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.
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.
A source of information for and about grassroots groups nationwide who are organizing to confront welfare and poverty issues.
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.
WEEL works to hold those in power accountable to families instead of profits. Weel works on the state(Montana), local, and national level.
A socially and racially diverse organization of low and moderate income Montanans. We empower our members to achieve lasting change for social and economic justice using Direct Action.
A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.
A national grassroots membership organization that strengthens women's ability to work for economic justice.
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.
FUREE is a multiracial, woman led membership organization made up of low-income and no-income workers. We are organizing to affect the welfare system so that all people's work is valued and all people have the right to not only choose their own destinies but to earn the economic means to live out those destinies.
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