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Hunger and Poverty

• Center for Impact Research -- working "towards the elimination of poverty through grass-roots research aimed at identifying innovative policy strategies better reflecting low-income persons' needs."
• Center on Hunger and Poverty -- promotes policies that improve the lives of low-income children and families.
• Community Action Partnership -- "a national forum for policy on poverty and to strengthen, promote, represent, and serve its network of member agencies to assure that the issues of the poor are effectively heard and addressed."
• Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty -- a nonprofit, non-partisan, research and policy organization located at the Weingart Center, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
• Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination -- to identify, develop, and disseminate best practices in the field of microenterprise, and to publicize the value of microenterprise as an anti-poverty intervention.
• National Center for Children in Poverty -- "a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families."
• National Coalition for the Homeless -- We focus our work in the following four areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil and voting rights. Our approaches are: grassroots organizing, public education, policy advocacy, technical assistance, and partnerships.
• National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness -- "committed to ending hunger and homelessness in America by educating, engaging, and training students to directly meet individuals’ immediate needs while advocating for long-term systemic solutions."
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council -- a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups ... to link social science research to advocacy work in order to address problems at the intersection of race and poverty."

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