Social Investing and Consuming
Activist Groups and Organizations

20/20 Vision
Dedicated to solving global challenges where international security, energy and the environment come together.

Action Against Hunger
Recognized worldwide as a leader in the fight against hunger, delivers programs in more than 40 countries, specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters and longer-term assistance to people in distress.

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
Founded in 1992, APALA is the first and only national organization of Asian Pacific American union members. It organizes and works with Asian Pacific American workers, many of them immigrants, to build the labor movement and address exploitative conditions in the garment, electronics, hotel and restaurant, food processing, and health care industries.

Center for Defense Information
CDI provides expert analysis on various components of U.S. national security, international security and defense policy and promotes wide-ranging discussion and debate on security issues such as nuclear weapons, space security, missile defense, small arms and military transformation. Since 1972, CDI has produced research and publications such as the acclaimed Defense Monitor, numerous books and monographs, and engaging conferences. To ensure the ability to provide objective analysis, CDI accepts no U.S. government or defense industry funding, and to encourage the intellectual freedom of the staff, CDI does not hold policy positions.

Co-op America
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power: the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace‹to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Council on Economic Priorities
[no operative website at present, unfortunately] Alice Tepper Marlin founded this nonprofit public interest organization to research corporate social responsibility in 1969. CEP publishes corporate reports, gives yearly corporate responsibility awards, started the "Campaign for Cleaner Corporations" and provides corporate social responsibility research for investors. CEP also provides global corporate ratings, a "News Update Service," and a "Corporate Environmental Data Clearinghouse."

EARTHJUSTICE
Law firm for the environment.

Earth Foundation
To empower educators and students to work toward a sustainable economy, a just society and a healthy environment. Focus is on education, fundraising for conservation, and cooperative programs with conservation groups and indigenous organizations working in the race to save the planet.

EarthWINS
Websites for non-profit organizations.

Environmental Defense Fund
A leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 500,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems. Dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems.

Environmental Working Group (EWG)
Environmental investigations have been our specialty since 1993. Our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.

Equality Project
Works to support and help monitor the adoption of written employee nondiscrimination policies on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace by pressing companies to implement the progressive policies expressed in the "Equality Principles." The "Principles" are available in twelve languages.

Fair Trade Federation
An association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are fully committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.

Friends of the Earth
Defends the planet and champions a healthy and just world. Active in 70 countries and has the world's largest network of environmental groups.

Grassroots International
Promotes global justice through partnerships with social change organizations. Works to advance political, economic and social rights and support development alternatives through grantmaking, education and advocacy.

Habitat for Humanity International
A nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry which seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Has built more than 200,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1,000,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. Founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda.

Home of the Innocents
Reaches out and advocates for children, youth and their families, by providing care and shelter during periods of critical times. Children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected and typically are in the custody of the state are referred to the programs at the Home by social workers.

Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF)
A social welfare organization working to pass animal protection laws at the state and federal level, to educate the public about animal protection issues, and to support humane candidates for office.

HungerWeb
For researchers, educators, policy influencers, operations personnel, other professionals and students using the Internet to help find solutions to hunger at the global, national, community and household level --- or for anyone who is interested in learning more about the subject.

Inner City Press
Tracks and reports on community reinvestment programs and practices.

Institute for Global Communications
Beginning in 1987, IGC played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights. The year 2002 marked the 15th anniversary of the founding of IGC, and we're taking this early opportunity to announce a new beginning for the organization. We have completely rebuilt the IGC Progressive Gateway Website and are partnering with eGrants to offer secure online credit card transaction services for nonprofits.

International Co-operative Alliance (ICA)
An independent, non-governmental association which unites, represents and serves co-operatives worldwide. Founded in 1895, ICA has 222 member organisations from 91 countries active in all sectors of the economy. Together these co-operatives represent more than 800 million individuals worldwide.

International Fund for Animal Welfare
Works to improve animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty and abuse, protect wildlife and provide animal rescue around the world. From stopping the elephant ivory trade, to ending the Canadian seal hunt and saving the whales from extinction, IFAW works to create solutions that benefit both animals and people.

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