Connecting with others . . .
on the Internet

1. Homelessness
2. Poverty and hunger
3. Welfare
4. Women's issues
5. Youth issues
6. Help for nonprofit agencies

• Homeless home page, links compiled by Communications for a Sustainable Future, an organization that seeks to help others network.
• The National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) is "a national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness."
• Directory of organizations dealing with homelessness, maintained by the National Coalition for the Homeless.

• The Bay Area Homelessness Program is a consortium of 13 California colleges and universities focusing on education and action aimed at preventing and ending homelessness.
• 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless, a "virtual" book.
• Tipper Gore's home page. The wife of the Vice President has been involved with homelessness issues.

Poverty and Hunger

• Community Service Organizations, as indexed by Yahoo!, an Internet catalog.
• HungerWeb aims to "help prevent and eradicate hunger and promote sustainable development by facilitating and encouraging the free exchange of ideas and information."

• Northwest Harvest is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing hunger in Washington State.
• Real Change Homeless Newspaper is a Seattle homeless newspaper that features local news, opinion, art, poetry, and photography and explores issues of class and poverty.

Welfare

• The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services:
  • Administration for Children and Families.
  • Welfare reform is the focus of a special set of pages.
  • HHS home page.
• Welfare Reform Watch, a compilation of links provided by HandsNet, a nonprofit organization.

• The Contract with America of the Republican Party.
• The University of Washington Center for Social Science Computation and Research. Many data resources, as well as links to many non-UW Internet sites.
• Welfare and Families: a special report from the Electronic Policy Network.
• Wisconsin welfare reform: a special report from the University of Wisconsin

Women's issues

• The Feminist Internet Gateway includes links to and descriptions of sites concerned with various women's issues.
• Women's Web: Internet resources aimed at/for/supportive of women.
• The Women's home page, coordinated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many links to other resources.
• The Fourth World Conference On Women Information and bulletins from the Fourth World Conference On Women (September 1995, Beijing, China).

• Legal and public policy issues for women, links compiled at the University of Michigan.
• STOP Violence Against Women An awareness campaign about violence against women sponsored by the Body Shop.
• NOW: the National Organization for Women.
• Women's Wire, a zine for and about women.

• The 4th World Conference on Women: a special section of links....
  • Voices from Beijing , a series of interviews with participants. (Requires free software -- Real Audio Player -- which is available at the site.)
  • Report on the conference, by OneWorld Online., a partnership of broadcasters and nongovernmental organizations.
  • Assorted information from the conference, by Women's Net.
  • British government perspective and information on the conference, from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Youth issues

• Children Now is a nonpartisan policy and advocacy organization for children.
• U.S. Dept. of Education data resources.
• Guide to online resources for youth and youth workers, compiled at the University of Michigan. A long text listing of a variety of Internet resources.
• !OutProud! is a clearinghouse for information affecting gay and lesbian youth.
• PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different federal agencies.

• Live Wire Youth Media is a unique new non-profit organization designed to put the latest communication technology in the hands of urban kids in Chicago.
• The National Child Rights Alliance is the only national organization directed entirely by youth and adult survivors of abuse and neglect.
• The National 4-H Council, has a mission of building "partnerships with those who seek to involve youth in solving issues critical to their lives, their families and society."

Help for nonprofit organizations

• Guide to Internet resources for non-profits, by 2 librarians. Also on a WWW site, but may not be updated.
• HandsNet "is a national, nonprofit network that promotes information sharing, cross-sector collaboration and advocacy among individuals and organizations working on a broad range of public interest issues."
• Munn Heydorn's guide to Internet resources for non-profits: a few differences from the first guide listed.
• Putnam Barber's Nonprofit Resource Page, which he runs in conjunction with the newsgroup soc.org.nonprofit (see newsgroups), offers updates on current issues in the nonprofit sector, updates on relevant upcoming public television shows, and other good information.
• Best nonprofit sites on the Internet are picked by a service called Impact Online.

• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) is the annual compendium of information on Federal grant programs, including eligibility requirements, application processes, agency contacts, and deadlines. The online version is searchable for keywords.
• The Council on Foundations is the largest association of foundations and corporate philanthropists in the US. Their homepage offers general information about foundations, links to the homepages of member foundations, and information for grantseekers.
• The Foundation Center has "resources helpful in the grantseeking process," including Internet links to foundations such as:
  • The Carnegie Corporation
  • The Dana Foundation
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  • The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• The Global Fund for Women is a more specialized grant-making organization.

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