Several philanthropic organizations devoted their time, energy and money in poverty alleviation and prevention programs. The organizations include churches, civic organizations and private companies. Most of them focus on vulnerable section of the community- Women and children.
Southern Good Faith Fund
Their mission is to increase the incomes and assets of low-income and low-skilled residents of the Delta in Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Feeding America
This is the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization. Through a network of nearly 200 food banks, Feeding America (formerly named America's Second Harvest) distributes food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children. |
Catholic Charities USA
The mission of Catholic Charities USA is to exercise leadership in assisting its membership, particularly the diocesan Catholic Charities agencies and supporting group members, in their mission of service, advocacy and convening. |
Annie Casey Foundation
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
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Mississippi Center for Justice
The Mississippi Center for Justice is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys, community leaders and volunteers, the Center develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide.
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National Center For Children in Poverty (NCCP)
NCCP uses research to inform policy and practice with the goal of ensuring positive outcomes for the next generation. We promote family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels10. |
The United Way of America
United Way of America is a national network of about 1,300 locally governed organizations dedicated to leading the United Way movement. Local United Ways create long-lasting community change by addressing the underlying causes of the most significant local issues. Common focus areas include helping children and youth achieve their potential, promoting financial stability and independence, and improving people’s health. Our goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of problems. |
National Poverty Center
The National Poverty Center (NPC) was established in the fall of 2002 as a university-based, nonpartisan research center. They conduct and promote multidisciplinary, policy-relevant research on the causes and consequences of poverty and provide mentoring and training to young scholars. |
West Coast Poverty Center
The West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington serves as a hub for research, education, and policy analysis leading to greater understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and effective approaches to reducing it in the west coast states. Funded in October of 2005, the Center is the newest of three regional poverty centers funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Education (OASPE). The other regional centers are the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. OASPE also sponsors the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan. |
The Institute on Race & Poverty
The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) investigates the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged. A core purpose for IRP’s work is to ensure that people have access to opportunity. Another is to help the places where people live develop in ways that both promote access to opportunity and help maintain regional stability. |
Cornell University - PID
Cornell University is a world leader in research on Poverty, Inequality and Development. Its faculty and graduate students conduct theoretical, empirical and policy oriented research across a wide range of disciplines and geographical locations. |
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights policy organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups in 1989-90.
Their mission is to help connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. |
LIFETIME
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. |
End Hunger Network
The End Hunger Network works with the entertainment community to create and support media
projects, programs and events to raise awareness and generate action to end childhood hunger.22
The End Hunger Network is a nonprofit organization working with the entertainment community to encourage, stimulate and support media projects, programs and events aimed at involving people in ending childhood hunger. |
Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. 23
They weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play. |
Presbyterian Hunger Program
The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), a ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), works to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes, responding with compassion and justice to poor and hungry people in local communities in the United States and internationally. |
Congressional Hunger Center
The Congressional Hunger Center (CHC) is a unique non-profit anti-hunger leadership training organization located in Washington, DC.
CHC trains and inspires leaders who work to end hunger, and advocates public policies that create a food secure world. |
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
CCHD was established by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops with a two-fold mandate to fund low-income controlled empowerment projects and to educate Catholics about the root causes of poverty within the context of the Catholic social tradition. CCHD programs are funded through an annual collection in parishes each year. |
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