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Involving Congregations in Advocacy Now

• How to Use Resources
• Social Statements of the ELCA
• About Web Pages
• Web Site Resources

Web Site Resources

Our lives have changed with the World Wide Web at our fingertips. The amount of information available is staggering. With so much out there it is often hard to know what sites to trust.

Research can always begin at:

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
  www.elca.org
• ELCA Advocacy Ministries:
  www.elca.org/advocacy

In addition you may want to search the following sites.

Administrative - government information:
www.whitehouse.gov

Alliance for Children and Families:
www.alliance1.org

Bread for the World
www.bread.org

Census Bureau - Poverty
www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

Center for Community Change to the Welfare Group
www.communitychange.org

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
(Click Federal Welfare on side panel)
www.cbpp.org

Center on Law and Social Policy
www.clasp.org

Review their monthly publication
Child Trends (Studies Children, Youth and Families)
www.childtrends.org

Children's Defense Fund
(Click on fair start)
www.childrensdefense.org

Coalition on Human Needs
www.chn.org

Disarmament and peace voting records
www.clw.org

Economic Policy Institute
www.epinet.org

Environment
www.epa.gov

Environmental legislation - how members voted:
www.lcv.org