Advocacy Partners
Affirmative Options Coalition
Affirmative Options is a statewide coalition advocating for a comprehensive approach to poverty reduction and economic security.
Child Care Works
The Child Care WORKS coalition, established in 1983, brings together parents, caregivers and advocates across Minnesota to improve child care services for all families.
Children's Defense Fund - National
The National Children's Defense Fund-National's mission is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Children's Defense Fund - Minnesota
Children's Defense Fund-Minnesota provides a strong and effective voice for children, who can not speak or vote for themselves.
Jobs Now Coalition
This broad-based, 100+-member coalition of diverse Minnesota organizations was founded in 1982 and is the largest employment policy coalition of its kind in the United States
Legal Services Advocacy Project
The Legal Services Advocacy Project (LSAP) represents the interests of low-income Minnesotans through legislative and administrative advocacy.
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
The Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless fights to end homelessness through its community education, legislative advocacy, and organizing activities the Coalition works to prevent homelessness by helping communities design homeless response systems that meet their needs.
Minnesota Council of NonProfits
Minnesota's professional association of nonprofit organizations.
Minnesota Housing Partnership (MHP)
MHP's mission is to advance the preservation and creation of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income people as a means of strengthening communities and families throughout Minnesota.
Ready 4 K
A campaign working to bring about comprehensive policy change on behalf of Minnesota's children, their parents, and their caretakers.
The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonpartisan organization that publishes timely studies, reports, and books noteworthy of public consideration. The most recent publication is a guide to Developing Community-wide Outcome Indicators for Specific Services
Minnesota Links
National Partners
