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• Center for Impact Research - CIR [Search]
  A Chicago-based not-for-profit organization that works towards elimination of poverty through grass-roots research aimed at identifying innovative policy strategies better reflecting low-income persons' needs
• Center for Law and Social Policy - CLASP [Search]
  Non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system.
• Center for the Study of Urban Poverty - CSUP [Search]
  Links university resources and expertise with those of federal, state and local andcommunity-based agencies and organizations concerned with issues related to urban poverty and social service delivery (UCLA)
• Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change [Search]
  Addresses the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty (Case Western Reserve University)
• Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies [Search]
  research centre running national and international socio-economic studies and developing comparative micro-databases on households, individuals and firms
• Comparative Research Program on Poverty - CROP [Search]
  Focuses on interdisciplinary and comparative research on poverty
• Institute for Research on Poverty - IRP [Search]
  A nonprofit center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Institute on Race & Poverty - IRP [Search]
  A research center that address the underlying causes of the problems created at the intersection of racial injustice and poverty (University of Minnesota)
• Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR) [Search]
  Concentrates on the causes and consequences of poverty in America and the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing poverty (Northwestern University / University of Chicago)
• Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy (MPP) [Search]
  Promotes interdisciplinary applied research on poverty and social welfare policy and works to translate research findings to public policy decision makers (University of Michigan)
• National Center for Children in Poverty - NCCP [Search]
  Uses program and policy analysesand demographic research to identify and promote strategies that reduce young child poverty and that improve the lives of poor young children (Columbia University)
• Poverty Research Unit at Sussex - PRUS [Search]
  Aims to develop existing and new areas of povertyresearch and to contribute to a better understanding of poverty, its causesand alleviation, in the developing as well as the industrialised world
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development - UNRISD [Search]
  An UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development
• World Bank Research: Poverty
  Searchable database on poverty issues including micro-credit, safety nets, income distribution, policies for poor areas, pension reform, and the links between poverty and the international economy plus related links in the World Bank Group