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Resource and Development

Micro-economics
Poor Women writers and artists transition off of Welfare through micro-economics. A project of POOR MAGAZINE.

Investigative Journalism

Loaves vs. Lofts
Gourmet catering company objects to being relocated by high priced live work/lofts. (Part two in an ongoing series of special reports from "the inside" on gentrification) by Giovonna Willis-Barela staff writer, POOR Magazine

The Po' Poets Project

Ode to JFK Jr.

Notes from the inside
A Journal of Incarcerated Writers & Artists

Photography

REFRAMING THE OUTSIDE
by John M.
subject: Ken Moshesh

Accessing the Media
by The California Department of Corrections (CDoC).


Featured Artists

Richard At Work
Artist Ed Gould

Woman with Hammer
Artist Herbie









Resources Page

The following is a national resource list of organizations and/or agencies providing services or doing organizing with low and no income communities.If your state or city is not included,call one of the organizations listed for a referral or please refer to www.poormagazine.org ’s Resource Page to update,add,or get further resources or information.

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Tuesday, January 2, 2001;

ALABAMA

ARISE
P.O. Box 612 Montgomery, AL
36101
Phone: 334-832-9060
Fax: 334-832-9061

Birmingham Health Care for the Homeless Program
712 - 25th Street,
North Birmingham,
AL 35203
Phone: 205-439-7201
Fax: 205-458-3383
Email: judunning@cs.com

ARIZONA

Phoenix Consortium for the Homeless
902 West Culver Phoenix,
AZ 85007-1907
Phone: 602-253-6905
Fax: 602-253-6972

Primavera Foundation, Inc.
3232 E. Third Street Tucson,
AZ 85716-5545
Home: 520-325-5876
Fax: 520-881-6818
Email: gpackard@azstarnet.com

ARKANSAS

Women's Project

2224 Main St. Little Rock,
AR Phone: 501-372-5113

Northern CALIFORNIA
Listed/Ulisisted In 2001 Phone Book

Alternative Family Services
(L) 25 Division Phone: 415-626-2700

American Indian Child Resource Center
(UL) 522 Grand Ave.
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: 510-208-1870 Email: aicrc@aicrc.org

Applied Research Center
(UL) 3781 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
Phone: 510-653-3415 Fax: 510-653-3427

Ella Baker Center For Hunman Rights
(L) Samantha R.ext.24 Bay Area Police Watch Project Jazzman De La Rosa ext.26
- The 3rd Eye Movement)
- Judie Appel ext.23 (Names, Extentions contiue on Phone message)
1230 Market St. P.M.B.409
San Francisco, Ca. 94102
415-951-4844
Fax: 415- 951-4813
Website HumanRTS@Ellabakercenter.org e-mail HumanRTS@Ellabakercenter.org

Back On Track Tutorial
(L) 1399 Mcallister Phone: 415-346-9316

Bay Area Legal Aid Foundation
(415)982-8399

Bay Area Literacy (BALit)
A consortium of library-based literacy programs in the Bay Area. Our programs, which you may know as Project Read, Berkeley Reads, Project Second Chance, Write to Read, and more, all offer free, confidential tutoring for adults wishing to improve their reading and writing skills. Programs are located in communities throughout the Bay Area, and operate out of public libraries. Millions of Bay Area residents could benefit from these services that enable them to realize their professional and personal goals, and participate more fully in their communities (voting!).
The toll-free hotline is 1-888-740-READ, and our web site is www.literacynet.org/balit.

BOSS - Community Organizing Team Third Floor
(L) 685 - 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-663-6580
Fax: 510-663-6584

Bread, Work and Justice(Johna/othan?) Community of Correspondence
(UL) Phone: 510-465-9914

California Child, Youth, and Family Coalition
Youth Crisis Line: 1-800-843-5200 (L)

Californians for Justice
(L) 1611 Telegraph Ave. Suite 206
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-452-2728
Fax: 510-452-3552

Center for Young Women's Development
695 Market St. Mission(L)
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-977-1980

Central YMCA of San Francisco
220 Golden Gate Ave.(L)
Phone: 415-855-0460

Child Care Inclusion Challenge Project
Phone: 415-343-3334(L)

Children's Council of San Francisco
Phone: 415-243-0700 (L)
575 Sutter Street. San Francisco CA.
Child Care Referral: 415-243-0111

Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform
459 Vienna Street (L)
San Francisco, CA 415-239-5099

Community Action Now (CAN)
1581 - 20th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415-759-7669 Web: www.cansf.org

*CopWatch
Phone: 510-548-0425

CTWO
1218 E. 21st Street
Oakland, CA 94606
Phone: 510-533-0923
Fax: 510-533-0923
Email: mtoney@ctwo.org

Disabled Advocates of Minorities Organization (DAMO)
(L) 415-695-0153

DrawBridge (L)
PO Box 2698
San Rafael, CA 94912
Phone: 415-456-1269
Fax: 415-456-3284
Email: arts4home@aol.com

East Bay Community Law Center
Phone: 510-540-4848

Family Rights and Dignity
415-346-3740

Family Self-Sufficiency Program
Phone: 415-345-0126

Families With A Future
100 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-255-7036, ext. 320
Fax: 415-552-3150
Web: www.fwaf.net

Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
1440 Chinook Ct Treas Is
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-487-5638

Haight Ashbury Food Program
1525 Waller
San Francisco, CA
Phone: 415-566-0366

Holy Family Day Home
299 Dolores Street
San Francisco, Ca 94103
Free Childcare spaces available now for children age 2-5 years old.Must be toilet trained.To qualify: family must be certified homeless and be working towards employment or educational goals.For more information, call (415) 861-5361.

Homebase (Senter For Common Conserns)
870 Market St. (L)
San Francisco, Ca. 94102
Phone. 415-788-7961

Homeless Prenatal Program
Phone: 415-546-6756

Just Cause
Oakland 1-510 464-1011

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
100 McAllister Street
Phone: 415-255-7036
Email: lspc@igc..org

Lifetime
2065 Kittredge Street Suite E
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-452-5192
Fax: 510-452-5193
Email: dspatz@hotmail.com

Living Wage Coalition
955 Market St. 11th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-243-8133
Fax: 415-243-8628

Mission Agenda
2940 - 16th Street Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-436-9707
Fax: 415-436-9170
Email: magenda@energy.net.org

Media Alliance/Raising Our Voices
(415) 546-6334

Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition
Phone: 415-431-4210

Mildly Ill Childcare Program
Phone: 415-821-0411

San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of The National Lawyers' Guild
Phone: 415-285-1055

Parents United for the Needs of Children (PUNCH)
Phone: 415-357-4674 (?)

People Organized to Demand Economic Right
Phone: 415-431-4210

POWER 32 -
7th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-864-8372
Fax: 415-864-8373

Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)
PO Box 339
Berkeley, CA 94701
Phone: 510-893-4648

PUEBLO(?)
1920 Park Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94606
Phone: 510-452-2010
Fax: 510-452-2017
Email: peopleunited@igc.org

Respite Care Program & Infant Care Program
Phone: 415-821-1300

Salvation Army Adult Women's Shelter
Phone: 415-292-2585

San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-3606
Phone: 415-346-3740 x306
Fax: 415-775-5639
Email: coh@sfo.com

SHAC (Senior Housing Action Network)(L)
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
1370 Mission Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA. 94103
Phone: 415-398-0527
Fax: 415-703-0186/
shac9@hotmail.com

Single Parent Network
Phone: 415-387-3684

Supportive Parents Idependent Network
4069 30th Street
San Diego, CA 92104
Phone: 619-285-1003
Fax: 619-285-1019

Talk Line
Phone: 415-387-3684
(For Emergency: 24-hour Hotline)

The California Association for Health, Education, Employment, and Dignity, Inc.
Phone: 415-642-9886
Email: caheed@caheed.org

Third Eye Movement
Phone: 510-632-1195

Vineyard Workers Services
PO Box 166
Glen Allen, CA 95422
1-707 933-0897
Email: vws@vom.com

Whitney Young Child Development Center
Phone: 415-821-7550

Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP)
Phone: 406-543-2530
Fax: 510-986-8628
Email: weel@montana.com

Young Women's Work Project
Phone: 415-974-6296

Southern CALIFORNIA

Acorn
Suite 25 1010 S. Flower
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: 213-747-4211
Fax: 213-747-4221
Email: caacornia@acorn.org

Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness
Suite 339 548 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 1-213-439-1070
Home: 626-577-5615
Fax: 213-439-1080
Email: HN1674@handsnet.org

COLORADO

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless 2
100 Broadway
Denver, CO 80205
Phone: 1- 303-293-2217
Fax: 303-293-2309
Email: JP@coloradocoalition.org

Denver Grassroots Leadership
Denver, Colorado
1-303-753-1370 (Denver Leadership Conference)

CONNECTICUT

Mothers for Justice(not) Some Christian Org.
168 Davenport
New Haven, CT 06519
Phone: 1-203-777-7848
Fax: 203-777-7923

Vencinos Unidos
PO Box 260 268
Hartford, CT 06126
Phone: 860-236-1295
Fax: 860-236-8071

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Center for Community Change (CCC)
1000 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington DC 20007
Phone: 202-342-0567
Fax: 202-342-1815

National Low Income Housing Coalition
Suite 610 1012 - 14th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-3406
Phone: 202-662-1530
Home: 703-683-8639
Fax: 202-393-1973
Email: sheila@nlihc.org

National Partnership for Women and Families
Phone: 202-986-2600
Fax: 202-986-2539

FLORIDA

Florida Coalition for the Homeless c/o Office of Justice and Peace
134 E. Church Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202-3130
Phone: 904-358-7410
Fax: 904-358-7302
Email: peace@cxp.com

Miami Workers Center
16375 NE 18th Ave. #315
North Miami, FL 33162
Phone: 305-919-7222
Fax: 305-919-7665
Email: miamiproject@hotmail.com

Minority Families Fighting Wages
6020 NW 13th Ave. #9
Miami, FL 33147
Phone: 305-919-7222
Fax: 305-919-7665
Email: miamiproject@hotmail.com

GEORGIA

Center for Human Rights Education
Phone: 404-344-9629

Empty the Shelters
Atlanta, GA 404-589-1333

GA Citizens Commitee
on Hunger Nine Gammon Ave. SW
Atlanta, GA 30315
Phone: 404-622-7778
Fax: 404-622-7992
Email: hungercoalition@mindspring.com

Georgia Human Rights Union
Phone: 404-622-7778

Project South NIne Gammon
Avenue SW Atlanta, GA 30315
Phone: 404-622-0602
Fax: 404-622-7992

Southerners for Economic Justice (SEJ)
Nine Gammon Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30315
Phone: 919-682-6800
Fax: 919-682-6502

Task Force for the Homeless
Second Floor 363 Georgia Avenue, S.E.
Atlanta, GA 30312-3139
Phone: 404-230-5007 x118
Home: 404-659-2590
Fax: 404-589-8251
Email: abeaty@mail.homelesstaskforce.org

Union of the Homeless c/o Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless
363 George Avenue, SE
Atlanta, GA 30312-3139
Phone: 404-230-5000
Home: 404-688-1755
Fax: 404-589-8251

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