Organizations Signed on to National Minimum Wage Campaign
As of July 24, 2000
9 to 5 Working Women Education Fund
Alliance of Baptists
Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
American Association of University Women
American Ethical Union, Washington Ethical Action Office
American Federation of Government Employees
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME)
American Friends Service Committee
American Income Life Insurance Company
American Postal Workers Union
Americans for Democratic Action
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
Arab American Institute
The Arc of the U.S.
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
ASPIRA Association
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Bread for the World
Business and Professional Women/USA (BPW/USA)
Campaign for a Fair Minimum Wage
Campaign for America's Future
Catholics for a Free Choice
Center for Advancement of Public Policy
Center for Community Change
Center for the Child Care Workforce
Center for Women Policy Studies
Child Care Law Center
Children's Defense Fund
Children's Foundation
Church Women United
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Coalition on Human Needs
Communications Workers of America
Disciples Peace Fellowship
The Episcopal Church
Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
Food and Allied Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Food Research and Action Center
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends of the Earth
International Labor Rights Fund
Jesuit Conference
Jewish Labor Committee
Jobs with Justice
Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs
Lutheran Services in America
McAuley Institute
MCC U.S. Washington Office
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Migrant Legal Action Program
Mother-to-Mother Ministry
Ms. Foundation for Women
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Child Advocates
National Association of Community Action Agencies
National Association of Service & Conservation Corps.
National Association of Social Workers
National Black Child Development Institute
National Center on Poverty Law
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Consumers League
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Council of Churches
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of La Raza
National Council of Senior Citizens
National Education Association
National Employment Law Project
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Head Start Association
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
National Hook-Up of Black Women
National Housing Trust
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
National Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA
National Network for Youth
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Priorities Project
National Puerto Rican Coalition
National Rural Housing Coalition
National Urban League
National Women's Law Center
National Women's Political Caucus
National Youth Employment Coalition
Neighbor to Neighbor
NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Nontraditional Employment for Women
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
RESULTS
Rural Opportunities, Inc.
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Salvation Army
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Social Welfare Action Alliance
Stakeholder Alliance
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
United Auto Workers International Union
United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United for a Fair Economy
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church in Society
Volunteers of America
Welfare Law Center
Wider Opportunities for Women
Women Employed
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Women Work!
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State and Local Organizations (alphabetical by state)
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AL: Alabama Arise
AL: Alabama Coalition Against Hunger
AR: Arkansas ACORN
AR: Good Faith Fund (Pine Bluff)
AZ: WHEAT (World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task-Force) --
(Phoenix)
CA: Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
CA: Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition
CA: California ACORN
CA: Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations
(Sacramento)
CA: Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth (San Francisco)
CA: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
CA: Eden Housing, Inc. (Hayward)
CA: Human Services Alliance of Los Angeles
CA: LIFETIME, Low-Income Families' Empowerment through Education
(Oakland)
CA: Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness (Los
Angeles)
CA: Lutheran Office of Public Policy -- California (Sacramento)
CA: Neighbor to Neighbor
CA: Parca (San Mateo)
CA: St. Ignatius Loyola Parish (Sacramento)
CA: San Francisco Works (San Francisco)
CA: Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (Los
Angeles)
CA: Western Center on Law & Poverty (Sacramento)
CA: Western States Youth Services Network
CO: Colorado ACORN
CO: Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
CO: Food Bank of the Rockies (Denver)
CO: Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry
CT: Connecticut ACORN
DC: Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic Inc.
DC: Pastors for Peace, DC Chapter
DC: Washington, DC ACORN
FL: Broward Coalition for the Homeless (Fort Lauderdale)
FL: Florida ACORN
FL: Florida Impact
FL: Florida Justice Institute, Inc.
FL: Florida Legal Services
FL: Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc. (Palm Beach)
FL: Respect Life Office, Diocese of Orlando
GA: 9to5, Atlanta's Working Women
GA: Cobb County Chapter of the National Organization for Women (Marietta)
GA: Cobb Human Services Coalition (Marietta)
GA: Commission on Community Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
GA: Georgia Coalition to End Homelessness (Athens)
GA: Georgia Equality Project (Atlanta)
GA: Georgians for Choice (Atlanta)
GA: South Central Georgia Taskforce for the Homeless
GA: Unitarian Universalist Church of Valdosta Social Action
Committ(Valdosta)
GA: Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Des Moines)
IL: Champaign County Living Wage Association (Urbana)
IL: Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation (Chicago)
IL: Chicago Health Outreach (Chicago)
IL: Committee for New Priorities of Chicago Jobs with Justice
IL: Illinois ACORN
IL: Joliet Diocese, Peace and Social Justice Ministry(Romeoville)
IL: Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Institute Justice Team (Des Plaines)
IL: YMCA Training Alliance (Chicago)
IN: Christian Community Action of Porter County
IN: Haven House Services, Inc. (Jeffersonville)
IN: Indiana Coalition on Housing and Homeless Issues (Indianapolis)
IN: Indiana Community Action Association (Indianapolis)
IN: Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center
IN: Training, Inc. (Indianapolis)
IN: Wabash Valley Human Services, Inc.
KS: Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas (Wichita)
LA: Louisiana ACORN
LA: Second Harvesters Food Bank of Greater New Orleans
MA: Massachusetts ACORN
MA: Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
MA: Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union (Mattapan)
MA: Massachusetts Neighbor to Neighbor
MA: St. John the Evangelist Church, Social Concerns Committee (Attleboro)
MA: Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts
MD: Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore
MD: CASA of Maryland
MD: Center for Poverty Solutions
MD: Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance (Pokomoke City)
MD: Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.
MD: Maryland ACORN
MD: Maryland Association of Resources for Families and Youth (Arnold)
MD: Public Justice Center
ME: Catholic Charities Maine
ME: Clean Clothes Campaign of Southern Maine
ME: Maine Coalition for Food Security
MI: Capuchin-Franciscans, Detroit Province
MI: Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues (Detroit)
MI: Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO
MI: Michigan ACORN
MI: Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project
MI: Michigan League for Human Services
MN: Community Labor and Religion Network (Duluth)
MN: Justice and Peace Council, Church of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary (St. Paul)
MN: Loaves and Fishes Too (Minneapolis)
MN: Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota - ELCA (St. Paul)
MN: Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (St. Paul)
MN: Minnesota ACORN
MN: Minnesota Budget Project
MN: Urban Coalition (St. Paul)
MO: Feed My People (St. Louis)
MO: Missouri ACORN
MO: Northeast Missouri Client Council for Human Needs, Inc.
MO: Reform Organization of Welfare
MS: Catholic Charities-Diocese of Jackson
MS: Mississippi Human Services Coalition
MT: Montana Hunger Coalition (Missoula)
NC: Advocacy for the Poor, Inc. (Winston-Salem)
NC: Crisis Control Ministry, Inc. (Winston-Salem)
NC: Exchange Club Family Center (Durham)
NC: MANNA Food Bank (Asheville)
NC: North Carolina Council of Churches
NC: North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence (Durham)
NC: North Carolina Fair Share
NC: St. Peter's Catholic Church (Charlotte)
NE: Nebraskans for Peace (Lincoln)
NE: Voices for Children in Nebraska
NH: American Friends Service Committee, New Hampshire Program
NH: New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Action (Concord)
NH: New Hampshire Housing Forum (Concord)
NJ: Affordable Housing Network of New Jersey (Trenton)
NJ: Association for Children of New Jersey (Newark)
NJ: Community Food Bank of New Jersey
NJ: East Brunswick Community Housing, Corp.
NJ: Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in New Jersey
NJ: New Jersey ACORN
NJ: Somerset County Coalition on Affordable Housing
NM: Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry - New Mexico
NM: New Mexico ACORN
NM: New Mexico Progressive Alliance for Community Empowerment
NM: Social Justice Office, Archdiocese of Santa Fe
NY: Action for a Better Community, Inc. (Rochester)
NY: Carpenters Local #120 (Utica)
NY: Community Food Resource Center (NYC)
NY: Elderlife, Inc. (Utica)
NY: Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc. (NYC)
NY: Housing Works
NY: Hunger Action Network of New York State
NY: Make The Road By Walking (Brooklyn)
NY: New York ACORN
NY: New York City AIDS Housing Network
NY: New York Coalition Against Hunger
NY: Office of Housing & Social Policy, Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet (Latham)
NY: Redemptoristine Nuns of Esopus, New York
NY: Sisters of the Presentation, New Windsor, NY
NY: United Neighborhood Houses (NYC)
NY: Utica Citizens in Action
NY: Welfare Reform Network (NYC)
NY: Westchester Progressive Forum
OH: Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO)
OH: Community of Holy Rosary and St. John (Columbus)
OH: Contact Center (Cincinnati)
OH: Peace and Justice Committee of Sacred Heart Church (Oberlin)
OH: Peaslee Neighborhood Center, Inc. (Cincinnati)
OH: Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin, Ohio
OR: CAUSA (Salem)
OR: Oregon Center for Public Policy
OR: Oregon Human Rights Coalition
OR: Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force
PA: Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Office of Justice, Peace,
Earthcare(Chester)
PA: Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice (Pittsburgh)
PA: Citizens Budget Campaign of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh)
PA: Coalition for the Welfare of Women & Children
PA: Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania
PA: Mon Valley Unemployed Committee (Homestead)
PA: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
PA: Pennsylvania ACORN
PA: Pennsylvania Council of Churches
PA: Philadelphia Unemployment Project
PA: Thomas Merton Center (Pittsburgh)
RI: Homeless Action for Necessary Development (Providence)
RI: Ocean State Action
SC: South Carolina Fair Share
TX: Archdiocese of San Antonio
TX: Center for Public Policy Priorities (Austin)
TX: Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (Houston)
TX: Texas ACORN
TX: Texas Council on Family Violence (Austin)
UT: Coalition of Religious Communities (Salt Lake City)
UT: Crossroads Urban Center (Salt Lake City)
UT: JEDI for Women (Salt Lake City)
UT: Salt Lake City Living Wage Coalition (Salt Lake City)
UT: Utah Issues, Center for Poverty Research and Action
UT: Utah Progressive Network
VA: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - VA
VA: New River Community Action (Radford)
VA: The Office of Justice and Peace of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond
VA: Society of St. Andrew (Big Island)
VA: Virginia Coalition For the Homeless (Alexandria)
VA: Virginia Housing Coalition
VA: Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (Richmond)
VA: Virginia Poverty Law Center, Inc. (Richmond)
VT: Peace & Justice Center (Burlington)
VT: Sheldon Methodist Church Food Shelf
WA: Community Action Center (Pullman)
WA: Lutheran Public Policy Office of WA (Tacoma)
WA: Inland Empire Residential Resources (Spokane)
WA: Northwest Network for Youth
WA: Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
WA: St. Leo Parish Community (Tacoma)
WA: Washington ACORN
WI: Gesu Parish Social Ministry Committee and Legislative Advocacy
Network Subcommittees (Milwaukee)
WI: Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin
WI: New Beginnings Homeless Shelter of Dodge County, Inc. (Beaver Dam)
WI: Welfare Warriors (Milwaukee)
WI: Wisconsin ACORN
WI: Wisconsin Citizen Action (Milwaukee)
WI: Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc.
WI: Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative
WV: Mercer County Peace Coalition/WILPF (Athens)
209 in 39 states