Member organization of Mississippi Engaged are nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that have a history and current focus on civic and voter engagement, public policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing They are committed to engaging with voters and members of their communities; growing grassroots mobilization efforts; and collaborating with nonprofits doing similar work in other communities throughout the state. Member nonprofits have access to the roundtable’s tools, resources, and a team of subject matter experts to help build power in their communities.
One Voice is a social justice organization that aims to lift the voices of underserved and marginalized communities in Mississippi and the Deep South. One Voice convenes and connects organizations around its core program areas–education equity, criminal justice, civic engagement, and fiscal policy. Its central work is providing technical assistance, resources, training, and research to social justice organizations. One Voice also offers leadership development opportunities to various community members through its leadership institutes.
Through direct action/public awareness campaigns, legal advocacy and popular education, we work with workers to create better workplace conditions and insure that all workers will be treated with dignity and respect and have equal access to good jobs and humane living conditions, regardless of their race, creed, gender or religion.
WE MUST VOTE is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to empower communities through civic participation and education. We are dedicated to increasing voter engagement, knowledge, and registration, especially in rural areas. Additionally, we are committed to supporting justice-impacted individuals in their reintegration into society by providing access to voting information and advocacy for their rights. By fostering an informed and inclusive democracy, we aim to create a fair and just society where every voice is heard, and every citizen can actively participate in shaping their future.
Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable launched over twenty years ago under the legal name Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation. It was led by two longtime activists Stephanie Parker Weaver and labor organizer Deborah Robinson under fiscal sponsorship. Under their leadership, they increased voter registration and mobilized voters to the polls. Additionally, they fought righteously to organize workers to ensure more rights and power in the workplace.
The People’s Advocacy Institute (PAI) is a non-profit community resource, training and capacity-building incubator for transformation justice in the South. PAI serves as a vehicle for true democracy, harnessing the collective wisdom of southern communities that have been directly impacted by a divestment from key community systems such as mass criminalization and incarceration and economic inequality.
Civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. founded the SPLC in 1971 to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all. Since then, we’ve won numerous landmark legal victories on behalf of the exploited, the powerless and the forgotten.
Southern Echo’s mission is to empower African Americans and low wealth communities throughout Mississippi and the Southern Region with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to impact and demand accountability of the political, education, economic and environmental systems to address the needs of communities through comprehensive organizing, leadership development, training and technical assistance programs.
The Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative (MLICCI) is a statewide non-profit public policy advocacy organization working to strengthen women’s economic security in Mississippi by making child care affordable for low-income working moms, achieving gender and racial equity in the workforce and making the safety net work for women.
Mississippi M.O.V.E. started in 2004 as a coalition of community-based organizations in Mississippi that advocated for students, people below the age of 35, and communities of low and moderate-income families by working on voter registration, and education and other social issues.
The Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity is a political home where Mississippi immigrants and their children are empowered to dream about building a better world for their families through political education, grassroot leadership development, and community organizing.
Countrywide Family Development Center, Inc.
Clay County Youth Council
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