Organization: Jobs with Justice Education Fund
Mission: Established in 1987, Jobs with Justice Education Fund is a national organization with a network of 37+ local coalitions in 25 states engaged in organizing and public advocacy campaigns for workers' rights and economic justice. The mission of the organization is to lead the fight for workers' rights and an economy that benefits all workers. By bringing together labor, community, student, and faith voices at the national and local levels, we are creating innovative solutions to the problems workers face today. Alongside workers across the country, we lead, participate in, and support on-the-ground and online campaigns that advocate for workers' rights. Core issues we organize and advocate around include immigrant rights, corporate accountability, minimum wage, economic recovery, healthcare, and collective bargaining rights for workers.
Activities: Building and Supporting a Network of Sustainable, Strategic, and Powerful Coalitions: We have a vibrant network of 30+ local coalitions in 25 states, including California, all of whom share in our mission and long-term vision for working people. Our coalitions comprise of local, state, and regionally focused affiliates working on an array of intersecting issues from public education, transit to climate change, racial and gender justice, jobs and the economy. As an organization with a network of grassroots organizations we also provide programmatic and organizational development, financial and technical support to our local affiliates to effectively anchor national campaigns and launch their own worker organizing campaigns at the state and local levels.
Winning Campaigns that Build Power for Working People in a Variety of Sectors: Our core strategies for advancing our vision and mission for working people and families are three-fold--lead and incubate campaigns that combine innovative communications strategies, solid research, and grassroots base-building and mobilization; shape public discourse about workers' rights and the economy to advance collective bargaining as a solution to inequality; and build and support a network of coalitions that provide a permanent infrastructure for working people to build power, wage strategic campaigns, mobilize, organize and negotiate.
Cultivating New Strategic Alliances and Strengthening Existing Ones: In addition to offering financial and technical support to our network of coalitions, we also provide leadership development and training opportunities for staff and leaders of our network and facilitate cross-train opportunities across our network. Through our National Training and Leadership Development program we involve our national staff and network in new forms of organizing and strategic innovative thinking to advance overall organizing efforts, expand, and strengthen existing relationships to advance their work. Since the launch of the program we have trained over 1,000 leaders, organizers, and activists.
NTEE category: Employment
Secondary category: Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy