The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 American non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. NCAC is a New York-based organization with official 501(c)(3) status in the United States. The coalition seeks to defend freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression from censorship and threats of censorship through education and outreach, and direct advocacy. NCAC assists individuals, community groups, and institutions with strategies and resources for resisting censorship and creating a climate hospitable to free expression. It also encourages the publicizing of cases of censorship and has a place to report instances of censorship on the organization's website. Their annual fundraiser is called the Free Speech Defender Awards. The main goal of the organization is to defend the first amendment, freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression. NCAC's website contains reports of censorship incidents, analysis and discussion of free expression issues, a database of legal cases in the arts, an archive of NCAC's quarterly newsletter, a blog, and Censorpedia, a crowdsourced wiki. In fiscal year 2017, the organization earned a 95.93% rating by Charity Navigator, an organization that assesses the efficacy of nonprofits. (en)
全米反検閲連盟（ぜんべいはんけんえつれんめい、National Coalition Against Censorship、NCAC）は、文学、芸術、宗教、教育、職業、労働、公民権擁護などを特色とする50の団体からなる、アメリカ合衆国の非営利組織の連盟。本部はニューヨークに位置し、501(c)(3)に基づく法的地位にある。この連盟は、教育、奉仕活動、直接的なアドボカシーの主張を通じて、検閲とその脅威から思想・良心の自由と探求の自由、表現の自由を守ることを目的としている。 (ja)
全米反検閲連盟（ぜんべいはんけんえつれんめい、National Coalition Against Censorship、NCAC）は、文学、芸術、宗教、教育、職業、労働、公民権擁護などを特色とする50の団体からなる、アメリカ合衆国の非営利組織の連盟。本部はニューヨークに位置し、501(c)(3)に基づく法的地位にある。この連盟は、教育、奉仕活動、直接的なアドボカシーの主張を通じて、検閲とその脅威から思想・良心の自由と探求の自由、表現の自由を守ることを目的としている。 (ja)
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 American non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. NCAC is a New York-based organization with official 501(c)(3) status in the United States. The coalition seeks to defend freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression from censorship and threats of censorship through education and outreach, and direct advocacy. NCAC assists individuals, community groups, and institutions with strategies and resources for resisting censorship and creating a climate hospitable to free expression. It also encourages the publicizing of cases of censorship and has a place to report instances of censorship on the organization's website. Their (en)