Social Work: Global Practice

Operates in over 40 countries and engages in both emergency food aid activities and long-term self-sufficiency work.

A leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.

A US-based organization that provides direct aid to the poor in the US and overseas. Program areas include agriculture, health, education, peace-building, and emergency response, and emphasize capacity-building, food security, gender, and justice.

Nonprofit ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Provides resettlement assistance, global emergency relief, rehabilitation, and advocacy for refugees.

Works in close to 70 countries and territories to improve the conditions and prospects for young people.

An independent medical aid agency committed to providing medical aid in crisis centers and across the world.

An alliance of US-based international development and humanitarian NGOs that works toward the alleviation of poverty and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity.

Network focused on disaster response and recovery, social inclusion and peace, and development in a number of areas, such as health care and food security.

A group of organizations working worldwide to find sustainable solutions to poverty, suffering, and injustice.

The agency of the European Union responsible for international humanitarian aid.

Coordinates humanitarian actors--including UN agencies and programs, the Red Cross Movement, and NGOs--in humanitarian response, policy development, and humanitarian advocacy.

The principal US foreign aid agency providing assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.

The UN's primary agency in the fight against global hunger. Publications, including reports on hunger-related topics and policy and background papers, can be downloaded.

From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

Independent, nonprofit organization that provides news about humanitarian crises.

Information on complex emergencies with country updates, maps of crisis areas, a financial tracking database, and more.