| Directory > Society > Organizations > Welfare 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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Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition is committed to promoting the rights,
opportunities, and well-being of immigrant and refugee communities. Our work focuses on policy
advocacy, public education, capacity building and leadership development in newcomer communities.
http://www.miracoalition.org/welcome.htm
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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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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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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://trfn.clpgh.org/harvest/
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Idaho Community Action Network
Through ICAN, low-income Idaho families have a voice in the decisions that impact their lives.
http://www.nwfco.org/Idaho/icn.html
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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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Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
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.
http://www.fifthave.org/Organizing/FUREE.htm
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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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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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Ohio Empowerment Coalition
The OEC is made up of welfare rights groups from across the State of Ohio. We are the voice of
those affected by welfare and welfare reform. We are the parents and the individuals who truly know
what will get us out of poverty: jobs at livable wages along with quality child care, quality
health care and quality housing all of which need to be affordable.
http://www.overtherhine.org/contactcenter/oec/
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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.korrnet.org/solutions/
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National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support
The National Campaign is a national coalition of grassroots organizations in 40 states that seeks
to advance progressive anti-poverty policies at the state and national levels.
http://www.nationalcampaign.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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Welfare Warriors
Work to create a voice for mothers in poverty through our organization and media.
http://www.execpc.com/~wmvoice/
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Montana People's Action
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.
http://www.mtpaction.org/
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Grass Roots Organizing for Welfare Leadership (GROWL)
A national movement of welfare rights and economic justice organizations that challenges the
dominant framework around welfare reform from a grassroots perspective
http://ctwo.org/growl/
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J.E.D.I. for Women
Our goal is to improve the lives of women in Utah by improving their economic security through
access to affordable quality childcare, healthcare, housing, and jobs that offer a living wage.
http://www.jedi4women.org/index.htm
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National Welfare Engine
Works to bring grassroots organizations, working on welfare issues, together to share information
and resources. Houses a national speakers bureau and links to various sites throughout the US.
http://www.welfareengine.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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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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Affirmative Options Coalition
Statewide coalition advocating and organizing for a comprehensive approach to welfare reform and
economic security in Minnesota.
http://www.mncn.org/ao/
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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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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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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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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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