Taking action for climate justice, gender equality and inclusivity through advocacy, storytelling and development initiatives

Welcome to The Color of Us, a youth-led community with a mission to elevate the voices of multiracial and multicultural youth. Our Voices. Our Stories

Our Gay-Straight Alliance brings together LGBTQ+ youth and straight peers. Through free flowing conversations, our straight peers can understand how to be helpful and knowledgeable allies. We discuss daily struggles and work together to build an environment of awareness and empathy. It is through these conversations, students on campus can normalize and promote attitudes of kindness, tolerance and inclusion. Our fellow LGBTQ students are able to connect and discuss similar struggles with each other, allowing them to feel validated, understood and not alone. Students are given a safe place where they can be vulnerable and support one another.

We believe in empowering youth by elevating their voices to address disproportionality and inequity in schools.

The ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

​

Religious exemptions allowing child placing agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents will likely reduce the number of families available to adopt, further overburdening the child welfare system and harming the best interests of children in care.

Believes that every child deserves a safe place to sleep and hope for a brighter future.

The ALCU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy and freedom of expression and association.

MHA incorporates culturally competent strategies to ensure that it is effectively addressing the treatment and psychosocial needs of consumers and families with diverse values, beliefs, sexual orientations and backgrounds that vary by race, ethnicity and/or language.

​

Our Visibility Campaigns serves as a vehicle to raise awareness of our lived experiences. It is an opportunity for our community members to share their stories and tell their own truths in an effort to be affirmed and see themselves reflected in the social justice landscape.

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 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.

Common Ground Foundation empowers high school students from under-served communities to become future leaders. Our programs focus on character development, social impact, healthy living, technology, financial literacy, creative arts, and global leadership.

Equal Rights Advocates protects and expands economic and educational access and opportunities for women and girls.

Women for Women International supports the most marginalized women in countries affected by conflict and war. Our programs enable them to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, women are able to create sustainable change for themselves, their family, and community.

The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems.

Founded and led by Trans and gender nonconforming people and our allies, we create safe and transformative spaces where members of our community can heal—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—from the trauma arising from generations of transphobia, racism, sexism, poverty, ableism and violence, and nurture them into tomorrow’s leaders.

Founded in 2013, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) is a member-based organization of Black youth activists creating justice and freedom for all Black people. BYP100 was, at one point, just a hashtag for the 2013 “Beyond November Movement Convening” developed through the vision and leadership of Cathy Cohen.

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.

We help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

ACER is the leading issue-based community organization working to uplift and amplify the African Diaspora to build power for systemic change that advances racial and economic equity in communities.

iFeminist encourages research on diverse women from around the world and throughout time to change the narrative regarding women's contributions to society. Each article contributes to a larger database of women in history. We are high school students aimed at changing the face of history by conducting our own research projects.

Superposition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit aiming to bridge the gender gap in tech by creating educational opportunities like hackathons, workshops, and panels. Every year, we host the Bay Area's largest all-women and non-binary hackathon

A resource to end the stigma of mental illness in the African American community.

Redefining Sisterhood For A New Generation

An anarcho abolitionist collective house based in occupied Piscataway land here for queer, enby, trans, black, brown, and indigenous liberation.

Black Feminist Future is an initiative informed by the legacy of Black feminist organizing, grounded in the current pulse of movements and located at the emergent need to amplify the power of black feminist leaders, organizations, and movements for the 21st century.

D.A.F.T Youth Services Inc. aims to eradicate the school to prison pipeline by improving social and educational outcomes for New York students of a marginalized community through preventative measures that address disruptive behaviors, while creating positive school environments, increasing equity, and eliminating racial disparities.

We’re creating an accessible, valuable and simple way for organisations to assess where they are on the path to equality.

This combination of life lessons and skillsets taught by mentors and more hands-on, entrepreneurial projects will provide the perfect curriculum to launch these students into a path where they can create a better life for themselves and elevate themselves out of poverty. We want to show these kids that they can meet their full potential and create the change within Lebanon that their leaders failed to provide.

We are a youth based organization seeking to help LGBTQ+ youth run for office, lobby, and gain political skills to change the future.