| 1. | Direct Action Welfare Group | | | A grassroots group of current and former public assistance recipients in West Virginia who work on welfare and poverty issues.
www.geocities.com |
| 2. | LIFETIME | | | LIFETIME is a nonprofit organization created by student mothers at the University of California Berkeley who completed college degrees while raising their families on welfare, and who are committed to helping other do the same.
www.geds-to-phds.org |
| 3. | Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition | | | WROC of Olympia, Washington, organizes groups of women and men who are current or former TANF recipients to watch how welfare and family policy is implemented on the local and federal level.
www.wroc.org |
| 4. | Affirmative Options Coalition | | | Statewide coalition advocating and organizing for a comprehensive approach to welfare reform and economic security in Minnesota.
www.mncn.org |
| 5. | Community Voices Heard | | | Community Voices Heard (CVH) is an organization of low-income people, predominately women on welfare, working together to make improvements in our community, and advance the political, economic and social rights of low-income people on welfare and other low-wage workers.
www.cvhaction.org |
| 7. | National Welfare Engine | | | Works to bring grassroots organizations, working on welfare issues, together to share information and resources. Houses a national speakers bureau and links to various sites throughout the US.
www.welfareengine.org |
| 8. | Montana People's Action | | | A socially and racially diverse organization of low and moderate income Montanans. We empower our members to achieve lasting change for social and economic justice using Direct Action.
www.mtpaction.org |
| 9. | Californians for Justice | | | A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.
www.caljustice.org |
| 10. | National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support | | | The National Campaign is a national coalition of grassroots organizations in 40 states that seeks to advance progressive anti-poverty policies at the state and national levels.
www.nationalcampaign.org |
| 11. | Philadelphia Unemployment Project | | | The Philadelphia Unemployment Project is a membership organization of low-wage workers and the unemployed. PUP has fought for jobs and for economic justice since 1975. We are also an unemployed workers center that helps people win unemployment cases, save their houses, and get access to health care.
www.philaup.org |
| 12. | Families United for Racial and Economic Equality | | | FUREE is a multiracial, woman led membership organization made up of low-income and no-income workers. We are organizing to affect the welfare system so that all people's work is valued and all people have the right to not only choose their own destinies but to earn the economic means to live out those destinies.
www.fifthave.org |
| 13. | Grass Roots Organizing | | | GRO- Grass Roots Organizing is agrassroots organization that gives voice to individuals and communities in the pursuit of economic and human rights.
www.gromo.org |
| 14. | POWER | | | POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change.
www.fairwork.org |
| 15. | Make The Road By Walking | | | Make the Road by Walking is a not-for-profit, membership-led organization based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Our members are primarily low-income Latino and African-American residents of Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods. Make the Road by Walking fights for justice and opportunity through community organizing on issues of concern to our multi-generational membership.
www.maketheroad.org |
| 16. | Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) | | | Works in Washington, DC and across the US to achieve economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls. Supports technical assistance, training, and other programs. Event information, links to affiliated resource sites, publications, and ways to support the organization are provided.
www.wowonline.org |
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