Americans for an Informed Democracy (AID)
AID is a non-partisan organization that seeks to raise awareness among students. AID fulfills its mission by coordinating town hall meetings on America’s role in the world, hosting leadership retreats, and publishing opinion pieces and reports on issues of global importance. Through these efforts, AID seeks to build a new generation of globally conscious leaders who can shape an American foreign policy appropriate for our increasingly interdependent world.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an internationally known human-rights advocacy group. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, the group functions through community and student based groups that use various forms of advocacy to work for equal human rights around the globe. AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion.

Campus Greens/Activists
The Campus Greens/Activists seek to provide students with a politically liberal community, encourage students to engage in our democracy, and promote the ten key values of the Green Party: community-based economics, decentralization, ecological wisdom, feminism, future focus, grassroots democracy, non-violence, personal and global responsibility, respect for diversity, and social justice.

College Democrats
The College Democrats seek to stimulate political thought and activity at Northwestern, promote interest in governmental affairs, and advance the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party of the United States, Illinois, and Evanston. We do so by bringing engaging speakers to campus, assisting members find political experiences, and hosting interesting quarterly events.

College Feminists (includes Vagina Monologues)
It is College Feminists’ mission to address the intersection of gender, race, sexuality and culture by initiating positive change in all social spaces. We believe in equal rights between women and men on all social, political and economic levels. College Feminists is a group of students determined to make the campus and the community aware of the issues all women face.

College Republicans
College Republicans is Northwestern’s student organization that supports the ideals of the Republican Party. We provide large-scale programming of conservative speakers, participate in campus forums and debates, and provide a social setting for conservative students.

HIV/AIDS Literacy Organization (HALO)
A grassroots student group dedicated to raising awareness of HIV/AIDS related issues and to promoting safer sex at NU. The group is focused on education, volunteerism, and activism within an HIV/AIDS and safer-sex context.

Justice for All
A Northwestern University student group dedicated to rights for animals.

LGBT Resource Center
The LBGT Resource Center is a branch of the Center for Student Involvement that works to provide a safe space and act as hub for organizations, resources, services, and programs of interest to the LGBT and Allied community at Northwestern. Our aim is to increase visibility and awareness of issues surrounding gender and sexuality by uniting existing community entities and developing our own educational and outreach-oriented programming .

NORML-SSDP
Since its founding in 1970, NORML has provided a voice in the public policy debate for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition and favor an end to the practice of arresting marijuana smokers. A nonprofit public-interest advocacy group, NORML represents the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly. As a campus chapter of NORML it is our goal to move public opinion, at Northwestern University and the surrounding communities, sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty. We also seek to represent to the best of our ability SSDP: Students for Sensible Drug Policy is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities, but who also know that the War on Drugs is failing our generation and our society. SSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future, while fighting back against counterproductive Drug War policies, particularly those that directly harm students and youth. In a combined effort of these two organizations, we seek higher understanding our own political system and the consequences that arise from faulty legislation and its overall impact on our society.

Peace of Mind
Peace of Mind is a Northwestern student group that believes that the boundaries that exist between Islam and Judaism are largely superficial. Accordingly, we host events, such as political discussions, cultural exchanges, and social get-togethers, where students can learn more about Judaism, Islam, and the common ground between the two religions that is so often ignored. We laugh, we disagree, and we learn a lot from one another. We ask only that our members be willing to listen to each other, and that they bring open minds alongside their personal perspectives.A group dedicated to facilitating dialogue among Muslim and Jewish Northwestern University students.

Peace Project is an umbrella organization of three different groups, Northwestern Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR), Students for Economic Justice (SEJ), and The Protest magazine.
The three groups are united in a common goal of mobilizing and educating to help foster a more peaceful campus and world, based not only on the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Rainbow Alliance
Our purpose is to create a safe space and encourage personal development for people of all genders and sexualities, perceived or otherwise on campus. To do this we outreach to promote awareness, understanding, and dialogue of issues surrounding gender and sexuality in the Northwestern community; work to provide a supportive and fun social environment that creates a sense of community and fight homophobia.

STAND: “Students Taking Action Now: Darfur!”
This is the NU chapter of the student-led genocide intervention network.

Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED)
SEED exists to affect the state of the environment and to support progressive environmental movements at Northwestern. SEED’s activities include large-scale event programming such as speakers, concerts and debates. Service is also important to SEED. Members participate in campus recycling improvement efforts, prairie restoration work, and on-campus environmental education.