Feeding America
Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger. Each year, the Feeding America network provides food assistance to more than 25 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States, including more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors.
Our network of more than 200 food banks serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.The Feeding America network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. The Feeding America network supports approximately 63,000 local charitable agencies that distribute food directly to Americans in need. Those agencies operate more than 70,000 programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, Kids Cafes and BackPack Programs.

Growing Power
Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

Slow Food Triangle
Slow Food Triangle celebrates local food and the people who grow and make it. Our members come together to experience and preserve our food traditions, supporting farmers and food artisans who sustain the land and connect us to it. We encourage the rescue and proliferation of traditional ingredients and seek to make those flavors accessible to our whole community.

Just Food
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.

Local Harvest
Real food, real farmers, real community...
The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.

The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Each day there are thousands of people in our community who wake up hungry and have no means to satisfy this basic human need. Some have lost their jobs. Some hold two jobs. The challenges of daily survival for these individuals and their families are daunting and don't simply disappear.
The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, in the belief that hunger is unacceptable, alleviates hunger by developing systems to recover, prepare and distribute wholesome, perishable food for the area's poor, hungry, undernourished and homeless. We've been doing it since 1989. We know we make a difference. We know it makes good sense.

Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength® is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. We weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play.
We work with the culinary industry to create engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation®, Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale®, Share Our Strength's A Tasteful Pursuit®, Share Our Strength's Great American Dine OutT, and Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®. Discover how you can get involved

Local Economy

Redefining Progress
Redefining Progress is the nation's leading public policy think tank dedicated to smart economics.
While conventional models for economic growth discount such assets as clean air, safe streets, and cohesive communities, Redefining Progress integrates these assets into a more sustainable economic model. Working with government and advocacy groups, Redefining Progress develops innovative policies that balance economic well-being, environmental preservation, and social justice.
Redefining Progress partners with grassroots organizations, policymakers, businesses, labor unions, and educators to empower people and strengthen communities throughout the United States. We believe that redefining progress locally will have global ramifications.

Good Work
As a community development organization, we envision people living in just, caring, and sustainable communities with the opportunity and resources to create the lives and communities they want. Good Work trains, coaches, guides, and supports everyday people, entrepreneurs, and organizations to help them advance their financial, economic, business, and entrepreneurship literacy. We equip them with the knowledge and skills to be better stewards of their gifts and become more self-reliant and entrepreneurial.

Community Success Initiative
Community Success Initiative was founded as a non-profit corporation in May 2004 with a vision to create communities where people discover their potential, set worthy goals for their lives, and take action in a positive way. We envision communities where friendships and relationships are created and strengthened through positive community action. The mission of the organization is to help make the world a better place through programs that help individuals and communities be aware of personal growth and "success" principles, inspire others to reach their potential, and help build vibrant and healthy communities.

YES! Magazine
YES! Magazine is an award-winning, ad-free, nonprofit publication that supports people's active engagement in building a just and sustainable world. The heart of our work is to spotlight practical possibilities for deep shifts in our society.
We inspire people to say YES!
We support and connect individuals and communities working for a just and sustainable world.
We reframe issues, reflect diverse human-scale stories, and offer tools for people to use and to pass along.

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) brings together small business leaders, economic development professionals, government officials, social innovators, and community leaders to build local living economies. We provide local, state, national, and international resources to this new model of economic development.
We´re showing that independent locally owned businesses can go beyond traditional measures of success. We're proving that these businesses are accountable to stakeholders and the environment. We're helping these businesses flourish in their local economies. And we're leveraging the power of local networks to build a web of economies that are community-based, green, and fair - local living economies.

The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

General

Puppies Behind Bars
Puppies Behind Bars, Inc. formally came into existence in July 1997 as a non-profit organization dedicated to training prison inmates to raise puppies to be guide dogs for the blind. We began with five puppies in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State's only maximum-security prison for women, and now work in six correctional facilities raising approximately 90 puppies.
After the events of September 11, 2001, law enforcement agencies' need for working dogs increased dramatically. To help meet this demand, PBB added the training of explosive detection canines (EDCs) to its program. In 2006, PBB started raising dogs to assist disabled children and adults and launched Dog Tags: Service Dogs for Those Who've Served Us, through which we donate fully trained service dogs to wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

All for Good
All for Good makes it simple to find and share volunteer activities with friends and family. Inspired by the call of President Obama to engage more Americans in service, a group of individuals from the technology, marketing and public sectors came together to build an open source application that allows you to find and share volunteer activities. All for Good lets you browse activities and find events based on your location or interests. The site is governed by Our Good Works a nonprofit organization that was formed by some of the people who initiated the project and who support the product's growth.

The Center for a New American Dream
Our mission is to help Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.
The Center for a New American Dream envisions a society that values more of what matters - not just "more." New American Dream is dedicated to helping support and nurture an American dream that revives the spirit of the traditional dream—but with a new emphasis on non-material values like financial security, fairness, community, health, time, nature, and fun. We see both a nation and a world in which a healthy global ecosystem anchors a just society offering all citizens the freedom, the resources and the personal security necessary to pursue their dreams, connect with the natural world, and enjoy a high quality of life.

United We Serve
Last week, when President Obama announced United We Serve -- he called on all Americans to volunteer this summer and do our part to rebuild our communities. When he said "all," he meant it. It's going to take all of us working together to build a new foundation for America and it will happen one community at a time.

WiserEarth.org
WiserEarth is an online community space connecting the people, nonprofits and businesses working toward a just and sustainable world.

Project H.O.M.E.
Since its beginning in 1988, Project H.O.M.E. has been a leader in providing comprehensive and effective services to persons who experience chronic homelessness. With innovation, leadership, and an unyielding commitment to the dignity of each person, we have developed nationally recognized programs that have proven that homelessness can be solved. We have also been a leader in Philadelphia in responding to the root causes of homelessness by helping to rebuild low-income neighborhoods and by engaging in political advocacy to bring about positive public policies for low-income and homeless persons.

Project Renewal
Project Renewal's mission is to renew the lives of homeless men and women in New York City. We focus our efforts on the neediest and least-served of the city's indigent population - men and women who, in addition to being without a home, cope with mental illness and/or addiction to drugs or alcohol. Project Renewal is the only organization in New York that provides everything homeless people need to move from the streets to independent living. This comprehensive approach begins on the street where our mobile psychiatric and medical teams reach out to homeless people where they are struggling to survive.

Little Red Wagon Foundation
Zach Bonner, 11, is on a mission to help homeless children. Zach, who founded the Little Red Wagon Foundation in 2005 to help homeless and underprivileged children, started a 668-mile hike from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., last week. Along the way, Zach is collecting letters from children that he hopes to give President Obama in July. He has raised about $35,000 for this portion of the walk so far, he says. His previous two walks - from Tampa to Tallahassee in 2007 and from Tallahassee to Atlanta in 2008 - brought in about $42,000 total.

The American Human Development Project
The American Human Development Project is a nonpartisan, non-profit initiative established to introduce to the United States a well-honed international approach and tool for measuring human well-being: the human development approach and the human development index. The project's mission is to stimulate fact-based public debate about and political attention to human development issues in the United States and to empower people with an instrument to hold elected officials accountable for progress on issues we all care about: health, education and income. Check out your state on the Common Good Forecaster.

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