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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.
http://www.wowonline.org/
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.
http://www.geds-to-phds.org
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.
http://www.wroc.org
A source of information for and about grassroots groups nationwide who are organizing to confront welfare and poverty issues.
http://www.lincproject.org
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.
http://www.cvhaction.org
WEEL works to hold those in power accountable to families instead of profits. Weel works on the state(Montana), local, and national level.
http://www.weelempowers.org/
A national movement of welfare rights and economic justice organizations that challenges the dominant framework around welfare reform from a grassroots perspective
http://ctwo.org/growl/
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.
http://www.mtpaction.org/
A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.
http://www.caljustice.org/
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.
http://www.philaup.org/
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.
http://www.fifthave.org/Organizing/FUREE.htm
POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change.
http://www.fairwork.org/
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.
http://www.maketheroad.org/
The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition is committed to promoting the rights, opportunities, and well-being of immigrant and refugee communities. Our work focuses on policy advocacy, public education, capacity building and leadership development in newcomer communities.
http://www.miracoalition.org/welcome.htm
Statewide coalition advocating and organizing for a comprehensive approach to welfare reform and economic security in Minnesota.
http://www.affirmativeoptions.org/
A membership organization which promotes economic justice and works to influence public policy and to educate, empower, and mobilize the citizens of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
http://www.justharvest.org/
Milwaukee group works to create a voice for mothers in poverty through organization and media.
http://www.welfarewarriors.org/