Advocacy links

Presbyterian

Presbyterian Washington Office
The public policy information and advocacy office that advocates and helps the church to advocate the social witness perspectives and policies of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Washington Office's Women and Family Issue Network
A program that provides a summary of the GA policies related to women and families, background analysis and suggestions for actions to influence policy and special action alerts.

Presbyterian United Nations Office
The office that advocates the concerns of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the United Nations and helps equip Presbyterians for discipleship by training them to put their faith into action in the global arena.

Presbyterian Peacemaking Office
The program that helps the church grow in its witness and commitment to peacemaking.

Presbyterian Hunger Program
A ministry that works to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes, responding with compassion and justice to poor and hungry people in local communities in the United States and internationally.

Enough for Everyone
Four creative hands-on programs that congregations can adopt to change global economic realities from the perspective of Christian faith.

Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association (PHEWA)
A community of ministries that works to make the church more responsive through networks covering a wide range of ministries, including disabilities, HIV/AIDS, community ministries and organizing, mental illness, reproductive options, specialized pastoral ministries, child advocacy, health and wholeness, drug and alcohol abuse, urban congregational leaders and domestic violence.

Presbyterian Racial Justice and Advocacy
The office that coordinates the development of nationally based initiatives that reflect church policy on equity and justice, and develops resources for governing bodies and congregations engaged in racial justice ministries.

Racial Ethnic Young Women Together (REYWT)
This office works to form a nationally structured network of racial ethnic young women whose leadership will reflect the diversity of today's church.

Young Adult Intern Program
The leadership development program that provides young adults with the opportunity to experience the expression of mission at the General Assembly level of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Ecumenical

Tirzah: Ecumenical Young Adult Women
A young adult women's group that allows relationship building, theological exploration and engaging issues of justice that affect the lives of young women, both in the church and in society.

Church Women United
A racially, culturally, theologically inclusive Christian women's movement, that celebrates unity in diversity and works for a world of peace and justice.

National Council of Churches in Christ in the USA
An ecumenical cooperation among America's Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox faith groups that expresses their unity in Christ.

World Council of Churches
A Christian organization dedicated to the search for Christian unity with programs related to faith and order; mission and ecumenical formation; justice, peace and creation; international affairs, peace and human security; and diakonia and solidarity.

Bread for the World
A nationwide Christian movement that seeks justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying U.S. decision makers.

Interfaith

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
An alliance of religiously and theologically diverse members that provides accurate information about religious views on reproductive health issues, including abortion, family planning and responsible sexuality education.

FaithTrust Institute (formerly Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence)
An international, multifaith organization that works to end sexual and domestic violence.

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
An interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change by educating, training, building coalitions and engaging in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally and globally.

National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
A network of people of faith that calls upon their religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
A feminist educational center, doing work locally, nationally and internationally, to organize programs, projects, publications and workshops, provide counseling, spiritual direction and liturgical planning which help people actualize feminist religious values in the service of social change.

Secular

Children's Defense Fund
A movement that provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves, paying particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities.

National Domestic Violence Hotline
Hotline advocates answer questions, provide safety planning and information as well as directly connect callers to domestic violence resources available in their local calling area.

Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
An international membership organization that connects, informs and mobilizes people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.

Amnesty International
A campaign that holds governments accountable so that they will honor their international commitments and ratify and implement into national law all relevant human rights treaties that protect women's rights.

Human Rights Watch
An independent, nongovernmental organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.

MADRE: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families
A human rights organization that works with women who are affected by violations to help them win justice and change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses.

Human Rights Campaign
America's largest civil rights organization that works to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
The project that monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

Sisterhood Is Global Institute
An international nongovernmental organization pledged to action in support of women's rights, freedoms and power.

National Organization for Women (NOW)
The largest organization of feminist activists in the United States that works to bring about equality for all women.

Feminist Majority Foundation
An organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health and non-violence.

National Labor Committee
A labor-based organization that helps to defend the human rights of workers in the global economy.

National Coalition for the Homeless
An organization engaged in public education, policy advocacy and grassroots organizing to end homelessness.

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
A center that works to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.

National Women's Health Resource Center
The non-profit organization dedicated to helping women make informed decisions about their health.

Research Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO)
An African led international non-governmental organization that works on issues of women's empowerment, gender, reproductive health, sexual autonomy and freedom from violence as central components of the African development agenda.

Averting HIV/AIDS
An international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK that works to prevent HIV and AIDS worldwide.

American Civil Liberties Union
The nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that defends and preserves the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

National Women's Law Center
A non-profit organization that works to expand the possibilities for women and their families by focusing on major concerns, including family economic security, education, employment opportunities and health, with special attention given to the concerns of low-income women.