Action Aid
http://www.actionaid.org/
ACTIONAID is a leading development charity working directly with three million of the world's poorest people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, helping them in their fight against poverty.

America's Charities
http://www.charities.org/
America's Charities goal is to provide member charities with the necessary resources to meet needs impacting human service, health and education, civil and human rights, and the environment.

Bread for the World
http://www.bread.org/
Citizens' movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision-makers.

Education of Homeless Children and Youth
http://nch.ari.net/edchild.html
Fact sheet from the National Coalition for the Homeless. A list of resources for further study is also provided.

Food For The Hungry: World Crisis Network
http://www.fh.org/
Food for the Hungry feeds the hungry worldwide. The site provides information about hunger and connects volunteers with sponsorship activities.

Food Research and Action Center
http://www.frac.org/
FRAC works to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and under nutrition in the United States.

HomeAid America
http://www.HomeAid.org/
HomeAid's mission is to build or renovate shelters for transitionally homeless men, women and children. HomeAid was created to help National Association of Home Builders‹affiliated home building associations develop their own independently operated HomeAid programs to help fulfill the HomeAid mission across the nation. The Orange County site offers links to several housing-related information resources.

Homeless in America
http://www.qvctc.commnet.edu/student/GaryOKeefe/homeless/frame.html
Information page on who are homeless in America and why they are homeless. There is also information about support groups for the homeless and political advocacy.

Homelessness
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/progsys/homeless/
Offers information about homelessness in America as well as about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assistance programs, publications, research results, and other resources.

Hunger Notes
http://www.worldhunger.org/
Hunger Notes is an online journal sponsored by the World Hunger Education Service. Its mission is to inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world; to promote further understanding which integrates ethical, religious, social, economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty; to facilitate communication and networking among those who are working for solutions; and to promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the hunger and poverty which confront hundreds of millions of the people of the world.

HungerWeb
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/
A project of the World Hunger Program, HungerWeb aims to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger.

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
IRP provides online publications and extensive links to poverty-related statistics and information sources.

Joint Center for Poverty Research
http://www.jcpr.org/
The Northwestern University /University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research is a national and interdisciplinary community of researchers whose work advances the understanding of what it means to be poor and live in America.

Luxembourg Income Study
http://www.lisproject.org
The Luxembourg Income Study has four goals: (1) to test the feasibility of creating a database containing social and economic data collected in household surveys from different countries; (2) provide a method allowing researchers to use the data under restrictions required by the countries providing the data; (3) create a system that will allow research requests to be received and returned to users at remote locations; and (4) promote comparative research on the economic status of populations in different countries.

National Center for Children in Poverty
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/
The mission of the National Center for Children in Poverty is to identify and promote strategies that reduce the number of young children living in poverty in the United States, and that improve the life chances of the millions of children under six who are growing up poor. Center projects concentrate on early childhood care and education; child and family health; family and community support; crosscutting, multistate policy analyses; -demographic and evaluation research; and communications.

National Coalition for the Homeless
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and technical assistance.

National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc.
http://www.nhchc.org/
Membership organization of health care providers working to help bring about reform of the health care system to best serve the needs of people who are homeless.

North Carolina Welfare Resource Exchange
http://www.ncwre.org/
The North Carolina Welfare Resource Exchange (WRE) shares credible, reliable, and practical information on welfare resources and promising practices to North Carolina agencies and organizations in order to enhance the quality of services they provide to the State's low-income families and -individuals.

Northwest Harvest
http://www.northwestharvest.org/
Northwest Harvest collects and distributes food to approximately 280 hunger programs in Washington State without tax dollars or fees of any kind. In an average month, 500,000 services are provided to individuals and families in need. Nearly half of these services go to children.

Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods
http://www.undp.org/seped/
Research, statistics and publications on poverty and sustainable livelihoods from the United Nations Development Programme.

Real Change
http://www.realchangenews.org/
Real Change is a newspaper for the homeless of Seattle, Washington. Highlights of recent issues are featured on this page.

RESULTS: Ending Hunger and Poverty
http://www.resultsusa.org
RESULTS is a nonprofit, grassroots citizen's lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty, nationally and world-wide, and works to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed. The site features information about the organization, action alerts, background on hunger and poverty issues, Capitol updates, articles about the organization, and links to other Web sites.

World Hunger Year
http://www.worldhungeryear.org/
Founded by Harry Chapin in 1975, WHY focuses attention on hunger and poverty and the grassroots initiatives that fight them.

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