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Nonprofit · Central
A nonprofit with offices in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, DC. It offers online courses on religious literacy and public life, and classroom materials on rights and respect for schools.
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Network or meetup · West Park
Men in family and community roles who care for neighborhoods. They teach and encourage young people and local advocates about gun violence, schools, and neglected spaces, and they run neighborhood clean-ups each spring and fall.
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Nonprofit · West Park
Works for fairer special education for children from groups that are often left out. It helps families see learning differences and neurodiversity in a more positive light, and it offers reading help and training for schools.
Last seen active: August 2025
Nonprofit · Online
The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. It works on free speech, voting rights, immigrants' rights, LGBTQ equality, and fair treatment in the justice system, and it has volunteer and local chapter roles.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Upper North
A youth nonprofit that runs a school-based mentoring program and works with partners on a gaming and esports program for youth affected by gun violence. Its site also lists a partner program for young women ages 12 to 21.
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Network or meetup · Central
The Philadelphia chapter of a national group of Black social workers. It offers professional development and advocacy, plus a place to build strategies for community well-being. Members include social welfare professionals and people from other fields.
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Nonprofit · Central
A Quaker peace and service organization with its main office in Philadelphia. It works on peace and justice issues and runs projects across the country and abroad. Its website does not list programs that are only for Philadelphia.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Lower Northwest
A Philadelphia nonprofit that uses weddings and celebrations to offer jobs and counseling referrals to women who survived intimate partner violence or human trafficking. Supporters can give monthly or attend its annual gala.
Last seen active: November 2025
Nonprofit · North
A nonprofit that advocates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. It runs parent training sessions on special education topics, Zoom drop-in hours for school planning help, and a youth leadership program.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Strawberry Mansion
A nonprofit that helps women and girls with criminal justice histories find work, housing, and health care, and rebuild family life. It runs housing for women coming home from incarceration, job training, mentoring, and reentry classes.
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Nonprofit · Central
A nonprofit that helps disabled people take part in arts and culture. It offers an ACCESS Card that gets $2 admission at partner museums, theaters and gardens, runs free learning pages, and advises arts groups on access.
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Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit, founded in 1985, that builds leadership in Asian American communities. It runs youth leadership programs, a yearly Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinatown, culture and storytelling projects, and civic and immigrant rights work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A student coalition that brings together Asian and Pacific Islander student groups at Penn, speaks to the university on their shared interests, and promotes API culture.
Last seen active: March 2025
Nonprofit · University Southwest
Helps LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and immigrants with transitional housing, case help, legal support, and donated supplies. Volunteers and supporters can take part through volunteer calls, events, and trainings.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia legal group that fights death sentences and other extreme punishments. It represents people directly, brings test cases, and trains lawyers on the same work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A Penn student group that pushes to shrink the reach of the criminal legal system. It hosts talks and workshops, takes part in local advocacy and mutual aid, and invites speakers who have lived through incarceration.
Last seen active: November 2025
Nonprofit · North Delaware
An advocacy group that offers support, education, and workshops for people of all ages. Its programs cover mental health and well-being, life skills, leadership, and money skills, and it says it has served communities for more than 20 years.
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Student group
A group for Black students in planning and design at Penn. It offers mentorship, pushes for fairer policies in the field, and connects current students, prospective students and alumni.
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Nonprofit · North Delaware
Neighbors and community leaders who run a weekly food pantry and shower service, hold block cleanups, ran a holiday toy drive, and offer mental health first aid training. Their work on violence prevention and job readiness is still mostly in planning.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · University Southwest
A volunteer-run group that sends free books to people in prison who write asking for them. Its office is on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Central
The Philadelphia chapter of a civil rights group for Muslim communities. It helps people report discrimination, publishes know your rights guides, runs a youth leadership program, and shares voter registration information.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A volunteer advocate program for children in foster care. Trained volunteers get to know one child or sibling group and report to the Family Court judge about what the child needs.
Last seen active: June 2025
Nonprofit · North
Volunteer lawyers give free first consultations and legal help on housing, child custody, domestic abuse, wills, estates, and clearing criminal records, at clinics across the region. The group is a Christian legal ministry, and its clinics also have volunteers who offer prayer and chaplain support.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A national human rights group that works to protect people in medical research and treatment, with a focus on children, older adults and people who cannot make their own decisions. It works through policy papers, public comments and testimony.
Last seen active: August 2016
Nonprofit · Lower Southwest
A Philadelphia nonprofit working with African and Caribbean immigrants and refugees on health connections, immigration and legal help, education and culture programs, and community organizing.
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Neighborhood or civic group · Upper North
The local chapter of a national labor coalition for Black trade unionists and working people in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Greater Philadelphia. Its site lists membership, committees, a youth program and scholarships.
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Nonprofit
A grassroots women's center in Germantown that runs social justice and support programs. These include advocacy on SNAP and Medicaid, food justice work, and a weekly rummage sale.
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia foundation whose site says it supports incarcerated people through education. Its office on South Broad Street is open on weekdays, and the site asks for volunteers, but it does not describe its programs. The site also sells paid personal training.
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Student group
A Penn student group run by and for disabled students. It gives members a supportive place to build friendships and help one another, and it works on disability education and solidarity.
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Nonprofit · South
A group in Philadelphia that works on gun violence, with a space for people affected by violence, including people who have hurt others, to heal and work toward fewer shootings.
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Nonprofit · North Delaware
A volunteer-led nonprofit that helps women and children in crisis with food, housing, and safety support in Philadelphia, and sends aid to Liberia.
Last seen active: September 2024
Nonprofit · Online
A nonprofit that supports families after a hit and run crash, with help for funeral and medical costs, family advocates for court hearings, and a crisis team that meets with families. It also lists a push for safer neighborhoods.
Last seen active: January 2023
Student group
A student publication at Penn for writers and artists who care about feminism, intersectionality, and social justice. It puts out print issues twice a year and posts on its blog.
Last seen active: October 2025
Nonprofit · University Southwest
Girls' rights group in Philadelphia, run by young women and their allies, with a Saturday program and a summer institute for girls and young women ages 14 to 24.
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Network or meetup · Upper Northwest
A group of educators and school leaders serving preschool through 8th grade. They meet to plan diversity and inclusion work, hold summits, and share ideas with schools that have small budgets or no diversity staff.
Last seen active: April 2026
Club
A chapter of the national hearing loss association for people with hearing loss and their families. It covers Bucks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties and meets monthly in Huntingdon Valley.
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Neighborhood or civic group · Central
A statewide group that works for affordable housing and eviction prevention. It follows state lawmaking, posts legislative updates, supports housing workers with training, and invites members of the public to take action on housing policy.
Last seen active: July 2026
Nonprofit · University Southwest
A grassroots group run by people in prison and their families. It campaigns against solitary confinement and harsh prison conditions, pushes for fairer sentencing and release, and helps people inside prepare for life after prison.
Last seen active: July 2026
Nonprofit
A Philadelphia nonprofit working to make Indigenous Peoples' Day a permanent city holiday. It holds a public celebration each October and runs cultural, educational and community-building programs.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A community led group in South Philadelphia, made up of Latine immigrants, that works for the rights of workers, parents, youth and immigrant families. It runs youth leadership, immigrant justice and community care programs, plus food and diaper pickups.
Last seen active: July 2025
Nonprofit · Central
Researchers who study how genocide begins. They publish public tools for spotting its warning signs, such as a toolbox, alerts, reports, short online courses, and a podcast.
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit · University Southwest
A nonprofit that teaches and practices restorative justice, an approach focused on healing and taking responsibility for harm. Its work reaches prisons and Philadelphia.
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Nonprofit · Central
A community movement led by its members. It runs a speaker and mentor program focused on violence prevention and youth leadership, and it asks people to help with drives and events.
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Nonprofit
A Philadelphia nonprofit that makes Spanish-language radio, TV and online programs about gender equality and violence against Latinas. Its Centro also runs workshops, group talks and women's circles, and lists remote counseling.
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Nonprofit · Central
A mentoring program that works with young men in Philadelphia who are at high risk of gun violence. Mentoring is open to young men from age 13, with a stipend, and local adults can volunteer as mentors.
Last seen active: October 2023
Nonprofit · Central
A group that helps artists of color get fair access to arts space and grant money. It runs online workshops and offers booked advising sessions on grant applications.
Last seen active: October 2025
Nonprofit · Central
A citywide public art nonprofit. Its programs include art education, public art and civic engagement, restorative justice, and Porch Light. It also runs guided walking tours and Mural Arts Month, a set of exhibitions, tours, and participatory events in October 2026.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
The Penn chapter of the NAACP. It works for equal social, political, economic, and education rights across the Penn community and West Philadelphia, through direct action and community work.
Last seen active: January 2014
Nonprofit
The Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, a civil rights organization. Its general membership meetings share branch updates and feature guest speakers.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit · North
A group that speaks up for women who served in the military. It runs learning, healing, and empowerment work, paying special attention to women who were hurt by military sexual trauma. Women veterans can join, volunteer, or sponsor the work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A more than 100-year-old group that helps immigrants and refugees in Greater Philadelphia with English classes, legal help, health services and youth programs. Volunteers help with classes, the food pantry, events and home setup for newly arrived refugees.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Online
A nonprofit led by trans and nonbinary people. It builds peer support and political education so the community can push back on state attacks on health care, and it helps some trans and nonbinary people pay for parts of their transition.
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Nonprofit · West Park
Supports Black leaders in mapping and GIS. It runs mentorship, scholarships, events and an annual conference that help more Black people build geospatial careers.
Last seen active: November 2025
Nonprofit · Lower Northwest
A nonprofit that gives devotionals, workshops, resources and donated goods to groups that support girls and women who have faced trafficking, abuse, addiction and hopelessness.
Last seen active: September 2026
Student group
A Penn student group that stands with the people of North Korea. Members raise money, start discussions, and spread awareness of human rights issues there.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Central
A nonprofit, founded in 2000, that helps families get the school support children with disabilities need. It offers free help with IEPs, runs networks for parents and self advocates, and works for children to learn in their neighborhood schools.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A volunteer-run Pennsylvania group that supports sign language interpreters and works to improve communication access for Deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind people. It holds regional summits, board meetings, and an annual membership meeting, many of them on Zoom.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A Penn student group run by undocumented young people and their allies. It holds talks and know your rights sessions and works for fair access to college and opportunities for immigrant students.
Last seen active: December 2025
Student group
Penn students who tutor people in local correctional facilities, one on one or in small groups, to help them reach their academic goals.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · North
A Philadelphia nonprofit that works to reduce drug use and violence among young people and their families through prevention services, crisis intervention, counseling and job readiness. It has held open events such as a men's breakfast and takes sign-ups for its mailing list.
Last active date not known yet
Program · Central
Researchers, journalists and gun violence survivors working to make news coverage of gun violence more accurate and fair. The group publishes studies and reporting guides, keeps a directory of survivors who will speak to the press, and hosts events.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit that works to stop punishing women and girls who are survivors of gender violence. It gives legal help, pushes for policy change, trains court and police staff, and takes on volunteers and interns.
Last seen active: April 2025
Nonprofit · North
A nonprofit that gives free legal help to low-income Philadelphians clear old criminal records so they can get jobs and housing. It also trains volunteers and works with community partners on pardon help.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · University Southwest
A Philadelphia group that teaches nonviolence and runs family help, including a monthly food distribution and a holiday toy drive for children.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A group that puts on Pride celebrations for LGBTQ people of color in Philadelphia. Its main festival is held during the Penn Relays Carnival at the University of Pennsylvania, and it also runs year-round programs and a fund that takes donations.
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Nonprofit
A West Philadelphia nonprofit that offers mentoring, tutoring, food help and life skills to youth, families and older adults, with a focus on young people affected by violence.
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Neighborhood or civic group · Central
Philly Pride 365 puts on the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival and runs OURfest, a National Coming Out Day festival. It also holds civic forums and year-round programs for LGBTQ+ visibility and economic inclusion in the city.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit · Upper Northwest
A nonprofit that runs Peace Patrol, a neighborhood safety team that hires men who were involved in the justice system, including people coming home from prison. It also holds a community parade and games.
Last seen active: July 2025
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit that works to keep families together when poverty, substance use or contact with public systems puts them at risk. Its team has social workers, attorneys, peer mentors and people with lived experience of the system.
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Nonprofit · Lower Far Northeast
A foundation that works on mental health awareness, drug and addiction prevention, and violence prevention. It says its work is rooted in Philadelphia, Manhattan and the Bronx, and its site describes workshops and forums but lists no dates.
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Nonprofit · Central
Gathers court dockets, case files and affidavits to document police and prosecutor misconduct in Philadelphia, and shares the records with the public. It also pushes for policy and law changes.
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Nonprofit · Central
A nonprofit that trains and supports women affected by incarceration, both inside and outside prison. It also serves their families and works with churches and local service providers.
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Nonprofit · Upper North
Uses fashion, advocacy and public education to share sexual and menstrual health information with Black, LGBTQIA and non-binary communities.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A volunteer group that visits people held in federal and military prisons across the United States, a service it says it has provided since 1968. Trained volunteers visit about once a month, keep up brief correspondence, and write a short report after each visit.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · South
A Philadelphia nonprofit started by a human trafficking survivor. It does street outreach to women in the sex trade, runs drop-in centers in South and West Philadelphia, and each year before Valentine's Day packs roses with encouraging notes for shelters.
Last seen active: February 2024
Nonprofit · West
A faith-based group in Philadelphia that offers housing and support to people coming home from incarceration. Volunteers and faith partners help carry the work.
Last seen active: July 2023
Student group
A Penn student group that works for reproductive and sexual justice, from contraception access to sex education and menstrual equity, at Penn and in Philadelphia.
Last active date not known yet
Network or meetup · Online
A monthly open meeting for people working to make Philadelphia better for people with disabilities and seniors. Residents, workers and organizations come together online to plan change.
Last seen active: February 2026
Student group
A collective of Penn graduate students who work for health care that is easy to reach and rooted in local communities, through a reproductive justice lens.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Central Northeast
A Philadelphia mentoring program for girls ages 13 to 19 that aims to prevent violence. Girls join free eight-week cohorts with weekly Monday mentoring, plus leadership, life skills and creative workshops.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit · University Southwest
Gives away gender-affirming clothing for free to trans and queer adults, and offers community care and mutual aid.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Lower Northwest
A nonprofit advocacy group that aims to unite Cambodians around the world and push for accountability and reform in Cambodia, through volunteer reporting, campaigns and advocacy at the United Nations.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A nonprofit of young transit riders in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Members give feedback to SEPTA, educate riders, and push for student transit passes on campuses.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Central
Support for people who have survived domestic violence, sexual abuse or sexual assault. Programs include transitional housing, transportation help, bereavement support, a family bonding program and a scholarship for survivors.
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Student group · University Southwest
A Penn student group that connects Black members of the university who experience misogynoir, and works to build community among them.
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Student group
The Penn chapter of a national group for women in engineering. It runs career and skills events, outreach to local high school students, and work on gender equity in engineering.
Last seen active: September 2026
Network or meetup
A collective of Black and Brown women and gender-expansive people who work on access to land, growing food, and healing, with campaigns on urban farming and climate justice.
Last active date not known yet
Club · Central
A grassroots self-advocacy group led by people with developmental disabilities. It meets online each month to build leadership skills and run its own work, with Vision for Equality as a host partner.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Upper Far Northeast
A club that supports awareness and inclusion for people born with Down syndrome in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. It holds awareness events and runs fundraisers, such as a sock sale.
Last seen active: May 2026
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia tenant group that teaches renters their rights, runs eviction and repair clinics, and helps tenants form tenant unions in their buildings. It also staffs help lines for renters.
Last seen active: June 2026
Student group
The umbrella group for Black student organizations at Penn. It brings member groups together on shared goals and a common calendar.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
Penn Engineering students who speak up for underrepresented students. They run surveys and town halls, offer academic and career programs, and pass student feedback to the engineering dean and the diversity office.
Last seen active: August 2025
Neighborhood or civic group
A youth led Philadelphia group that does organizing and policy work to win more money and better conditions for public schools.
Last active date not known yet
Program
Trains approved volunteers to offer educational or spiritual support to people held in one of the four Philadelphia Department of Prisons facilities.
Last seen active: April 2025
Nonprofit · Upper Northwest
A group that works with people who say they were wrongly convicted, along with their families and lawyers, through Pennsylvania's post-conviction process. It also runs talks, courses, and workshops on wrongful convictions and restorative justice.
Last seen active: October 2026
Neighborhood or civic group · Upper Northwest
West Mount Airy Neighbors is the City registered community organization for West Mount Airy. It follows zoning and building proposals and runs committees on the environment, historic preservation, traffic calming, and neighborhood diversity.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit · Central
An advocacy group led by people who were cleared of their convictions after time on death row, together with their family members. It campaigns to end the death penalty and helps exonerated people and their families after release.
Last seen active: May 2025
Nonprofit · South
A group that supports domestic violence survivors with legal advocacy, social and mental health help, and job coaching. It serves survivors of all genders, including LGBTQ+ survivors, and welcomes volunteers with skills such as legal advice and social media.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · Central
Researches who sits on the boards of Greater Philadelphia's largest colleges and hospitals, and pushes for more women and people of color in those seats. Anyone can use its ready-made letters to board leaders and its tips for joining a board.
Last seen active: July 2024
Network or meetup · University Southwest
A nonprofit cooperative of member-run collectives in Philadelphia that does mutual aid. Its collectives cover food and land work, health and addiction care, a laundry for people without stable housing, a car-share network, art, and worker education and media.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit · University Southwest
A Black-led nonprofit that works with young people ages 15 to 24 in West and Southwest Philadelphia. It supports youth affected by violence and runs a weekday hangout, violence prevention work, and youth volunteer and work openings.
Last seen active: January 2025
Nonprofit · Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit that has worked with youth and young adults for over 35 years. It runs school-based after-school clubs, paid career and construction programs, a violence intervention program, and civic programs.
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Includes: tenant and housing rights, safe streets and transit, immigrant rights, disability rights and access, racial equity, women's and lgbtq+ rights, worker rights, justice reform and reentry, violence prevention and peace, privacy and civil liberties.