Meet Our Community Partners

At the Voices Against Poverty Information Fair you'll have the opportunity to meet a variety of volunteer and social action groups who are working in the spirit of the Millenium Development Goals...working to do such things as end extreme poverty and hunger, encourage education, promote gender equality, ensure environmental sustainability.

Visit their information table...learn about their work...find out about their successes...ask about what resources they need. Perhaps there is a place where your particular talents and interests can make a real difference!

Girls Incorporated of the Greater Capital Region
Inspiring girls to be strong, smart and bold, Girls, Inc. provides free after-school programs - and many other opportunities - for girls throughout the Capital Region.

Church World Services/CROP Hunger Walk
Over $200,000 is raised each year to fight hunger in the CROP Hunger Walk coordinated in the Capital Region by Capital Area Council of Churches.

Capital District Community Gardens
Squash Hunger, Veggie Mobile, and 46 neighborhood gardens are some of the ways CDCG makes fresh food accessible and affordable to inner city residents.

Homeless and Travelers Aid Society
HATAS helps people on the verge of crisis transition to a more stable life by providing a variety of services, including housing, employment, mental health, and family programs.

Albany Damien Center
The Albany Damien Center provides programs and activities to improve health, reduce stress, and increase the quality of life for individuals and families living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Capital District Habitat for Humanity
Working to ensure every family has a decent, affordable home, Capital District Habitat for Humanity builds houses and provides home ownership opportunities in partnership with low income households.

FOCUS Churches, Albany
Through the joint efforts of six downtown Albany churches, FOCUS provides a variety of community programs including FOCUS Interfaith Food Pantry, Breakfast Program Summer Meal for Kids, and Project Love (a summer program in partnership with the Albany Boys and Girls Club).

Gatumba Refugees Survivors Foundation
GRSF assists genocide refugees who have relocated to New York's Capital Region and other areas of the US and Canada. Their work was profiled in a recent NY Times article. GRSF speaks out against all forms of Human Rights Violations, and works to promote Justice, Unity, Love and Reconciliation.

The Interfaith Alliance of New York State
A grassroots organization, TIANYS provides a mainstream, faith-based voice on issues involving social and economic justice and peace.

...and of course:

ONE.org
ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life - united as ONE - to help make poverty history. A campaign of over 2.4 million people and over 100 of America's most well-known and respected non-profit, advocay and humanitariam organizations, ONE raises public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries.

Stop by the ONE table to sign the declaration and learn how you can spread the word.