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National Organizations & Programs

• Federal Government
• Ending Chronic Homelessness Strategies for Action (Governmental Approach) 
• California Approach to End Homelessness
• United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

• Think Tanks / Research Centers
• Joint Center for Poverty Research:  Working Papers by Subject
• Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 at Northwestern University. Our mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the findings widely -- to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public at large.
• Harris School of Public Policy Studies seeks to understand and influence public policies by conducting policy-relevant research and preparing talented individuals to become leaders and agents of social change. To serve as a liaison between the academy's research on public policy questions and practitioners in the field.  
• Center for Community Economic Development:  Mission: “Helping people and communities become, and remain, economically secure.”  We have added the perspective of race to our work, including a project to expand the impact of experts of color in the savings and asset building field, as well as innovative research that will help strengthen minority- and women-owned businesses. 

• National Associations / Advocacy
• Campus Kitchens
• Bread for the World
• Food Policy Councils
• Food Research and Action Center: The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC works with hundreds of national, state and local nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and corporations to address hunger and its root cause, poverty.
• Heifer Project International
• Meals on Wheels
• National Coalition to End Homelessness
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• Oxfam America
• Poverty Initiative:  The mission of the Poverty Initiative is to “raise generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a movement, led by the poor, to end poverty.”
• Second Harvest 
• Slow Food:  Slow Food USA is a national non-profit that believes everyone has the right to good, clean, and fair food. With over 200,000 supporters, 24,000 members and 225 chapters nationwide, Slow Food USA advocates for food and farming policy that is good for the public, good for farmers and workers, and good for the planet. Through hundreds of volunteer-led local projects, national advocacy campaigns, trainings and education, Slow Food USA seeks to transform our food and farming system through the power of everyday people. 
• TEFAP Alliance Blog: Foodlinks America provides news and updates for emergency food providers and community nutrition projects on the following topics: 
• Federal budget, appropriations, and legislation
• Federal and state nutrition assistance programs
• Program rules, regulations, and administrative actions
• Emergency food and food banking efforts at the national and local levels
• Community food and nutrition projects
• Hunger and efforts to address it from around the U.S. in “Reports from the Fieldâ€
• Small Bites interesting and weird food and nutrition tidbits  
• United Way
• Working Poor Families Project: gives reports on the poverty in our nation. 

• Other
• Social Interest Solutions: a mission-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to leveraging technology innovation to improve consumers’ quality of life.
• Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity —  potlight’s focus will include monitoring efforts by the Obama Administration and Congress to fight poverty, while providing a non-partisan platform for innovative ideas, programs and practices at the federal, state and local levels.  We will also sponsor policy briefings and forums and feature the latest news and commentary on these issues to ensure that combating poverty is at the top of the national agenda.  Finally, Spotlight will maintain its role as the nation’s go-to site for the most up-to-date news, ideas, and action on poverty and opportunity.
• Southern Poverty Law Center - News 
• Supportive Housing Network of New York - The Network represents over 200 nonprofits that develop and operate supportive housing and serves as a voice for the provider community.

Research Reports / Policy Analysis

• National Coalition to End Homelessness' 2008 Policy Guide

Statistical Data

•   State Homeless Resources Map: USICH

Funding Opportunities

Miscellaneous

• SolutionsU Database for Stories on Food Security, Health Care Access, Human Services, Social Sciences: SolutionsU™ connects educators and students to credible news stories about responses to society’s toughest challenges, and to the tools that help them incorporate those stories in their teaching and learning.