BALT provides legal support to Baltimore communities as they exercise their civil liberties protesting against injustices rooted in structural racism and economic inequality.

BALT exercises a community lawyering approach because we believe that communities' organizing efforts should drive legal advocacy. We support and advance mass defense employing a human rights and racial equity framework.

Note: BALT now receives donations from Dissent Pins sales that formerly went to The Bronx Freedom Fund. As of 2020, The Bronx Freedom Fund is winding down because of long overdue reforms that ended cash bail for the majority of cases where charitable bail funds can provide assistance under state law. 

The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) at the Urban Justice Center organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. We are the first organization dedicated to providing comprehensive legal aid to refugees seeking resettlement, providing representation for those who have none and helping vulnerable families and refugees navigate the complex rules and processes of the international resettlement system.

IRAP has been organizing legal aid at airports across the country, but they've been in this fight for years and are in it for the long haul.

For more than 20 years, the Center for Reproductive Rights has used the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill. CRR is working for a world where every woman is free to decide whether and when to have children; where every woman has access to the best reproductive healthcare available; where every woman can exercise her choices without coercion or discrimination.

CCR's groundbreaking cases have expanded access to reproductive healthcare, including birth control, safe abortion, prenatal and obstetric care, and unbiased information.

Planned Parenthood is one of the nation's leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care for women, men, and young people, and the nation's largest provider of sex education. PPFA offers quality health care, backed by medical experts and over 100 years of research in reproductive care.

The Reproductive Health Access Project is a national nonprofit organization that works directly with primary care providers, helping them integrate abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care into their practices so that everyone can receive this essential health care from their own primary care clinicians.

The mission of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is to strengthen and amplify the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color to secure their human rights, and thus achieve reproductive justice. The Collective has 80+ women of color member organizations and individuals, and hundreds of white women and male allies.

When Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2010, her goal was to ensure that her daughter would never again be the only black girl in the room at computer science summer camp. Today, BGC nurtures a passion for computing among African-American youth through hackathons, summer camps, and programs through chapters across the US.

DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) Girls’ mission is to increase girls’ interest and success in technology, engineering and making through innovative educational experiences and mentor relationships. DIY Girls offers after-school and summer programs that provide hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) experiences for girls. 

ChickTech was founded in 2012 to engage women and girls of all ages in the technology industry while working to create a better technology culture for all. ChickTech has made a direct impact on tens of thousands of participants, including girls, women, and men. Their programs include summer camps, ChickTech: High School, Meetup groups for adults in tech, and conferences. 

Started as a peer support group for trans women of color (TWOC) focuses on issues such as discrimination in the workplace, housing advocacy, support for sex workers, providing trans-friendly services, and working to alleviate the many other barriers that TWOC face that no one else was talking about.

The Ali Forney Center's mission is to provide LGBTQ young people housing and a continuum of supportive services to help them thrive and prepare them for independent living. Since AFC's launch with just six beds in a church basement, the organization has grown to become the largest agency dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youths in the country.

Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community. Trans Lifeline fights the epidemic of trans suicide and improves overall life-outcomes of trans people by facilitating justice-oriented, collective community aid.

States United to Prevent Gun Violence is a grassroots network of 32 state affiliates working to make communities and families safer. As part of their 50 State Solution to end gun violence, they support existing state-based gun violence prevention groups and bring new partners into the movement.

The Community Justice Reform Coalition addresses the intersection of gun violence prevention and criminal justice reform in urban communities of color.

Giffords Law Center works at the local, state, and national levels by providing technical assistance, free of charge, to lawmakers, advocates, legal professionals, law enforcement, and citizens who seek to make their communities safer from gun violence. 

The LGBT+ Center Orlando is one of the oldest LGBT centers in the United States. Their mission is to promote and empower the LGBT community and its allies through information, education, advocacy and support.

The Community Justice Reform Coalition addresses the intersection of gun violence prevention and criminal justice reform in urban communities of color.

The COLOURS Organization provides health and wellness services for Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. 

Voices for Vaccines is a parent-driven organization that provides parents with clear, science-based information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable disease.

The New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register and civically engage Georgians.