Hilltown Families is a grassroot communications network for families in Western Massachusetts. HF is a source of information on local resources, family wellness and community action, giving local families a forum to network and explore issue of family wellness and community stability. Facilitated by long time activist, Sienna Wildfield.
Participatory Avenues acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and Participatory GIS (PGIS). The website provides ample documentation on Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM), an efficient tool for merging indigenous technical knowledge and traditional spatial information. P3DM applications include community-based natural resources management, collaborative research and planning, safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, resource use, control and tenure, and related conflict management.
Connecting the links between health, science and the environment.... TheEnvironmentalConnection.com offers information about ecological issues that affect human and animal health. Conming this fall.... a special section just for parents, teachers and students!
This site is sponsored by New York City residents, school parents, health and safety experts, scientists and supporting activists who are advocating for a healthy environment and comprehensive and effective cleanup of all neighborhoods contaminated from the World Trade Center.
This site has lots of information about the contamination and subsequent cleanup of the area. It also includes links to groups that are helping residents, businesses, and workers achieve "safe" cleanups.
Advocacy, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation funded by the United States Congress to protect and advocate for the legal rights of people with disabilities in Texas.
Action for a Better Community (ABC) is a leader in encouraging, supporting, and developing self-sufficiency among low-income families in Monroe County. They provide these families with childcare and education, job training and job placement, and other community services such as crisis intervention and energy conservation programs. ABC efforts have been extended to include Ontario County as well.
CorpsWatch India is a progam of the US-based corporate accountability group CorpsWatch. It was created to facilitate the spread of information concerning the social and environmental impacts of coroporate invetment in India. It is a collaboration with Indian activists to strengthen and link movements addressing corporate globalization in India and worldwide.
INFORM's Community Waste Prevention Toolkit is a resource that can help community leaders and grassroots environmental organizations across the US design and implement effective solid waste prevention programs in their towns and cities.
The American Indian Heritage Foundation was establised to provide relief services to Indian people nationwide and to build bridges of understanding and friendship between Indian and non-Indian people.
Founded in 1989, Global Action Plan for the Earth is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports the development of sustainable lifestyles and livable neighborhoods in communities around the United States through service contracts with local, state and federal government agencies.