In Florida, people are being arrested for giving food to people who are homeless. The City of Orlando has been targeting Food not Bombs, a community group that, twice a week for the past 5 years, has...
Foodbanks and Food, Homelessness, Organizing, United States
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, United States
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, United States
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, United States
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, United States
Picture the Homeless Blog - Housing, homelessness & policy blog.
Homelessness, Organizing, United States
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, United States
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, United States
"Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism."
Organizing, United States
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, United States
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, United States
A story in the New York Times investigates how about a dozen advocacy groups around the country are actively moving homeless people into vacant homes, sometimes moving them back into their homes that...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, United States
More and more anti-poverty organizations and coalitions are using the web to broadcast videos of their work. Housing not War, a campaign to demand the federal government spend money on housing...
Homelessness, Organizing, All of Canada, United States
The National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) has launched a Youth Poverty Initiative (Link removed - No longer exists) that seeks to engage youth in doing research, telling their stories through...
Children and Youth, Organizing, United States
