Poverty Scholars Program Network
The Poverty Initiative Program brings together local and national community and religious organizations, especially poor people’s organizations, local congregations and religious denominations, other seminaries and universities and all who are committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor.
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Poverty Scholars Program Participants
- 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee – Marks, Mississippi
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers Movement – South Africa
- ARISE for Social Justice – Springfield, MA
- Artists for a Better America – Brooklyn, NY
- Broadway Community Incorporated (BCI) – New York, NY
- Cabrini College – Radnor, PA
- CADRE - Los Angeles, CA
- Center for Constitutional Rights – New York, NY
- Church of Scotland Priority Areas Project – Scotland UK
- CiviSol
- Classlines – Washington, D.C.
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – Immokalee, Florida
- Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM) – San Jose, CA
- Community Voices Heard – New York, NY
- Dignity International – Malaysia
- Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG) – Charleston, West Virginia
- Domestic Workers United – New York, NY
- ESCR-NET – International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
- Fair Housing Contact Service
- Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children – New Orelans, LA
- Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) – Brooklyn, NY
- Geo Clan – Philadelphia, PA
- GRO – St Louis, MO
- Head Start Associations:
– Pennsylvania
– West Virginia - Homeless Power Project – Nashville, TN
- Ithaca College – Ithaca, NY
- Jesus People Against Pollution (JPAP) – Columbia, MS
- Justicia Global – Dominican Republic
- Mayday New Orleans – New Orleans, LA
- Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) – Philadelphia, PA
- Michigan Welfare Rights Organization – Detroit, MI
- Midsouth Peace and Justice Center – Memphis, TN
- Mothers on the Move – Bronx, NY
- Movimento Sem Terra (MST), the Landless Workers Movement – Brazil
- National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) – New York, NY
- National Employment Law Project (NELP) – USA
- Northeast Pennsylvania Organizing Center (NEPA) – Wilkes Barre, PA
- Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) – Philadelphia, PA
- Picture The Homeless – New York, NY
- Poor Voices United (PVU) – Atlantic City, NJ
- Portland Organized to Win Economic Rights (POWER) – Portland, Maine
- Poughkeepsie Farm Project – Poughkeepsie, NY
- Project South – Atlanta, GA
- Puente Arizona – Phoenix, AZ
- Radio Free Georgia Community Radio (WRFG) – Atlanta, GA
- Restaurant Opportunities Center, New York (ROC-NY) – New York, NY
- Sisters of the Road – Portland, OR
- Skylight Pictures – New York, NY
- Sleeping Giant Films – New York, NY
- Southern Coalfield Parrish Isaiah Project – Welch, WV
- St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Manhattanville – Harlem, NY
- Stop Mountaintop Removal – Sharon, WV
- Teen DAWG – Charleston, West Virginia
- Tompkins County Workers Center – Ithaca, NY
- Tutwiler Community Education Center and Health Clinic– Tutwiler, Mississippi
- United Taxi Workers Alliance PA - Philadelphia, PA
- United Workers – Baltimore, MD
- Urban Youth Impact – West Palm Beach, FL
- Vermont Workers Center – Burlington, VT
- Voluta Interpreters Collective – Philadelphia, PA
- WRFG Class Chronicles – Atlanta, GA
- Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice – Bronx, NY
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - a Poverty Initiative original publication is 