Community Development Networks

• ACT Development – A global alliance of Protestant and Orthodox churches and related organizations working to eradicate poverty, injustice, and the abuse of human rights, focusing on long-term development and building on the emergency response work already undertaken by ACT International. View Web site.

• ACT International – A global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide. View Web site.

• Christian Appalachian Project – An interdenominational, nonprofit Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services. View Web site.

• Christian Community Development Association – A nonprofit, national network that exists to inspire and train Christians who seek to bear witness to the Kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities, united by a vision of wholistically restored communities with Christians fully engaged in the process of transformation. View Web site.

• Christian Relief Services – An organization committed to working in collaboration with grassroots charitable organizations to connect the vast resources of the United States with communities in need to enable the people of these communities to help themselves. View Web site.

• Church World Service (CWS) – A cooperative ministry that works with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world. View Web site.

• Compassion Connect – A network of church leaders working together with local churches, civic leaders, and social service leaders to transform communities and impact the world, by providing resources and experience to make these collaborative efforts to improve health, housing, and other needs sustainable. View Web site.

• Ecumenical Water Network – An initiative of Christian churches, organizations, and movements who have joined hands to protect and realize people’s access to water around the world. View Web site.

• Elgin Christian Development Corporation (ECDC) – A coordinated network of churches and individuals to address the under-resourced issues facing west Elgin, Illinois, by being a catalyst for community development. View Web site.

• Love In the Name of Christ (Love INC) – A network that brings Christian churches together across denominational lines to help the poor by meeting immediate needs such as food and clothing and developing longer-term responses through relational ministries such as life skills training and transitional housing. View Web site.

• Micah Network – A group of nearly 300 Christian relief, development and justice organizations that work together to meet the needs of the poor and oppressed, proclaim the mission of the church, and advocate biblical values to leaders and decision makers around the world. View Web site.

• Millennium Water Alliance – A consortium of leading nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that strives toward the goal of helping 500 million people obtain water and basic sanitation by 2015. Its vision mirrors its belief that no one should die or suffer chronic illness as the result of a water-related disease. View Web site.

• One Prayer – A global movement of churches, standing united in prayer and fasting and working together to serve their communities during a focused month of action. View Web site.

• Pilgrim Uganda – An African ministry that seeks to restore hope and dignity to the needy, especially the most disadvantaged victims of war and poverty, by providing material and spiritual aid to empower their lives, dreams, hopes and talent. View Web site.

• ShareFest – A network of churches with a vision to unite together in a strategic and visible demonstration of Christ’s love for their community through joint service and worship events. View Web site.

• The Father's Heart Foundation – A collaboration of Christian nonprofit agencies that compliment one another in a familial and communal effort to provide diversified services for the whole person such as recovery, housing, recreation, vocational training, academic achievement, emotional health, spiritual nurturing, life skills and social enrichment to strengthen people, families and their communities throughout America. View Web site.

• The Salvation Army – An international movement of the universal Christian Church with a mission to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. View Web site.

• Women's Christian Alliance – A nonsectarian, nonprofit multiservice agency that provides resources and support to more than 5,000 children and families in and around North Central Philadelphia annually. View Web site.