Founded in 1982, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC) provides legal and social services, community organizing, and education to over 12,000 refugees and asylum seekers yearly, helping them achieve legal status, citizenship, and well-being as they overcome extraordinary obstacles. EBSC staff and volunteers offer trauma-informed, culturally competent services, including legal assistance, case management, a multilingual hotline, radio programs, ESL classes, cash assistance, arts workshops, organizing, and educational exhibits featuring stories of asylum seekers. All of these programs work synergistically so that immigrant participants can heal from trauma and gain skills and support to build new lives in the U.S. EBSC has a special focus on survivors of gender-based violence, unaccompanied minors, LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, and Indigenous immigrants.

Too Young to Wed is an aid agency dedicated to empowering girls and ending the practice of forced child marriage. Its multimedia projects are the centerpiece of its advocacy efforts and feature the haunting stories of child brides from Nepal, India, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and even the U.S. In collaboration with nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits, Too Young to Wed uses storytelling to amplify the voices of the girls in those stories and build a global community able to transform advocacy into tangible action.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) provides pro bono attorneys to represent unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in their deportation proceedings. It also offers legal screenings and “Know Your Rights” presentations. KIND works to ensure that unaccompanied children receive fair and appropriate treatment from the U.S. immigration system. In addition to protecting children’s rights and safety before, during and after migration, KIND also helps children returning to their home countries to reintegrate back into their communities.

If, When, and How…You Decide!
If/When/How envisions a world where everyone has the right and resources to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, and violence. The organization also believes all people should have the power to define, create, and sustain their families on their own terms. If/When/How is helping transform the legal and policy landscape to make these beliefs reality.

Medical Students for Choice helps to create and support tomorrow's abortion providers and pro-choice physicians. The organization recognizes the physical and emotional toll reproductive oppression takes on Black communities, and works to hold the needs of people of color front and center.

RefugePoint partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. For refugees who must remain in the country to which they have fled, they help them to become self-reliant so they can achieve social and economic stability. For refugees who are not safe in the country to which they have fled, they help them relocate through resettlement or other pathways to safety. They also influence global policy and practice to improve how the world supports refugees. From its founding in 2005 through the end of 2024, RefugePoint has directly assisted over 180,000 refugees with rebuilding their lives.

The Brigid Alliance arranges and funds confidential, personalized travel support to women seeking abortion care in increasingly hostile environments. Working in partnership with a network of providers, the Brigid Alliance seeks to close the gap between the right to an abortion and the ability to access one.

Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD) is a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing immigration legal services. ILD’sattorneys have worked together for many years, and their expertise —which covers the full scope of immigration law and procedure — has enabled the agency to represent thousands of unaccompanied minors, families seeking asylum, and other individuals throughout California.

The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project provides free legal and social services to immigrants detained in Arizona. Nationally, we fight systemic injustice through litigation, coalition building, media engagement, and amplifying immigrant voices. We defend against punitive immigration policies—often targeting asylum seekers, including survivors of domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence—so all immigrants facing removal have access to counsel, understand their rights under the law, and are treated fairly and humanely.

Daraja Academy provides a safe place for girls who lack access to a high school education. It provides exceptional secondary education for Kenyan girls from underserved homes, and offers a beacon of hope, safety, and promise for marginalized girls to develop leadership skills. Daraja believes every girl deserves the education she needs to change herself, her community, and the world.

The Nepal Youth Foundation brings freedom, health, shelter and education to Nepal’s most impoverished children. In addition to providing schools, workshops, housing and nutrition to orphans and displaced children, the Sausalito-based nonprofit has freed more than 13,000 girls from indentured servitude, an advocacy that has changed the country’s culture.

Unapologetically focused on those who want contraception or an abortion, Ipas builds programs around those needs. As part of the broader reproductive justice movement, the Ipas Impact Network works with partners across Africa, Asia and the Americas to ensure that abortion and contraceptive care are essential health services—and that all people can access them. Ipas programs use a comprehensive approach that addresses health, legal, and social systems.

Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization with a dual mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power as a means of achieving social and economic justice. MUA’s innovative leadership development model trains its Latina immigrant members to advocate on their own behalf and is a national model for immigrant empowerment. The organization has launched a variety of local, state and national coalitions and alliances, all focused on improving the lives of immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

The only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to reproductive rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has used the law for more than 30 years to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect. CRR envisions a world where women are free to decide whether and when to have children, have access to the best reproductive healthcare available and can exercise their choices without coercion or discrimination.

Global Fund for Women is one of the world’s leading foundations for gender justice, standing up for the human rights of women, girls, and gender-nonconforming people worldwide. The organization’s vision is a world where gender-justice movements have transformed power and privilege into equity and equality for all.  Through bold, flexible, multi-year grants, it supports grassroots organizations helping women and girls lead safer, healthier, fuller lives. Its core work includes sexual and reproductive justice, climate action, crisis response, and the creation of a world free from all forms of violence.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights protects and advances the rights and interests of immigrant children. With the aid of bilingual volunteers, Young Center attorneys and social workers are appointed as child advocates to ensure that separated and unaccompanied children facing the U.S. immigration system are treated as children first. Young Center’s volunteer child advocates also meet with children in federal custody weekly to make sure they are not alone, their stories are heard, and their safety and well-being is prioritized in immigration proceedings.

A feminist grassroots organization in Nairobi, Kenya, TeenSeed focuses on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Led by young women, Teenseed nurtures and supports African teen women, helping them develop powerful voices that will enable them to claim their rights, hold leaders accountable, and become leaders themselves. Areas of focus include the empowerment of women and girls for leadership in SRHR, prevention of Human HIV infection among adolescents, and eradication of sexual and gender-based violence.

ReCrea builds community within an informal migrant settlement located on outskirts of Antofagasta in northern Chile. Although set up as a temporary place of refuge, the settlement has become home to thousands, including women and children. The foundation works to empower women to recreate their world and contribute to a more inclusive and egalitarian society.

Thistle Farms is a sanctuary for female survivors of abuse, addiction, prostitution and trafficking. Founded in 1997 by Rev. Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms’ residential program provides housing for up to 32 women and serves hundreds more with advocacy and referral services. Its social enterprises employ 45 current and former residents who produce natural bath and body products and operate the Thistle Stop Cafe and the Studios Workshop. An additional 1,000 women worldwide are employed through the Thistle Farms Global Marketplace.