SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR US
EIN 85-1675160 · Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy N.E.C. (R99)
What they do
SOCIAL JUSTICE HAS USED SEVERAL EFFECTIVE MOTIVATIONAL TACTICS to ENGAGE and INSPIRE THEIR AUDIENCE. WE CELEBRATE CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH EVENTS LIKE JUNETEENTH, A CULTURAL CELEBRATION and SOUL FOOD SUNDAY WHICH PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY for PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY to LEARN ABOUT APPRECIATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS of AFRICAN AMERICANS to OUR SOCIETY. WE UPLIFT MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES SUCH AS BLACK DESCENDANTS and INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH EVENTS LIKE POWER IN UNITY and SYSTEMIC ISSUES ON TAP WHICH AIM to BREAK DOWN BARRIERS and CREATE A MORE INCLUSIVE and EQUITABLE SOCIETY. WE PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THROUGH EVENTS LIKE ROCK THE VOTE, WHICH ENCOURAGES YOUNG PEOPLE to EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT to VOTE and PARTICIPATE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. TOGETHER WE CHALLENGE SYSTEMIC INJUSTICES THROUGH THE SAFE PLACE PLEDGE INITIATIVE, WHICH ASKS BUSINESS and INDIVIDUALS to ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPACT of THESE INJUSTICES ON MARJINALIZED COMMUNITIES and TAKE ACTION to COUNTERACT THEM.
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Board and leadership roster (6)
ELIJAH ANDERSONWEBMASTER
FREDDY SIMSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
KIRSTEN ROSIPCOMMUNITY RELATIONS
NICHOLAS WHITSONSECRETARY
ROBERT RIDERTREASURER
TAMARA HUNTERVICE DIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- October 2020
- Location
- 321 S LINN ST, Iowa City, IA 52240
- County
- Johnson
- In care of
- FREDDY SIMS
- Primary officer
- FREDDY SIMS, DIRECTOR
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2022
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2022
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- H AND R BLOCK
- NTEE classification
- Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy N.E.C. (R99)
- IRS tax category
- Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy N.E.C.
- Revocation date
- May 15, 2026