Stephen Schwartz is executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, which says it promotes moderate Muslim views. Schwartz has taken credit for coining or popularizing the term.

Frederick W. Kagan is a widely read military historian and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., who is associated with the neoconservative movement. Kagan has said he prefers the term Islamist to Islamofascist.

Bradley R. Schiller is professor emeritus in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. His book The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination has been a standard teaching text for two decades.

Ezra Rosser is assistant professor at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., where he teaches a course on law and poverty. He co-edits and writes the Poverty Law.

NETWORK is a national Catholic social justice organization that promotes economic justice at the federal level. Sister Simone Campbell is executive director. You can also email specific staff members through the website.

Faithful America is an interfaith advocacy project of the National Council of Churches that is based in Washington, D.C. Contact through the website.

The National Center on Family Homelessness, based in Washington, D.C., as a part of American Institutes for Research, is dedicated to helping homeless families. Its website includes resources for media members interested in homelessness. Contact Barbara Broman.

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth works to make sure that children without a home have access to education.

The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness was formed in 1987 to coordinate the federal response to homelessness. It works to create a national partnership at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness in the nation while maximizing the effectiveness of the federal government in contributing to that end. […]