Justice and Advocacy Resource Links

Education

• Good Schools Pennsylvania
  www.goodschoolspa.org
  promotes equitable funding for Pennsylvania public schools

Food/Hunger

• J&A Annual Spring Workshop on Food, Hunger, and Public Policy with Bread for the World. The program announcement includes links to other resources.
  bread.ppjr.org
• Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center
  www.pahunger.org
  Monitors food, nutrition, and public policy issues in Pennsylvania.
• Bread for the World
  www.bread.org
  Public policy advocacy on national/international issues that affect hungry people.
• Oxfam America
  www.oxfamamerica.org
  International relief and development agency, but also provides excellent resources on public policy issues related to food and hunger.
• Farm Bill resources
  Extensive resources on U.S. agricultural policy and the Farm Bill.
• Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
  www.frac.org
  Monitors U.S. public policies related to hunger, nutrition, and poverty.
• Mazon “A Jewish Response to Hunger”
  www.mazon.org
• LCCC Talking Points on Hunger (MSWord)

Youth at Risk

• Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley
• Zero Youth Violence (Allentown).

Environment

• Pennsylvania Sierra Club
• Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival – Kempton, PA (Sept. 16-18, 2011)
• Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association
• National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Programs
• Web of Creation – “Ecology Resources to Transform Faith Communities and Society”

Poverty

• Coalition On Human Needs
  www.halfinten.org
  Half in Ten: From Poverty to Prosperity, a campaign chaired by Senator John Edwards and coordinated by four organizations: Center for American Progress Action Fund, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, ACORN, and the Coalition on Human Needs.

Racism & Violence

• Damascus Road
  National faith-based anti-racism training program, based in Akron, PA.
• Healing the Wounds of Racism
  Faith-based anti-racism training program in eastern Pennsylvania.
• United Church of Christ (UCC)
  Sacred-Conversation: Let’s Talk About Race
  www.ucc.org/sacred-conversation
  Resources for church congregations on Race and Racism.

Minimum Wage / Living Wage

• Living Wage Campaign
  Let Justice Roll — promoting fair wages for workers.
• United for a Fair Economy
  Education and advocacy for economic policies that challenge the increasing concentration of wealth in the U.S.

Gambling and its Effects

• United Methodist Advocacy in Pennsylvania – abstain from gambling; repeal legalized gambling

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