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• Essential
web sites
• Other web
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Essential
Web Sites
•
American Family Voices
American Family Voices was founded in 2000 to be a strong
voice for middle and low income families on economic, health
care, and consumer issues
•
Civil Society in the Americas
This is a section of the Political Database of the Americas
edited by the Georgetown University. It contains information
about civil society groups operating in the Americas. The
sources are categorized by country
• Corporate
Watch
Corporate Watch counters corporate-led globalization through
education, network-building and activism. It works to foster
democratic control over corporations by building grassroots
globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity,
labor rights and environmental justice
•
The Saguaro Seminars, developing strategies to increase community
engagement
The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America is an ongoing
initiative of Professor Robert D. Putnam at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. The project focuses
on expanding what we know about our levels of trust and community
engagement and on developing strategies and efforts to increase
this engagement
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Other Web
Sites
• Amazon Alliance
The Amazon Alliance works to defend the rights, territories
and environment of indigenous and traditional peoples of the
Amazon Basin
• Bank Information Center
The Bank Information Center (BIC) is an independent, non-profit,
non-governmental organization that provides information and
strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout
the world on the projects, policies and practices of the World
Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). BIC
advocates for greater transparency, accountability and citizen
participation at the MDBs
•
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
BREAD is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002 dedicated
to encourage research and scholarship in development economics.
The website contains a section on data
from developing countries partitioned into the following
categories: household surveys, firm-level data, and macro
data sources.
• Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives undertakes and
promotes research on issues of social and economic justice
• Center for Civil
Society International (CCSI)
Organizzazione che promuove le relazioni tra le agenzie no
profit statunitensi e le organizzazioni della società
civile nell'ex Unione Sovietica
• Center for Environmental
Economic Development
The Center is a US-based nongovernmental organization working
on climate change education, outreach, and policy
• Civicus -
World Alliance for Citizen Participation
US-based international alliance dedicated to strengthening
citizen action and civil society throughout the world
• Currency Transaction
Tax
Canadian citizen’s movement in support of the currency
transactions tax, or “Tobin” tax as it is often
called
• Earth Rights
Internationa (ERI)
ERI is a nonprofit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers
with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate
and government accountability. ERI has offices in the U.S.
and Southeast Asia
• Global Exchange
A human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental,
political, and social justice around the world by increase
global awareness among the US public while building international
partnerships around the world
• Global Trade
Watch (GTW)
GTW promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization.
GTW works on an array of globalization issues, including health
and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and
democratic, accountable governance
•
Independent Sector
Independent Sector is committed to strengthening, empowering,
and partnering with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations
in their work on behalf of the public good
• Institute on Governance
(IOG)
NGO research organisation focusing on the promotion of effective
governance, defined as the institutions, processes and traditions
which determine how power is exercised, how decisions are
taken and how citizens have their say
• International Forum on
Globalization (IFG)
IFG is a non-governmental organization located in the United
States.
The goals of the IFG are to expose the multiple effects of
economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and to
seek to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas
and activities which revitalize local economies and communities,
and ensure long term ecological stability
• New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation (NHCF)
The mission of NHCF is to improve the quality of life in New
Hampshire communities
• One World United
States
The US section of One World project, which
aims to foster the diffusion of informations on topics related
to human rights, democracy and peace, sustainable development
and environment protection
• Participatory Development
Forum
Participatory Development Forum is a network of development
practitioners, non-governmental organisations, academics/action
researchers, private sector representatives, and policy makers.
It is dedicated to promoting a philosophy of participation
that advocates for people's capacity and right to define and
control their own development in order to achieve social justice
and equality
• Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy
organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer
interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts
• Social
Capital Inc.
The mission of Social Capital Inc. (SCI) is to build social
capital and increase civic engagement. SCI is currently implementing
a community-based social capital initiative in Woburn, Massachusetts
• The Daily Enron
Daily Enron is a project of American Family Voices, aiming
to elaborate policies that will stop the abuses that led to
the Enron scandal
• The North-South Institute
(NSI)
The North-South Institute (NSI) is a Canadian independent
research institute focused on international development. The
Institute conducts research on Canada's relations with developing
countries and on a wide range of foreign policy issues
• Tobin Tax Initiative
Its goal is to increase a national dialogue on the Tobin Tax
proposal by raising awareness and education among grassroots
organizations, opinion leaders, and policymakers in the United
States.
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