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GROUPS THAT CHANGE COMMUNITIES

The following Websites represent national and local organizations committed to improving their communities through creative innovation and by fostering the empowerment that leads to individual self-reliance. They are worthy of your support. (Please note that these links will "spawn" a new browser window, leaving @grass-roots.org open behind it. So when you're finished browsing, simply close the new windows, and you'll still be here.)

NATIONAL AND WORLD GROUPS

Action Without Borders (formerly Contact Center Network).
Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program.
The Alliance for National Renewal (ANR), a coalition of over 200 national and local organizations dedicated to the principles of community renewal.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Bread for the World.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Congressional Hunger Center
Doonesbury Town Hall
The Electronic Policy Network.
FarmFolk/CityFolk Society (Canada).
500 Mile Walk to Call Off Hunger.
Food First - Institute for Food and Development Policy.
Food For The Hungry.
Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger.
Freedom From Hunger.
Garbage Bag Gardening.
The Harry Chapin Foundation.
The Hunger and Poverty Page (Australia).
The Hunger Project.
HungerWeb.
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP).
Kids Can Make a difference (KIDS).
Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
Meta-Index for Non-Profit Organizations.
National Center for Children in Poverty.
National Coalition for the Homeless.
Philanthropy News Network.
Presbyterian Church (USA) Hunger Program.
Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism.
RESULTS.
The School-Age Child Care Project (SAC) at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and its MOST Initiative.
Second Harvest Online.
Share Our Strength (SOS).
The Time Dollar Institute.
The Union of International Associations (UIA).
Unitarian Service Committee of Canada (USC-Canada).
Volunteers of America.
WebActive.
World Hunger Year.
World SHARE.

GRASSROOTS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS

Angel Flight New England.
California Emergency Foodlink (CEFL).
The Chekhov Theatre Ensemble (New York).
Community Farm Alliance (Kentucky).
Community Food Bank of New Jersey.
D.C. Central Kitchen.
Feed My People, St. Louis.
54 Ways You Can Help The Homeless.
Focus: Hope, Detroit.
Food Runners.
Iowans for Sensible Priorities.
The Learning Logic Foundation's Think Tank Online and its Donate Computers to Kids Who Tutor program.
North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute.
Northern Plains Resource Coucil, Billings, Mont.
Southwestern Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank.
SHARE New England.
SHARE Southern California.
SHARE Vermont.
Society of St. Andrew.
TEEM, The Education and Employment Ministry.

It is no longer practical for us to add new links. However, if you find a broken or dead link on this page or know of a listed organization's newer Web address, please let us know, and we'll make every effort to update the list.