Green Doors
Green Doors looks to prevent and end homelessness in Central Texas and provides services in hopes of accomplishing their goals.
Category: Poverty & welfare
Susan Grettenberger
Susan Grettenberger is social work program director at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich. She has done research for the Aspen Institute on the involvement of religious groups in providing social services. She also has done research for the for The Roundtable on Religion & Social Welfare Policy comparing secular and faith-based providers of […]
Diane Nilan
Diane Nilan of Naperville, Ill., is a former shelter director who founded the nonprofit group Hear Us, to allow the voices of homeless children and youth to be heard. In 2005, Nilan sold her home and set off across the country to interview more than 70 homeless children and teenagers in 16 states, mostly in […]
JoCo IHN
JoCo IHN (formerly Johnson County Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a nonprofit coalition of congregations in Johnson County, Kansas, that provides services to homeless families.
The West Coast Poverty Center
The West Coast Poverty Center is based at the University of Washington. Jennifer Romich is director as well as professor of social work and public affairs.
Greg Duncan
Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He has published extensively on welfare and poverty, including (as co-author) Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children and (as co-editor) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families.
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless
The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless is a nonprofit coalition of service providers, housing activists, members and homeless people that looks for solutions to homelessness.
Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research institute in Oakland, Calif., that works for economic and social equity. She is a lawyer and well-known advocate on issues of poverty, race and the role of faith.
The Coalition for Compassion and Justice
The Coalition for Compassion and Justice, based in Prescott, Ariz., helps meet the needs of people in poverty. Contact executive director Paul Mitchell.