Jean Duff is executive director of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty. CIFA was one of four co-convening agencies that brought faith, women’s and foreign development groups together in 2008 to work in the Women, Faith and Development Alliance for women and girls. The 2008 gathering was the occasion to announce $1.4 billion in commitments […]

Mayra Buvinic is sector director for gender and development at the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. She was a founding member and president of the International Center for Research on Women. Contact her through the bank’s media division in Washington, D.C.

Lutheran World Relief works in 35 countries on issues such as water accessibility, disaster relief and supporting women’s businesses.

Global Ministries is the United Methodist Church’s missionary arm that has worked in 60 countries around the world. Its missions have included providing educational resources to women.

Covenant World Relief is the Evangelical Covenant Church’s philanthropic arm that has worked in five continents on community issue projects and disaster relief. Some efforts include working with women in human sex trafficking, building micro-loans for women’s small businesses and developing their agricultural skills.

Atheism UK is dedicated to advancing atheism in the United Kingdom and states that its ultimate goal is to end belief in God and religion as a whole.

The Bishopsgate Institute is an academic center located in London. Its library has an extensive collection of archives and printed materials about the history of freethought and humanism in the United Kingdom. Email through the website.

Kai Nielsen is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. He is a noted atheist and has written multiple books on atheism. He signed the Humanist Manifesto II in 1973.

Suzanne Rutland is an emeritus professor of Hebrew, biblical and Jewish studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of a comprehensive history on Australian Jewry, Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia.