What You Can Do
A Resource Guide for Helping in Troubled Times

URGENT:

• ACLU's Resistance Training video
• Flip the Senate!
  • Amy McGrath (KY)
  • Sara Gideon (ME)
  • John Hickenlooper (CO)
  • Theresa Greenfield (IA)
  • Kimberly Graham (IA)
  • Mark Kelly (AZ)
• Contact Congress:
  • https://5calls.org/ provides phone numbers and suggested scripts for the issues of your choice.
  • http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
  • https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
• Make sure you are registered to vote!
• Make masks.
  • traditional machine mask patterns
  • IN THE HOOP (embroidery machine) mask pattern
  •  list of organizations that need masks
• Donate and/or volunteer (see suggestions below)
• Become a civil rights tester
• Know the truth:
  • PolitiFact
    
  • FactCheck.org
  • The Guardian
  • Snopes 
• Find legal help:
  • Immigrant Justice
  • ACLU hotline at 415-621-2488
• Take Care of Yourself:
  • Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
  • The Trevor Project (crisis intervention for LGBTQ youth): 1-866-488-7386
  • Trans Lifeline (US): 1-877-565-8860
  • Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): 800-656-4673
  • National Domestic Abuse Hotline: 1-800-799-7233, 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)
  • Crisis Text Line: 741741
  • HomeSecurityList: Domestic Violence: How to Get Help When You Are Scared Of The Consequences (Resources for US/UK/AUS)
• Learn other languages:
  • for free: https://www.duolingo.com/
  • for purchase: https://www.rosettastone.com/lp/opdemo2/?cid=se-nb-gg-consumersadv-esp

How You Can Donate:

Immigration:

• Kids in Need of Defense
• Immigrant Justice
• RAICES
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
• Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee
• The Florence Project
• Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project

Homelessness/Poverty:

• Martha's Table
• Manna Food Center

Women's Health:

• Planned Parenthood (Main Site)
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• NARAL Pro-Choice America
• Reproductive Health Access Project
• Women's Health Center of West Virginia (last abortion clinic in WV)
• Jackson Women's Health Organization (last abortion clinic in MS)
• https://abortionfunds.org/fund/yellowhammer-fund/

Education:

• The Myrna Scholarship

Civil Liberties:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

Civil Rights:

• general
  • ACLU Nationwide
  • Amnesty International
• specific to race:
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Native American Rights Fund
  • Urban Justice Center
• specific to religion:
  • Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• specific to disabilities:
  • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
• specific to sexual orientation or gender identity:
  • Lambda Legal
  • Sylvia Rivera Law Project
  • Mazzoni Center
  • National Center for Lesbian Rights
• specific to women:
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • National Women's Law Center
• specific to voting:
  • League of Women Voters

Ending Hate Crimes/police violence:

• Anti-Defamation League
• Campaign Zero
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Muslim Advocates

Climate Change/Environmental:

• EarthJustice
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• NextGen Climate Action
• Sierra Club
• Standing Rock
• Environmental Defense Fund
• The Nature Conservancy

Freedom of the Press:

• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• PEN America

Help for Domestic and/or sexual violence victims:

• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
• New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault

The Arts:

• Arts Action Fund 
• Americans for the Arts
• PBS
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Women in Politics:

• EMILY's List
• Running Start
• She Should Run