​Here are some ideas.
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10 things you can do to make the world a better place:

1. Donate to progressive social movements that fight for the dignity and justice of the people Trump hates most, such as immigrants, women, and Muslims (see list below).
2. Volunteer your time, skills, and expertise. 
3. Share progressive content with your online social networks. 
4. Talk to someone who isn't as engaged with these issues about why Trump scares you. Have an honest and loving one-on-one conversation about racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and sexism.
5. Educate yourself about injustice.
6. Write blog posts and Op-Eds.
7. Follow progressive organizations on social media and through their mailing lists.
8. Sign pledges and petitions.
9. Connect progressive organizations to influential people and platforms. 
10. Fundraise for organizations that you care about. 

​If you're White: Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), which organizes white people to fight for racial justice.
If you're wealthy: ​Join Solidaire, a network of progressive donors.
If you're young and wealthy: Join Resource Generation, a community of young people leveraging their resources to support grassroots social movements. 

And whatever you do, invite 10 friends to join you! 

Here are some awesome organizations to support:

It's almost impossible to make a comprehensive list of all the progressive organizations in this country. So let's start with groups that are led by women of color, and that engage the very people Trump has attacked throughout his campaign — women, immigrants, workers, Muslims, among others.

National domestic ​
​workers alliance

Fighting for the dignity of nannies, housekeepers, and other care workers

Forward Together

Empowering women of color and their families

United We Dream

Immigrant youth building
a movement for justice

National Network
​of Abortion Funds

Provides resources to people seeking abortions

Black lives
​ matter

Black people organizing for Black liberation

Mijente

Organizing Chicanx and Latinx communities

MPower Change

Grassroots movement rooted in Muslim communities

Black Alliance for
​Just Immigration

Organizing Black immigrant communities
​

Southerners on
​ New Ground

Organizing LGBTQ people in the South

Black Youth
​ Project 100

Young Black activists committed to justice​

Native Organizers
​ Alliance

Empowering Native organizers

National Latina
Institute for
​Reproductive Health

Organizing Latinas for reproductive justice

This list is not exhaustive — just a beginning! Here are a few other lists smart people have compiled:

• Funders for Justice: Organizations addressing police accountability and racial justice 
• Movement 2016: Map of organizations engaging progressive voters​​​​

Why social movements matter
​ (especially right now):

A social movement = a group of people with a shared commitment to changing hearts, minds, policies, and systems. Movements are about building the power of the people to change things for the better. They create long-term social, political, and economic shifts regardless of who's in public office — and, social movements hold these elected officials accountable.  The silver lining of this horrible election is that Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote, which means that the majority of voters are against Trump. There's HUGE potential here to galvanize a mass movement of progressive Americans to stop Trump from following through on his terrifying campaign promises like building a wall between the US and Mexico, banning Muslims from entering the country, and repealing Obamacare. It's time to mobilize our resources and energy to build progressive people power in this country!