Directory of Organizations

These organizations are IGC Networks members whose materials are available on the Internet, most via the IGC Gopher and IGC World Wide Web site.

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Click on a letter to get to that letter's section of The Directory of Organizations

• The Meta-Index of Non-profit Organizations on the Web, formerly run by Ellen Spertus. Includes Philanthropy Related Links, listing individual foundations and nonprofit organizations on the Internet.

• 21st Century Institute, seeking to develop a stable and just world order.

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• Academy of Family Mediators
• Africa Policy Information Center New WWW Page!
• Alaska Boreal Forest Council
• Alaska Wilderness League
• AlterNet
• America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
• American Rivers
• American Whitewater Affiliation. Conserving and restoring America's whitewater resources and enhancing opportunities to enjoy them safely.
• American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) works to promote wind energy as an increasingly competitive and environmentally superior energy resource.
• Amnesty International.
• Antioch University Conflict Resolution Program
• Appropriate Dispute Resolution Applications
• Arab World & Islamic Resources & School Services
• Arms Control Association (ACA), founded in 1971, is a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding and support for arms control.
• ARROW -- The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women
• Asia Foundation promotes U.S.-Asian understanding and cooperation and supported Asian-Pacific efforts to strengthen democratic processes and institutions.
• Association for Transpersonal Psychology

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• Biodiversity Conservation Center is a union of scientists, students, citizens and activists working to save the nature preserves and protected areas of the former Soviet Union, and the rare and endangered species they protect.
• British American Security Information Council works to promote public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy, and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate on these issues.

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• California Economic Recovery & Environmental Restoration Project
• California Exotic Pest Plant Council (CEPPC)
• California League of Conservation Voters connects you with the latest information on California state and national legislators.
• California Network for a New Economy (CNNE)
• Campaign for a Non-commercial Classroom. CNCC is a project of The Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy. It's mission is, among other things, to get Channel 1 out of our schools.
• Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
• Campaign for Peace and Democracy
• Campus Green Vote, a project of the Center For Environmental Citizenship. CGV is a national non-profit, non-partisan project dedicated to registering students to vote and training them to be catalysts for better campus and government environmental policies.
• Center for Economic Conversion is dedicated to building a sustainable peace-oriented economy. CEC works at the national, state, and local levels to reduce economic dependence on excessive military spending and reinvest resources to meet human needs and preserve and restore the environment. New WWW site!
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Center for Third World Organizing
• Central Committee for Conscientious Objection
• Chicago Coalition Against Violence Initiative
• Colombia Support Network, a non-governmental organization striving to improve the human rights situation in Colombia and build solidarity between the peoples of North America and Colombia.
• Commission on San Francisco's Environment
• Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
• Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) - California
• Community Boards
• Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) (Mass Transit for the Information Superhighway)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Concerned Singles
• Concur
• Conflict Resolution Center International, Inc.
• Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED)
• Consumer Action
• Council of Better Business Bureaus
• Country Connections, a publication that presents creative alternatives in the areas of lifestyle, politics, culture, ecology, and ethics.

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• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.
• Doctors of the World (DOW)

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• Earth First!
• Earth Force
• Earth Island Institute
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin
• East Timor Action Network
• EcoVote Online, the homepage of The California League of Conservation Voters, connects you with the latest information on California state and national legislators.
• ECONOMICS WORKING GROUP promotes public dialogue on ways to redirect economic activity so work contributes to community and global sustainability. New WWW page features General Agreement on a New Economy (GANE not GATT), provides resources and encourages feedback.
• Electronic Frontiers Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Electronic Witches
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW)
• Environmental Law Services for Citizens: Charles W. Elliott
• Environmental Working Group
• Esperanca, specializing in international health treatment and training services. Esperanca provides medical, nutritional, sanitation, well drilling and literacy training programs in Brazil, Bolivia, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.
• Essential Information (EI) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded by Ralph Nader. EI is involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. EI provides provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers.

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• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
• Family Violence Prevention Fund. The Family Violence Prevention Fund (FUND) is a national non-profit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform. Throughout its history, the FUND has developed pioneering prevention strategies in the justice, public education, and health fields.
• Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE)
• Fields Pond Foundation
• Foundation for a Compassionate Society
• Foundation for Global Community (formerly Beyond War)
• Friends Of The Earth USA
• Fund for Animals

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• Global Exchange
• Global Policy Forum monitors global policy making at the United Nations.
• Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)
• Global Thinking Project
• Goldman Environmental Foundation gives annual awards to six environmental activists worldwide.
• Good Neighbor Project for Sustainable Industries
• GAP-Government Accountability Project welcomes you to their new website, your Internet resource for information about whistleblowing, governmental wrongdoing and official misconduct.
• Great Lakes Natural Resource Center: Information and links on protecting the Great Lakes from the regional center of National Wildlife Federation.
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition
• GreenMarket, brings together progressive and ecologically conscious companies and organizations to provide information and products easily and affordably to concerned, earthwise consumers.
• Green Means
• GreenDisk
• Greenpeace International Home Page, and the Greenpeace Gopher
• Greens/Green Party

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• HandsNet, linking the human services community online.
• Higher Education Center
• Home Power Magazine
• Human Rights Watch
• Hunger Project

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• Indigenous Environmental Network, a grassroots alliance to help Indigenous Nations and its People to stand up against local, multi-national and trans-national corprations and any national policy action that contaminates the land, water, air and heal of Indigenous People and our territories.
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy.
• Institute for Mass Communications is a non-profit dedicated to the development of progressive communications skills among grassroots and community activists.
• Institute for Social and Economic Studies. ISES promotes dialogue among the left, and is the publisher of CrossRoads Magazine.
• InterAction is a coalition of over 150 US-based non-profits working to promote human dignity and development in 165 countries around the world.
• The International Academy at Santa Barbara is a non-profit educational institution established in 1960 to improve understanding of issues affecting life on our planet.
• International Arctic Project
• International Campaign for Tibet hosts information about the Dalai Lama's Fall '95 visit to the U.S., a brief history of Tibet, the international campaign to free Tibet, and how you can help.
• International Education and Resource Network (I*EARN)
• International Honors Program: Global Ecology Study Abroad.
• International Rivers Network. International Rivers Network (IRN) is the leading organization working to halt the construction of destructive river development projects and to promote sound river management options worldwide.
• Institute for Alternative Journalism

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• Join Together
• Jobs With Justice is a national coalition fighting for the rights of working people.

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• Kern Mediation Group
• Kaiser Family Foundation

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• LaBOR aRT & MURaL PRoJECT
• Labor-Community Strategy Center. The Labor-Community Strategy Center is a multiracial anticorporate "think-tank/act-tank" committed to building democratic internationalist social movements.
• Latin America Data Base (LADB).
• The Laurasian Institution (TLI), "acts to create communities that transcend culture."
• League of Conservation Voters (new location!)
• Left BBS
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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• Making Contact is a new national radio program that gives listeners information they need to take action. It is produced by Norman Solomon and David Barsamian.
• Manchester Peace and Conflict Studies
• Mediascope. Promoting constructive depictions of health and social issues in entertainment.
• The Mediation Center
• Middle East Children's Alliance. An organization dedicated to bringing peace between Palestinians and Israelis and relieving the suffering of children in the region.
• Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
• The Millennium Institute helps the peoples of the world achieve a sustainable future for Earth and seeks to use the energy of the year 2000 to build a diverse alliance committed to this task.
• MiraMed conducts goodwill and educational tours in the Former Soviet Union, including a Women's Leadership Tour.
• Monthly Review. Founded in 1949 in response to Cold War hysteria and repression, Monthly Review made the case for socialism at a time when McCarthyism made the consistent and fearless advocacy of radical ideas a dangerous business. From this perspective, the magazine and Monthly Review Press, the book publishing enterprise that followed, have examined the historic transformations of the twentieth century

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• National Association For Community Mediation
• National Association for Mediation Education (NAME)
• National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils (NADDC) promotes national policy which provides individuals with developmental disabilities the opportunity to make choices regarding the quality of their lives and be included in the community; and to provide support and assistance to member Councils.
• National Audubon Society
• National Center for Nonprofit Boards
• National Criminal Justice Commission
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
• National Youth Center Network. NYCN exists to bring together the resources, expertise, and dedication available in America's youth service provision and youth advocacy organizations.
• National Wildlife Federation
• Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
• Natural Heritage Institute works to influence environmental law and policy to save the world's natural heritage for the future.
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to protecting the world's natural resources and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all people. NRDC works in courtrooms, legislative chambers, with regulatory agencies and in the public arena, to defend the environment from pollution, exploitation and destruction.
• Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, a place of gathering and a community of kindred spirits, created to serve people and institutions interested in working toward a sustainable and just society.
• Network of East West Women, an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange and activism among those concerned about women's swiftly changing situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• New Haven/León Sister City Project promotes mutual understanding, growth and development in both cities through programs which support just models in the political, economic, social, spiritual, and cultural spheres.
• Nonviolence International has resources for nonviolent direct action struggles for freedom and justice.
• North America Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
• North American Association for Environmental Education
• Northern California Mediation Association
• Nuclear Information and Resource Network, information and networking center for safe energy/environmental activities.
• Nuclear Control Institute, an independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of nuclear proliferation, monitoring nuclear activities worldwide and pursuing strategies to halt the spread and reverse the growth of nuclear arms.

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• Overseas Development Network (ODN) ODN is a national, student-based, non-profit organization. Since its creation in 1983, it has been a forum for thousands of young people to address global issues such as hunger, poverty, and social injustice.

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• Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security is an independent, non-profit center created to do research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security.
• Pacifica Radio and Pacifica Radio Archive
• Peace Action
• Peace Action of Washington is a citizen's lobby of more than 13,000 members dedicated to working for peace -- internationally, in our communities, and in our own lives. Through a combination of education, grassroots lobbying, direct lobbying, and electoral work, Peace Action of Washington has amassed a track record of successes that has established the organization as a political force in Washington state.
• Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a unique grassroot organization exploring and implementing nonviolent approaches to peacemaking and support for basic human rights. Now on the WWW!
• Peace Tax Foundation
• Peaceworks seeks to aid the peooples of the Americas and promote progressive change in the United States.
• Pesticide Action Network North America. PAN is an international coalition of grassroots organizations who oppose the misuse of pesticides and support reliance on safe, ecologically sound alternatives.
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Physicians for Social Responsibility as well as Student Physicians for Social Responsibility
• PSR's Human Health and Environment Project works to educate and activate the medical community on environmental exposures and health issues, assist community groups with technical issues, and participate in public policy debates on public health and environmental issues.
• Planned Parenthood is the world's oldest and largest voluntary family planning organization. PP provides information on all apsects of sexual and reproductive health.
• Political Ecology Group (PEG)
• Political Research Associates (PRA) PRA brings you ...The Public Eye: Helping you understand and challenge right wing threats to democracy and diversity. Opposing racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and all forms of supremacy. Providing reliable information on a wide range of authoritarian, xenophobic, and anti-democratic right-wing political groups and trends.
• Population Action International
• Population Reference Bureau provides timely and objective information on the population trends that shape our world.
• P.O.V. Interactive, the on-line component of the award-winning PBS non-fiction film series, provides viewers with the opportunity to talk back to their TV. There you'll find "Tube Talk" dialogue areas, this season's schedule with filmographies and transcripts, a wealth of resources related to P.O.V.'s films, and a forum about "Television Today ... and Tomorrow."
• Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)
• Progressive Review, an award winning newsletter of progressive politics.
• Project South
• Project on Demilitarization and Democracy is a non-profit research and advocacy center that works to change U. S. policy toward the developing world from one of militarization to one of demilitarization.
• The Public Interest Research Groups , or PIRGs, are among the nation's leading watchdog organizations dedicated to safeguarding the public interest and protecting the environment.
• Pueblo to People

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• Rainforest Action Network is stoked to announce its highly interactive action-oriented WWW page. RAN bringts the tools of activism to your fingertips. Check it out! Made with 100%-recycled electrons. Point your browser to the RAN Web page and help save the rainforest!
• The Recording Industry Environmental Task Force (RIETF) is a group of individuals and corporations concerned about the recording industry's impact on the environment. Its membership comprises professionals from all facets of the recording industry and interested environmental specialists. RIETF promotes the use of environmentally sustainable practices throughout the music and recording industry, worldwide.
• Redwood Alliance is a community-based social and environmental organization whose main focus is advocacy and education to promote safe and efficient energy use and development.
• The Resource Center of The Americas (formerly known as the Central American Resource Center)
• Renew America
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Rural Advancement Fund International (RAFI) is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies.

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• Sabre Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization active in educational support to countries in Eastern and Central Europe and former Soviet Union.
• San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
• Saybrook Institute
• Share International Magazine shows the synthesis underlying the political, social, economic and spiritual changes now%0aoccurring on a global scale, and seeks to stimulate%0apractical action to rebuild our world.
• Sierra Club and Sierra Club Action Alerts
• Socialist Labor Party
• Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR)
• Somali Association for Peace and Democracy (SAPD)
• South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC)
• Stockholm Environment Institute
• Student Pugwash U.S.A. is an organization which works to promote awareness of the social and ethical dimensions of technological development, particularly in a global context.
• Surfrider Foundation

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• Taiga Rescue Network
• The Technology Resource Consortium (TRC) is an association of nonprofit Technology assistance organizations that provide education about and access to information technology to private and public non-profit organizations.
• The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens, natural areas and open space.

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• Union Friendly Systems The United Methodist Office for the United Nations is a joint ministry of the General Board of Church and Society and the Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries.
• United States Institute of Peace
• Urban Habitat Project of the Earth Island Institute. The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) functions as a catalyst for the environment and social justice, seeking to promote multi-cultural leadership. UHP believes that socio-economic and environmental problems are connected in their causes, effects and solutions. Poor people and people of color use fewer resources than most, yet they bear the heaviest burden of environmental degradation and pollution.

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• Virtual Sisterhood
• Victim Offender Mediation Association
• The Video Project specializes in the non-profit distribution of videos and multimedia programs on the environment, hands-on science, human rights, and related concerns.
• Volunteers for Peace

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  W. Alton Jones Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation focusing on global environmental protection and the prevention of nuclear war or other massive release of radioactive material.

• Washington Office on Africa (WOA)
• Washington Office on Latin America, general information on WOLA including the Executive Summaries of recent WOLA reports and briefs, English translations of articles from WOLA's Spanish language news bulletin, ENLACE, a full publications listing, job and internship announcements, notices of upcoming WOLA events, etc.
• Wild Sanctuary Gopher and web page. From the songs of humpback whales and the screams of Rwanda's mountain gorillas to the groan of shifting trees, the Wild Sanctuary sound archive offers a collection of more than 2,500 hours of pure species-specific and ambient sound recordings -- the largest privately held collection of natural sounds, anywhere.
• Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
• Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
• Women's Feature Service
• Women's Organizations On-Line
• Working Group on Community Right-to-Know
• World Sustainable Agriculture Association promotes sustainable food and farming systems that are economically viable, socially just, and environmentally harmonious with Nature.
• WorldViews (formerly Third World Resources) endeavors to gather, organize, and publicize information and resource materials that deal with issues of peace and justice in world affairs.
• Worldwatch Institute. Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering a sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment or future generations. To this end, the Institute conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging global issues, the results of which are published and disseminated to decisionmakers, the media, and the public.

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• Zero Population Growth is the nation's largest grassroots organization concerned with the impacts of rapid population growth and wasteful consumption.