Endorsements

We are asking organizations throughout California to endorse the report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in an effort to raise awareness of reparations as the state Legislature considers this critical issue in 2024. This is a grassroots resource and not an official website of the California Reparations Task Force or the California Department of Justice.

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The following organizations have endorsed the report of the reparations task force or the study of reparations. Unless otherwise noted, the organization listed has endorsed the mission, purpose, and efforts of the task force.

The listing of each entity here does not constitute an endorsement by or of the others on this list.

6ZEROS, LLC
A2Mend
A & B Senior Connections LLC
A Black Education Network
A Black Girls Peace
AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
AAPI Equity Alliance
ABAS Law Foundation (Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento Law Foundation)
ABXS Corporation
Abolitionist Teaching Network
ACLU Southern California
ACLU Northern California
ACLU California Action
ACLU San Diego Imperial Counties
Adorers of the Blood of Christ US Region JPIC Office****
AdvancED Consulting, LLC
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Africa House Sacramento
African American Board Leadership Institute
African American Chamber of San Joaquin Foundation
African American Community Service Agency
African American Network of Kern County
African American Wellness Center for Children & Families
African and Indigenous Knowledge Institute
Ah Trini Ting LLC
Alameda County Bar Association
The Albert & Willie Lee Johnson Family Foundation
Alianza Americas
All Souls Movement
All the Colors
Allen Temple Baptist Church
Alliance for a Better Community
The Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center
American Constitution Society (National)
American Constitution Society (ACS) – Los Angeles Lawyer Chapter
American Constitution Society (ACS) – Stanford Law School
American Redress Coalition of California – Sacramento
Anti-Racism Impact Team (ARIT) of Congregation Etz Chayim
APANO Communities United Fund
API Equality-LA
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
Asian American Drug Abuse Program (AADAP)
Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum****
Asian Democrats of Los Angeles County
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of L.A. County
Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus of Alameda County
Asian/Pacific Bar of Association of Sacramento (ABAS)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Asian Women United of California
Association of Black Psychologists
Association of Black Social Workers of Greater Los Angeles (ABSWGLA)
Association of Raza Educators Los Angeles
The Bar Association of San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
Bayard Rustin Coalition
Beacon Presbyterian Fellowship Oakland
Belmont Neighbors Against Racism
Bend the Arc California
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action – California
Berkeley Buddhist Temple
Biosphere Productions LLC
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Black and African Women Rise Democratic Club of San Diego County
Black Arts Movement Business District, Community Development Corporation
Black Californians United For Early Education
Black Gold Urban Grow Consulting and Expo^
Black Jewish Justice Alliance
Black Jewish Liberation Collective
Black Lives Matter CA
Black Lives Matter Grassroots
BlackRoots Alliance
Black Parallel School Board
Black Students of California United
Black Voices of the Valley (BVOV)
Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Foundation
Black Women Meet Up
Black Women Organized for Political Action
BlackPact, LLC
Blanton & Associates
BLU Educational Foundation
B.L.U.E. PANTHERS
Books and Beauty Literacy Cosmetology Clubhouse
Boulevard Strategic Affairs
Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency, and Joy
Break the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs
Brotherhood of Elders Network
Buen Vecino
Buena Vista United Methodist Church
By Our Blood PAC
California African American Chamber of Commerce
California African-American Freedom Trail
California Black Health Network
California Black Housing Advisory Taskforce
California Black Lineage Society-BNC
California Black Power Network****
California Black Women’s Health Project
California ChangeLawyers
California Cultural Resources Preservation Alliance, Inc.
California Faculty Association – Sacramento State Chapter
California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative
California Scholars for Academic Freedom
California/Hawaii State Conference NAACP
The California Endowment
California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative
The California Wellness Foundation
California Work & Family Coalition
Californians for Justice
Campaign For Justice: Redress NOW For Japanese Latin Americans!
CAPA21
Caring Across Generations
Catalyst California**
Catas Polished Act
Catholic Worker of San Mateo County
Center for African Peace & Conflict Resolution at California State University, Sacramento
Center for Asian Americans in Action
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
Center for Race & Gender at UC Berkeley
The Center on Race, Immigration and Social Justice (CRISJ) at State University, Sacramento
The Center for Restorative Justice
Center for Workers’ Rights
Centro Legal de la Raza
Ceres Policy Research
Change Begins With ME (Indivisible)
Change Consulting
Charles Houston Bar Association****
Chicago N’COBRA Chapter
Child Care Law Center
Chinatown Community Development Center
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Christ United Presbyterian Church in San Francisco
City Scene Productions
Civic Engagement Podcast
Coalition for a Just and Equitable California
Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
College Bridge
College Institute
College Futures Foundation
Coming to the Table (a program of RJOY: Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth)****
Common Future
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice
Community (Cotati) Organized Against Racism
Community Coalition
Community Development Technology Center (CD Tech)
Community Housing Development Corporation
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Community Now
Congregation Am Tikvah, San Francisco
Congregation B’nai Tikvah
Congregation Netivot Shalom
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces
Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes****
Congregation Shaar Zahav* (San Francisco)
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (C.O.P.E.)
Contra Costa Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition
Contra Costa Immigrant Rights Alliance
Cooper’s Ink, LLC
Council on Cultural, Ethnic, and Racial Affairs (CERA) for the Society of Community Research and Action (SCRA)**
Covington International
Creating Dreams Movement & Don Manuel Presents LLC****
Cruz Reynoso Bar Association of Sacramento
Cyclone Productions
Danville Congregational Church Anti-Racism Team
Decolonizing Wealth Project
Department of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento
Department of Women’s & Gender Studies at California State University, Sacramento
Descendants of the Truth
Developing Organizing Visions for Everyone
Disability Rights California
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
Diversity in Leadership Institute
Divisions for Social Justice (DSJ) of the American Psychological Association
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose
Dosan Ahn Chang-ho Foundation of the Americas
Drury Ave LLC
E&E Black Magic Enterprises LLC
East Bay Children’s Law Offices
East Bay Community Law Center
East Bay Housing Organizations
East Bay Refugee and Immigrant Forum (+35 member organizations)
East Palo Alto for Reparations
Eden Information and Referral
The Education Trust—West
Elmer Geronimo Pratt Pistol and Rifle Gun Club
Emend The Mass Media Group
End Solitary Santa Cruz County
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
Epworth United Methodist Church – Berkeley, CA
Equal Justice Society***
Equal Justice USA
Equity and Transformation (EAT)
Faith In Action Bay Area
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
Feel The Bern San Fernando Valley Democratic Club
First Congregational Church of Santa Barbara
First Mennonite Church of San Francisco
Food Empowerment Project
Fred T. Korematsu Institute
Free Indeed Reentry Project, Inc.
Freedmen Agenda League of Michigan
Freedmen Ignited Reparations Project
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Fund for Nonviolence
Fund For Reparations NOW!
Game Changers Leadership Institute
GAP Transportation
Girls Club of Los Angeles****
Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign
GRACE/End Child Poverty California
Grace Tabernacle Community Church (San Francisco)
Grantland L Johnson Institute of Leadership Development
Greater Sacramento Urban League
Green Tech Education
Habari Ummah
The HealMobile
Healthy Black Families, Inc.
Healthy Contra Costa (+15 anchor partners and allies)
The Healthy Foundations Center****
Hellogoodbye
HigherRoots Socioeconomic Solutions
Human Relations Council Santa Monica Bay Area
How The West Was Saved
Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity
I AM CONFIDENT INC.
Imoyase Community Support Services
Indy Liberation Center/Hope Packages
Inland Empire Contemporary Ballet, Inc.
Inland Empower Group
Inspirenaire Wellness****
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
InterReligious Task Force on Central America
Iron Lion Maintenance Services
ISOT
The James Irvine Foundation
Japanese American Bar Association
Japanese American Citizens League (National)
Japanese American Citizens League National Youth/Student Council
Japanese American Citizens League, Berkeley Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Contra Costa Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, DC Chapter****
Japanese American Citizens League, Detroit Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Eden Township Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Florin-Sacramento Valley Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Fresno Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Gilroy Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Greater Los Angeles Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Honolulu Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Idaho Falls Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Northern California Western Nevada District
Japanese American Citizens League, Northern California Western Nevada Pacific District – Civil Rights Committee
Japanese American Citizens League, Northern California Western Nevada District Youth Board
Japanese American Citizens League, Philadelphia Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Portland Chapter****
Japanese American Citizens League, Puyallup Valley Chapter****
Japanese American Citizens League, Sacramento Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, San Diego Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, San Francisco Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, San Jose Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Seabrook Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, SELANOCO Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Sonoma County Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Twin Cities Chapter
Japanese American Citizens League, Watsonville-Santa Cruz Chapter
Japanese American Families for Justice
Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC)
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi
Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project
Japantown Merchants Association
Japantown Task Force
Jennings Voice
Jewish Gateways
John M. Langston Bar Association
Just Cities LLC
Justice and Peace Office of the Wheaton, IL Franciscans
Justice At Last
Kehilla Community Synagogue
Kid City Hope Place
The Knowledge Shop****
Korea Policy Institute
Korean American Bar Association of Southern California
Korean American National Museum
Korean History and Cultural Heritage Preservation
L. Norwood and Associates
La Cocina
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco
LAANE
Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church
Law Firm Antiracism Alliance (LFAA)*****
Law Office of Daniel Mayfield
Legal Aid at Work
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (LESMCC)
Liberation Ventures
Little Manila Rising
Little Tokyo Service Center
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM)
Loyola Marymount University Psychology Applied Research Center
The Los Angeles Urban League
The Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership
The Loken Foundation for Equity and Inclusion
Mapping Black California
Manzanar Committee
Master Solutions Group LLC
Mcmillian Family Child Care
Media Alliance
Medical Mission Sisters
Melchizedek Ark of the Covenant
Mexican American Bar Association
Michelle Puckett Social Justice Coach + Facilitator
Mission Peak Unitarian Universalist Church of Fremont
Monita Tequila
Monsenor Romero Foundation
Movement for Change
Movement Generation
Multi-Faith ACTION Coalition
Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice
NAACP
NAACP Butte County Branch 1029-B
NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch #1071
NAMI Contra Costa****
National Action Network Orange County
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National African American Reparations Coalition (NAARC)
The National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants
The National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants-Los Angeles
National Association for Multicultural Education
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter (NASW-CA)
National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc.
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Conference of Black Lawyers**
National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco Section
National Japanese American Memorial Foundation (NJAMF)
National Latinx Psychological Association
National Urban League
National Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs
Native American Needs dba Native Needs
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (C.O.P.E.)
New Negro Republic****
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR)
Nikkei Progressives
North County Equity and Justice Coalition (+12 member organizations)
North San Diego County Promise
Northern California College Promise Coalition
Nubian Square Investment Advisors
Oak Park Reparations Taskforce
Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce
Oaktown Property Management
Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity/Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth****
Officers For Justice Peace Officers Association
On the Road Solutions LLC
Orange County Equality Coalition
Organizing for Power
OMI Cultural Participation Project
One Campus California
OnTrack Program Resources, Inc.**
Or Shalom Jewish Community
Otherhood Collective
Our Family Coalition
Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters
Pacifica Social Justice
Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative
Pax Christi USA
Pax Christi Memphis
Peninsula Family Service
People Helping People Ministry and Outreach Center
Philippine American Bar Association
The Princeton Review Foundation
Priority Africa Network
Public Advocates Inc.
Public Health Advocates
Public Interest Law Project
Pure Jeanius Consulting
Presentation Sisters, San Francisco
Preserve The Black Child Inc.
Pressley Family Institute
Prevention Institute
Project KIKS, Inc.
R&I Glassworks
Racial and Ethnic Disparities Coalition (REMHDCO)
Reconstructing Judaism
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Reimagine Richmond
Reparation Education Project Inc
Reparation Generation
Reparations4slavery
Reparations for MA
Reparations Untied
Richmond Community Foundation
Richmond Progressive Alliance
Rise Economy (formerly the California Reinvestment Coalition)
Rising Communities (formerly Community Health Councils)
Riverside County Black Chamber of Commerce
ROC United
RYSE Center****
Sac Cultural Hub
Sac Cultural Hub Media Foundation
SacLegal, Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ Bar Association
Sacramento Asian Pacific Cultural Village
Sacramento County Bar Association
Sacramento Juneteenth, Inc.
Safe Passages**
San Diego Black Worker Center
San Diego for Every Child
San Diego Original Black Panther Party for Community Empowerment
San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco Black & Jewish Unity Coalition
San Francisco Black Leadership Forum
San Francisco Black Wall Street
San Francisco CATS Academy, Inc.
San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
San Francisco Interfaith Council
San Francisco Public Defender’s Office
San Jose Nikkei Resisters
Santa Maria-Lompoc NAACP
Schoodic Hollow Farm
School Sisters of Notre Dame – CP JPIC Office****
Secure Justice
SHARE Foundation
SHIELDS for Families
Showing Up for Racial Justice, San Francisco
Showing Up for Racial Justice, Santa Barbara
Showing Up for Racial Justice, Santa Cruz County
Sisters of Charity, BVM****
Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill
Sisters of St Francis of Philadelphia****
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Justice Team****
Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill Philadelphia****
#SmartCohort
Smart Justice California
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
Social Dynamism
Social Justice Learning Institute
South Asian Bar Association of Southern California
South Bay People Power
Southern Christian Leadership Conference – Southern California
Social Model Recovery Systems**
Social Thought and Movement Group
Society of Counseling Psychology
Southern California Black Worker Hub
St. Columba Catholic Church, Oakland
St. HOPE
St. John’s Presbyterian Church (Berkeley, Calif.)
Stand Together Contra Costa
Stanford Law Black Law Students Association
Stanford OutLaw
Starting Over. Inc
Stiles Hall
Stop AAPI Hate
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)
Strategy Squad
SURJ Marin – Showing Up for Racial Justice
SURJ Sacramento
Team Black Empowerment, Inc.
Thai American Bar Association
The Central Valley Urban Institute
The Children’s Partnership
The Knowledge Shop
The Low Income Investment Fund
The Promise Enterprises LLC
The Taifa Group
The Walker-Garvey Hair Culturalist Union
Tree of Life Tea Party
TriCity Interfaith Council
Tsuru for Solidarity
Tsuru for Solidarity Minnesota
Tule Lake Committee
uAspire
UC Berkeley Nikkei Student Union
UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council
UC Santa Cruz Center for Racial Justice
UC Santa Cruz Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play and Design
UC Santa Cruz Department of Sociology
UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness Department
UCLA Korean American Alumni Association (UCLA KAAA)
Universal Network International Family of Youth LLC
University of California Los Angeles – Luskin Black Caucus
Upline Solutions LLC
US Freedmen Project
Urban Peace Institute**
Victory In Praise
VietRISE
Village Project, Inc.**
Voters For Affirmative Action
Weingart Foundation
Western Center on Law & Poverty
What U Need Is
Where Is My Land Inc.
Whole Child Equity Partnership
- A Black Education Network (ABEN)
- Black Californians United for Early Care and Education
- California Black Women’s Health Project
- California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
- Californians for Justice
- Catalyst California
- District Innovation and Leadership Initiative for Early Education
- End Child Poverty in CA
- Families in Schools
- First 5 Association
- InnerCity Struggle
- Pre-Term Birth Initiative
- San Diego Community Birth Center
- SEIU
- The Children’s Partnership
- Tonia McMillian, Community Leader and Member of the Early Childhood Policy Council
Whole Systems Learning**
Wiley Manuel Bar Association
Willie B Kennedy Democratic Club San Francisco
Women and Justice Issues
Women and Men Civic League
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA)
Women Lawyers of Sacramento
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom San Francisco Branch
Worksafe
Xicanx Institute for Teaching & Organizing
The Young Buddhist Editorial
Young Democrats of America
Young Paris
Youth Leadership Institute
ZEAL
Zennie62Media, Inc.

Endorsements total 611 as of April 2, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. The listing of each entity here does not constitute an endorsement by or of the others on this list.

* = Endorsed specifically the mission and overall efforts
** = Endorsed specifically the task force report
*** = Endorsed specifically the factual findings of the task force report
**** = Endorsed the general concept of studying reparations for African Americans and promoting awareness and conversation, but not specifically the Task Force or the Report.
***** = Endorsed the mission of the task force “without, at this point, specifically endorsing the specific findings and conclusions contained in the initial report of the Task Force”

^ = Endorsed lineage-based reparations for the U.S. chattel slavery descendant class

We would like to thank the Japanese American Bar Association and the John M. Langston Bar Association, the first organizations to endorse the task force’s efforts.