Member Organizations
Advocating Change Together (ACT)
http://www.selfadvocacy.org/ACT is a non-profit disability rights organization that works to build leaders and organize around the reality of life for people with disabilities: poor living conditions, low-paying jobs, isolation, and discrimination in housing and public services.
Clean Water Action Alliance
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/Through grassroots organizing, expert policy research, and political advocacy focused on holding elected officials accountable to the public, Clean Water Action is an organization working to protect America's waters, build healthy communities, and to make democracy work for all of us.
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha
http://ctul.net/CTUL is an organization where workers build power to lead the struggle for fair wages, better working conditions, basic respect, and a voice in our workplaces. We are an organization of workers and for workers, committed to winning this struggle and in doing so, create a better future for the next generation.
Communication Workers State Council
http://www.cwamncouncil.org/The Communications Worker State Council brings together workers from five sectors: telecommunications, broadcasting, industry and manufacturing, newspapers, and flight attendants.
Community Action of Minneapolis
http://www.campls.org/Community Action of Minneapolis is a leader in dealing with poverty holistically. They provide quality and culturally sensitive programs and services while working to promote open dialogue between including community action agencies, public officials, schools, churches, employers, and people who live in poverty.
Education Minnesota
http://www.educationminnesota.org/Education Minnesota is the leading advocate for public education in Minnesota. Members work in pre-K-12 schools and higher education institutions statewide - getting involved with issues that affect educators and their students, mentoring new teachers, and offering professional development.
IUE-CWA
http://www.iue-cwa.org/As the Industrial Division of CWA, IUE-CWA represents a force of 150,000 active and retired men and women united collectively to seek dignity on the job and a secure future for workers and their families. They focus on organizing the unorganized, unionizing the organized, political and legislative efforts, community involvement, coalition building, and social action.
Isuroon
http://www.isuroon.org/en/Isuroon is a culturally appropriate education, communication, and advocacy organization for Somali women and health care providers. The ultimate goal of Isuroon is to provide Somali women with educational and informational resources to ensure that their cultural and spiritual traditions effectively interact with Western medical practices.
Land Stewardship Project
http://www.landstewardshipproject.org/The Land Stewardship Project is a grassroots membership organization made up of farmers, rural residents, and urban allies that was founded to promote stewardship for farmland, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable communities.
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
http://www.mft59.org/As a union of teachers, paraprofessionals, and school related personel, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers works to enhance the work environment for their members and give them a voice in the decisions that affect them.
Minnesota Association for Justice
http://www.mnaj.org/The Minnesota Association for Justice is comprised of a network of attorneys, paralegals, and students that are dedicated to justice for all. Through seminars, conventions, and regular publications they remained informed on the issues that are pressing to our state and they impact legislation through their lobbying efforts.
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.mnhomelesscoalition.org/Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless aims to generate policies, community support, and local resources for housing and services to end homelessness in Minnesota. Member organizations shape the legislative priorities, training opportunities, and community education efforts as they work to ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing for everybody in our state.
MN Neighborhoods Organizing For Change
http://www.mnnoc.orgMinnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) is a new non-profit committed to building power in low-income and moderate-income neighborhoods through community organizing, civic engagement, and education. NOC is a member-funded and member-run organization that takes on the social and economic justice issues that impact our community the most.
Minnesota Nurses Association
http://www.mnnurses.orgSince 1905, Minnesota Nurses Association members have effectively influenced health care policy and practice. And today, no other agency is better prepared than the Minnesota Nurses Association to insist on and facilitate the change needed to ensure quality healthcare in Minnesota.
OutFront Minnesota
http://www.outfront.org/homeOutFront Minnesota is a leader in making our state a place where GLBT Minnesotans have the freedom, power, and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives. They deliver programs and services to the GLBT and allied community centered around public policy, anti-violence, education and training, and the law.
Protect Minnesota
http://protectmn.org/Protect Minnesota is the only non-profit organization working solely to prevent gun violence. We are a state-wide organization representing Minnesotans who want to change the discussion about gun violence and advocate for common sense concerning issues surrounding this issue. We can do this through education, through advocacy and through passion for the belief that we can prevent gun injuries and deaths.
Saint Paul Federation of Teachers
http://spft.locals.educationminnesota.org/The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers strives to create better schools for children and for better working conditions for all who work there. They address both continuing and new issues that arise in education.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare
http://www.seiuhealthcare.org/SEIU Healthcare brings together workers from across the health care sector to improve the lives of the union members and for all those they provide service to. They are leading advocates for affordable healthcare for all, with a special emphasis on dismantling enduring systemic healthcare inequalities.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26
http://www.seiu26.org/SEIU Local 26 is Minnesota's Property Services Union, uniting more than 5,000 janitors, security officers, and window cleaners in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. SEIU unites more than 225,000 property services workers nationally, and over 1.9 million including workers in healthcare and the public sector.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 63
SEIU Local 63 represents over 400 building maintenance workers in the Minneapolis schools.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Minnesota State Council
http://www.seiumn.org/The SEIU Minnesota State Council is building political power for Minnesota's workers to help ensure that workers, not just corporations and CEOs, are benefiting from today's global economy.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 284
http://www.seiu284.org/SEIU Local 284 represents people who work as school bus drivers, custodians, child care workers, paraprofessionals, clerical employees, and other school support staff on issues such as child care, education funding, health care, pensions, and student transportation.
Somali Action Alliance
http://www.somaliactionalliance.org/The Somali Action Alliance brings together the Somali community to build leaders, power, and social capital by understanding public policy and expanding civic engagement among members of this immigrant community.
Spirit of Truth
http://www.spiritoftruthtwincities.org/Spirit of Truth is a faith community from the Judeo-Christian tradition that strives to put love and justice at the center of everything they do. They are a community of organizers and social activists, of many religious and non-religious backgrounds, who practice faith in weekly song-and-prayer gatherings, in strategic campaigns, and on the streets, taking action for the things we believe in.
UNITE HERE!
http://www.local21.com/The union UNITE HERE! gives hospitality and laundry workers in Southern Minnesota a means to fight for better wages, benefits, and working conditions - ensuring that these jobs in the service sector provide a decent standard of living and that our community is a better place to live and work.
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1189
http://www.ufcw1189.org/UFCW Local 1189 represents workers in retail, health care, meatpacking, manufacturing, and food processing industries, as well as pharmacists, paramedics, barbers, and truck drivers. Together, they find a voice in the workplace.
United Transportation Union (UTU)
http://www.utu.org/The United Transprotation Union is "The Voice of Transportation Labor", connecting railroad, bus, and mass transit workers on issues that are important to them.
womenwinning
http://www.womenwinning.org/The mission of womenwinning is to encourage, promote and support pro-choice women's leadership in all political parties and levels of public office.