust in democracy—one relationship at a time. We believe democracy must be practiced to be preserved. That’s why we focus on building local infrastructure: clubs, councils, associations, and circles of trust that reproduce, grow, and sustain themselves.