See also:
- LINC Project
- A source of information for and about grassroots groups nationwide who are organizing to confront welfare and poverty issues.
- Affirmative Options Coalition - Statewide coalition advocating and organizing for a comprehensive approach to welfare reform and economic security in Minnesota.
- Californians for Justice - A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.
- 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.
- Direct Action Welfare Group - A grassroots group of current and former public assistance recipients in West Virginia who work on welfare and poverty issues.
- 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.
- 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.
- Just Harvest - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- POWER - POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change.
- Solutions - Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvilliansis a grassroots social justice organization that seeks to unite diverse people, regardless of their age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, income, or background, to work for changes on issues of common concern.
- Welfare Warriors - Milwaukee group works to create a voice for mothers in poverty through organization and media.
- 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.
- Wisconsin 9 to 5 - A national grassroots membership organization that strengthens women's ability to work for economic justice.
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