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Affirmative Options Coalition
Statewide coalition advocating and organizing for a comprehensive approach to welfare reform and economic security in Minnesota.
http://www.affirmativeoptions.org/
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Californians for Justice
A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.
http://www.caljustice.org/
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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.
http://www.cvhaction.org
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Direct Action Welfare Group
A grassroots group of current and former public assistance recipients in West Virginia who work on welfare and poverty issues.
http://www.geocities.com/itsdadawg/
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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.
http://www.gromo.org/
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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.
http://www.justharvest.org/
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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.
http://www.geds-to-phds.org
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LINC Project
A source of information for and about grassroots groups nationwide who are organizing to confront welfare and poverty issues.
http://www.lincproject.org
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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.
http://www.maketheroad.org/
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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.
http://www.philaup.org/
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POWER
POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change.
http://www.fairwork.org/
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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.
http://www.discoveret.org/solutions/
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Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
WROC of Olympia, Washington, organizes groups of women and men who are current or former TANF recipients to watch how welfare and family policy is implemented on the local and federal level.
http://www.wroc.org
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Welfare Warriors
Milwaukee group works to create a voice for mothers in poverty through organization and media.
http://www.welfarewarriors.org/
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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.
http://www.wowonline.org/
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Wisconsin 9 to 5
A national grassroots membership organization that strengthens women's ability to work for economic justice.
http://www.9to5.org/
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Working for Equality and Economic Liberation
WEEL works to hold those in power accountable to families instead of profits. Weel works on the state(Montana), local, and national level.
http://www.weelempowers.org/
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