Links to Sites Committed to
Creating Positive Social Change(alphabetical order)
About Face
is a San Francisco-based non-profit that promotes
positive self-esteem in girls and women
of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds
through a spirited approach to media education,
outreach and activism.Campaign for America's Future
Over 100 Prominent Americans - citizen activists and policy experts
concerned about our country and our planet - joined together
to launch and build the Campaign for America's Future.
We are challenging the big money corporate agenda
by encouraging Americans to speak up -
to discuss and debate a new vision of an economy
and a future that works for all of us.Celebration of Strength
Injecting a fresh perspective into the everyday issues that impact women,
this site invites women to share their stories of strength.Color of Change
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice.
Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—
to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans
and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.Fear or Love
A site dedicated helping people awaken to into the Light of a new social
paradigm that can – and will - transform our world!Foundation for Global Community
is a nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to reconnecting people,
the planet, and prosperity. Recognizing that natural, social, and economic systems
are all parts of a single interconnected whole, the Foundation has been promoting
cultural change, facilitating personal development, and strengthening
community connections for over 50 years.Global Mind Shift
is a non-profit organization that promotes an expanded view
of what it means to be human based on the knowledge
of our evolutionary journey.Legal Momentum
Legal Momentum advances the rights of women and girls
by using the power of the law and creating innovative public policy.
The Love Foundation
Our vision and purpose is to further the understanding and application
of
unconditional love through education, research, and charitable programs.
The desire is to fund a variety of activities that enhance unity and self-conscious
expression while promoting love and tolerance to all aspects of life.
The
Lysistrata Project
Calls for Peace by placing people
over multinational corporate profit.
It envisions the world Peace communities--spiritual and political-- united,
and through our combined economic power humanizing the global agenda.
It is devoted to revealing the vastness of our numbers, the diversity
of our efforts, and --once linked-- our collective power
to birth a common good. We are dedicated to building grassroots community
linked globally through the Internet and raising the visibility of women's actions.
Media
Venture Collective
Providing Citizen-funded Working Capital
for a Media Revolution
New
College of California Center for Social Action
Center for Education and Social Action
(CESA) links New College with
community groups working for global justice, peace and the environment,
organizes public events, workshops and teach-ins on crucial issues
facing activists today, and develops internship and practicum
opportunities for students to learn through social action in the community.
PeaceXPeace
Global Network
The PEACE X PEACE Global Network
is being designed
to connect women-based groups in the U.S. in one-on-one relationships
through the Internet with women-based groups working in their home
nations
outside the U.S. for the conditions necessary to achieve and maintain
peace.
People Over Profits
Sponsored by the American Association for Justice,
this grassroots network works to protect civil justice.
PlaNetwork
Consortium
Dedicated to the creation and maintenance
of a digital commons
that will strengthen civil society by enabling people to connect,
communicate, make transactions, and self-organize
in a manner that is consistent with
the highest principles of democracy and supports
the sustainable restoration and stewardship of our planet.
Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy
organization
founded in 1971 to represent
consumer interests in Congress, the
executive branch
and the courts.
Share
International Media Service
Share International Foundation is a non-profit, NGO organization.
supported by a worldwide network of volunteers. One of its primary
goals is to synthesize the ideas and events which are rapidly propelling
humanity toward a complete restructuring of its global institutions. It
focuses on gradually-emerging patterns that underlie many social, political,
economic and spiritual events, with a view to stimulating practical action
for the rebuilding of our world along more just and compassionate lines.
Share the World's Resources
STWR is a non-politically affiliated network campaigning
for justice
and
peace through the fair distribution of the world's resources.
We believe
that the current world economic crisis is damaging
ALL nations, perpetuating
levels of global poverty
and denying many millions basic human rights.
Straight
Talk
A project of the Campaign for America's Future,
this site has a great search engine where you can find
facts, share information, on a variety of important issues.
Sustainable
Energy & Economy Network (SEEN)
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network,
a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC)
and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam),
works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally
on environment, human rights and development issues
with a particular focus on energy, climate change,
environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues,
particularly as these play out in North/South relations.
We
The World
We, The World seeks to build an unprecedented critical
mass
of individuals, organizations and coalitions whose efforts to create
a caring world will be highly visible and accessible,
especially in the societies that control the most resources.
Znet
Znet is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political,
cultural, social, and economic life in the United States.
It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life
as fundamental to understanding and improving
contemporary circumstances and it aims
to assist activist efforts to attain a better future.
Sites Committed to
Ending World Hunger
Food
First
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger,
poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions
in partnership with movements working for social change.
Freedom
from Hunger
Brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions
to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.
Hunger
Site
Click the "Give Free Food" button (once a day per person)
to give over a cup of fortified food to a hungry
person.
It costs you nothing.
Funding is paid by site sponsors and
food is distributed by two leading nonprofit
hunger relief organizations:
Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest.
World Hunger Year (WHY)
providing long-term solutions to hunger
and poverty
by supporting community-based organizations that empower
individuals
and build self-reliance
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