Racial Equity & Economic Justice

The mission of the Urban League of Greater Madison is to ensure that African Americans and other community members are educated, employed and empowered to live well, advance professionally and contribute to the common good in the 21st Century.

Educate: To support and enhance the learning experiences of our youth in the classroom and the community so that they are prepared to realize their full potential in life.

Employ: To ensure that African Americans and others of working age are able to identify, train for and secure employment in stable and emerging industries.

Empower: To ensure that people of color are adequately empowered with the opportunity to transform their own communities, participate in social and cultural activities, and contribute to the common good of our region.

Empowering Youth, Strengthening Families, Engaging the Community.

Centro Hispano’s mission is to create a county where Latinx families can aspire upward to reach personal and professional goals while feeling engaged and strengthened with the tools for success.

Centro Hispano’s Values:

​FOSTER connection. 

​ACT with mutual respect and dignity. 

NOURISH community. 

LIVE with courage. 

DEMONSTRATE  integrity. 

Nehemiah Center for Urban Development cultivates innovative Black and non-black leaders through culturally grounded programs, who together create dynamic educational experiences and collaborative partnerships by building transformational relationships, equitable systems and just solutions. 

- Justified Anger: The goal is to eliminate racial disparities by provoking moral conscience and directing collective action at the grassroots and systemic levels. 

- Youth Education And Leadership: Nehemiah provides a wide array of culturally competent and relevant programs to meet the needs of K-12 students in the greater Madison area.

- Criminal Justice & Reentry: Nehemiah provides a wide array of culturally competent and relevant programs to meet the needs of men who are leaving jail or prison.

- Leadership and Capacity Development: Reducing African American/white racial disparities in Madison requires a dual approach in terms of leadership and capacity development.

Urban Triage, Inc. is on a mission to transform culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future. Their goal is to promote positive health outcomes and reduce significant health disparities at the community level. They do this through meeting basic needs and then engaging communities through educational opportunities and effective advocacy at multiple levels.

Urban Triage stands in the gap for those most in need through advocacy, transformative education, and critical coordinated services between partner organizations, city officials, and community resources. Most critically, with the community's trust and track record to carry out the work.

YWCA Madison is committed to eliminating racism and empowering women. The YWCA pursues this commitment is by seeking justice over charity, empowerment over enabling. It is instilled in everything that they do and propels how they do their work.

The YWCA’s goal is to eliminate barriers that exist for individuals looking to become self-sufficient, expand the thinking of individuals looking to explore privilege, and advocate around issues that most affect marginalized communities.

Freedom, Inc. (FI) is a Black and Southeast Asian non-profit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color. Their mission is to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing that will bring about social, political, cultural, and economic change resulting in the end of violence against women, gender-non-conforming and transgender folks, and children within communities of color.

FI works to challenge the root causes of violence, poverty, racism and discrimination. Their belief is that people who are most affected by these issues must have voice, power, resources and choice, in order for true social change to happen. 

Our Community is Our Campaign

The NAACP was founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence and injustice against African-Americans across the nation, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the country.

Vision Statement

The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.

Objectives

To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens.

To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.

To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.

To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights.

To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination.

To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP’s Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.