Partners

  • Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
    www.povertylaw.org
    The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is a national law and policy center that takes action to end poverty through policy development, communications, and impact litigation. Like their founder, Sargent Shriver, they believe that “the law can help get the poor out of poverty.” They embrace an advocacy agenda that includes policy development and modern communications, resulting in improved lives for low-wage workers, families with greater economic security, and neighborhoods that preserve opportunities for low-income individuals.
  • The National Center on Family Homelessness
    www.familyhomelessness.org
    The National Center on Family Homelessness is determined to end family homelessness. While sheltering a family provides safe haven, this is only temporary. By addressing the issues that lead to homelessness, families can change their lives forever. Through research, they learn what families need to rebound from the economic, social, medical and mental health problems that put them on the streets. Through program evaluation, they identify strategies that work. They use this knowledge to design innovative practices, bring training and technical assistance to community-based shelters and service providers, and improve policy across the nation.
  • Legal Services of Southern Piedmont
    www.lssp.org
    Legal Services of Southern Piedmont (LSSP) provides legal assistance in civil matters to low-income persons in the Charlotte area and in west-central North Carolina.
  • Women in Color Policy Network, NYU
    wagner.nyu.edu/centers/wocpn.php
    The Women of Color Policy Network is dedicated to ending the invisibility of women of color in public policy and enhancing our life chances through policy research, advocacy, public education and mentoring a new generation of advocate researchers.
  • Mid-America Institute on Poverty of Heartland Alliance
    www.heartlandalliance.org/maip
    The Mid-America Institute on Poverty of Heartland Alliance was established in 1989 as a vehicle for achieving systemic changes to improve the quality of life for poor and low-income individuals and families, with a focus on Midwestern states.
  • Human Development and Capability Association
    www.capabilityapproach.com/Home.php
    Launched in 2004, the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) promotes research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics. Martha Nussbaum is the president of the HDCA. Amartya Sen was the Founding President of HDCA 2004 - 2006. It is the mission of the HDCA to promote high quality research in the interconnected areas of human development and capability.
  • Institute for Community Development, New Orleans
    www.i-c-d.org/index.htm
    ICD is a privately funded, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that provides leadership, education, and advocacy to empower America’s diverse rural, mid-sized and large cities in order to revitalize their communities. Their mission is to be an economic and social capital advocate for underserved communities and a catalyst to increase community capacity.
  • Community Issues Management (CIM)
    www.cim-network.org
    The mission of the CIM Network, a web-based system being developed by the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES) at the University of Missouri and the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) in collaboration with others, is to enable organizations to use data to frame, manage and take action on complex issues. These can include public policymaking and service provision for vulnerable populations, health inequities, workforce retention, emergency preparedness and many others issues.