New York City Department of Education
Wide range of information for and about students, parents, teachers, staff and administration, district and schools, and statistical summaries.

Safe Horizon (formerly Victim Services)
Provides social services to many populations in New York City and staffs a 24 hour emergency hotline serving victims of domestic violence, rape, elder abuse and other crimes.

The After-School Corporation (TASC)
A non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality and availability of in-school and after-school programs in New York City, New York State, and eventually nationwide.

Advocates for Children
Works on behalf of children that are at risk of school-based discrimination or academic failure because of a disability or their economic situation.

American Montessori Society
Information for parents and teachers about this progressive education model.

Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Provides youth with an opportunity to explore their ideas, identity and future among peers with the support and guidance of their immediate elders and promotes positive development into adulthood.

Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE)
A nonprofit coalition that seeks to reform New York State's education finance system. Site includes publications list and updates on CFE vs. State of New York litigation.

Center for Collaborative Education (CCE)
A small schools advocacy organization.

InsideSchools.Org
A website that provides up-to-date information and insight on the New York City public schools. The site, a project of Advocates for Children of New York, aims to present an independent view of New York City schools, provide a forum for parents, teachers and administrators to share what they know, help parents navigate the bureaucracy, and increase support for public education.

Learning Leaders
Recruits and trains volunteers to provide NYC public school children with educational instructional support.

Literacy Assistance Center (LAC)
A not-for-profit organization that provides essential referral, training, information and technical assistance services to hundreds of adult and youth literacy programs in New York. Its mission is to support and promote the expansion of quality literacy services in New York.

New Visions for Public Schools
Works with the New York City school system, the private sector and the community to mobilize resources and develop programs and policies that lead to significant, lasting improvement in the achievement of all children.

The New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)
A federation of more than 900 local unions representing teachers throughout the state.

Partnership for After School Education (PASE)
A NYC network of youth practitioners, funders, and technical assistance providers supporting and promoting after school programming.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
A nonprofit organization of writers and educators who believe that writers can make a unique contribution to the teaching of writing. Offers workshops, programs, publishes.

United Federation of Teachers (UFT)
The labor union of NY City educators, includes online edition of The NY Teacher.

The Hetrick Martin Institute (HMI)
An advocacy organization dedicated to providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth, and all youth who are coming to terms with issues of sexuality.

Citizens Committee for Children
An advocacy organization supporting New York City's children and families.

Gotham Gazette
A lively and informative website of information and ideas about New York City issues, including regular coverage of education and school issues.

Nonprofit Coordinating Committee (NCC)
A membership organization that provides a place where your voice is heard, and adds to the collective voice with which the entire nonprofit community is heard.

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Established to revitalize interest in history by challenging the traditional ways that people learn about the past.

Bank Street College of Education
Has been a leader in education, a pioneer in improving the quality of classroom education, and an advocate for children and families since first opening in 1916.

The Center for Peaceable Schools
Hosted by Lesley University, Cambridge, MA within the University's School of Education that provides training, resources and information to educators and community workers interested in learning principles and practices that create positive change in our schools and communities.

Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED)
A community of educators, activists and researchers working on alternatives to violence and war.

Facing History and Ourselves
Engages teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.

Kids Meeting Kids
Kids Meeting Kids brings together young people across racial, ethnic, and class lines so they can make our neighborhoods, our cities, and our world safer, more peaceful and loving places. Kids Meeting Kids, run by and for young people ages 7 to 21, works on projects that promote youth development, leadership training, nonviolent solutions to conflict, children's rights, intergroup harmony, conflict resolution, local and international cooperation, and work for positive social change.

National Coalition of Education Activists (NCEA)
A multiracial network of families, school staff, union and community activists, and others organizing for equity and fundamental changes in local school districts.

Network of Educators on the Americas(NECA)
A Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization that promotes social and economic justice through public education. Visit NECA's website, teachingforchange.org, for an on-line catalog of books, videos, and posters for the K-12 classroom.

Rethinking Schools
Published in Milwaukee, WI, is a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.

Teachers College
Offers courses through the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR).

Teaching Tolerance
A twice-yearly free publication for educators from Southern Poverty Law Center. Its editors welcome contributions that address classroom themes of tolerance, respect and community building.

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Produces materials and teaching models that focus on the "ordinary" Americans whose actions and beliefs shaped the nation's development.

Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Has various informaiton on insurance, travel, health, finances, real estate and more.

Center for Popular Economics
A non-profit collective of economists that teaches economic literacy to activists for progressive social change. They sponsor summer institutes and publish useful materials.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Provides analyses of current economic issues and policy options.

Citizens for Tax Justice
Provides information and progressive analysis on tax issues and options.

Economic Policy Institute
A think-tank that produces good information and analysis on economic issues and current economic facts.

Fiscal Policy Institute
Provides information and analysis on New York State's economic conditions and policies.

Student Committee Against Labor Exploitation, (SCALE) An organization of New York City high schools students concerned about how their clothing is made.

UNITE Stop Sweatshop Campaign
A union-based group that does organizing against sweatshops in the U.S. and abroad.

United for a Fair Economy / UFE
Founded as a "movement support" organization to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

Abolition 2000
A global network to eliminate nuclear weapons, a dynamic international citizens' movement that calls for conclusion by the year 2000 of negotiations on a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework.

Back from the Brink
A campaign to remove nuclear weapons from high-alert status, is comprised of over 40 national arms control and disarmament organizations and hundreds of local and regional groups.

Center for Defense Information
A non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security.

Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
The nation's leading nuclear arms control and non-proliferation organizations are working together through the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers to build support for a practical, step-by-step program to reduce the dangers of nuclear weapons and prevent new nuclear threats from emerging.

Don't Blow It / "Word of mouse"
Campaign to build public awareness of nuclear dangers and inspire citizens to send a message to U.S. leadership to reduce nuclear threat and work toward nuclear disarmament. This site is a project of TechRocks, a non-profit organization seeking to accelerate social and political progress by building the technological capacity of non-profit organizations.

Economists Allied for Arms Reduction
Seeks to promote objective economic analysis and appropriate action on global issues relating to peace, security and the world economy.

Federation of American Scientists
Combines the scholarly resources of its member scientists and informed citizens with knowledge of practical politics to bring the scientific perspective to public policy.

Global Security Institute
Targets influential stakeholders, networks and decision-makers to promote incremental steps that enhance security and lead to the global elimination of nuclear weapons.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
Dedicated to increasing public involvement in and control over environmental problems through the democratization of science.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
An international non-partisan federation of medical organizations dedicated to research, education, advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war.

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
A non-profit, educational organization comprised of individuals and organizations from throughout the world that recognize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age. The Foundation performs research and analysis on critical issues of peace and global survival.
www.nuclearfiles.org and www.wagingpeace.org

The Nuclear Information and Resource Service &
World Information Service on Energy(NIRS/WISE)
An information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.

Peace Action
The nation's largest grassroots peace and disarmament organization. Committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, redirection of excessive Pentagon spending to domestic investment, an end to global weapons sales, and non-military resolutions to international conflicts.

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Working to create a world free of nuclear weapons, global environmental pollution, and gun violence; PSR is an affiliate of IPPNW.

The Ploughshares Fund
Provides funding for our Nuclear Weapons Education and Action Project, is a public grantmaking foundation that supports initiatives for stopping the spread of weapons of war, from nuclear arms to landmines.

Project Abolition
Founded in 1999 to increase public awareness of nuclear danger and build grassroots support in the United States for the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons.

Reaching Critical Will
A disarmament initiative that seeks, through education and imagination, to broaden the debate on the abolition of nuclear weapons. Reaching Critical Will is sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Since its 1992 founding the GN has met each year in order to bring together key activists who are working on, or are interested in, space issues. It was the intention of the founders to create an organization that would serve as a clearinghouse for space issues and act as a spark to ignite education and organizing in order to build an international citizens movement.

Union of New York Free Youth (UNYFY)
An organization of New York City high school and college students working on human rights and justice issues. UNYFY planned a week of anti-war events with teach-ins and rally week of March 26-31, 2001.