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Abraham Fund: a not-for-profit fundraising and educational organization dedicated to enhancing coexistence between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens

American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia, PA): a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps:a year long community service program for young Jews who want to work on America's pressing social problems.

Center for Community Change (Washington, DC): an organization committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities. To do this, they help people to develop the skills and resources they need to improve their communities as well as change policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. CCC believes that poor people themselves – through organizations they control – need to lead efforts to eliminate poverty.

Center for Environmental Citizenship: a national non-partisan organization, founded by young activists in 1992 to encourage college students to be environmental citizens. CEC is dedicated to educating, training, and organizing a diverse, national network of young leaders to protect the environment. They also have a job site, EarthNet Jobs, with 150-200 jobs and internships specifically for activists 0-5 years out of college.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies: CJP's central and overarching priority today is to build, strengthen and maintain an open, welcoming, vibrant Jewish community. Our Annual fundraising Campaign and our Endowment Fund growth enable us to allocate nearly $25 million every year to a wide range of educational, humanitarian, vocational, cultural, health care and social service programs locally, in Israel and in isolated Jewish communities around the world.

COMM-ORG: a program whose mission is to help connect people who care about the craft of community organizing; to find and provide information that organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers can use to learn, teach, and do community organizing.

Givat Haviva is an education, research and documentation center, founded in 1949 by HA’KIBBUTZ HA’ARZI Federation, in memory of Haviva Reik . The campus is located in the northern Sharon Valley (east of Hadera), Israel. The mission of Givat Haviva today is to cope with the major issues that are on the agenda of Israeli society, and to foster educational initiatives, research and community work in the fields of peace, democracy, coexistence, tolerance and social solidarity.

GiveNation: a company founded on the principles of integrity, reliability, and trust, and is dedicated to ensuring that all of our transactions and communications with donors and nonprofit organizations incorporate these principles. You can now make a donation to JOI at GiveNation.com.

Hadassah: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer women's organization, whose members are motivated and inspired to strengthen their partnership with Israel, ensure Jewish continuity, and realize their potential as a dynamic force in American society.

The History of the Jewish People: Eli Birnbaum has put his book on the Internet- to be used , enjoyed and learned from.

Jewish Community Action (St. Paul, Minnesota): creating a Jewish voice in Minnesota's movement for social justice and building on the Jewish Community's capacity to effectively participate in Tikkun Olam - repairing the world.

Jewish Community Relations Council: The JCRC of Greater Boston is the representative voice of the organized Jewish community. Rooted in Jewish values and informed by Jewish history, JCRC also reflects the ideals of American democracy. Comprised of constituent organizations, the JCRC: serves as a catalyst for building a strong and vibrant Jewish community in Boston and around the world; advocates for a safe, secure, democratic state of Israel; promotes an American society that is democratic, pluralistic and just.

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs(Chicago): combats poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago's diverse communties. Working throughout the city provides JCUA with a unique understanding of the economic, social and racial challenges which inextricably link all of our residents. JCUA recognizes that we are only as strong as the weakest among us and strives to help the most vulnerable in our society to empower themselves.

Jewish Family & Life: Jewish Family & Life! has the goal of "changing the face of American Jewry, one family at a time."Its founders intend to reclaim the phrase "family values" to reflect the strong family traditions of Jewish culture in the language of the 90's. It will be a source of user-friendly, family-oriented information and entertainment for a new generation. Its target audience is between the ages of 25-49, as likely as not to be intermarried, with dual careers, assimilated into American society but with the desire to enrich their daily lives with a strong element of relevant Jewishness.

Jewish Fund for Justice: assist community-based groups support programs that promote self-sufficiency and sustainable solutions to problems—not just emergency help to patch over a crisis situation.

Jewish Public Affairs: The JCPA reflects a unique and inclusive partnership of national member agencies, local community relations councils and committees, and the federations of which they are a component part or affiliated agency. It convenes the "common table" around which member agencies, through an open, representative, inclusive and consensus-driven process, meet to identify issues, articulate positions, and develop strategies, programs, and approaches designed to advance the public affairs goals and objectives of the organized Jewish community.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ): provides an opportunity for all Jews--young and old, secular and religious, lesbian, gay, and straight--to explore issues of racial and economic justice and to shape a collective Jewish response.

Jews United for Justice: organizes a visible Jewish presence and takes action for economic and social justice in the Washington, DC area. JUFJ provides Jews with an opportunity to weave together their Judaism and activism and creates a community in which they can explore and strengthen their commitments to both.

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NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts (formerly Mass Choice): a statewide, pro-choice organization committed to developing and sustaining a grassroots constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regardinga full range of reproductive choices. Contact Laura Brown, Organizer and JOI alumni, for more information: (617) 556-8800 or choice@massnaral.org.

Peacecorps: the history of the Peace Corps is the story of tens of thousands of people who have served as Volunteers since 1961. Their individual experiences -- in the villages, towns, and cities of more than 130 countries -- have composed a legacy of service that has become part of America's history.

Progressive Jewish Alliance: a national membership organization dedicated to the Jewish traditions of pursuing peace, promoting equality and diversity, and ensuring social and economic justice in the United States, Israel and the Middle East, and throughout the world.

Project STaR: Project Star is the University of Michigan's graduate program in Jewish Communal Service and Social Work.

Religious Action Center: The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) has been the hub of Jewish social justice and legislative activity in the nation's capital for over 35 years. It has educated and mobilized the American Jewish community on legislative and social concerns as an advocate in the Congress of the United States on issues ranging from Israel and Soviet Jewry to economic justice and civil rights, to international peace and religious liberty.

SocialAction.com: SocialAction.com's mission is to be the central resource location for Jewish social action information on the web to both organizations and individuals looking for ways to make a positive impact on the world. SocialAction.com strives to provide a Jewish framework that would motivate all Jews, regardless of affiliation, to become social activists.

Tekiah; A Jewish Call to Action: Tekiah is an alliance of progressive Jewish activists, community organizers and lay leaders in Greater Boston, committed to mobilizing the Jewish community to work for a fundamental, systemic change in American society. Tekiah organizes around issues of local and global human rights and economic justice.

Tzedek Hillel: Tzedek Hillel is a new public service and social justice initiative devoted to transforming the culture of your campus and your community. Driven by the Jewish imperatives of tzedakah - justice, gemilut chasadim - acts of loving kindness and tikkun olam - repair of the world, Tzedek Hillel empowers Jewish students to make a difference!

UAHC: The mission of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations is to provide vision, leadership and programmatic support to Reform Jewish congregations and to perpetuate and advance Reform Judaism.