Our State and National Partners:

Advancement Project's Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Project is dedicated to documenting and exposing the use of zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary policies and the “Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track.”

The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) challenges the systemic problem of pushout in our nation's schools and advocates for the human right of every child to a quality education and to be treated with dignity.

Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) is a broad-based coalition of over 40 organizations seeking to CURB prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and the number of prisons in the state.

Justice for Families (J4) is a new national support, advocacy and organizing initiative of families of court involved and incarcerated youth that works to challenge the community disinvestment, zero tolerance school policies, and punitive laws that lead to the disparate lockup of youth of color.

The Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) is a national alliance of grassroots organizations building a popular movement for peace, democracy and a sustainable world.

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is the nation's leading organization promoting alternatives to the drug war that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.

Our Local Partners and Allies

The Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) is dedicated to helping people dealing with poverty create & discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure they have voice, power & opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting them.

YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION/Free L.A.High School is working to build youth-led movement to challenge race, gender, and class inequality in the Los Angeles County juvenile injustice system, to tear down a system that has ensured the massive lock-up of people of color, widespread police brutality and corruption, vast disregard for black youth and communities' Constitutional and human rights, and to oppose the build-up of the world's largest prison system.

CADRE is dedicated to solidifying and advancing parent leadership to ensure that all children are rightfully educated regardless of where they live. They seek to effect policy change and mobilize political will through new parent participation models that preserve and expand the right to education for all South LA children and youth.

The Southern California Immigration Coalition is unified to bring an end to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raids of communities and workplaces. They believe in Full Legalization for the undocumented and their right to live in liberty, an unalienable right. People should live free from persecution by enforcement of a broken immigration system.

The Southern California Library is a people's library dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice and using their collections to address the challenges of the present so that all people have the ability, resources, and freedom to make their own histories.

Public Counsel is the largest pro bono law office in the nation. Public Counsel's activities are far-ranging and impact a wide spectrum of people who live at or below the poverty level.

The ACLU was founded to defend and secure individual liberty, equal protection of the laws and due process of law and to extend them to people who have been excluded from their protection.

NDLON improves the lives of day laborers in the United States. To this end, NDLON works to unify and strengthens is member organizations to be more strategic and effective in their efforts to develop leadership, mobilize, and organize day laborers in order to protect and expand their civil, labor and human rights.