Action - Citizen's lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty.
ActionAid - Works with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it, assisting in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) - A not-for-profit nonsectarian organization founded to help alleviate human suffering, poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the world regardless of race, religion or nationality.
Arriba Juntos - A non-profit, career development agency located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Arriba Juntos helps find secure, permanent jobs that lead to a better standard of living and lasting self-sufficiency for people of color and low-income.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) - ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. ADB is owned by 67 members, mostly from within the Asian and Pacific region.
California Reinvestment Committee (CRC) - Seeks to revitalize California's low-income and minority communities by increasing access to credit and deposit services.
Carter Center - Guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering, the Carter Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
Catholic Worker Movement - Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
Center for Global Development -
Works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) - Promotes social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of every human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work, and social security.
Center for Global Development (CGD) - Dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through policy oriented research and active engagement on development issues with the policy community and the public.
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) -
UK organization that provides information about low-income families and the policies that affect them. Monitors official poverty statistics and carries out research, providing evidence of the shortcomings of the social security and tax credits systems in regular briefings to government ministers, MPs and the general public.
Children's Defense Fund (CDF) - CDF educates the U.S. about the needs of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown.
Christian Aid - An agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. Christian Aid believes in strengthening people to find their own solutions to the problems they face. It strives for a new world transformed by an end to poverty and campaigns to change the rules that keep people poor.
Coalition on Human Needs Campaign (CHN) - CHN is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies which address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable populations. Coalition members include civil rights, religious, labor and professional organizations and those concerned with the well being of children, women, the elderly and people with disabilities.
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) - An independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. It is supported by over 30 development agencies and private foundations who share a common mission to alleviate poverty. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP provides market intelligence, promotes standards, develops innovative solutions and offers advisory services to governments, financial service providers, donors, and investors.
Development Gateway - Helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.
DrawBridge - An arts program for homeless children in San Francisco.
Earth Institute at Columbia University - Brings together talent from throughout the University to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. The Earth Institute is motivated by the belief that science and technological tools already exist, and could be expanded, to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.
Economic Roundtable - Non-profit, public benefit corporation organized to conduct research and implement programs that contribute to the economic self-sufficiency of individuals.
Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute (GWEI) - GWEI has organized a multi-pronged rogram to help eradicate the scourge of poverty and human degradation. Gandhi said: "Poverty is the worse form of violence," and must be tackled on all fronts to ensure human rights and human dignity to those who are victims of societal exploitation.
The priority of the Institute is to rescue children from the poorest sections of Indian society who are the first to become victims of criminal gangs; the second priority is to build an institution that serves as a shelter as well as a learning institution where the rescued children will receive basic education.
Halifax Initiative - A Canadian coalition of development, environment, faith, rights and labour groups whose goal is to contribute to the fundamental transformation of the international financial system and its institutions to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the equitable re-distribution of wealth.
How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States (Rebecca Blank, Brookings Institution) - Prepared as the Presidential Address to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management at their annual conference, November 8-10, 2007. This paper argues that working to change the current OMB directive is not the appropriate place to expend effort. The current poverty measures are what they are, imbedded inside a necessarily political agency which has many reasons to avoid change. We need to escape the argumentative box we have been in for several decades and assign responsibility for calculating a Revised Poverty Measure to an agency prepared to take on such a task. At the same time, we need to recognize the inherent limitations in any measure of income poverty. We should catch up with our European cousins and, like them, work to develop multiple measures of economic deprivation.
Human Development Reports (HDR) - The Human Development Report is an independent report. It is commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is the product of a selected team of leading scholars, development practitioners and members of the Human Development Report Office of UNDP. Since the first Report, four new composite indices for human development have been developed - the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty Index.
InterAction - The largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, it works to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries, particularly in developing countries - a need that has become a development priority.
International Finance Corporation (IFC) - Promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's lives.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - A scientific research organization focusing on the use of water in agriculture and on the water needs of developing countries. IWMI works with partners India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Mexico, the Philippines, Iran, Vietnam, China and Africa to develop tools and methods to help these countries eradicate poverty through more effective management of their water resources.
Jubilee Debt Campaign - Demands an end to the scandal of poor countries paying money to the rich world. Calls for 100% cancellation of unpayable and unfair poor country debts.
Least Developed Countries Reoprt - Assesses the relationship between international trade and poverty within the LDCs, and identifies national and international policies that can make trade a more effective mechanism for poverty reduction in these countries. Prepared by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD.
Make Poverty History - Anti-poverty movement pressuring politicians and decision makers to make poverty history.
Measuring Poverty: A New Approach (1995) - Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change. In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation ofConcepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances. Definitions of family resources. Procedures for annual updates of poverty measures. The volume explores specific issues underlying the poverty measure, analyzes the likely effects of any changes on poverty rates, and discusses the impact on eligibility for public benefits. In supporting its recommendations the panel provides insightful recognition of the political and social dimensions of this key economic indicator. Measuring Poverty will be important to government officials, policy analysts, statisticians, economists, researchers, and others involved in virtually all poverty and social welfare issues.
Millennium Development Goals - The eight MDG which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions.
Millenium Project - Commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.
National Center for Children in Poverty - Identifies and promotes strategies that reduce the number of young children living in poverty in the U.S., and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under age six who are growing up poor.
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP) - A resource and advocacy center for community groups in New York City. Its mission is to promote community economic justice and to eliminate discriminatory economic practices that harm communities and perpetuate inequality and poverty.
New Rules for Global Finance -
A networking, idea generating, nongovernmental organization that seeks to promote stable global financial systems which reduce poverty and inequality. New Rules convenes activists and policymakers from developed and developing countries to identify and advocate politically feasible and technically sound solutions to systemic issues of international finance and resource mobilization which impede inclusive development.
MercyCorps - A global aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict. People working for it move as quickly as possible from bringing in food and supplies to enabling people to rebuild their economy with community-driven and market-led programs.
Office of Family Assistance (OFA) - OFA is located in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families and oversees the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program created by the Welfare Reform Law of 1996.
One World Action - Working to create the power and opportunity for the poorest citizens to transform their own lives, and to challenge the international policies that make and keep people poor.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) - A direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mounts campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people. Provides direct-action advocacy for individuals against eviction, termination of welfare benefits, and deportation. Believes in the power of people to organize themselves.
Partners in Health - Healthcare for the poor. Coordinates programs to combat AIDS and women's health problems in rural Haiti and urban Massachusetts and tuberculosis in the prisons of Siberia and the shantytowns of Lima. Promotes global health policy initiatives directed to those most in need.
Poor Magazine/Poor News Network (PNN) - A multi-media access project of Poor Magazine, dedicated to reframing news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities - providing society with a perspective usually not heard or seen within mainstream media.
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign - Building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. "Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education."
Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) - A non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Its purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
Practical Action - Practical answers to poverty and sustainable solutions.
Real Change (Seattle, WA) - Publishes the views of poor and homeless people and their advocates, and work to make a paper that is read by thousands of average people in Seattle.
Share the World's Resources (STWR) - A non-partisan organisation campaigning for the restructuring of the global economy in order to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.
Supplemental Poverty Measure - At the U.S. Census Bureau, an Interagency Technical Working Group on Developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure was formed in 2009 and charged with developing a set of initial starting points to permit the Census Bureau, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to produce a Supplemental Poverty Measure. The Supplemental Poverty Measure will not replace the official poverty measure and will not be used to determine eligibility for government programs. Instead, the Supplemental Poverty Measure is designed as an experimental poverty measure that defines income thresholds and resources in a manner different from the official poverty measure.
Tearfund.org - Christian action with the world's poor. Public health, including HIV/AIDS, children at risk, disaster preparedness.
United for a Fair Economy (UNITE) - Raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.
United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) - UNICEF maintains programs in 161 countries. Some 86 per cent of the organization's 5,594 posts are located in the field.
Untours Foundation - Provides low-interest loans to people and businesses around the world to create work, housing, and Fair Trade.
War on Want - Fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. Campaigns for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.
WaterAid - UK charity dedicated to the provision of safe water, sanitation and and hygiene to the world's poorest people.
Welfare Law Center - Works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support - public funding provided on the basis of need - is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.
Welfare Watch - An information center for legislators, citizen activists, and the general public, Welfare Watch.
Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) - Demands economic justice for poor women and their families. WEAP assists poor women to achieve a livable wage by providing technical training, emotional support, and linkage to resources.
Working Poor Families Project (WPFP) -
Launched in 2002 by national philanthropic leaders who saw the need to strengthen state policies affecting these working families. The national initiative is now supported by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, Joyce and Mott foundations.
Working World, The -
Innovative social investment techniques that equip people with the tools to build sustainable businesses in low-income communities.
World Development Movement (WDM) - Campaigns against the root causes of poverty. Researches and develops new, positive policy options to support sustainable development.
World Vision - Seeking justice for the world's poor and marginalized people.
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