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Poverty

Websites

  • Center for Impact Research
    CIR is a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization that works towards the elimination of poverty through grass-roots research aimed at identifying innovative policy strategies better reflecting low-income persons' needs. CIR's projects all result in new poverty solutions crafted in collaboration with low-income persons, community-based organizations, and governmental agencies.
    http://www.impactresearch.org/default.asp
  • Center for Language Minority Education & Research
    CLMER programs focus on issues of excellence, equity and access for traditionally underserved or oppressed communities. They serve the needs of pre-school, K-12, adult education, and other education agencies and strive for an equitable society in which all people are given the opportunity to learn.
    http://www.clmer.csulb.edu/
  • Center for Law and Social Policy
    CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.
    http://www.clasp.org/
  • Center for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies/ International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development
    CEPS/INSTEAD has expertise in scientific, research-driven social and economic data production, with high-quality control both at the national and the international comparative level. It carries out and coordinates national, transnational and interregional research in the social and economic sciences.
    http://www.ceps.lu/
  • Center for Poverty Solutions
    The Center for Poverty Solutions, formed in 1998 by a merger of the Maryland Food Committee and Action for the Homeless, is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of poverty through public policy, education, research, direct service programs and community mobilization.
    http://ctrforpovertysolutions.org/
  • Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence
    The CREDE mission is to assist the nation's diverse students at risk of educational failure by factors of race, poverty, and geographic location to achieve academic excellence.
    http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/home.html
  • 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.
    http://www.cbpp.org/
  • Comparative Research Program on Poverty
    CROP is a worldwide network of researchers and experts on poverty. The aim of CROP is to establish an arena for interdisciplinary and comparative research on poverty in developed and developing countries. CROP organizes regional workshops, symposia and international conferences, promotes joint research projects and publications, links poverty researchers and disseminates information about poverty research. CROP is developing an international database on poverty researchers and documentation of ongoing research.
    http://www.crop.org/
  • Institute for Research on Poverty
    The Institute for Research on Poverty is a national, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is one of the two centers designated as a National Poverty Research Center by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
  • Institute on Race & Poverty
    The Institute, founded in 1993, focuses on real issues that affect real people. Their goals are to create scholarship, commentary and dialogue to increase the understanding and support of those unfairly constrained by race and poverty.
    http://www1.umn.edu/irp/index.html
  • Joint Center for Poverty Research
    Northwestern University/University of Chicago
    A national and interdisciplinary academic research center that seeks to advance the understanding of what it means to be poor in America.
    http://www.jcpr.org
  • National Center on Poverty Law
    The National Center on Poverty Law identifies, develops, and supports creative and collaborative approaches to help achieve social and economic justice for low-income people.
    http://www.povertylaw.org/
  • National Coalition of Advocates for Students
    NCAS is a national, non-profit, education advocacy organization formed as a voluntary network of education advocates, NCAS now has 20 member groups in 14 states. NCAS works to achieve equal access to a quality public education for students who are most vulnerable to school failure. NCAS' constituencies include low-income students, members of racial, ethnic and/or language minority groups, recent immigrants, migrant farm workers, and those with disabilities.
    http://www.igc.org/ncas/mfe.htm
  • National Institute for Social Science Information
    NISSI is a non-profit, non-partisan institution whose mission is to influence major social and economic trends by providing interactive digital libraries of current research on critical social issues and tools and services to maximize the usefulness of our digital libraries.
    http://www.nissi.org/
  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
    The National Law Center, established in 1989, serves as the legal arm of the national movement to end homelessness in America. The Law Center works for long-term constructive solutions to homelessness and for policies that help remove barriers and obstacles faced by homeless families.
    http://www.nlchp.org/
  • Poverty & Race Research Action Council
    PRRAC is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Their purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
    http://www.prrac.org/
  • Poverty Institute
    The Poverty Institute is located at the Rhode Island College School of Social Work. The Institute seeks to improve the lives of low-income people in the state.
    http://www.povertyinstitute.org/
  • Poverty Monitoring Database
    A database that provides quick access to comprehensive poverty information.
    http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/povmon.htm
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
    The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.
    http://www.splcenter.com/

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Updated October 8, 2008