A cornerstone of SURJ’s work is accountability through collective action. We believe change happens when we build with millions of other people to change culture, policies, and practices. We need a mass movement to make change. Accountability means we are in relationship with and take direction from people of color. We build accountability relationships with Black, Indigenous, and people of color-led organizations doing racial justice work in the movement.

These are SURJ Bay Area’s Accountability Partners:

• Abundant Beginnings is a Black-led community education project that focuses on growing children rooted in trust and blossoming in independence.
  
• Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.
• Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) is a grassroots organization working to empower and organize local Arab communities towards justice and self-determination for all.
• Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) is a statewide coalition of 70 grassroots organizations working to reduce the number of people in prisons and jails, the number of prisons and jails in the state, and shift state and local spending from corrections and policing to human services.
• Causa Justa::Just Cause is a multi-racial, grassroots organization building community leadership to achieve justice for low-income San Francisco and Oakland residents.
• Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a Black grassroots organization that works for self determination in disenfranchised communities, focusing on self defense and safety, economics and prosperity, and community service.
• Ella Baker Center organizes with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
• Essie Justice Group works to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration's harm to women and communities.
• Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers' Network is a national network of employers of nannies, housecleaners, and home attendants working for dignified and respectful working conditions that benefit the employer and worker alike.
• Initiate Justice works to end mass incarceration by activating the power of the people it directly impacts, organizing members inside and outside of prisons to advocate for their freedom and change criminal justice policy in California.
• Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None is active in public policy, legal advocacy, grassroots organizing and public education with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
• Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) interrupts cycles of violence and incarceration by promoting race-conscious restorative justice  practices and policies in schools, communities, and the juvenile justice system.
• Sogorea Te' Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship.
• Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) is a group of transgender, gender variant, and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.
  
  

We also collaborate with these Bay Area organizations:

• Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is a multi-racial, democratic, non-profit community organization that builds power to fight and stand for economic, racial and social justice through ground-up organizing and transformative community change.
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) works towards a healthy and clean environment where our communities can thrive.
• Bay Resistance advances racial, economic, climate, and gender justice by activating individuals and families to build a just world for all of us.
• California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) is a grassroots abolitionist organization that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex.
• Catalyst Project engages white people for racial justice and helps to build powerful multiracial movements that can win collective liberation.
• Center for Political Education works to strengthen Bay Area movements by providing programs grounded in historical knowledge, strong theory, and rigorous analysis.
• Centro Legal de la Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, and Latino communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
• Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.
• Disability Justice Culture Club is a collective of disabled and/or neurodivergent queer people of color organizing in East Oakland/Chochenyo Ohlone land.
• Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area opposes all forms of oppression, particularly anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab and is dedicated to promoting full equality, democracy, and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians.
• Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a double mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice.
• Sins Invalid is a disability justice performance project that centers people of color, queers, nonbinary, and trans people with disabilities.
• SpeakOut is a mission-driven speakers bureau and non-profit social justice education institute that encourages critical and imaginative thinking to address the major inequities of our day and transform a fractured world. SpeakOut is also SURJ Bay Area's fiscal sponsor.
• STAND is a group of people who benefit from white, male privilege in the Bay Area and are engaging in movements for racial, gender, and economic justice.
• The Village works in service and support with 30 curbside communities (aka homeless encampments) and engages in education, advocacy and policy work to decriminalize homelessness.
• White Noise Collective is collective of people working at the intersection of whiteness and gender oppression to disrupt racism and white supremacy.