Directory of Low-Income Organizations Working on Welfare Issues
©Copyright 1996, Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law,
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About This Directory
This directory collects information provided to us by over 60 grassroots,
membership organizations in twenty-nine states who are fighting the current
attacks on welfare recipients and who are working for a better, fairer,
more humane income support system in this country. Most of these groups
are comprised exclusively of low income people. Some have memberships of
low income people and others. In addition to names, addresses, and phone
numbers, the directory includes information about the issues each group
is working on and about whether they publish newsletters that are available
to non-members.
When we set out to identify and survey state and local organizations of
low income people who are working on welfare issues, we had a sense that
there were scores of vital organizations throughout the country doing very
important work on welfare issues under extremely difficult circumstances.
This sense has been proven true. As we have received responses from organizations,
we have been impressed over and over again with the energy, commitment and
resourcefulness of the people most affected by the war on welfare--the recipients
themselves.
One of the things we heard repeatedly from the organizations who responded
to our survey was that they strongly felt the need to know what similar
organizations were doing in other states. One way we are responding to
that need is by regularly featuring reports on organizations of low income
people in our bi-monthly Welfare News publication, which is available free
of charge to low income organizations. This directory is another effort
to increase the information available to organizations of low income people
about each other.
We recognize that this first edition of the directory is only a beginning.
We are sure that there are many organizations that are not included, either
because they did not respond to our survey questionnaire or because we did
not know to send them one. We urge readers who belong to or are aware of
groups who are not included in this first edition of the directory to contact
us. We will be delighted to include additional organizations in later editions.
We also know that despite our best efforts, some errors may have made it
into the text. If we have made mistakes, we want to know about them. If
you wish to inform us of corrections that we need to make or additional
groups we should include in future editions, please fill out the form at
the end of the directory and return it to us.
In the meantime, we hope that this directory plays a useful role in aiding
organizations of low income people in establishing alliances and sharing
information and strategies for the many difficult and critical battles in
front of us in the struggle to maintain and strengthen a basic welfare safety
net for all of our people.
Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law, May 1996
ARIZONA
Arizona Community Action Association
67 East Weldon, Suite 310
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Phone: 602-230-8267 Fax: 602-230-8613
E-mail: hn0448@handsnet.org, azcaa@aztec.asu.edu
Contact Person: Janet K. Regner
Issues for 1996:
1. Affordable utility/energy issues
2. Intervention with our Public Utility Commission
3. Representing low-income residential ratepayers
4. Block grants
5. Community organizing, advocacy legislative education
6. Affordable housing, anti-hunger
Newsletter: None.
CALIFORNIA
Barton Hill Neighborhood Organization
131 North Grande Avenue
San Pedro, CA 90731
Phone: 310-832-9645 Fax: 310-832-7861
Contact Person: Dee Petty
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare
2. Affirmative action
3. Section 8 housing
4. Voter registration
5. Budget cuts
Newsletter: None.
Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Inc.
1901 Alhambra Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: 916-736-0616 Fax: 916-736-2645
E-mail: hn0068@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Kevin M. Aslanian
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare DEFORM
2. Child welfare services, etc.
Newsletter: Available. Just write to request it.
Fair Share Network
1010 S. Flower, Suite 216
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: 213-746-7786 Fax: 213-746-4967
E-mail: hn1674@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Nancy Berlin
Issues for 1996:
1. Federal welfare reform
2. Implementation of welfare reform at state and local level
3. Protecting General Assistance
4. Tax equity issues
5. The state budget
6. Voter registration
Newsletter: Available. The newsletter is free, but donations are greatly
appreciated. Send name and address.
Family Rights & Dignity
3543 18th Street #31
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-431-2995 Fax: 415-431-9371
Contact Person: Malika Saada Saar
Issues for 1996:
1. Creating a working group of mothers, service-providers and attorneys
to address the problems of child welfare
2. Health clinics in the projects (low-income housing)
3. Advocacy and peer counseling to low-income families
4. Political organizing
Newsletter: Available: "The Street Sheet." Call Bobby, Joyce
or Lydia at 415-346-3740
In-spire3-ing
102 Melody Drive
Paso Robles, CA 93446
Phone: 805-238-1066 Fax: 805-544-3904 E-mail: KSC2B@aol.com
Contact Person: Karen Wilson
Issues for 1996:
1. Federal Budget and Welfare Reform Bill
2. State Budget
3. If block grants are passed then we plan to hold a county-wide symposium
for recipients, legislators, medical personnel, service providers and businesses,
churches, public at large.
Newsletter: Available. Contact Karen Wilson at given address and send $12
to receive 12 issues (monthly).
Welfare Parents Support Group, Inc.
509 Broadway
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: 408-458-9070 Fax: 408-423-8716
Contact Person: Elaine Glunt
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare rights and advocacy
2. Job skills
3. Peer support
4. Networking
5. Basic needs
Newsletter: Available. Call or write with name and address.
COLORADO
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
2100 Broadway
Denver, CO 80205
Phone: 303-293-2217 Ext. 143 Fax: 303-293-2309
E-mail: hn0138@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Rachel Brown
Issues for 1996:
1. Homelessness/affordable housing
2. Welfare, public assistance
Newsletter: Available. Become a member (or if someone asks, we usually put
them on our mailing list).
Weld County Community Groups
2333 25 St. Rd.
Greeley, CO 80631
Phone: 303-330-1699
Contact Person: Delores Davison
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Medicaid
Newsletter: None.
CONNECTICUT
SAMS
84 B Baxter Road
Storrs, CT 06268
Phone: 860-429-8442
Contact Person: Tammie Meyers
Issues for 1996:
1. The Job Connection Program
Newsletter: Available.
Warriors for Real Welfare Reform
c/o Capitol Region Conference of Churches
30 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860-523-0487
Contact Person: Carmen Cordero
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Rental assistance program
3. General Assistance
4. Job issues
Newsletter: None.
GEORGIA
Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger
9 Gammon Avenue SW
Atlanta, GA 30315
Phone: 404-622-7778 Fax: 404-584-5803
Contact Person: Sandra Robertson
Issues for 1996:
1. Minimum wage increase
2. Welfare reform
3. Block grant
4. Health care
5. Food and nutrition programs
Newsletter: Available: "Street Heat News Magazine." $15 subscription
fee.
Georgia Welfare Rights Union
9 Gammon Avenue, SW
Atlanta, GA 30315
Phone: 404-622-7778
Contact Person: Njere Alghanee
Issues for 1996:
1. Guaranteed annual/adequate income
2. Raising minimum wage
3. Health care for all
4. Welfare reform as developed by welfare recipients
5. Developing more projects for survival
6. Community based empowerment
Newsletter: None.
ILLINOIS
Women for Economic Security
200 South Michigan
Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: 312-663-3574 Fax: 312-633-5873
Contact Person: Edith Crigler
Issues for 1996:
1. Administrative advocacy at the state and city levels in Illinois
2. Developing and implementing a monitoring system and our local public
aid offices
3. Informing families in poverty of the pending changes in welfare
Newsletter: None.
IOWA
Collaboration for Self-Sufficiency
1909 Ingersoll Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: 515-244-4901 Fax: 515-243-5073
Contact Person: Mary Anne Brekke
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Savings club development
3. Non-traditional employment
4. Family violence
5. Managed health care
6. Energy assistance
Newsletter: None.
Iowa Coalition for Housing and the Homeless
205-15th Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: 515-288-5022 Fax: 515-282-1810
Contact Person: Loyd Ogle
Issues for 1996:
1. Rights of the homeless
2. Increasing state and local funding of affordable housing
3. Landlord/tenant issues
4. Issues impacting the poor in general (welfare reform, HEAP)
Newsletter: Available. Send name and address.
KENTUCKY
Multi-County Clients Council
425 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Suite 201
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: 502-584-1254 Ext. 212 Fax: 502-584-8014
Contact Person: Imogene Washington
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Healthcare
3. Housing
4. Education
5. Food stamps
Newsletter: None.
LOUISIANA
Welfare Rights Organization
3040 Bruxelles Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
Phone: 504-944-1112 Fax: 504-944-4808
Contact Person: Viola Francois Washington
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform/state plan on AFDC
2. Food stamp child nutrition
3. Medicaid
Newsletter: None.
MAINE
Coalition for Economic Justice
P.O. Box 11559
Portland, ME 04104-7559
Phone: 207-773-6471 Fax: 207-773-0182
Contact Person: Marc R. Mutty
Issues for 1996:
Education program aimed at highlighting the link between low-wage
market economy and poverty (welfare)
Newsletter: None.
Hospitality House
P.O. Box 62
Hinckley, ME 04944
Phone: 800-438-3890
Contact Person: Jan Lightfoot
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Video on true facts of AFDC mothers
3. Direct services to prevent homelessness
Newsletter: Available.
Maine Assoc of Interdependent Neighborhoods
P.O. Box 2711
Bangor, ME 04402
Phone: 207-947-4371
Contact Person: Judy Gauy
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Health care
3. Low-wage worker campaign
4. Housing - special needs
Newsletter: None.
MASSACHUSETTS
Coalition for Basic Human Needs
54 Essex Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-497-0126 Fax: 617-492-8101
Contact Person: Erica Lurie
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare rights
2. Family income needs
Newsletter: Available. $25 for subscription.
Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union
95 Standard Street
Mattapan, MA 02126
Phone: 617-298-7311 E-mail: bmandell@curry.edu
Contact Person: Dorothy Stevens
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Health
3. Housing
4. Poverty
Newsletter: Available. "Survival News." See Survivors, Inc.
listing below.
Survivors, Inc.
102 Anawan Ave.
West Roxbury, MA 02132
Phone: 617-327-4219 Ext. Fax: 617-327-4219
E-mail: bmandell@bridgew.edu
Contact Person: Betty Reid Mandell
Issues for 1996:
1. Organizing low-income college students
2. Speakers' bureau on welfare
3. Publishing a newspaper for low-income people, Survival News
Newsletter: Available. "Survival News." Subscriptions $10, free
to low-income people.
MICHIGAN
National Welfare Rights Union
13220 Woodward
Highland Park, MI 48203
Phone: 313-831-1040 Fax: 313-833-7756
Contact Person: Marian Kramer
Issues for 1996:
Newsletter:
Oakland County Welfare Rights Organization
132 Franklin Blvd.
Pontiac, MI 48341
Phone: 810-334-8117 Fax: 810-474-4029 E-mail: edwardk9@umcc.umich.edu
Contact Person: Marguerite Kowaleski
Issues for 1996:
Our primary tasks will be
1. Trying to keep our members informed about the changes in welfare programs
as a result of Michigan's latest "Welfare Reform" - & whatever
else comes along with the federal changes
2. Our newsletter
Newsletter: Available. $ 5 per year for recipients, $15 per year for organizations
or people not low income.
MINNESOTA
Poor and Working Class Moms
1622 3rd Avenue
Mankato, MN 56001
Phone: 507-388-4251 Fax: 507-625-3484
Contact Person: Lynn M. Pierce
Issues for 1996:
1. Survival
2. Staying and becoming gainfully employed
3. How to earn and keep enough $ to pay bills
4. How to become economically independent through own business
Newsletter: None.
MISSOURI
HOPE
P.O. Box 303
Wentzville, MO 63385
Phone: 314-561-1318
Contact Person: Agnes Hill
Northeast Missouri Client Council for Human Needs
251 W. Clark
Kahoka, MO 63445
Phone: 816-727-2043
Contact Person: Jill Shinn
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Consumer issues
3. Medicaid
Newsletter: Available: "The Hard Times." Send name and address.
Donations accepted.
ROWEL Education Association
5300 Delmar Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63112
Phone: 314-361-3400 Fax: 314-367-9629
Contact Person: Jeanette Mott Oxford
Issues for 1996:
1. State legislature - prevent bad legislation (we have been able to block
in committee)
2. State Earned Income Credit pilot
3. Fighting for 1 3/4 percent reduction in sales tax on food
4. Seeking energy assistance for disabled, elderly and low income (we have
gotten utilities to support this)
5. Nationally: urge President not to sign bad legislation, and keeping members
informed about federal developments
6. "Campaign to reward work" - ballot initiative to raise the
minimum wage (with hope it will pull out low income vote and become active
in the election)
Newsletter: Available. 4 times a year, provide at least $10 toward postage.
St. Louis Women's Support Group
5903 Dr. Martin Luther King
St. Louis, MO 63112
Phone: 314-383-8861
Contact Person: Kim Jayne
Issues for 1996:
1. Developing alternative lending sources
2. Planning for community based economic development including a farmers'
market
3. Some AFDC issues
4. Utility issues
5. Child care
6. Health care
Newsletter: None.
South Side Welfare Rights Organization
C/O Dr. J's Market Inc.
3918 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63113
Phone: 314-534-8827
Contact Person: Eddie Mae Binion
Issues for 1996:
1. EBT system
2. Welfare reform in Missouri
Newsletter: Available. $15 subscription.
MONTANA
Tri-County Advocacy Council
P.O. Box 132
Havre, MT 59501
Phone: 406-265-6867
Contact Person: Marsha Gummer
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Low-income energy assistance
3. Low-income housing
4. Legal assistance
Newsletter: None.
NEBRASKA
F.A.I.R.
P.O. Box 82433
Lincoln, NE 68501
Phone: 402-477-6680 Fax: 402-438-5236 E-mail: vstippel@aol.com
Contact Person: Vicki Stippel
Issues for 1996:
1. Raising state minimum wage
2. Managed care
3. Welfare reform
4. Domestic violence
Newsletter: Available. Call and request newsletter
Omaha Clients Council
2016 Fowler Avenue
Omaha, NE 68110-1522
Phone: 402-451-8336
Contact Person: Lerlean N. Johnson
Issues for 1996:
Newsletter: None.
NEVADA
Nevada Empowered Women Project
6185 Franktown Road
Carson City, NV 89704
Phone: 702-882-3440 Fax: 702-882-3440
Contact Person: Jan Gilbert
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare
2. Childcare
3. Health care
4. Housing
Newsletter: None.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Parents for Justice
1812 Hopkinton Avenue
Hopkinton, NH 03227
Phone: 603-746-4817
Contact Person: Sara Dustin
Issues for 1996:
1. NH State Welfare Reform
2. Restoration of the funds for transportation and books and fees so post
secondary education remains a viable JOBS program option.
Newsletter: Available. $20 for individuals, $35 for organizations (waived
for low income folks).
NEW YORK
Capital District Welfare Warriors
P.O. Box 116
Schenectady, NY 12301
Phone: 518-346-2495 Fax: 518-346-2495
Contact Person: Enid Mastrianni
Issues for 1996:
1. Fingerprint monitoring
2. NO to AFDC cuts
3. Child care access
4. Raising minimum wage
5. Unequal pay
6. Child-support enforcement
7. Compiling oral histories
Newsletter: Available. Write or call and make a donation ($10-$25)
Join the Wonderful World of Welfare
P.O. Box 72
Trout Creek, NY 13847
Phone: 607-865-5369
Contact Person: James Ronald Lieberman
Issues for 1996:
1. Continue federal guarantee (entitlement of AFDC!)
Newsletter: None.
National Welfare Rights Union/N.Y.
216 Beverly Road
Brooklyn, NY 11218-3916
Phone: 212-348-7006 Fax: 212-348-2848
Contact Person: David Greene
Issues for 1996:
1. Fighting state and federal welfare cuts
2. Housing and shelter subsidies, allowances
Newsletter: Available.
Project Dandelion/Neighborhood Legal Services
495 Ellicott Square Building
295 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 716-847-0650 Ext. 402 Fax: 716-847-0227
E-mail: hn0627@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Maggie O'Malley
Issues for 1996:
Help low-income families and individuals attain self-sufficiency
through training, peer group support, publications, volunteer
opportunities and legal information.
Newsletter: Available.
Suffolk Welfare Warriors
1105 A Kingsley Pl.
Coram, NY 11727
Phone: 516-732-0525
Contact Person: Therese Scofield
Issues for 1996:
1. Fighting the cuts with a 3-pronged attack - education workshops and leadership
development of members
2. Lobbying on county, state and federal level, plus public appearances
at forums, public hearings and in the media
3. Direct action events from flyering and picketing to civil disobedience.
Newsletter: Available. We have a bi-monthly newsletter that allies and supporters
can subscribe to for $24.00 a year.
The Welfare Reform Network
c/o Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
281 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-777-4800 Ext. 312 Fax: 212-533-8792
E-mail: hn6291@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Timothy J. Casey
Issues for 1996:
1. All key welfare issues
Newsletter: None.
Welfare Rights Initiative
Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy
695 Park Avenue, Room E1209
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-772-4091 Fax: 212-650-3845
E-Mail: mklackey@aol.com
Contact Person: Melinda K. Lackey
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform (city, state, federal)
2. Higher education access
3. Advocacy and organizing related to cuts to the City University (CUNY)
4. Continued leadership training for CUNY students with firsthand experience
of public assistance and poverty
Newsletter: Only available by hand to hand distribution.
NORTH CAROLINA
Concerned Citizens of Tillery
P.O. Box 61
Tillery, NC 27887
Phone: 919-826-3017 Fax: 919-826-3244
Contact Person: Gary R. Grant
Issues for 1996:
1. Health care for the poor
2. Economic development (jobs, labor)
3. Women's issues - AFDC, abuse, feminization of poverty
4. Senior issues
5. Environmental issues
6. African-American issues
Newsletter: Available. $10 per year membership/subscription. Published monthly.
OHIO
The Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland
Ohio Empowerment Coalition
2800 Euclid Avenue, #515
Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216-241-5926 E-mail: cassand109@aol.com
Contact Person: Cassandra McConnell
Issues for 1996:
1. Statewide recipient organizing
2. Monitoring implementation of OH welfare reform
3. Monitoring implementation of Medicaid HMO's
4. Community education
Newsletter: None.
National Welfare Rights & Reform Union
1433 East 4th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43219
Phone: 614-262-6262
Contact Person: Shirley Smith Peoples
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare time limits
2. Adequate job training programs
3. Continuation of child care
4. Continuation of welfare programs through block grant funding
5. Increase client participation on welfare advisory boards throughout the
country
Newsletter: Available.
NEOCH/Homeless Grapevine
1468 W. 25th Street
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: 216-241-1104 Fax: 216-696-3317
Contact Person: Brian Davis
Issues for 1996:
1. Poverty
2. Homelessness
3. Lack of permanent housing
4. Lack of liveable wage jobs
Newsletter: Available: "Homeless Grapevine." Subscription for
$20.
Ohio Welfare Rights Organization
700 Bryden Road, #112
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-492-0309
Contact Person: Margaret W. Radden
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Medical and legal services for our clients
3. Impact of GA cuts
Newsletter: Available.
Warren Trumbull Welfare Rights Organization Client Council
2437 Kenwood Drive, S.W.
Warren, OH 44485
Contact Person: Geneva E. Reid
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Advocacy for children with learning and behavioral problems in the school
system
Newsletter: None.
Welfare Rights Coalition
Contact Center
1641 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45210
Phone: 513-381-4242 Fax: 513-381-0627
Contact Person: Katy Heins
Issues for 1996:
1. Working on block grants
2. Forming a statewide coalition for Ohio
3. Local pilot projects on work divergent activities, child care and other
welfare related topics
Newsletter: Available. $10 donation - the newsletter is monthly.
PENNSYLVANIA
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
922 N. Randolph Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Contact Person: Cheri Honkala
Issues for 1996:
MON Valley Unemployed Committee
120 East 9th Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120
Phone: 412-464-9962 Fax: 412-462-8407
Contact Person: Paul Lodico
Issues for 1996:
1. State implementation of national welfare law changes
2. State implementation of training law changes
3. Increase in state and federal minimum wage
Newsletter: None.
National/Philadelphia Union of the Homeless
3434 Old York Road
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Phone: 215-221-0459
Contact Person: Ronald Casanova
Issues for 1996:
1. Homelessness
2. Bad shelters
3. Poverty
Newsletter: Available. $12 a year, for every two months.
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
116 S. 7th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-592-0933 Fax: 215-592-7537
Contact Person: John Dodds
Issues for 1996:
1. Health care
2. Welfare
3. Foreclosure prevention
4. Minimum wage
Newsletter: None.
Philadelphia Welfare Rights
1231 N. Franklin Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215-684-3600 Fax: 215-684-3603
Contact Person: Louise Brookins
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. Health care - HMO's
3. Housing
4. Legal services
Newsletter: None.
Susquehanna Welfare Rights Organization
168 E. 5 Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Phone: 717-784-8760 Ext. Fax: 717-784-4840
E-mail: hn0927@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Marjorie Farrell
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare reform
2. SSI issues
3. Food Stamps
4. Medicaid
Newsletter: None.
RHODE ISLAND
DARE
340 Lockwood Street
Providence, RI 02907
Phone: 401-351-6960 Fax: 401-351-6977
Contact Person: Shannah Kurland
Issues for 1996:
1. Environmental justice - urban land reform
2. Police accountability - stop the attack on our community
3. Women's economic justice - organizing family childcare workers
4. Youth organizing - demand jobs and career training
Newsletter: Available. Purchase ad in our annual ad book ($40 - $500) and
get on newsletter mailing list.
Hmong United Association of Rhode Island
340 Lockwood Street
Providence, RI 02907
Phone: 401-455-0847
Contact Person: Simon Kue
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare Reform: Its Impact on the Hmong Community
2. Immigration Reform: Impacts?
3. Access to Higher Education
4. Access to Health Information
6. Economic Development/Lack of Jobs
Newsletter: None.
UTAH
JEDI Women
347 South 400 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: 801-364-7765 Fax: 801-364-7227
E-mail: HN1826@handsnet.org
Contact Person: Deeda Seed
Issues for 1996:
1. Affordable housing
2. Positive welfare reform
3. Jobs and job training and education
4. Health care
5. Affordable quality child care
Newsletter: Available. Send name and address.
VERMONT
The Women's Union
35 Wilson Street
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: 802-658-1047 E-mail:dconrad@moose.uvm.edu
Contact Person: Sally Conrad
Issues for 1996:
1. Monitoring welfare reform in VT and trying to influence state legislation
2. Monitoring welfare reform in Washington and trying to influence it
3. Researching guaranteed annual income/wage (wages for housework)
4. Finding ways to help those required to do mandatory work under "workfare"
5. Trying to build bridges to "middle-class" allies
6. Planning and participating in a New England wide People's Economic Summit
geared to bring together low income/no income people and their allies to
develop strategies for change.
Newsletter: Available. A contribution of $10 to the Women's Union would
be much appreciated but not necessary.
WASHINGTON
Fair Budget Action Campaign
P.O. Box 31151
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: 206-727-0369 Fax: 206-727-0358
Contact Person: Gwen L. Orwiler
Issues for 1996:
1. Issues that address underlying causes of poverty
2. Empower low income people to speak out to public and state legislation
on issues that impact them
Newsletter: Available. Membership $1 a year.
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
2212 South Jackson
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: 206-324-3063 Fax: 206-860-8825
Contact Person: Jean Colman
Issues for 1996:
1. Welfare policy: reforms that help parents get and keep jobs, and do not
dismantle the safety net
2. Child care
3. Employment and training programs
Newsletter: Available. Donations are welcome.
WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia Help Center
P.O. Box 640
Pursglove, WV 26546-6400
Phone: 304-291-5703
Contact Person: Carolyn Milvet
Issues for 1996:
1. "Welfare to Work" @ a decent wage - (10.00 - 12.00./hr.)
2. Challenge the stereotypes of the poor
Newsletter: Available.
West Virginia Human Resources Association
P.O. Box 5265
Charleston, WV 25361-0265
Phone: 304-342-0749 Fax: 304-343-6307
Contact Person: Dee Crabtree
Issues for 1996:
1. Advocacy for children, senior citizens, welfare recipients and those
covered under medicaid
Newsletter: Available.
WISCONSIN
Poverty Network Initiative
223 Maple Avenue
Waukesha, WI 53186
Phone: 414-574-9925 Fax: 414-574-9926
Contact Person: Kerryn Laumer
Issues for 1996:
1. Rescission of W-2 - Wisconsin Works
2. Worker's Rights
3. Welfare Working Family's Sick leave
4. Equal pay
5. W2 copays child care/health care
6. Public education
Newsletter: Available. Send donation to cover postage.
Welfare Warriors\Welfare Mothers Voice
2711 W. Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53208-4044
Phone: 414-342-6662 Fax: 414-342-6667
Contact Person: Pat Gowens or Linda Ray
Issues for 1996:
1. Fight current wave of welfare reform
2. Trying to get President & HHS to deny waiver for W-2
3. Helpline - help with problems with welfare bureaucracy
4. Welfare Mother's Voice publication
5. Project for mothers whose children have been taken wrongfully by Dept
of Social Services
6. MAY (Mothers & Youth) Project - volunteer corps of moms and kids
to work together on advocacy
Newsletter: Available. $4 for AFDC moms or other very low income people,
$15 for other individuals, $25 for organizations.
WYOMING
Education Graduation Opportunities (E.G.O.)
Laramie County Community College
1400 E. College Drive
Cheyenne, WY 82007
Phone: 307-778-1288 Ext. Fax: 307-778-1350
E-mail: dlowe-ca@mail.lcc.whecn.edu
Contact Person: Dianne Lowe-Carpenter
Issues for 1996:
E.G.O is a student support group in Wyoming:
1. Attempting to change the negative stigma associated with students on
public assistance
2. Lobbying against negative legislation regarding welfare reform (i.e.
cutting benefits, time limits for students, work requirements while in college)
3. We plan to travel to other colleges and meet with students
4. Voter registration drive for low-income students and community members
5. Child support enforcement strategies
6. Aiming at getting student representation on State committees that reform
programs in Wyoming
Newsletter: None.
About the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law
The Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law helps poor people get the basic
subsistence, justice and fairness to which they are entitled.
For the past 30 years, the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law ("the
Center") has worked with and on behalf of poor people to ensure that
adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need
-- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs
and foster healthy human and family development.
The Center's program for 1996 and beyond entails working on several fronts
to fulfill these goals, including:
- Serving as direct counsel or co-counsel in welfare litigation across
the country;
- Working with and representing organizations of low-income persons;
- Leading advocacy efforts (through litigation and otherwise) regarding
the formulation and implementation of state and federal income support programs
for needy families.
The Center believes adequate income support is a critical element in any
comprehensive strategy to reduce poverty, enable and encourage personal
growth, and ensure that all can live with dignity. The Center uses its
special expertise in cash income support programs to promote the creation,
maintenance, strengthening, and fair administration of such programs, and,
as appropriate, to address other publicly supported means of improving poor
people's income.
The Center receives financial support from a broad array of sources, including
foundations, corporations, the Interest on Lawyer Account Fund of the State
of New York, law firms, church groups, community organizations, and individuals.
The Center is a nonprofit corporation tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code. Bequests and contributions to the Center
are tax-deductible and are greatly appreciated.
For information about other Center publications, contact the Center at:
Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1205
New York, New York 10001-6708
(212) 633-6967; FAX: (212) 633-6371;
E-mail: HN0135@handsnet.org