Welfare

WEEL works to hold those in power accountable to families instead of profits. Weel works on the state(Montana), local, and national level.

A national grassroots membership organization that strengthens women's ability to work for economic justice.

Works in Washington, DC and across the US to achieve economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls. Supports technical assistance, training, and other programs. Event information, links to affiliated resource sites, publications, and ways to support the organization are provided.

Milwaukee group works to create a voice for mothers in poverty through organization and media.

WROC of Olympia, Washington, organizes groups of women and men who are current or former TANF recipients to watch how welfare and family policy is implemented on the local and federal level.

POWER is an organization made up of and led by no- and low-wage workers fighting for real change.

The Philadelphia Unemployment Project is a membership organization of low-wage workers and the unemployed. PUP has fought for jobs and for economic justice since 1975. We are also an unemployed workers center that helps people win unemployment cases, save their houses, and get access to health care.

A socially and racially diverse organization of low and moderate income Montanans. We empower our members to achieve lasting change for social and economic justice using Direct Action.

Make the Road by Walking is a not-for-profit, membership-led organization based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Our members are primarily low-income Latino and African-American residents of Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods. Make the Road by Walking fights for justice and opportunity through community organizing on issues of concern to our multi-generational membership.

LIFETIME is a nonprofit organization created by student mothers at the University of California Berkeley who completed college degrees while raising their families on welfare, and who are committed to helping other do the same.

A membership organization which promotes economic justice and works to influence public policy and to educate, empower, and mobilize the citizens of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

GRO- Grass Roots Organizing is agrassroots organization that gives voice to individuals and communities in the pursuit of economic and human rights.

A grassroots group of current and former public assistance recipients in West Virginia who work on welfare and poverty issues.

Community Voices Heard (CVH) is an organization of low-income people, predominately women on welfare, working together to make improvements in our community, and advance the political, economic and social rights of low-income people on welfare and other low-wage workers.

A statewide grassroots organization working to empower communities that have been pushed to the margins of the political process in California.