Missouri Jobs with Justice

What Missouri Jobs with Justice does

Missouri Jobs with Justice is a private, statewide, non-profit grassroots coalition founded in 1999 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The organization unites faith groups, labor unions, community organizations, and student groups to advance workers' rights, fair wages, healthcare access, and democratic protections. It employs 11–50 staff, operates active organizing committees across five Missouri regions (St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Charles, Springfield-Ozarks, and Mid Missouri), and maintains related entities including Missouri Jobs with Justice Voter Action and Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund. Leadership comprises Executive Director Caitlyn Adams, Policy Director Richard von Glahn, and Communications Director Crystal Brigman Mahaney.

The organization does not sell commercial products or services and has no proprietary technology stack — its "product" is advocacy output delivered through coalition campaigns, ballot initiatives, town halls, lobby days, rallies, and door-to-door canvassing. Documented wins include playing a lead role in passing Proposition B (gradual minimum wage increase to $12/hour by 2023), helping implement Medicaid expansion after the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed voter-approved coverage for 275,000+ Missourians, supporting the unionization of Missouri's first regional library (Daniel Boone Regional Library Workers United) and first domestic violence shelter (Rose Brooks Center with LiUNA Local 955), and helping secure paid family and medical leave for St. Louis City workers. In November 2024, the coalition helped pass Proposition A with nearly 58% of the vote, raising Missouri's minimum wage to $15 and guaranteeing earned paid sick time for an estimated 500,000 workers and families.

Revenue is generated through member dues and small-dollar donations at tiers ranging from $10 to $500, supplemented by foundation and institutional grants — most notably a $2 million gift from the Yield Giving Open Call in 2024 (one of 279 awards from 6,353 applicants). On July 10, 2024, the organization expanded its healthcare policy work by integrating Missouri Health Care for All as a project under its organizational umbrella, extending its portfolio beyond wages and sick leave into insurance affordability, surprise-billing reversal (e.g., the Care Over Cost coalition reversing $13,000 in Elevance charges for an individual plaintiff), and broader Medicaid and prescription-drug advocacy.

Name

Missouri Jobs with Justice

Legal name

Missouri Jobs with Justice

Website

https://mojwj.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Missouri Jobs with Justice is a private, statewide non-profit coalition founded in 1999 that unites faith groups, labor unions, and community organizations across five Missouri regions to advance workers' rights, fair wages, healthcare access, and democratic protections through ballot initiatives, organizing, and policy advocacy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Worker Advocacy and Social Justice Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Labor, Worker Rights & Employment Policy Advocacy (BPAGAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB), Racial & Ethnic Justice Organizations (BPAGAFAC), Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services (BPAGAEAN)

Keywords

• Grassroots advocacy coalition
• Workers rights organizing
• Economic justice campaigns
• Ballot initiative advocacy
• Labor coalition building

Headquarters

HQ city

St Louis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Member Dues and Donations: The organization generates revenue through membership dues and grassroots donations, with donation tiers ranging from $10 to $500. Individual and organizational members contribute to fund coalition activities, ballot campaigns, and advocacy work.
2. Grant Funding: Missouri Jobs with Justice received a $2 million gift from the Yield Giving Open Call, selected from over 6,353 applicants. This significant grant supports the organization's ongoing work in economic justice and grassroots organizing.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Missouri Jobs with Justice is a statewide grassroots coalition that organizes workers and community members to advance workers' rights, fair wages, healthcare access, and democratic participation through coalition building, ballot initiative campaigns, union organizing support, and direct community mobilization. The coalition unites faith organizations, labor unions, student groups, and community organizations to win policy victories via canvassing, town halls, rallies, and legislative advocacy.

Product overview

Missouri Jobs with Justice is a statewide grassroots coalition organization rather than a product company. It does not offer commercial products or services for sale. The organization provides advocacy services, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and campaign advocacy work focused on social, racial, and economic justice issues including workers' rights, healthcare access, minimum wage, paid sick leave, and democratic participation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Missouri Jobs with Justice Voter Action: The voter action arm of the organization focused on electoral and ballot initiative work
• Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund

Products and services

• Membership Dues Program Membership program for individuals and organizations to join the Missouri Jobs with Justice coalition, supporting grassroots advocacy, ballot initiative campaigns, and worker organizing efforts across Missouri.
• Grassroots Donation Program Donation program with tiered contribution levels ($10, $25, $100, $250, $500) enabling individuals and supporters to fund the coalition's advocacy campaigns, ballot initiatives, and worker organizing work.

Quantifiable outcome

• Won $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave ballot initiative with nearly 58% voter approval
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supporting.

• Missouri Health Care for All (MHCFA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 July 2024Missouri Jobs with Justice announced the integration of Missouri Health Care for All (MHCFA) as a project under its organizational umbrella, effective July 10, 2024. This move ensures the continuation of MHCFA's vital mission to advocate for equitable health care access across the state of Missouri. The absorption of MHCFA strengthens MOJwJ's healthcare advocacy capacity and consolidates advocacy efforts under one coalition.
• People's ActionmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 May 2024MOJwJ partnered with People's Action on the Care Over Cost campaign to demand Elevance/Anthem BCBS reverse cruel medical charges. Joint petition drive gathered over 1,000 signatures and successfully reversed $13,000 in charges for Sara's NICU baby care within two weeks.
• Missouri Workers CentercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2024Missouri Workers Center partnered with MOJwJ to support the Rose Brooks Center unionization campaign. The collaboration included community support, rally organization, and solidarity actions to win the first domestic violence shelter union election in Missouri. Workers voted 27-18 to unionize with LiUNA Local 955 representation.
• LiUNA Local 955 (Laborers International Union of North America)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 May 2024LiUNA Local 955 represented Rose Brooks Center workers in their union election and is facilitating contract negotiations. MOJwJ provides community coalition support for LiUNA organizing campaigns. Historic 27-18 vote victory in May 2024.
• Care Over Cost CoalitionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational coalition campaign led by MOJwJ and allied organizations to fight insurance company denials and demand healthcare corporations put care over cost. Coalition includes Be A Hero, PNHP-MN, and Labor Campaign for Single Payer as co-sponsors.
• Daniel Boone Regional Library Workers UnitedcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMOJwJ supported DBRLWU during their union campaign by mobilizing community to attend library board meetings, hosting candidate town halls, and facilitating meetings with Mayor Buffaloe. DBRLWU became Missouri's first unionized regional library in 2022.
• AFSCME Local 410coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAFSCME Local 410 represents St. Louis city workers in Refuse, Water, and Airport departments. MOJwJ partnered with Local 410 to win paid family and medical leave for city workers. Tecona Sullivan, Local 410 President, testified about the importance of the policy after suffering personal hardship.
• Women's Foundation of Greater St. LouissupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with MOJwJ on paid family leave campaign. Board President Nancy Bukovic publicly supported St. Louis City policy adoption and encouraged other employers to follow suit.
• Generate HealthsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLora Gulley, Director of Advocacy and Community Mobilization with Generate Health, supported paid family leave policy. Coalition partner focused on health equity and maternal/infant health outcomes.
• SEIU Local 1coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership with SEIU Local 1 on Justice for Janitors campaigns and SLU maintenance/janitorial worker contract negotiations. MOJwJ provided coalition support at rallies and demonstrations for $3.15/hr wage increase and strong contract victory.
• Stand Up KCsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerKansas City-based workers' rights organization partnered with MOJwJ on the Rose Brooks Center unionization campaign and other worker organizing efforts.
• Empower MissouricoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition partner on Clean Slate legislation (HB 2108 & HB 2555) to give formerly incarcerated workers a fair shot. MOJwJ testified in favor of legislation that would help 500,000 Missourians access expungement.
• Americans for Tax FairnesssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on billionaires income tax campaign and tax fairness advocacy. Joint analysis of Missouri billionaires' pandemic wealth gains ($15.1 billion, 87% increase) and potential state revenue from federal billionaires tax proposals.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network): National faith-based community organizing network that builds local coalitions for racial and economic justice campaigns. Comparable coalition model uniting faith, labor, and community voices, though operates as a national federation with affiliated state/local tables.

Peers

• Midwest Academy: Chicago-based organization that trains progressive organizers and supports coalition-based campaigns similar to MOJwJ's approach. Closely comparable methodology (grassroots organizing, coalition building, campaign strategy training) but functions primarily as a training/consulting intermediary rather than a direct advocacy coalition.

Broad incumbents

• People's Action: National progressive coalition that partnered with MOJwJ on the Care Over Cost campaign. Comparable advocacy infrastructure across housing, healthcare, and workers' rights, but operates as a national federation with state affiliates in many states.
• Jobs with Justice (national network): The national federation of which Missouri Jobs with Justice is a statewide affiliate. Directly comparable mission (labor, community, and workers' rights coalition-building), but operates at the federal/multi-state level rather than as a single-state grassroots coalition.
• Center for Popular Democracy: National progressive organizing network that supports state and local affiliates on worker rights, racial justice, and democratic reform campaigns. Comparable coalition-building, ballot initiative, and member-led organizing model with multi-state scope.
• AFL-CIO (Missouri State AFL-CIO): State federation of labor unions in Missouri with overlapping workers' rights and pro-labor policy advocacy mission. Closely comparable on labor and economic justice issues but represents a federation of union locals rather than a community-labor hybrid coalition.

Direct peers

• Missouri Workers Center: Kansas City-based Missouri workers' rights organization that directly partners with MOJwJ on union organizing drives (e.g., Rose Brooks Center). Comparable statewide scope, member-driven organizing model, and worker-center focus on low-wage worker organizing.
• Stand Up KC: Kansas City-based workers' rights organization partnered with MOJwJ on organizing campaigns. Closely comparable mission (worker organizing, social/economic justice) and operates within the same Missouri geographic and policy environment.
• Empower Missouri: Missouri-based nonprofit advocacy organization that co-advocates with MOJwJ on Clean Slate legislation and criminal justice reform. Comparable statewide advocacy footprint and coalition-driven model in Missouri.

Regional players

• Working Families Party: Progressive political party active in select states that runs ballot-line and cross-endorsement campaigns for worker-aligned candidates. Comparable economic justice mission and electoral/ballot-driven strategy, though primarily operates in the Northeast and select Midwest states rather than Missouri.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/MOJwJ
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCGUa5S5zwDSYP7-ZQIW0heA/videos?view=0
• Facebookfacebook.com/MissouriJobsWithJustice
• Instagraminstagram.com/MissouriJWJ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mojwj

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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