June 15, 2011
This paper investigates the extent to which inequalities in parents' socioeconomic status affects young adult educational attainment. It finds no evidence that the gap in college completion has...
Children and Youth, Education, Reports and documents, United States
June 1, 2011
City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community control of local...
Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
Take Back the Land is an activist group out of Miami that asserts their right to the land in their communities and the use of public space for the public good- specifically, to house, feed and...
Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, General resources, United States
June 1, 2011
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. We work to accomplish this through...
Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Organizing, Campaigns and initiatives, United States
June 1, 2011
Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) is involved in a range of housing assistance services in Ohio, including homeless prevention, emergency shelters, transitional housing and...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco (COH) initiates program and policy changes that result in the creation of exits from poverty. The COH unites homeless people and service providers with...
Homelessness, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Picture the Homeless Blog - Housing, homelessness & policy blog.
Blogs, Homelessness, Organizing, United States
May 30, 2011
Real Change is a street newspaper, an advocacy group, a Homeless Speakers Bureau, and literary program out of Seattle. They aim to build bridges among the poor, homeless and the greater community,...
Homelessness, Media, Organizing, Panhandling, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
Beyond Chron, the Voice of the Rest, is an alternative online daily published by the San Francisco-based Tenderloin Housing Clinic.
Media, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
Homeless Nation, a website created for and by homeless people in Canada hosts blogs for people living in poverty. You can read other blogs or sign up and get your own blog.
Blogs, Homelessness, Media, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
Between the Lines is a syndicated, half-hour program broadcast from Connecticut, US that provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or...
Media, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is an American nonprofit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP’s mission is to improve the economic security, educational and...
Legal Research, Poverty Research, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Indigenous Action Media is a volunteer collective of experienced Indigenous media makers & activists out of Arizona that work together on a project by project basis for media justice.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
Institute for Research on Poverty is a centre for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is based at the University of...
Poverty Research, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
The New York City Hunger Blog is a blog for the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, an umbrella organization representing New York City's over 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries and their over...
Blogs, Foodbanks and Food, Health, United States
May 30, 2011
Poor News Network is a multi-media access project of POOR Magazine out of California, that is dedicated to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as...
Media, Poverty Research, General resources, United States
May 30, 2011
Picture the Homeless is a homeless-led organization in New York that fights for the civil and human rights of homeless people. Picture the Homeless is founded on the principle that in order to...
Homelessness, Organizing, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
This blog provides news and commentary on ending homelessness and expanding supportive housing in New Jersery, USA.
Blogs, Homelessness, Housing, United States
May 30, 2011
"Being an advocate does not mean you have to quit your job, write big checks or rush to Washington D.C. It also doesn't mean you have to know everything there is to know about learning disabilities...
Children and Youth, Disability, Manuals and guides, United States
May 30, 2011
The Benton Foundation provides a critical look at the American media.
Media, Organizations, United States
May 30, 2011
New York Coalition for the Homeless has some resources and research reports on homelessness, including a searchable Resource Guide for food, shelter and services for homeless and low-income New...
Homelessness, Organizations, United States
May 29, 2011
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is a US based organization acting as a legal resource for the international human rights community.
Human Rights, Legal Research, Reports and documents, Research and education, United States
May 29, 2011
The online resource for a group of aborginal peoples concerned with environmental and economic justice issues.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Organizations, United States
May 29, 2011
"A national grassroots organization committed to ending society's use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems."
Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, United States
May 29, 2011
Color Lines Magazine works to unite people of color and writers on ethnicity to discuss the issues which effect our world today.
Ethnicity and Race, Organizations, United States
May 29, 2011
"Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism."
Organizing, General resources, United States
May 29, 2011
The Real Change News site gives the homeless in Seattle an opportunity to publish their writing and advertise their artwork for sale as well as providing its readers with information on issues...
Homelessness, General resources, United States
May 25, 2011
This network is a grassroots, membership based organization that formed to protect human rights, civil rights and the Sonoran desert along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, United States
May 25, 2011
This is a community-based social justice organization of low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City that organizes around immigrants and families affected by detention and deportation.
Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, United States
May 25, 2011
Based out of the University of California Hastings Campus, this organization acts as a resource for gender based asylum seekers.
Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Women, Organizations, Research and education, United States
May 25, 2011
This website provides worldwide information on refugees, including refugee reports.
Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, Reports and documents, International, United States
May 25, 2011
The Human Rights section of the website of Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department.
Human Rights, General resources, United States
May 19, 2011
Since 1998, the LINC Project has worked to build the technology capacity of low-income grassroots groups across the US. On their website, they have compiled a treasure trove of technology tools and...
Organizing, Technology, Organizations, United States
May 19, 2011
Founded in 1998, Women Thrive (Formerly Womens Edge Coalition) develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty.
Human Rights, human rights, Organizing, poverty, Women, women, Organizations, United States
August 25, 2010
A blog about the book, To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to end Inequality in 1960s.
When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as...
Blogs, Poverty Research, United States
February 18, 2010
Homelessness is commonly thought to be an urban issue, a perception that is reinforced by the presence of homeless people on the streets of major cities and in the characterization of homelessness in...
Homelessness, Reports and documents, United States
December 16, 2009
The Bay Area-based welfareQueens, a project of the POOR News Network, are fighting back against a system that dehumanizes poor mothers—with poetry, theater, and any other media tool they can access.
Art and Culture, Welfare, Women, Multimedia, United States
December 16, 2009
The Poor News Network out of the US has a YouTube channel with videos about poor workers, indigenous people and more.
Art and Culture, Multimedia, United States
October 27, 2009
This map uses US census data to map out poverty, child poverty, and violence by state.
poverty map, Poverty Research, Multimedia, United States
October 19, 2009
Hope for the Homeless is a blog by the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, an organization that works to address the needs of homeless men, women and children in the community and serves...
Blogs, Homelessness, Organizations, United States
