Join The Movement

• The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is a non profit organization that strives for the betterment of the New Haven community. The Community Foundation works to promote inclusion and reduce inequities by engaging with diverse community leaders and increasing the amount and impact of local giving and community investment in Greater New Haven. This year, The Community Foundation adopted a 5 year plan which strives to provide opportunity for all within the New Haven community in response to the chorus of voices demanding greater racial equity and justice. The organization acknowledges that in the times of covid, the devastating health and economic impacts fall disproportionately on people of color, which widens racial and ethnic disparities that have long plagued our country. In addition to the strategic 5 year plan the organization has laid out, they also support and promote arts and culture, civic vitality and social justice, and quality education. The aforementioned categories along with many other areas the Community Foundation focus on can be found on their website, cfgnh.org.

• The Greater New Haven NAACP

The Greater New Haven chapter of the NAACP has been active in the New Haven Community for over 100 years, organizing events to raise both awareness of and money to aid in the fight against racial injustice and inequity. Granted its charter to become a NAACP branch office in 1917, the Greater New Haven Branch has worked in alignment with the vision, mission, goals, and objectives of the national organization for more than 90 years. It has become the largest branch office in New England and, besides New Haven, it serves the towns of Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, West Haven, and Woodbridge. The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The vision of the NAACP is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

• Artsuciation Academy Network

The mission of the Artsucation™ Academy Network is to provide young people, ages 3 to 21, with passion, drive, and creative and leadership skills in order to elevate their sense of self-worth and make them more productive adults in society by offering instructional programs in dance and music that are embedded with history, literacy, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and social context elements, whereby the participants will be given responsibilities and opportunities to experience success in every lesson.

• Black Lives Matter New Haven

Black Lives Matter New Haven, established in August 2015 by co-founders Sun Queen, Orisha Ala Ochumare, Dawnise Boulware and Sy Frasier, is a grassroots organization committed to building community power. BLMNHV leads grassroots efforts to eradicate systemic white supremacy, oppression and racial violence on Black, Brown and Queer communities and to combat the compounding effects of such violence by promoting holistic healing and Black, Brown and Queer creativity and joy. BLMNHV’s work is centered in New Haven but the organization is a recognized leader in racial justice across the state of Connecticut. BLMNHV is ardently committed to systemic change to actualize racial, economic and health equity. Their vision is to inspire and revitalize the community through advocacy, education, transformational justice, community partnerships, and to create long-lasting solutions to systematic racism.