www.ncjustice.org – North Carolina Justice Center, North Carolina’s leading private, non-profit anti-poverty organization. Its mission is to reduce and eliminate poverty in North Carolina by helping to ensure that every North Carolina household gains access to the resources, services and fair treatment that it needs in order to enjoy economic security.
www.ncruralcenter.org - North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, Inc. The mission of the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center is to develop, promote, and implement sound economic strategies to improve the quality of life of rural North Carolinians. The Center serves the state's 85 rural counties, with a special focus on individuals with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources. Created in 1987, the Rural Center operates a multi-faceted program that includes conducting research into rural issues, advocating for policy and program innovations, and building the productive capacity of rural leaders, entrepreneurs and community organizations. The Center is a private, non-profit organization, funded by both public and private sources and led by a 50-member board of directors.
www.calltorenewal.org redirects to www.sojo.net – Call to Renewal, a national network of churches, faith-based organizations, and individuals working to overcome poverty in America has rejoined its companion organization and returned to the name Sojourners. Through local and national partnerships with groups from across the theological and political spectrum, this is the broadest table of Christians focused on anti-poverty efforts. They work to influence local and national public policies and priorities and build a movement committed to overcoming poverty and put faith to work for justice. Sojourners is defined by the mission of articulating a biblical vision of social justice-writing, speaking, and mobilizing; challenging the church, the media, and the government with a progressive Christian message.
http://nccp.org - The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), a non-profit, non-partisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. The NCCP is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. NCCP uses research to inform policy and practice and promote family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels. The Center’s mission is to identify and promote strategies to prevent child poverty and improve the lives of low-income children and families. Its website contains accessible data concerning poverty in the U.S. and individual states.
www.economichumanrights.org – Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, an organization committed to unite the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. The Campaign works to accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the rights to housing, education, healthcare, food, and a living wage.
www.justneighbors.net—Just Neighbors is a comprehensive curriculum designed by Family Promise, which is an interfaith organization committed to achieving lasting independence for low-income families. The Just Neighbors experience is designed to foster a sense of community among the participants. It is an engaging, thought-provoking curriculum offering a wealth of resources and materials along with the flexibility to make the program work in a wide range of settings and organizations.
www.faireconomy.org – United for a Fair Economy, a national, independent, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. They support and help build social movements for greater equality.
www.letjusticeroll.org—Let Justice Roll’s Living Wage Campaign is a non-partisan program of more than ninety faith, community, labor and business organizations working in support of federal legislation to raise the federal minimum wage and state legislation and ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage in selected states. The Campaign conducts an ongoing educational program to inform people of the severity of conditions facing low-wage working people and what must be done to bring about constructive change. The LET JUSTICE ROLL Living Wage Campaign seeks to respond to the challenge of the prophet Amos: Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an overflowing stream
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