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GROUPS THAT CHANGE COMMUNITIES
THE NORTHEAST
CONNECTICUT
Hartford Food System
Identifies problems and seeks solutions to ensure that no one in the community goes hungry.
DELAWARE
National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor (NCALL)
Provides affordable housing for rural poor people.
MAINE
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Assn.
Promotes organic farming and gardening.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Can
Recycling business created to provide jobs and job training for homeless people.
Coalition For A Better Acre
Community organizing to foster neighborhood development.
Computer Clubhouse
Makes computers and mentoring available to urban youngsters.
The ICA Group
Deters plant closings by encouraging and assisting employee buyouts.
Lazarus House
Provides emergency services with bootstraps assistance and job training.
The Literacy Project Inc.
Uses literacy training to build community and individual self-reliance.
Madison Park Development Corp.
Thirty-year track record rebuilding quality inner-city housing.
Neighborhood Development Corp. Of Jamaica Plain
Effective community-development group fosters the development of inner-city small business and commerce.
Project Bread
Organized fund-raising to benefit emergency feeding and anti-hunger advocacy programs in Boston.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund Inc.
Finds credit for housing and economic development projects to benefit poor communities. One model program converts dilapidated mobile-home parks into cooperatives.
NEW JERSEY
New Community Inc.
One of the nation's oldest and best community-development corporations has restored quality housing and access to food in inner-city Newark.
NEW YORK
Central City Cafe
Hard-working and effective urban soup kitchen in downtown Buffalo.
Foodlink
Far from a typical food bank, Rochester's outstanding food-distribution center also promotes urban economic development.
Maura Clarke-Ita Ford Center
Turning immigrants into hard-working citizens in Brooklyn's "Burnt-Out Bushwick."
Rural Opportunities, Inc.
Advocates and provides emergency and support services for farm workers in six states.
Worker Ownership Resource Center (WORC)
Provides poor people in Central New York's Finger Lakes region with the tools to start their own small businesses.
RHODE ISLAND
House Of Hope Corp.
Transitional shelter and support to move homeless people back into life in the community.
VERMONT
ReCYCLE North
A flea market that fights poverty by making low-cost appliances and furniture available ... and creating jobs.
Food Works
Building organic gardening and food policy into the school curriculum.
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