Community and Religious Partners

The Poverty Initiative partners with 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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2008-2009 Poverty Scholars Program Strategic Dialogue Gathering Participants

• 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee – Marks, Mississippi
• Cabrini College – Radnor, PA
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – Immokalee, Florida
• Direct Action Welfare Group (DAWG) – Charleston, West Virginia
• Domestic Workers United – New York, NY
• Geo Clan – Philadelphia, PA
• Head Start Associations:
  – Pennsylvania
  – West Virginia
• Fair Housing Contact Service
• Ithaca College – Ithaca, NY
• Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) – Philadelphia, PA
• Media Mobilizing Project-North East PA – Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Michigan Welfare Rights Organization – Detroit, MI
• National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) – New York, NY
• National Union of the Homeless – San Diego, CA
• 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
• Radio Free Georgia Community Radio (WRFG) – Atlanta, GA
• Restaurant Opportunities Center, New York (ROC-NY) – New York, NY
• Taxi Workers Alliance – New York, NY
• Teen DAWG – Charleston, West Virginia
• Tompkins County Workers Center – Ithaca, NY
• Tutwiler Community Education Center and Health Clinic– Tutwiler, Mississippi
• United Taxi Workers Alliance - Philadelphia, PA
• United Workers – Baltimore, MD

Other Partners Participating in Poverty Initiative Programs:

ARISE for Social Justice – Springfield, MA

Artists for a Better America – Brooklyn, NY

Broadway Community Incorporated (BCI) – New York, NY

Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM) – San Jose, CA

Community Voices Heard – New York, NY

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) – Brooklyn, NY

GRO – St Louis, MO

Homeless Power Project – Nashville, TN

Jesus People Against Pollution (JPAP) – Columbia, MS

Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union – Boston, MA

Mayday – New Orleans, LA

Midsouth Peace and Justice Center – Memphis, TN

Mothers on the Move – Bronx, NY

Project South – Atlanta, GA

Sisters of the Road – Portland, OR

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Manhattanville – Harlem, NY 

Stop Mountaintop Removal – Sharon, WV

Urban Youth Impact – West Palm Beach, FL

Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice – Bronx, NY

Global Partners:

Dignity International – Monaco

ESCR-NET – International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights 

Justicia Global – Dominican Republic

Movimento Sem Terra (MST), the Landless Workers Movement – Brazil

Shackdwellers Movement – South Africa