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Center for Community Change
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The Center for Community Change helps poor people to improve
their communities and change policies and institutions that affect
their lives by developing their own strong organizations.
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The Child Welfare Home Page
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The Child Welfare Home Page offers a gateway to information
related to the welfare of children, including an electronic journal,
a Library, a resource on issues related to Children and the
Internet, and keys to major information sources on child welfare.
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Children Now
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Children Now is a nonpartisan, independent voice for children,
working to translate the nation's commitment to children and
families into action. Children Now uses communications strategies to
reach parents, lawmakers, citizens, business, media and community
leaders, creating attention and generating positive change on behalf
of children.
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Children's Defense Fund
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The Children's Defense Fund's home page provides information
about child poverty in America and what you can do about it.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan
research organization and policy institute that focuses on
government policies and programs that primarily affect low and
moderate income people.
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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CLASP is a national public policy research firm with expertise in
both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy
research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic
conditions of low-income families with children and secure access
for the poor to our civil justice system.
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Economic Policy Institute
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The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think
tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to
achieve a prosperous and fair economy. The EPI web site contains
recent reports and analyses on wages, employment, and other economic
issues.
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Handsnet
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Handsnet is a national nonprofit organization that promotes
information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among
individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public
interest issues.
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The Institute for Research on Poverty
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The Institute for Research on Poverty is a national,
university-based center for research into the causes and
consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States.
It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
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Low Income Home Energy Resource Page
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This page provides links to Internet resources on low income
energy issues, including the Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Program, Energy Conservation and Housing, and links to other
energy-related sites.
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The LINC Project
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The Low Income Networking and Communications
Project is the electronic crossroads where the members, leaders, and organizers
of low income organizations confronting the shredding of our social safety
net can connect, gather and exchange information and have their organizing
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The National Center for Children in Poverty
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The National Center for Children in Poverty identifies and
promotes strategies to reduce the number of young children living in
poverty in the United States, and to improve the life chances of the
millions of children under six who are growing up poor.
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy
Partnership (NWMAP)
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NWMAP is a collaboration of organizers, advocates, service
providers and researchers from across the United States concerned
with the well-being of low-income people. NWMAP's activities are
threefold: monitoring, advocacy, and organizing. NWMAP supports the
monitoring of welfare at the community level to inform both grass
roots and national advocacy efforts and to build the capacity of
local communities to advocate on their own behalf.
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OMB Watch
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OMB Watch is a nonprofit research, educational and advocacy
organization that monitors executive and legislative branch
activities affecting nonprofit, public interest and community
groups. The four main areas it covers are the federal budget,
federal regulation, government information access and nonprofit
advocacy. Their home page provides access to publications and forums
on these issues.
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The U.S. Census Bureau --
Housing and Household Economic Statistics
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Provides access to a database of statistics on housing, health,
income, and poverty from the Current Population Survey. Part of the
U.S. Census Bureau's searchable
online database.
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The U.S. Department of
Labor -- Welfare to Work Information
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Contains a wide range of information pertaining to the Department
of Labor's Welfare to Work initiative, including fact sheets on
Welfare to Work grants, regulations, timelines, casebooks on
successful programs, and technical assistance materials.
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The Welfare Information Network
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The Welfare Information Network is a clearinghouse for
information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare
reform. The WIN site includes summaries of federal welfare
legislation, a catalog of and links to other welfare related web
sites, a calendar of welfare related events, and links to over 2,700
organizations and publications pages containing program information,
policy analysis, legislative information, and "best practices."
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The Welfare Law Center
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The Welfare Law Center works with and on the behalf of poor
people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding
provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the
extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and
family development.
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Welfare and Families
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The Welfare and Families Page carries new articles, reports, and
other information about the national debate on welfare reform and
family issues.
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