Rhode Island:

Rhode Island Department of Human Services
The Department of Human Service’s mission is to provide a full continuum of quality services to those Rhode Islanders in need including children, adults, families, the disabled, the elderly and our state’s veterans.

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
The purpose of the LIHEAP program is to assist Rhode Island’s low-income households meet the increasing cost of home energy and reduce the severity of an energy related crisis.

Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America
The URI Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America is an educational center committed to developing solutions to the problem of hunger in Rhode Island and nationwide.   The Center seeks to promote education, research, and outreach on the causes and the consequences of hunger and the study of policies and programs aimed at alleviating hunger.

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank provides quality food to people facing hunger through a network of certified member agencies.  The Food Bank also provides leadership and information to promote citizen action, advance government nutrition assistance, and promote private efforts aimed at developing effective solutions toward the elimination of hunger in Rhode Island. HousingWorks RI (http://www.housingworksri.org/matriarch/)HousingWorks RI is a coalition, unprecedented in its breadth and depth. It is also a campaign, intended to end one crisis: the state's severe shortage of quality, affordable housing.

The Poverty Institute
The Poverty Institute works to promote economic security for low- and moderate-income Rhode Islanders and equitable tax and budget policies through policy analysis, education and advocacy.

The New England Consortium (NEC)
The New England Consortium (NEC), a six-state collaborative of child research and policy organizations, has come together to develop a common set of priorities to reduce child and family poverty in their individual states and region. The NEC's new website offers a range of resources for child advocates including data, research and advocacy tools related to child and family poverty reduction.

National:

Annie E. Casey Foundation
A foundation focusing on disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The website provides several publication resources on child welfare as well as a data center with statistics describing child welfare at both the state and the federal level.

MDRC
MDRC is a nonprofit, non-partisan social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve the lives of low-income people.

National Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families.

Center for Law and Social Policy 
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is a national non-profit that works to improve the lives of low-income people. CLASP’s mission is to improve the economic security, educational and workforce prospects, and family stability of low-income parents, children, and youth and to secure equal justice for all.

Food Research and Action Center
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.

Coalition for Human Needs
The Coalition on Human Needs is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people.

Voices for America's Children
Voices for America’s Children is a nonpartisan, national organization committed to speaking out for the well-being of children at the federal, state and local levels of government.

Mathematica Policy Research
Mathematica strives to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence to bear on the provision of information collection and analysis to our clients.Institute for Women’s Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.

The Finance Project
The Finance Project is a specialized non-profit research, consulting, technical assistance and training firm for public and private sector leaders nationwide.  We help leaders make smart investment decisions, develop sound financing strategies, and build solid partnerships that benefit children, families and communities.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service at the USDA provides children and low-income people access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education.U.S.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD's mission is to increase homeownership, support community development and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination.