The Harry Potter Alliance fights the Dark Arts in the real world by using parallels from Harry Potter. We work for human rights, equality, and a better world just as Harry and his friends did throughout the books.
Mission Statement
The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) is a 501c3 nonprofit that takes an outside-of-the-box approach to civic engagement by using parallels from the Harry Potter books to educate and mobilize young people across the world toward issues of literacy, equality, and human rights. Our mission is to empower our members to act like the heroes that they love by acting for a better world. By bringing together fans of blockbuster books, TV shows, movies, and YouTube celebrities we are harnessing the power of popular culture toward making our world a better place. Our goal is to make civic engagement exciting by channeling the entertainment-saturated facets of our culture toward mobilization for deep and lasting social change.
The commitment of our members combined with our innovative strategy for social change has enabled us to accomplish astounding successes during our past campaigns. Just as Dumbledore’s Army wakes the world up to Voldemort’s return, works for equal rights of house elves and werewolves, and empowers its members, we:
- Work with partner organizations [NGOs] in alerting the world to the dangers of global warming, poverty, and genocide.
- Raise funds for partner NGOs to support equality, literacy, and human rights
- Encourage our members to hone the magic of their creativity in endeavoring to make the world a better place.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, once said, “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” Indeed we do and the Harry Potter Alliance’s is striving to imagine activism better every day.
