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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ACORN seeks to organize, empower and win social justice for low to moderate-income people. Works to pass living wage laws, promote community reinvestment by banks, create more low to moderate-income housing, and improve inner city public schools. 88 3rd Avenue, 3rd Floor, |
ACCION International is a non-profit that fights
poverty through micro-lending. Every day, millions of enterprising women and men
struggle to better their lives by opening tiny businesses. They work exhausting
hours yet they barely scrape by. What they need to break free is a little credit
- a loan as small as $75. Now they can get it. ACCION International is one of the world's leading microfinance organizations.
They are dedicated to bringing financial services to these smallest of small
business people - street vendors, seamstresses, sandal makers. |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Foundation will support programs in global health and learning, with the hope that as we move into the 21st century advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. Trevor Neilson |
| Calvert Social Investment Foundation With Calvert Community Investments from Calvert Social Investment Foundation (the Foundation)*, you invest in homes and neighborhoods and role models, in self-help and self-sufficiency, in new jobs and new hope. Your investment helps impoverished communities become vital and strong again. Calvert Social Investment Foundation 4550 Montgomery Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814. TEL: 1-800-248-0337 Email: foundation@calvertgroup.com URL: www.calvertgroup.com/foundation |
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The Center for Economic Conversion (CEC) seeks to help build an economy that meets social needs and works in harmony with the environment. It also works to foster public policies that enable local, regional and national economies to develop in a sustainable and equitable manner.
Executive Director: Joan Holtzman |
| Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies The CERES coalition was formed in 1989. It brought fifteen major U.S. environmental groups together with an array of socially responsible investors and public pension funds representing more than $150 billion in invested capital, from the California and New York City public pension systems to an assemblage of more than 200 Protestant denominations and Catholic orders. 11 Arlington Street, 6th Floor Boston, MA 02116-3411 USA Phone: 617-247-0700 Fax: 617-267-5400 Email: fox@ceres.org URL: http://www.ceres.org/index.html |
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Cooperative Fund Of New England The Cooperative Fund of New England is a
community development loan fund that is a bridge between socially responsible investors
and cooperatives, community oriented non-profits, and worker-owned businesses in New
England (and parts of New York). P.O. Box 412, Hartford, CT 06141-0412 Phone: 910.395.6008 / 1.800.818.7833 Fax: 910.397.2857 Email: rebcfne@wilmington.net URL: www.cooperativefund.org/ |
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Global Exchange is a nonprofit research, education and action center dedicated to advocating and working for political, economic and social justice on a global scale. The organization's goal is to increase global awareness among the US public and inspire participation while building international and domestic partnerships around the world.
Executive Director: Kevin Danaher |
| The Greenmoney Online Guide We promote the awareness of socially and environmentally responsible business, investing and consumer resources. Our goal is to educate and empower individuals and businesses to make informed financial decisions through aligning their corporate and financial principles. "Responsibility from the Supermarket to the Stockmarket" Email: info@greenmoney.com URL: http://www.greenmoney.com/ |
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A storehouse of information and comment on the growing inequality of income, wealth and health. Inequality.org is a nonprofit organization. Our aim is to circulate information and ideas that are not widely covered in the media. We encourage you to use the material you find at our website, giving credit where it's due. Inequality.org |
| The Investor Responsibility Research Center The Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), is an independent, not for profit, research firm founded in 1972. We are the world's leading provider of impartial research on proxy voting, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility issues. Institutional investors rely on IRRC to assist them with their independent investment decisions. IRRC's professional staff provides research and analysis, software products, consulting and portfolio screening services to more than 400 subscribing institutions. 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW Ste. 700 |
| The Lifebridge Foundation "Bridging the chasm between the spiritual and the so-called mundane. Facilitating the integration of an emerging holistic consciousness into daily action. " Lifebridge Seeks promote the concept of One Humanity and the interconnectedness of all life, foster a spirit of inclusiveness and global vision leading to transformative action. P.O. Box 793 Times Square Station New York, NY 10108 Phone/Fax: 212-757-9711 Email: info@lifebridge.org URL: http//:www.lifebridge.org |
| McAuley Institute McAuley Institute is a national, nonprofit
housing organization founded by the Sisters of Mercy. McAuley provides state-of-the-art
technical assistance and financial resources to grassroots organizations that work to
expand housing and economic opportunities for low-income women and their families. McAuley Institute |
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As a catalyst for lasting social, economic, and political justice, National Community Capital helps institutions and individuals provide capital that increases resources and opportunities for economically-disadvantaged people and communities. 924 Cherry Street, Second
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Your money is your voice to the world. Natural Investing is about making financial choices that are in alignment with your personal values - your social, spiritual, environmental and ethical concerns. This site provides tools and resources that enable you to achieve your financial goals while helping to create a healthier world. E-mail: info@naturalinvesting.com |
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Netaid.org uses the power of the Internet to help end extreme poverty. It changes the way people can connect - and make a difference in each other's lives - all over the world. Netaid.org gives individuals on the Internet the opportunity to take direct action against extreme poverty. Netaid.org gives organizations engaged in the fight against extreme poverty new tools and new connections to millions of potential online supporters.
336 East 45th Street 2nd Floor |
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Oxfam America is dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and social injustice through long term partnerships with poor communities around the world. The organization challenges the structural barriers that foster conflict and human suffering and limit people from gaining the skills, resources and power to become self sufficient. Since 1970 it has disbursed more than $100 million in program funding and technical support to hundreds of partner organizations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas, including the United States.
26 West Street |
| Responsible Wealth United for a Fair Economy Responsible Wealth is a group of business
leaders and wealthy individuals among the top 5% of income earners and asset holders in
the US who are concerned about the rise in power of large corporations and the growing gap
between the rich and everyone else.
37 Temple Place, 5th Floor |
| Shared Interest, Inc. Most people in the Third World can earn a living for themselves and their families if they are only given the chance. Too often they are denied that chance by unjust systems of trade and finance, which largely benefit rich countries and not them. Shared Interest is part of an international network of fair trade organizations that are working to break down those barriers. Shared Interest Society Ltd |
Email: webmaster@sriworld.com |
| Social Investment Forum The Social Investment Forum is a
national nonprofit membership association dedicated to promoting the concept and practice
of Socially Responsible Investing. The Forum is made up of over 400 financial
professionals and institutions. Membership is open to any organization or practitioner who
wishes to participate in the socially responsible investing field. Social Investment Forum 1612 K Street NW, Ste. 600, Washington, DC 20006 ph (202)872-5319 fax (202)331-8166 Email: info@socialinvest.org URL: www.socialinvest.org/ |
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“The distance between our rhetoric and our actions is the field in which we labor.” SVN’s Mission Statement SVN is a community of leading business and social entrepreneurs engaged in building a socially just and environmentally sustainable economy through our enterprises. Social Venture Network |
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