Statement of purpose
Nikyla Maria
I don’t believe we have to share a country, a body, a history, a religion, a language, or a wound for me to care what happens to you.
I care about human rights because I care about humans. Because dignity should never be something we have to earn from each other.
I write a lot about power. About bodies. About violence and silence and the systems we inherit without questioning. About what happens when people are taught to look away, and what becomes possible when they finally refuse.
So this page is part of that refusal.
Because nobody’s freedom should depend on whether the rest of us find their suffering relatable enough. Because history has taught us, over and over again, what happens when ordinary people decide someone else’s oppression is none of their business.
These are causes, organizations, resources, and human beings I believe deserve our attention. Some I contribute to financially. Some I amplify. Some I’m still learning about. I don’t pretend to be an expert on every issue represented here, and I don’t need to be an expert to give a fuck.
If something here moves you, learn. Read. Listen. Donate if you can. Speak when your voice can be useful. Pay attention to the people already doing the work.
Our humanity should be reason enough to care about theirs.
This isn’t just a static link directory or a passive checklist. It’s an active resource, a toolkit, and a personal commitment to building a more just world.
In a world designed to make us feel powerless, exhausted, or divided, keeping this list updated is my way of pulling power back into our hands and our local communities. Real change doesn’t start or end with a single vote or news cycle. It lives in how we direct our daily choices, our time, our voices, and our financial resources.
I keep this page here because solidarity is a daily practice, not a trend.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of systemic injustice, from state-sanctioned violence and military occupation to corporate greed and hate. But when we organize our daily lives around community care, mutual aid, and direct support, we disrupt those systems in tangible ways.
Whether you’re here to donate, find local resistance strategies, or share these resources with someone else, thank you for being part of this effort. Use it, share it, and let’s keep fighting the system together.
Start here
First, simple everyday actions you can take right now to create real change in your community. Below that, a directory of human rights causes, because when you want to support big movements, donating directly to the organizations already doing the work is one of the most effective ways to help.
Margin note // 01“Revolutions aren’t born in boardrooms; they are built at kitchen tables, in neighbor-to-neighbor chats, and in the quiet refusal to obey systems that trade human life for profit.”
“Systemic change starts when we pull our time, attention, and resources away from extractive institutions and build self-sustaining community power.”
Transfer funds from mega-banks to local credit unions or Black- and immigrant-owned community banks that reinvest locally instead of funding private prisons or harmful corporate lobbies.
Open an account at a local credit union or a community bank that reinvests where you live.
Divert a recurring percentage of your budget directly to local crowd-funders, emergency rent funds, or community fridges, bypassing corporate charity bureaucracies.
Set a recurring amount and send it straight to a local fund, not through an intermediary.
Worker-owned cooperatives keep wealth distributed within local communities rather than sending profits to distant executives.
Move regular spending toward worker-owned co-ops in your area.
Learn ICE non-compliance protocols, local tenant protection laws, and protest safety rights.
Host informal “Know Your Rights” sessions in your neighborhood.
Form text groups or signal chats with your immediate neighbors for emergency childcare, elder checks, or local safety defense without calling law enforcement.
Start with the people on your street. One group chat is a network.
Support community gardens, seed libraries, and tool-sharing groups to build resilience against supply-chain and economic pressures.
Find the garden, seed library, or tool library nearest you and use it.
City council meetings, school board decisions, and district attorney elections directly impact local policing, housing rights, and immigration sanctuary policies.
Find the date of your next city council or school board meeting. Go.
Offer your professional skills, whether legal defense, graphic design, translation, or accounting, to grassroots movements in your city.
Tell one local organizer exactly what you can do and how many hours you have.
Margin note // 02“Solidarity is not a performance we put on for history; it is the daily, radical work of keeping each other fed, safe, and free while the world demands our quiet submission.”
You don’t have to reinvent the work. Support the people already doing it.
Every link here goes to the organization’s own website, or to its own donation page. Nothing on this page collects money, email, or data. Open Details on any entry to see what they do and where the money goes. Links marked leave this page and open in a new tab.
Cause / 01
Premier legal defense provider representing children and families in immigration detention facilities while campaigning to end family detention.
Direct legal representation, bond assistance, and advocacy to shut down migrant detention centers.
Nonpartisan advocacy group exposing human rights abuses at detention facilities and fighting for community-based alternatives to incarceration.
Investigative reporting, policy advocacy, and pro-bono legal support for asylum seekers.
Joint project training volunteer lawyers and legal workers to defend immigrants facing deportation without legal representation.
Attorney training programs, volunteer coordination, and legal tools for detainee defense.
Cause / 02
Delivers medical assistance, mental health support, and essential supplies directly to injured and displaced children across the Middle East.
Overseas medical treatment, pediatric cancer care units, and emergency relief shipments in Gaza.
American humanitarian organization working in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan since 1968. It delivers emergency relief and long-term development through local staff and Palestinian partner organizations rather than parallel foreign operations.
Emergency food, water, medical supplies, and fuel distributed inside Gaza through partner organizations, alongside health, education, and economic development work across the region.
Provides independent, emergency medical aid in active conflict zones, including field hospitals and surgical support in Gaza.
Surgical supplies, trauma care, clean water, and emergency medical staffing in crisis zones.
U.S.-based humanitarian organization focused on long-term healthcare, education, and aid for Palestinian youth.
Medical evacuations, youth leadership programs, and direct family relief packages.
Cause / 03
Direct advocacy and education at the intersection of racial justice and Black immigrant rights.
Community organizing, immigrant defense, and policy campaigns for Black migrants.
A national coalition shaping policies to end systemic racism, defund harmful institutions, and invest in Black communities.
Policy development, national campaign organizing, and grassroots leadership training.
Online civil rights organization holding corporations, media platforms, and political leaders accountable for racial injustice.
Corporate accountability campaigns, voter protection drives, and criminal justice reform efforts.
Legal organization fighting in courts to protect voting rights, reform criminal justice, and eliminate economic inequality.
Landmark litigation, constitutional rights defense, and educational equity campaigns.
Cause / 04
Formed by the merger of the National Center for Transgender Equality and TLDEF, serving as the leading legal and political advocacy powerhouse for trans rights.
Federal and state litigation, legal name change assistance, state legislative defense, and national trans survey research.
Global organization providing 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth.
Free crisis hotline operations, peer support platforms, counselor training, and youth advocacy.
Media monitoring organization shaping cultural narratives to promote accurate and fair LGBTQ+ representation.
Media advocacy, newsroom accountability, and cultural storytelling campaigns.
Cause / 05
Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective organizing to protect bodily autonomy as a fundamental human right.
Grassroots reproductive justice organizing, leadership training, and maternal mortality awareness.
Umbrella coalition supporting domestic violence service providers and shaping federal survivor-centered policy.
Direct support for local shelters, survivor safety technology, and emergency economic assistance.
Innovator in comprehensive family shelters, notably providing domestic violence shelters that accommodate pets.
Emergency housing, pet-friendly shelter accommodations, trauma care, and job training for survivors.
Survivor-driven organization offering housing stability, emergency shelter, and legal advocacy for survivors of domestic violence.
Emergency housing stipends, legal assistance, and trauma-informed mental health services.
A Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists. Its signature campaign, Black Mama’s Bail Out, posts bail each Mother’s Day for Black mothers and caregivers held pre-trial simply because they can’t afford to pay.
Direct cash bail, short- and long-term support services for people after release, national bail reform organizing, and educational resources.
Cause / 06
The National Grief Center for Children & Families. Peer support groups where children, teens, young adults, and their families sit with others who’ve lost someone, before a death as well as after it. They’ve run groups specifically for families bereaved by suicide since 1986. It’s all free, with no government funding and no insurance billing. Since 1982 they’ve served more than 65,000 people in Portland alone while helping seed programs in over 500 cities worldwide.
Free peer support groups, grief toolkits and resources for kids and teens, the Grief Out Loud podcast, and training for the counselors, schools, and programs that carry this work in other cities.
Your Life Counts is now a program of Humanity Unlimited Global, a registered nonprofit operating since 2000. It supports individuals and families through grief, bereavement, and hardship, with an emphasis on reaching people before a crisis rather than only during one, and connects them to counseling, support groups, and community resources.
Support and referral infrastructure, community education on grief and trauma, and volunteer coordinator training.
Their guidance is to call or text 988 in the US or Canada.
Peer-led grief support for people who’ve lost someone to alcohol or other drugs. It’s a loss most bereavement groups weren’t built to hold, and one that carries a shame other griefs are spared. Meetings run across the United States and Canada and are led by people who’ve been through it, not clinicians.
This one’s a place to go, not primarily a place to give. Find a meeting near you, or send the link to someone who needs it.
A Denver organization working to heal intergenerational trauma through healing-informed, relationship-centered, culturally rooted practice. It serves young people ages 14 to 24 who are gang-involved or at risk, their families, and the victims of gang violence. That work is led largely by people who’ve lived it. Referrals come from juvenile justice, schools, and community agencies.
Crisis response, hospital intervention, community outreach, family advocacy, and job training.
Margin note // 03“They tell us we are small because they fear what happens when we look at one another and realize we are the majority.”
Nothing here’s permanent. Links rot, organizations merge, needs move.
Information changes. Organizations change. Needs change.
I update this page as I learn. Solidarity is a daily practice, not a trend, and a resource list’s only useful if somebody keeps it alive.
If something here’s wrong, dead, or missing, I’ll fix it rather than quietly delete it.
Last updated // September 10, 2026
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