Town Hall Research Guide: Organizations

These are links to organizations' websites. No two organizations are the same. Explore or search a site to find the information you need. Look for terms like: About Us, What We Do, Our Programs, Where We Work, Our Services, etc.

Note: Some of these links contain disturbing, candid descriptions or depictions of the the problems they address.

Alcohol & Drug Addiction

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Facing Addiction

Climate Change

• NASA - Climate Change & Global Warming
• Environmental Protection Agency - Climate Change
• Brookings Institute-Climate Change & Zika: audio, links, and more

Drug Control & Regulation

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Drug Free America Foundation, Inc.
• Drug Policy Alliance

Gun Control

• US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
• Everytown For Gun Safety
• The National Gun Violence Research Center

Health Care

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• American Public Health Association
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• VA Department of health

Immigration

• Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
• Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM): Focused on international migration

LGBTQ+ Issues

• Human Rights Campaign
• National LGBTQ Task Force
• PFLAG

Mental Health

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Active Minds: “A student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy organization designed for the college campus.”
• World Health Organization (WHO): A global perspective on mental health issues and solutions

Poverty

• National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia University)
• UNICEF: Focused on children
• Feeding America
• Virginia Poverty Law Center

Racial Inequality

• Ford Foundation
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Start at the What We Do link

Human Trafficking

• Free the Girls: Works "to provide jobs to survivors of sex trafficking in developing countries by helping them set up micro enterprises selling bras."
• Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)
• Polaris: National Human Trafficking Resource Center
• Not For Sale
• Thistle Farms

War/Conflict

• War Child
• International Rescue Committee
• Ploughshares Fund (nuclear disarmament)
• United Nations

Websites ending with .gov, .org, or .edu are generally not trying to sell you anything, and often provide better information. When you search Google, type one of these into the search field with your keywords:

• site:.edu
• site:.gov
• site:.org