In Your State
The Family Values @ Work Coalition is 24 states strong and growing.
Find your state below and join a local movement for paid sick days and paid family leave. If your state is not listed, contact us to start a movement near you.
Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization dedicated to building and strengthening the political power of the Latinx community in key battleground states and nationwide. We do this by leading a voter-integrated engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform, and protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political consciousness. Through our work, we empower and equip the Latinx community to become agents of change now.
The California Work & Family Coalition is a statewide alliance of community organizations unions, non-profits, and individuals. We envision a world where all people have the time, resources, and support systems to care for themselves and their families and to lead meaningful, healthy, and happy lives. We organize campaigns to realize equitable, family friendly workplaces and to expand the social safety net in California through policy, advocacy, and education.
The Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Coalition is a broad, diverse coalition led by 9to5 Colorado and includes of community organizations, labor groups, faith leaders, public health groups, elected officials and businesses. We are all working together to build a community full of healthy families and workplaces and a stronger economy.
She Leads Justice has advanced women’s rights and opportunities in Connecticut since 1973. Formerly known as the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, or CWEALF, She Leads Justice is a statewide nonprofit organization that advocates for and empowers women in Connecticut, especially those who are under-resourced or marginalized. They work to create an equitable society where women thrive. She Leads Justice uses intersectional strategies to address gender inequality and advance the rights, opportunities, and status of women through legal information and access, public policy and advocacy, and advancement and leadership initiatives.
The Florida Coalition on Black Civic Participation strives to create an enlightened community by building institutional capacity at both the national and local levels that provides and develops African American leadership. By educating, organizing and mobilizing citizens in our communities, the Coalition seeks to encourage full participation in a barrier-free democracy. Through educational programs and leadership training, the Coalition works to expand, strengthen and empower our communities to make voting and civic participation a cultural responsibility and tradition.
Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization dedicated to building and strengthening the political power of the Latinx community in key battleground states and nationwide. We do this by leading a voter-integrated engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform, and protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political consciousness. Through our work, we empower and equip the Latinx community to become agents of change now.
9to5 Georgia continues to fight for worker justice and family and community sustainability and is building power in our communities. We have active voter engagement, paid leave, utility justice, climate justice, childcare, anti-discrimination, and anti-harassment campaigns throughout the state of Georgia. Our members span from the Metro Atlanta area to Southwest and Central Georgia, and Savannah, Georgia.
Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization dedicated to building and strengthening the political power of the Latinx community in key battleground states and nationwide. We do this by leading a voter-integrated engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform, and protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political consciousness. Through our work, we empower and equip the Latinx community to become agents of change now.
Hawaiʻi Children’s Action Network (HCAN) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and the only one in the state of Hawaiʻi solely committed to advocating for children. They address the root causes of poverty and inequity and develop public policies that help children and their families.
Women Employed leads the charge for paid family and medical leave in Illinois. As the head of the Sick Time Chicago Coalition, Women Employed joined partners—including Arise Chicago, Chicago Foundation for Women, the Shriver Center, and UFCW—to win earned sick time ordinances in Chicago and Cook County, impacting over half a million working people. In 2023, the coalition won the Paid Leave for All Workers Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2024. The new law provides working people across Illinois with the right to earn and use up to five days of paid time off for any reason. Women Employed is currently working to win paid family and medical leave in the state of Illinois.
Women Employed leads the Illinois Paid Leave Coalition. The Coalition includes dozens of advocacy groups from across the state working to raise public awareness about the need for paid sick days and communicating with legislators about the need for the proposed Healthy Workplace Act; a bill to establish paid sick days as a new workplace standard in Illinois.
Maine Women’s Lobby and Southern Maine Workers’ Center work in partnership to advocate on behalf of workers and advance policies that center their needs and advance economic, social, and community justice for all Mainers. Maine Women’s Lobby serves as the chairing organization of the Maine Paid Leave Coalition, which comprises organizations from around the state working to advance a comprehensive, universal paid family and medical leave program in the state. The Southern Maine Workers’ Center (SMWC) is a member-based organization comprised of working and poor people building grassroots movements to ensure that all of all of our basic human rights are met.
Since 1996, Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF) has worked to develop and advocate policies and programs that increase the marketable skills, income, and economic opportunities of low-skill, low-income workers and job seekers in Maryland. To achieve this vision, JOTF leverages its efforts in three core pillars: policy and advocacy, research, and on-the-ground job skills training.
The Public Justice Center (PJC) pursues systemic change to build a just society. The PJC uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are struggling to provide for their basic needs. The PJC is a civil legal aid office that provides advice and representation to low-income clients, advocates before legislatures and government agencies, and collaborates with community and advocacy organizations. The PJC chooses projects and cases that will make a significant impact on systems, laws, and policies.
United Workers is a Maryland based human rights organization helping to build a mass movement to end to poverty. We are a politically independent membership organization led by the poor and dispossessed united across race, geography, political party, and other historic lines of division. We focus on developing leaders from the ranks of the poor and other sectors of society to be organizers and “conductors” along the underground railroad to freedom from poverty.
The Time to Care Coalition is a statewide coalition of advocates, businesses, service providers, unions, faith groups families, caregivers and individuals fighting to ensure Paid Family & Medical Leave for all Marylanders — so that no one has to choose between taking caring of a loved one or themselves and paying the bills.
The Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ) is a grassroots organization founded in 1994 to bring together people affected by and concerned about poverty to advocate for economic opportunity. We engage in ongoing outreach to people affected by poverty. This includes door-to-door canvassing to families in public housing developments and low-income neighborhoods outside of public housing. Our public housing and neighborhood outreach is conducted in multiple languages. In addition, we contact thousands of people throughout the community by phone, providing information about issues that affect their lives and organizing them to call their elected officials to have a voice on these issues.
They have mobilized a local base in Brockton, Fall River and New Bedford, expanded reach into Taunton, Attleboro, Southern Boston and Falmouth as well. CSJ is a founding member and co-chair of Raise Up Massachusetts.
Mothering Justice is shaping the conversation about workplace standards, specifically paid sick days, in Michigan. Though Michigan has a great history of creating and protecting the middle class by standing up for workers’ rights, this is Michigan’s first attempt to establish paid sick days legislation. We believe all Michigan workers should be able to take time off to get well without the fear of financially instability.
ISAIAH MN led the Paid Family and Medical Leave campaign to victory and is spear-heading implementation efforts. About ISAIAH: Throughout history, ordinary people have stood together to make long-lasting changes for the common good. ISAIAH is auto mechanics and ordained clergy, business owners and bookkeepers, homemakers and university professors. We are moved by faith to act for justice. We are called to transform the world and to establish racial and economic justice.
TakeAction Minnesota works with our 26 organizational members and 11,000 individual members to make change that matters to Minnesotans. We believe that access to paid sick leave is an essential part of our work to build a fair economy, and is working with coalition partners and members to raise awareness of the need for paid sick days in our state. We are currently engaged in a statewide public education campaign.
The New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund (NJCAEF) was founded in 1983 to empower low- and moderate-income people and communities of color through direct counseling and services, public policy research and advocacy, community education and training on public policy issues important to working families. Their goals are to promote economic and racial equity, to empower the marginalized, and to build strong communities via services that foster financial stability and mobility.
NJCAEF provides free comprehensive outreach and education services, including HUD-certified housing and foreclosure counseling, homeownership education for first-time homebuyers, financial education and one-on-one financial coaching, tax preparation, and healthcare enrollment assistance. Together, these programs promote affordable homeownership, financial literacy, asset preservation, health care access, and economic growth for New Jersey’s low- to moderate-income communities and people of color.
The New Jersey Time to Care Coalition, a broad-based group of over 100 community, advocacy, union, religious, research, policy organizations and more, fighting for working families to have paid time to care. The Coalition won statewide Earned Sick and Safe Leave in 2018 and the next year, they won legislation to expand and improve the state’s paid leave program, NJ Family Leave Insurance program. Thanks to the Coalition’s hard work over the years, more New Jerseyans are able to access paid time off to recover from injury or illness, or when a loved one is sick, seriously ill or needs care.
Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society by: ensuring children have a quality public education no matter their zip code, ending the current system of mass incarceration and establishing a new system of justice, ensuring quality affordable housing for all, fighting for guaranteed quality, affordable health care, taking big money out of politics by creating a fair elections system, aiming to dismantle the historic racist system by promoting racial justice, and striving for a more progressive tax system to begin to end the runaway inequality in our state.
The North Carolina Justice Center’s mission is to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services, and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security. To make opportunity and prosperity for all a reality, we work toward: jobs that are safe, pay a living wage, and provide benefits, access to quality and affordable health care, quality public education for every child, consumer protections from abusive practices, safe and affordable housing, public investments that expand opportunities for economic security, a fair and stable revenue system that adequately funds public investments while fairly distributing tax responsibility, a more fair criminal justice system, from arrest to reentry, fair treatment for everyone in North Carolina – regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Family Forward Oregon is building an intersectional racial and gender justice movement centered on care and caregiving to fight for economic and reproductive justice for all mothers and caregivers in Oregon. We are organizing mamas and other caregivers across a range of identities, building community, providing leadership development opportunities, and supporting anti-oppression learning. We’re supporting our members as they take meaningful action to change our systems, so that the systems support caregivers and our families. We have led or helped to lead fights on paid sick time, paid family and medical leave, increasing wages, extending greater protections to caregivers in the workplace, strengthening reproductive and health care access, and more.
We believe in the power of community and in bringing our collective and diverse voices together to create lasting social change that leaves no community behind. For example, our Time To Care coalition fought for and won the most inclusive paid family and medical leave law in the country to date in 2019. Meaningful change can only be made when we work together and all have a seat at the table.
Restaurant Opportunities Centers of Pennsylvania (ROC PA) is a chapter of the national non-profit organization, ROC United – which advocates for dignity, respect, and justice for restaurant workers. This organization has successfully enacted paid sick days in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and have passed a number of progressive measures to protect workers in Philadelphia.
The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of the Women and Girls Foundation is to achieve equality for self-identified women and girls, now and for generations to come. In pursuit of this mission, the Women and Girls Foundation works to break down barriers so that every self-identified girl can rise and every self-identified woman can soar. Our vision is for self-identified women and girls in Pennsylvania to have equal access, opportunity, and influence in all aspects of their public and private lives.
J Badger Consulting Inc and PEACOCK (Professionals Empowering Advocating for Change, Opportunity, Change and Knowledge) are committed to creating community and systems change for people with disabilities. JBC provides support that allow people with disabilities to reach their full potential through advocacy, community organizing, training and resources. At JBC we seek out community connections that allow JBC to support people understand the disability perspective and to make sure the community is more aware and inclusive.
Pennsylvania’s three state anchors: Professionals Empowering Advocating for Change, Opportunity, Change and Knowledge, Restaurant Opportunities Center of Pennsylvania, and the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania co-lead the Family Care Act Campaign, a statewide campaign to to make Paid Family and Medical Leave available and accessible to all Pennsylvanians and all employers.
The Economic Progress Institute leads transformational and equitable budget and policy changes in Rhode Island through research, analysis, education, and advocacy toward racial and economic justice for low- and-modest income Rhode Islanders.
The Workers Defense Project is a statewide member-led organization that organizes with those most impacted for immigrant and worker justice in Texas. We started in 2002 to support construction workers fight wage theft and pretty quickly evolved into an organization dedicated to fight for worker Justice in Texas.
We are now a power building organization with statewide impact that is organizing for worker and immigrant justice at the local, state and national level.
Main Street Alliance of Vermont is leading the VT Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FaMLI) Campaign, which is working to create a statewide insurance program that would cover up to 12 weeks of family or medical leave. More than 25 statewide advocacy organizations comprise the VT FaMLI Coalition, and a coalition-supported bill is making its way through Vermont’s House of Representatives with tri-partisan support and more than 50 cosponsors. A statewide family and medical leave insurance program will enable Vermont’s families to take the time they need, and it will help Vermont small business better compete in attracting and retaining employees, which will grow a healthy Vermont economy.
The Washington Work and Family Coalition is a coalition made up of small business owners, unions, community, faith, senior, and women’s groups and other grassroots organizations working to promote family economic security issues through public policies and advocacy. The Coalition is convened and staffed by the Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI).
The mission of the EOI mission is to equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of our state’s economy – and thereby support thriving people and communities across the state.
DC Jobs with Justice is a dynamic coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people, supporting community struggles, and promoting racial justice to build a more just society.
Many Languages One Voice (MLOV) is made up of several different teams all working to foster leadership and provide tools for greater civic participation of immigrants in DC who do not speak English as their primary language in solutions that impact their lives. Together, we mobilize the community to prompt systemic change to meet the goal of language justice in the District.
Jews United for Justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the Baltimore-Washington region by educating and mobilizing our local Jewish communities to action. They move closer to equity and justice by advancing issue-based campaigns that make real, immediate, and concrete improvements in people’s lives and build the power of working-class and poor communities of color. Through these campaigns they develop leaders, build a Jewish grassroots community, shift the consciousness of their community, and build the collective power needed to undo systemic racism and inequality.
The Paid Sick Days for All coalition is a collaborative of community groups and unions working to ensure that all workers in the District of Columbia can take a day off to care for themselves and their loved ones when they get sick. We believe that no one should have to choose between their health and their jobs.
Throughout Wisconsin, 9to5 is fighting for paid leave, affordable childcare, fair and equitable representation in all state and local decision-making bodies, democracy protection, and voter rights and engagement. This organization founded and anchor the statewide Wisconsin Care Coalition, fighting for paid leave and affordable childcare for workers in Wisconsin.