The following sites provide useful information regarding economic justice research, advocacy and organizing, and grantmaking.

For Organizers and Grantmakers

AFL-CIO
The web site of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. Includes links to national and international union web sites.
www.aflcio.org

Change to Win
The website of the Change to Win labor federation, which includes links to its member unions and other sites of interest.
www.changetowin.org

Applied Research Center
A public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
www.arc.org

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 700 neighborhood chapters in 51 cities across the country. It builds community organizations that have the power to win changes through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
www.acorn.org

Center for Community Change (CCC)
A national nonprofit organization that works with local organizations run by low-income people to develop their organizations, organize their communities, and promote improved public policies.
www.communitychange.org

Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO)
A 20-year old racial justice organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
www.ctwo.org

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.
www.cbpp.org

Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action
Demos is a non-partisan public policy organization working to improve our democracy and to foster greater economic opportunity and less disparity.
www.demos-usa.org/demos/

Economic Policy Institute
Information and labor-related links from the web site of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
www.epinet.org

Economy That Works
Economy That Works is an information and resource web site designed to help people who care about low-wage workers, their families and conditions, and other issues and policy solutions that affect them. The site includes research reports, a communications tool kit, an opportunities calendar, an information-sharing forum, and more.
www.economythatworks.org

Foundation Center
Offers the Foundation Directory online as well as other resources for donors and grantees including direct links to the web sites of several hundred private Foundations.
www.fdncenter.org

Good Jobs First (GJF)
GJF is a national leader in providing timely, accurate information to the public, the media, public officials and economic development professionals on best practices in state and local job subsidies. GJF works with a broad spectrum of organizations as they seek to ensure that subsidized businesses are held accountable for family-wage jobs and other effective results.
www.goodjobsfirst.org

Jobs with Justice
Jobs with Justice's goal is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize.
www.jwj.org

Labor Research Association
News and analysis from the Labor Research Association, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.
www.laborresearch.org

Moving Ideas Network
News and resources from Moving Ideas Network (a project of the American Prospect Magazine) whose goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.The web site includes ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions.
www.movingideas.org

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
NCRP is dedicated to helping the philanthropic community advance the traditional values of social and economic justice for all Americans. NCRP is a national watchdog, research and advocacy organization that promotes public accountability and accessibility among Foundations, corporate grantmakers, individual donors and workplace giving programs.
www.ncrp.org

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
The NICWJ is a network of people of faith that calls upon their religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
www.nicwj.org

Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities
Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities was established to add a new resource to the growing grassroots movement for economic justice. Through funding and networking programs, The Fund supports organizing projects, policy campaigns and civic collaborations that empower low-wage workers, their families and communities. The Phoenix Fund Clearinghouse is a database of economic justice organizing efforts that are primarily worker-centered and eligible for grantmaking.
www.phoenixfund.org

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Resources for Organizers

DataCenter
The DataCenter is an independent, non-profit research center that seeks to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns.
www.datacenter.org

National Organizers Alliance (NOA)
NOA's mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do that work. NOA's members are organizers who are responsible to a defined constituency, and who help build that constituency through leadership development, collective action and the development of democratic structures.
www.noacentral.org

Progressive Technology Project (PTP)
PTP strengthens grassroots social change community organizing in poor communities and communities of color by: convening events to exchange ideas and experiences about new technology; conducting training sessions for organizers; providing a framework for technical assistance; providing downloadable how-to resources on this web site; and raising and re-granting funds for organizing technology.
www.progressivetech.org

The SPIN Project
The SPIN Project provides media technical assistance to nonprofit public-interest organizations across the nation who want to influence debate, shape public opinion and garner positive media attention. SPIN offers public relations consulting, including comprehensive media training and intensive media strategizing and resources to community organizations across the country.
www.spinproject.org

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Support for Grantmakers

Council on Foundations (COF)
COF is a nonprofit membership organization of Foundations. It provides a variety of resources and membership services (workshops, conferences, publications, and job listings) to the grantmaking community.
www.cof.org

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) seeks to move the philanthropic field to promote the contributions and address the needs of the world's growing and increasingly diverse population of immigrants and refugees by providing resources, collaboration, networking, and learning opportunities.
www.gcir.org

Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG)
The Neighborhood Funders Group is a national network of Foundations and philanthropic organizations supporting community-based efforts that improve economic and social conditions in low-income communities. NFG sponsors the Working Group on Labor and Community, a group of funders committed to fostering greater collaboration among Foundations, labor unions and community groups to address issues facing the working poor.
www.nfg.org and www.nfg.org/labor

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