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Public Private Ventures
A national nonprofit devoted to youth development, mentoring, youth violence reduction, faith-based programs, national service and volunteering, and workforce development.
State Policy Documentation Project (SPDP)
Tracks policy choices on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance programs and Medicaid in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. A joint project of the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Synergos
An independent, nonprofit institute dedicated to developing effective, sustainable, and locally based solutions to global poverty, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Synergos University for a Night 1999
http://www.synergos.org/un99/contents.htm
Archived proceedings of the May 27, 1999 conference discussing plans to reduce global poverty. Lists sponsors, recommendations, excerpts from the plenary session, and possible future events.
The Institute on Race & Poverty
University of Minnesota (USA).
University of the Poor
http://www.universityofthepoor.org/index.html
Affiliated with the Economic Human Rights Campaign, which documents economic human rights abuses across the United States.
WIDER World Income Inequality Database
http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm
Database on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.
World Bank PovertyNet
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/
Information about poverty, its assessment, its impacts, and initiatives to reduce poverty internationally. Includes a special collection of the 'literature of poverty.'