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| The Alliance for Global Justice, a gathering of concerned individuals in central Iowa, promotes a patriotism that supports our fellow citizens and our national ideals; thus we remain critical of militaristic adventurism abroad and the curtailment of civil liberties at home. |
| Des Moines for Darfur is a diverse group of passionate people trying to make a difference for one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis of our time. We are a grassroots group that educates citizens and regularly contacts our elected officials to shed light on the crisis in Sudan. |
Every Child Counts - an advocacy network - is a division of the Child & Family Policy Center. Our goal is to build a network in Iowa to make children a priority for policy action and to provide network members with advocacy tools on important child policy issues, including policy statements and positions on childrens issues, as well as conducting advocacy training. Every Child Counts concentrates on three policy priority areas - early learning and school readiness; child safety and well-being, and child-friendly tax policies.
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| Fair World Gallery helps artisans in the developing world by educating consumers and increasing the sales distribution of items produced in a fair trade manner. Located in Valley Junction, West Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society |
| ICAN is Iowa's largest grassroots consumer and environmental watchdog organization, with more than 13,000 individual members across the state. ICAN is also an alliance of community, religious, labor, senior, farm, environmental and civil rights organizations - a coalition that is working together to raise the living standards and improve the quality of life for all people in Iowa. |
ICAA serves more than 330,000 Iowans annually by Iowa’s eighteen (18) Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in all 99 counties through a wide range of services that are at the forefront of innovative strategies to empower low-income citizens to become self-sufficient and full participants in their communities.
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| Iowa for Health Care, a project of the Service Employees International Union is uniting working families, small business owners, seniors, health care workers, community leaders, and policy makers to fight for affordable, quality health care that we can all count on. |
| The Iowa Farmers Union is a progressive farm organization representing family farmers and ranchers on issues ranging from farm income to rural health care. The Iowa Farmers Union believes good opportunities in production agriculture are the foundation of strong farm families and that they allow rural communities to thrive. The Iowa Farmers Union's diverse membership includes producers of all types of commodities, all ages, ethnic groups and political views. |
| The Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is a coalition of unions. It is the official organization of the National AFL-CIO in Iowa. The goals of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO are social and economic justice. Achievement of these goals is made possible through the collective strength of our affiliates. By combining the talent, energy, activism and sense of justice of all of our affiliates, the Federation seeks to promote legislation that will enable the government to be responsive to the needs of working people and their families. |
| Methodist Federation for Social Action - Iowa Chapter is an independent voice for justice within Methodism since 1907. MFSA unites activists within the United Methodist Church and Iowa to take action on issues of justice, peace and liberation in the church, nation and world. |
| Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is the statewide chapter of the National PSR, a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to preserving people’s health and well being through research, education and advocacy. |
| The Interfaith Alliance of Iowa is a non-partisan organization that believes religion best contributes to public life when it works for reconciliation, inspires common effort, promotes concern for all people and upholds the dignity of all human beings. TIA Iowa includes people from across Iowa - Christians, Jews, Unitarian, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, and other communities of faith. TIA Iowa is affiliated with the national TIA organization and is part of a national network of 52 local and state Alliances. |
| Mothers Acting Up (MAU) is an invitation to publicly & passionately advocate for the world’s children. Government leaders, corporations and the media already see mothers as a political force to be reckoned with; it's time we flex a bit of our political power to ensure the health, education and safety of every child—wherever they live on earth. |
Progressive Action for the Common Good is a non-partisan umbrella group of progressives in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois.We engage folks on a variety of issues to educate, engage, promote, transform and bring about needed changes for the betterment of our communities
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| WAND was founded in 1982 as Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. With the end of the cold war, we became Women's Action for New Directions, and have been dedicating our energies to redirect federal budget priorities away from the military and toward human needs. |
| Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. |
Working Families Win is a project of the Americans for Democratic Action Education Fund in Iowa to implement a three year program to focus attention on the failure of the economy and build support among working class Americans for a new direction in the nation's policies and politics.
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