Careers in Social Justice
Social justice careers are found primarily in the nonprofit and government sectors among non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations (IOs), think tanks, religious institutions, law firms and even law schools.
Organizations by Issue
Aging
Children, Youth, and Family
- Amnesty International
- Children's Defense Fund
- City Limits
- Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA)
- Equal Rights Advocates
- Freechild Youth Activism for Social Justice
- INFACT
- Juvenile Law Center
- National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- National Youth Advocacy Coalition
Civil Liberties and Individual Rights
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Human Rights Watch
- Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- National Immigration Forum
- National Veterans Legal Services Program
- One World International
- UNICEF
- Witness
Community Development
Disease and Disability
- ADA Watch
- AIDS United
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
- Mental Health America
Education
- Education Law Center
- International Education and Resource Network
- National Education Association
- Network of Educators on the Americas
- Rethinking Schools
- Schools for Chiapas
Environment and Agriculture
- Global Exchange
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy
- International Rivers Network
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
- National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
- International Society for Ecology and Culture
- Rural Advancement Foundation International
- Sierra Club Foundation
- United Farm Workers
Homelessness
- Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
- National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
Indigenous Peoples
- Cultural Survival
- International Indian Treaty Council
- Native American Rights Fund
- The Indigenous Peoples council on Biocolonialism
Labor
- AFL-CIO
- Clean Clothes Campaign
- Green America
- Global Exchange
- International Labor Organization
- International Labor Rights Forum
- Jobs with Justice
- Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center
- Maquila Solidarity Network
- UNITE
Non-violence
- American Friends Service Committee
- Amnesty International
- Institute for Policy Studies
- Peacenet
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- States United to Prevent Gun Violence
- Violence Policy Center
Poverty
- Center for Law and Social Policy
- DATA - Debt, Aids, and Trade in Africa
- Focus on the Global South
- Food Research and Action Center
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Legal Aid Society of New York
- Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
- Oxfam America
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- United for a Fair Economy
- United Nations Development Program
Welfare
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- National Center for Law and Economic Justice