The Americas Society/Council of the Americas provides information on diverse cultures in the Americas. It has offices in New York City, Washington D.C., and Miami.

The Episcopal Church USA has a mission “to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.”

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

Timothy Patrick Moran is a sociologist at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University with expertise in globalization and inequality.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is dedicated to advancing women’s rights and gender equality. It works on implementing international commitments at national levels. Media contact is Oisika Chakrabarti.

Paul C. Vitz is a professor emeritus of psychology at New York University. He is the author of Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism.

The National LGBTQ Task Force organizes and operates the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, a group of leaders from LGBTQ-welcoming faith organizations, and runs the Institute for Welcoming Resources, which works with eight major denominations. It maintains offices in Massachusetts, New York, Minneapolis, Florida and Washington, D.C. Contact Mark Daley.

Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. She has commented on welfare reform in a variety of New York publications.