Partners for Dignity & Rights

In partnership with communities, Partners for Dignity & Rights works to build a broad movement for economic and social rights, including health, housing, education and work with dignity. 

Throughout our history, Partners for Dignity & Rights has worked in deep partnership with community organizations across the country and helped found and anchor both the national Dignity in Schools Campaign, now in 27 states, and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network.

Through these relationships, we have been part of groundbreaking victories stopping the criminalization of Black and Brown youth in schools and creating restorative justice alternatives, securing public financing for community land trusts, creating seminal programs governed by workers to enforce human rights in the workplace, and advancing universal health care campaigns in multiple states. This wealth of work all centers the leadership of poor and working class people, especially Black and Brown communities, as those who are most impacted by injustices and are thus in the best position to identify and build solutions to systematic injustices. All of this culminates in our New Social Contract project, which offers community-driven solutions to current injustices and a shared, community-led vision for social and political change.