In October 2019, NCLR jointly organized the LGBTQ Summit North Dakota, with Dakota Outright, and North Dakota Human Rights Coalition. Other organizations participating in the summit included Red River Rainbow Seniors, the Pride Collective, the Equality Federation, the Human Rights and American Campaign, the ACLU, and the Trevor Project Foundation for Suicide Prevention. One focus of the summit was youth, and a number of students from several GSAs in the state also participated in the summit and gave a keynote panel about their work.

In April 2018, NCLR and Green Mountain Crossroads hosted a Rural Pride Summit in Vermont. Other participating organizations included Outright Vermont, Vermont Legal Aid, Safe Harbor for Trans Teens, Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, Vermont Cares, Pride Center of Vermont, Just Roots Farm, Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, and Vermont Psychiatric Survivors. Elected officials Bill Lippert and Becca Balint also participated, along with representatives from the offices of Rep. Welch and Sen. Sanders.

In November 2018, in partnership with Vermont Legal Aid, NCLR led a workshop for legal aid attorneys from around the country on increasing their capacity to serve low-income LGBTQ clients, including how to do culturally competent intakes and creating a welcoming office environment for LGBTQ people.

NCLR co-founded the National LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Action Network in October 2018 and co-coordinates the Network with The Vaid Group. The mission of the Network is to end poverty in the U.S., advocate for economic justice, and pursue solutions to economic, racial, gender and social disparities as they specifically impact low-income LGBTQ people. It seeks to do this through research, organizing, learning, public education, and advocacy in coalition with organizations and individuals working within and outside of the LGBTQ movement.

NCLR is a member of the National LGBTQ/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group, which is a network of nearly 50 organizations and individual stakeholders working to reduce the unique harms of the U.S. criminal legal system experienced by LGBTQ+ people, people living with HIV, or those at risk of acquiring HIV, through research, education, and policy advocacy.

NCLR launched with the Human Rights Campaign and Center for HIV Law and Policy the #EndBadHivLaws Campaign. The campaign raises awareness and works to end laws criminalizing those living with HIV.

NCLR joined the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) in 2018 as the first LGBTQ organizational member. CHN is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations.

NCLR joined the Sex Workers Advocates Coalition in 2018 to support the campaign to decriminalize sex work in the District of Columbia. NCLR co-leads the efforts to build support in the LGBTQ community for sex work decriminalization.

NCLR is a member of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP), which is a national coalition of more than 120 local, regional, and national organizations advocating for federal funding, legislation and policy to end the HIV epidemic in the United States, and is active in the Structural Interventions Working Group.

NCLR is a member of the Justice Roundtable, which is a broad-based coalition of more than 100 organizations working to reform federal criminal justice laws and policies, and is active in the Sentencing Reform Working Group of the Justice Roundtable.