Advancement Project is a national civil rights nonprofit that uses legal advocacy, policy development, communications, and grassroots organizing to advance racial justice and dismantle systems of inequity. The organization focuses on systemic change to expand political voice, reduce criminalization, and reform public systems that disproportionately harm communities of color.
Voting rights and enfranchisement (including restoration of voting rights), policing and decriminalization reforms, school discipline and education equity, criminal legal system reform, community investment and budget equity, and campaigns to protect protest and civic participation.
Primarily philanthropic funding: foundation grants, individual donations, and project-specific grants and gifts.
Advancement Project California (state office); co-founders and longtime leaders such as Constance L. Rice and Penda Hair; current leadership and board leaders including Interim Executive Director Carmen Daugherty and Board Chair Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson; public-facing allies and partners across national racial justice and grassroots organizations.
Non-profit (501(c)(3)) civil rights organization
