Below are groups you can contact to learn more about specific issues. NPI does not necessarily endorse any of these groups but seeks to provide a list of resources for agencies relevant to advocacy and social justice concerns.

Local and Regional:

• Disability Rights Tennessee (DRT): provides services to people disabilities across the state with numerous issues, including employment discrimination, safety in schools, abuse and neglect, and access to community resources and services [disability, advocacy, education, legal representation]
• Healthy and Free Tennessee: a network of agencies, organizations, and individuals working together to promote sexual health and reproductive freedom in the state of Tennessee [reproductive rights, education, advocacy]
• Human Rights Campaign Nashville (HRC): local chapter of the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans [LGBTQIA+, advocacy]
• Inclusion TN: aims to promote justice and equity for our trans, queer, black, brown, and gold communities throughout the South by collaborating with those with a shared bold vision of a future where liberation is championed [LGBTQIA+, advocacy, healthcare, legal]
• Nashville Organized for Hope and Action (NOAH): a faith-led coalition aiming to give voice to marginalized people and to fight injustice in our community [housing, criminal system, economic inequality, education, voting]
• Planned Parenthood of Tennessee (PPTNM): provides high-quality, affordable reproductive services and education [reproductive rights, education, healthcare]
• Southern Environmental Law Center: the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan environmental legal advocacy organization rooted in and focused on the South [environment, climate, advocacy]
• Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): seeks justice for the most vulnerable members of our society using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy [children, immigrants, LGBTQIA+, economic inequality, criminal system, voting]
• Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood (TAPP): advocacy and political arm to protect Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi (PPTNM) [reproductive rights, advocacy]
• Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: works to honor life by abolishing the death penalty, preventing violence, and supporting those who experience harm [advocacy, criminal system, capital punishment, poverty, race]
• Tennessee Equality Project: organization working for the equality of LGBTQ people in Tennessee [LGBTQIA+, advocacy, education]
• Tennessee National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens [advocacy, race, economic inequality, healthcare]
• Voices for a Safer Tennessee: non partisan group leading conversations and identifying common ground where progress can be made on issues of gun safety [community violence, advocacy]

National:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): strives to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States [capital punishment, criminal system, disability, immigrants, juveniles, LGBTQIA+, criminal system, race, religion/beliefs, reproductive freedom, voting, women]
• Center for Reproductive Rights: global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person [reproductive rights, advocacy]
• Equal Justice Initiative: committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society [criminal system, race, poverty, education]
• Vibrant Emotional Health: helps all people achieve mental and emotional well-being through groundbreaking solutions that deliver high-quality support, when, where, and how they need it [mental health, advocacy, education]