Check out these impactful organizations advocating for Black rights, ranging from food security and social justice to cultural and economic empowerment. Credit: Aiden Craver/Unsplash.

When it comes to organizations, local or national, that look out for the interests of Black people, there are more than the usual suspects. Here is a partial list of organizations doing good work for Black people and Black communities that deserve your support and attention.

Food Production, Urban Gardening, Food Security

Houston Board of Food Security

  • IG: @houstonboardoffoodsecurity
  • IG: @thehappycamperhouston

Harlem River Farms

Fresh Houwse Grocery

DeShaun Taylor (left), co-owner of Taylor Made Farms with her husband, Jazzyyy Taylor, seeks to end food apartheid. Credit: Courtesy DeShaun Taylor.

Taylor Made Farms

  • Website: www.taylormadefarmtx.com
  • “For me, food justice is about people knowing where their food comes from, being able to see a farmer who looks like them, and having equitable access to fresh food.” (DeShaun Taylor, co-owner of Taylor Made Farms with her husband, Jazzyyy Taylor).

Metallic Sunflower Foundation

Community & Neighborhood Advocacy

Super Neighborhood Alliance

  • Website: Super Neighborhood Alliance
  • “Lots of Black-led Super Neighborhoods are doing good work. Don’t forget that Super Neighborhoods can also apply for City grants, and some even have 501 (c) (3) status.” (Ed Pettitt)

Social Justice

Pure Justice

Houston Justice Coalition

Protest Organize Participate (POP)

Acres Homes Community Advocacy Group

Radical Registrars

For the Culture

SHAPE Community Center

National Black United Front (NBUF)

·   Website: NBUF

NIA Cultural Center (Galveston)

Black Maternal Health

Kay Matthews, founder, Shades of Blue Project. Credit: Shades of Blue Project.

Shades of Blue Project

  • Website: Shades of Blue Project  
  • Our focus is on bridging the gaps that exist between maternal health and maternal mental health for folks of color. Our primary focus is on raising awareness and providing social support services. We’re not just doing it here in Houston. We work on a national and international level, as well.” (Kay Matthews, founder, Shades of Blue Project)

Economic Empowerment

Black Solidarity Economy Fund

Heritage Hub Federal Credit Union

Black United Fund of Texas (BUFTX)

The Arts

Community Artists Collective

Arts & Healing

Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW)

  • FB: Women Healing & Empowering Women
  • “Women Healing & Empowering Women (WHEW) is an arts healing organization addressing issues that are at the seed of all the challenges we face and ALL the isms and taboo conversations (i.e., sexual assault) by creating affinity safe spaces, bringing groups of different belief systems, socioeconomic backgrounds, professions, and generations, to have tough, layered, complex, awkward, and uncomfortable conversations. Like a pregnant mother forcing folks to get naked to birth the world we deserve and were meant to live in.” (Busi Peters)

The Black School

General Support Services

Collaborating Voices Foundation

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