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The Audre Lorde Project (ALP) is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Nonconforming (LGBTSTGNC) People of Color center for community organizing in New York City. ALP works for progressive social and economic justice and the promotion of community wellness.

Corona Courier is a mutual-aid group of NYC cyclists who provide free no-contact delivery service to most at-risk community members during the COVID-19 public health crisis. They have around 450 volunteers located across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. Along with general courier work, they help with grocery shopping and food assistance in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. In The Bronx they partnered with Montefiore Hospital and BXMpowerment Project to help with their pantry deliveries.

Cosecha is "a nonviolent movement fighting for permanent protection, dignity, and respect for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States." In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Cosecha established an undocumented workers fund campaign, encouraging individuals to donate their federal government stimulus checks to support undocumented workers who were excluded from participation in the stimulus check program.

DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrant workers and youth in New York City. Founded in 2000, DRUM's membership of over 3,000 adults, youth, and families is multigenerational and represents the diaspora of the South Asian communities – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and beyond. Their long-term vision is to build the power of immigrant workers in the United States in unity with all workers and communities for human rights. They see movements for justice in the U.S. as rooted in working in solidarity with people of the Global South for just global trade, economic, and foreign policies.

Free them All for Public Health, or #freethemall4publichealth, is a campaign that demands the release of incarcerated people. The campaign recognizes a longer-term goal of abolition; however, it calls for immediate reductions of prosecution, probation, and court monitoring; the release of people from jails; and the release of people from prisons as measures of reducing the spread of COVID-19. The campaign calls upon individuals to participate in "zaps," actions in which elected officials, and individuals associated with the Department of Corrections, are contacted en masse through phone calls, faxes, emails, and social media.

The Fund Excluded Workers (FEW) Coalition is a coalition of labor and activist groups demanding covid relief funding for undocumented workers and those who have recently been released from incarceration, both of whom are being excluded from relief packages. Their campaign calls for the creation of an Excluded Worker Fund, develop through a tax on the wealthy, to "provide direct income support, equivalent to unemployment benefits." On March 16th, 2021, members of the coalition began a hunger strike demanding that legislators in Albany fund excluded workers, which led to a $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund. In March 2022, the coalition marched to Albany to promote their platform that called for $3 billion to replenish the Exclude Workers Fund, street vendor legalization, health coverage for all, fair wages, and worker protections.

Housing Justice for All is a campaign initiated by Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance. The Alliance is a coalition that seeks to end evictions, end homelessness, and fights for stronger tenant protections. The Right to Remain campaign was launched in 2022 to pass the Good Cause Eviction (S3082/A5573) bill, which would allow renters to challenge unconscionable rent increases and stay in their homes.

The Coronavirus NYC Neighborhood Food Resource Guide was developed by the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center in order to "help community members in need with food resources during this challenging time."

The Justice Committee (JC) is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City and empowering low-income Latino/as and other people of color to address these issues. By building solidarity with other anti-racist, immigrant and people of color-led organizations, they seek to contribute to a broad-based movement for social justice. JC also seeks to contribute to a coordinated global movement that will attain this world by building a New York City in which people are not victimized by systemic racism and other forms of oppression and do not suffer or fear killings and abuse at the hands of the NYPD and other forms of law enforcement.

Tre Kwon is a writer and editor for Left Voice. She is a Mount Sinai ICU nurse and a member of NYSNA. Kwon joined other activists and workers in several different actions to demand more PPE and to denounce the conditions faced by frontline workers during the COVID-19 crisis. The mother of a newborn, her work and activism has been covered in mainstream and progressive/left news outlets such as BBC, CBS, Democracy Now, and The Intercept. Her tweets related to the struggles of healthcare workers during COVID-19 begin April 3, 2020 and include still and moving image documents and links to media outlets' reporting of healthcare workers during COVID-19

Make the Road New York is a grassroots immigrant and workers organization. They focus on education equity; health justice; housing and environmental justice; policing and criminal justice; transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex, and queer justice; and workplace justice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they established an emergency response fund; held know your rights trainings; promoted advocacy campaigns related to an eviction moratorium and immigration enforcement; workers rights resources related to safety, paid sick leave, and unemployment; immigrant rights resources; the Emergency Rental Assistance program; and health and food program resources.

Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) is the social justice caucus of United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in New York City. The are an opposition group that offers themselves as a positive alternative to current union leadership. On April 8, 2020, MORE posted an open letter to Chancellor Carranza, Mayor De Blasio, and NYSED Interim Commissioner Shannon Tahoe proposing amendments to the City's emergency remote-learning plan for New York City Department of Education educators during the COVID-19 crisis. The letter calls for a slowdown in academics, a focus on trauma informed teaching, a suspension on grading for June report cards, support for the retention of a spring break, and more resources for public health initiatives. The Health Justice Agenda is a working group of the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), a caucus of the UFT. The working group demanded full funding for schools and communities, health justice, and anti-racist approaches and training for all staff before they would return to work for in-person teaching.

Mutual Aid NYC is a network of groups organizing to provide aid and support in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are everyday New Yorkers working to lift up local organizing, connect people to resources, and build a citywide movement to address this crisis. Their members include parents, elders, immigrants, people with disabilities and chronic illness, caregivers, care workers, and other organizers.

Home is a Human Right, a project affiliated with Mutual AID NYC, is a collective of volunteers developing sustainable mutual aid models that address the crisis of unequal access to housing in New York City. Their projects include partnering with apartment seekers to confront racial and income discrimination in housing searches; sourcing and moving furniture to support people who finally do get housing; and using media to amplify the wisdom and vision of those who have first-hand experience with housing instability, as well as insights about how to end this crisis. The Moving Support Project, an affiliate of Mutual Aid NYC and a project of Housing is A Human Right, helps formerly unhoused people secure furniture to make their space into a home.

Harm Reduction Coalition is a bi-coastal network committed to drug user rights and overdose prevention. They aim to "challenge the persistent stigma faced by people who use drugs and advocate for policy and public health reform." The Harm Reduction Coalition's "COVID-19 Guidance for People Who Use Drugs" offers guides for safer drug use and harm reduction during the COVID-19 crisis. It also provides tips for community-based syringe services and need exchange providers.

The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is a policy and advocacy umbrella organization that represents immigrant and refugee rights groups across New York. Membership in NYIC is inclusive of labor unions, academic institutions, religious groups, legal organizations, and socio economic justice organizations.

The New York State Nurses Association is a union of 42,000 frontline nurses. They are New York's largest union and professional association for registered nurses. The We Love NY Nurses is the New York State Nurses Association's contract campaign garnering support for New York State nurses and healthcare professionals with expiring contracts at the end of 2022 and early 2023.

NYC COVID Care is a mutual aid network comprised of therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, life coaches, grief counselors, spiritual care providers, organizers, and crisis line workers. They focus on facilitating individual support encounters, support groups, stress-reduction trainings, and grief and loss rituals.

NYC Veterans Alliance exists to "empower veterans, families, and civilian allies to connect as a community, advocate for improved policies, and advance as civic leaders." Beginning in mid-March 2020, NYC Veterans Alliance started the Veterans Mutual Aid project to support veterans and their families with facing the realities of the pandemic, from housing insecurity to food scarcity. The Veterans Mutual Aid project includes information on tenants rights, workers rights, food and financial assistance, and support for veterans benefits claims during COVID-19.

Queens Neighborhood United (QNU) is a volunteer, activist working group representing the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst. Founded in 2014 by small business owners as an anti-business improvement district organization, QNU "believes in establishing community control over land-use, policing, and immigration policies that directly impact and works to displace us." It accomplishes its work through use of grassroots organizing, direct action, leadership development, advocacy, and community education. Beginning on April 1, 2020, QNU uses its Instagram account to communicate directly to its members and allies around campaigns to support its community during COVID-19.

Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) is a "peer-led organization supporting and advocating for sex workers in New York." In response to COVID-19 SWOP Brooklyn created a campaign "to provide monetary aid to sex workers in the New York City area who are in critical need of aid."

Christian "Chris" Smalls, a management assistant at Amazon Warehouse JFK98 located on Staten Island, was fired by Amazon on March 30th, 2020 after organizing a strike to call attention to the lack of protections for workers at the facility.

During the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, Samaritan's Purse - an evangelical organization led by Franklin Graham - constructed a field hospital in Central Park. Given the organization's stance on LGBTQIA issues; homophobic, transphobic, and Islamophobic statements made by Graham; and the organization's requirement that individuals working for Samaritan's Purse must be Christians who oppose same-sex marriage, the hospital was met with criticism by LGBTQIA leaders, progressive religious leaders, and elected officials. LGBTQIA organizations, and others, protested the field hospital, inclusive of this action taken by Reverend Billy, in which he raises a rainbow flag next to the hospital. In May of 2020, the field hospital discharged its patients and dismantled its tents.

Transportation Alternatives' (TA) mission is to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile and advocate for better bicycling, walking, and public transit for all New Yorkers. With 100,000 active supporters, TA fights for the installation of infrastructure improvements that reduce speeding and traffic crashes, save lives and improve everyday transportation for all New Yorkers. Since their founding in 1973, TA's work has led to he extraordinary growth of bicycling, the launch of Citi Bike and the introduction of innovations to city streets, like Complete Streets, parking-protected bike lanes, automated speed enforcement cameras, public plazas, Select Bus Service and Neighborhood Slow Zones. TA activists are currently leading the fight to improve infrastructure for bicycling and walking on scores of local streets and to change traffic enforcement policy and practices citywide.

West Side Federation For Senior and Supportive Housing, Inc. (WSFSSH) was formed in 1976 by a coalition of social service agencies, religious institutions, and community organizations. They work to meet the diverse needs of older people and persons living with special needs. Their first building, the Marseilles, opened in 1980 and provided 134 independent apartments to low income elderly and handicapped individuals. In addition to serving independent seniors, they now serve frail elderly individuals, older persons living with serious mental illnesses, homeless individuals, persons living with physically handicapping conditions, grandparents raising their grandchildren, and families. They currently house over 1,800 people in 24 buildings located on the Upper West Side, and in Harlem, Chelsea, and the Bronx.

Workers Need Childcare connects parents to free and low-cost childcare options during COVID-19. They rely on remote volunteers across the country, but their service is designed for parents in New York City's essential workforce (e.g. health care, education, shipping, media, warehousing, grocery and food production, utilities, domestic workers) who need affordable childcare options during COVID-19.

The Zip Code Memory Project was a community-based project that sought ways to memorialize losses from the COVID-19 pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects in Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx neighborhoods. From Fall 2021 to Spring 2023, the organization carried out roundtable discussions; held the Imagine Repair Exhibition; held performances, presentations and other gatherings; and created a short film, Together, Not Alone.