Directory of Organizations

Last Updated: 4 January 1996

The following is a list of PeaceNet organizations on the IGC Networks whose materials are available online through the Internet. Most of these organizations maintain their material on the IGC Gopher or World Wide Web pages.

• Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet (many wonderful graphic files; there's also a graphic-free list available for those with slow connections)

• 21st Century Institute, seeking to develop a stable and just world order.
• Africa Policy Information Center
• AlterNet
• America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
• Amnesty International.
• Arab World & Islamic Resources & School Services
• British American Security Information Councilworks to promote public awareness of defense, disarmament, militarystrategy, and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate on these issues.
• California Network for a New Economy (CNNE)
• Campaign for Peace and Democracy
• Center for Third World Organizing
• Chicago Coalition Against Violence Initiative
• Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
• Community Boards
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Concerned Singles
• Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED)
• Consumer Action
• Council of Better Business Bureaus
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.
• Doctors ofthe World (DOW)
• Electronic Frontiers Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
• Foundation for a Compassionate Society
• Global Exchange
• Good Neighbor Project for Sustainable Industries
• HandsNet, linking the human services community online.
• Higher Education Center
• Human Rights Watch
• Hunger Project
• Indigenous Environmental Network, a grassroots alliance to helpIndigenous Nations and its People to stand up against local, multi-nationaland trans-national corprations and any national policy actionthat contaminates the land, water, air and heal of IndigenousPeople and our territories.
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy.
• Institute for Mass Communications is a non-profitdedicated to the development of progressivecommunications skills among grassroots and community activists.
• Institute for Social and Economic Studies. ISES promotes dialogue among the left, and is the publisher of CrossRoads Magazine.
• The International Academy at Santa Barbara is a non-profit educational institution established in 1960 to improve understanding ofissues affecting life on our planet.
• International Campaign for Tibet hosts information about theDalai Lama's Fall '95 visit to the U.S., a brief history of Tibet, the international campaign to free Tibet, and how you canhelp.
• International Education and Resource Network (I*EARN)
• Institute for Alternative Journalism
• Join Together
• Latin America Data Base (LADB).
• Left BBS
• Making Contact is a new national radio program that giveslisteners information they need to take action. It is producedby Norman Solomon and David Barsamian.
• Middle East Children's Alliance. An organization dedicated to bringing peace between Palestinians and Israelis and relieving the suffering of children in the region.
• Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
• National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils (NADDC) promotes national policy which provides individuals with developmentaldisabilities the opportunity to make choices regarding thequality of their lives and be included in the community; and toprovide support and assistance to member Councils.
• National Center for Nonprofit Boards
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
• Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
• Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, a place of gathering and a community of kindred spirits, created to serve people andinstitutions interested in working toward a sustainable and justsociety.
• Nonviolence International has resources for nonviolent direct action struggles for freedom and justice.
• North America Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
• Nuclear Control Institute, an independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of nuclear proliferation, monitoring nuclear activities worldwide and pursuing strategies to halt the spread and reverse the growth of nuclear arms.
• Overseas Development Network
• Pacifica Radio (KPFA) and Pacifica Radio Archive
• Peace Action
• Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a unique grassroot organization exploring and implementing nonviolent approaches to peacemaking and support for basic human rights. Now on the WWW!
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Physicians for Social Responsibilityas well as Student Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Playing to Win (Mass Transit for the Information Superhighway)
• Playing to Win / Intercambios Culturales. Playing to Win's HarlemCommunity Computing Center, New York City's first public accesstechnology center, calls on you to support it and to helpestablish the Intercambios Technological and Cultural Center inEl Salvador.
• Political Ecology Group (PEG)
• Political Research Associates (PRA)
• Population Action International
• P.O.V. Interactive, the on-line component of the award-winning PBSnon-fiction film series, provides viewers with the opportunity totalk back to their TV. There you'll find "Tube Talk" dialogueareas, this season's schedule with filmographies and transcripts,a wealth of resources related to P.O.V.'s films, and a forumabout "Television Today ... and Tomorrow."
• Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)
• Project South
• Project on Demilitarization and Democracy is a non-profitresearch and advocacy center that works to change U. S. policytoward the developing world from one of militarization to one ofdemilitarization.
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Socialist Labor Party
• Somali Association for Peace and Democracy (SAPD)
• South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC)
• The Technology Resource Consortium (TRC) is an association of nonprofit Technologyassistance organizations that provide education about and access to informationtechnology to private and public non-profit organizations.
• The Laurasian Institution (TLI), "acts to create communities that transcend culture."
• Union Friendly Systems
• United States Institute of Peace
• Urban Habitat Project of the Earth Island Institute. The UrbanHabitat Program (UHP) functions as a catalyst for the environmentand social justice, seeking to promote multi-cultural leadership. UHP believes that socio-economic and environmental problems areconnected in their causes, effects and solutions. Poor peopleand people of color use fewer resources than most, yet they bearthe heaviest burden of environmental degradation and pollution.
• Washington Office on Africa (WOA)
• Washington Office on Latin America,general information on WOLA including the Executive Summaries of recent WOLA reports and briefs, English translations of articles from WOLA's Spanish language news bulletin, ENLACE, a full publications listing, job and internship announcements, notices of upcoming WOLA events, etc.
• Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
• Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
• Women's Feature Service
• Working Group on Community Right-to-Know
• Worldwatch Institute. Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering asustainable society--one in which human needs are met in waysthat do not threaten the health of the natural environment orfuture generations. To this end, the Institute conductsinterdisciplinary research on emerging global issues, the resultsof which are published and disseminated to decisionmakers, themedia, and the public.