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Half in Ten: From Poverty to Prosperity A Campaign to cut poverty in the United States in Half by 2018!
In 2006, a diverse group of national experts and leaders were convened to examine the causes and consequences of poverty in America and make recommendations for national action.
The resulting report from the Task Force on Poverty calls for a national goal of cutting poverty in half in the next 10 years and proposes a strategy to reach that goal, guided by the following four principles:
Promote Decent Work. People should work and work should pay enough to ensure that workers and their families can avoid poverty, meet basic needs, and save for the future.
Provide Opportunity for All. Children should grow up in conditions that maximize their opportunities for success adults should have opportunities throughout their lives to connect to work, get more education, live in a good neighborhood, and move up in the workforce.
Ensure Economic Security. Americans should not fall into poverty when they cannot work or work is unavailable, unstable, or pays so little that they cannot make ends meet.
Help People Build Wealth. All Americans should have the opportunity to build assets that allow them to weather periods of flux and volatility, and to have the resources that may be essential to advancement and upwardmobility.
Interactive Online Map of each of the Millennium Development Goals
An online map of the MDGs and the progress being made. In the year 2000, 189 countries, including the unites States, agreed to a set of eight measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015.
2008 Directory of Arizona Food Providers
Includes information on:
Food Boxes- A three to five day supply of emergency food for a family or individual in need.
Infant Boxes - A supply of food for children (birth to 2 years) including infant formula and other needed items.
Soup Kitchens - Meals prepared on location for low-income individuals.
Food Co-op Boxes- Cooperative food purchasing programs provide a variety of food packages that range in costs from $15 - $35. The retail value of the food ranges from $40 - $70. Payment can be made in cash or with Food Stamps.
Home Meals - Meals delivered to homebound elderly or physically disabled eligible individuals.
Onsite Meal - Meals prepared on location for eligible individuals. Usually a Senior Center but can also be a soup kitchen.
Let Justice Roll: Faith & Community Voices Against Poverty
The LET JUSTICE ROLL Living Wage Campaign, a nonpartisan program of more than seventy faith-based and community-based organizations, works in support of federal legislation to raise the federal minimum wage and state legislation and ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage in selected states.
Fair Trade Federation
Fosters equitable and sustainable global system of production and trade
Center on Hunger and Poverty
Conducts research and policy analysis on hunger and poverty in the Us promotes asset development analyzes household food security.
GlobalIssues.org
A compilation of global issues that explores the relationships between poverty and hunger issues.
Millennium Campaign
Launched in October 2002 to encourage citizens around the world in their efforts to end poverty and hunger by 2015.
The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Focus to increase the effectiveness of U.S. assistance to strengthen African agricultural and rural development.
RESULTS
Creating the public and political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
World Hunger Year
WHY advocates for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society to confront these problems by advancing models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access to nutritious and affordable food.
Presbyterian Hunger Program
The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) provides grants to programs addressing hunger and its causes in the United States and around the world in five program areas as described in the Common Affirmation on Global Hunger. To achieve our mission PHP also implements special educational, mission and action programs and campaigns.
Bread for the World
A nationwide Christian citizens' movement that seeks justice of the world's poor and hungry
Food Research & Action Center
National statistices, hunger studies
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
A nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis hunger and poverty issues.
CARE
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Church World Service
Earth Action
Future Harvest
Hunger Free America
Institute for Food & Development Policy
The ONE Campaign
ONE is an effort by Americans to rally Americans - ONE by ONE - to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.
Oxfam International
America's Second Harvest
The Hunger Project
World Food Programme
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