Organizations (and select individuals) that have joined the call for a poverty reduction plan:

411 Seniors Centre
Aboriginal Neighbours
ACCESS (Aboriginal Community Career and Employment Services Society)
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA)
Ahavat Olam Synagogue
Alberni Valley Social Planning Council
Andrea Reimer, City Councillor, Vancouver
Angela Reid, City Councillor, Kelowna
ASPECT (Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training)
Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver
Atira Women’s Resource Society
Aurora Centre
AWARE Society
Barry K. Morris (Rev.), for the Longhouse Council of Native Ministry
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society
BC ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – BC)
BC Alliance on Mental Health/Illness and Addiction
BC Asset Building Collaborative
BC Association for Community Living
BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs
BC Association of Social Workers
BC Civil Liberties Association
BC Coalition for Health Promotion (Duncan)
BC Coalition of Families
BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
BC Community Economic Development Network (BC CEDNet)
BC Community Nutritionists’ Council (BCCNC)
BC Family Net Society
BC Federation of Foster Parent Associations
BC Federation of Labour
BC Federation of Retired Union Members (BC FORUM)
BC Government and Service Employees’ Union
BC Government Retired Employees Association, New Westminster and District Branch
BC Health Coalition
BC Healthy Child Development Alliance
BC Healthy Communities
BC Healthy Living Alliance
BC Lung Association
BC Nurses’ Union
BC Old Age Pensioners
BC Peace and Global Educators
BC Persons With AIDS Society
BC Retired Teachers Association
BC Self Advocacy Foundation
BC Soccer Association
BC Society for Public Education
BC Teachers for Peace and Global Education
BC Teachers’ Federation
BC Vibrant Communities
BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance
BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses
BCASW – North West Branch, Advocacy Committee
BCGEU Community Social Services Component
Be The Change Earth Alliance
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland
Britannia Community Services Centre Board
Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness
Burnaby Teachers’ Association Executive Council
Camosun College Faculty Association
Campbell River, Courtenay and District Labour Council
Canada Without Poverty (formerly National Anti-Poverty Organization)
Canadian Cancer Society, BC & Yukon Division
Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canadian Doctors for Medicare – BC Chapter
Canadian Farmworkers Union
Canadian Mental Health Association – BC Division
Canadian Mental Health Association – Port Alberni Branch
Canadian Mental Health Association – Richmond Clubhouse-Pathways
Canadian Mental Health Association – Simon Fraser Branch
Canadian Mental Health Association – Vancouver Burnaby Branch
Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union (COPE) Local 378
Canadian Union of Public Employees — BC Region
Career Link BC
Caring for First Nations Children Society
Carnegie Community Action Project
Carnegie Community Centre Assocation
Castlegar and District Community Services Society
Castlegar and District Health Watch
Castlegar United Church
Catholic Community of Trail Pastoral Council
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House
Central Coast Teachers’ Association
Centre for Native Policy and Research
Centre for Population Health Promotion Research, UBC
Changing the Face of Poverty
Charlotte Diamond, children’s entertainer
Check Your Head
City in Focus
Citywide Housing Coalition
Clyde Hertzman, Director, Human Early Learning Partnership
Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC
Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE)
Coastal Community Advisory Committee (Vancouver Coastal Health)
CoDevelopment Canada
Columbia Institute
Columbia/Kootenay Advocacy and Education Resource Society
Commercial Drive Business Society
Committee to End Homelessness in Victoria
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Local 464
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, Western Region
Communicopia
Community Advocates for Little Mountain
Community Business and Professionals Association
Community Connections Society of Revelstoke
Community Connections Society of Southeast BC
Community Legal Assistance Society
Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria (Community Council)
Comox Valley Women’s Resource Centre
Council of Canadians
Council of Senior Citizens of BC (COSCO)
Creative Employment Access Society
Creston Valley Teachers’ Association
CUPE 728 Surrey School Workers
David Suzuki
Daxgat’inhl Goodin Anti-Poverty Group Society
Debora Munoz, City Councillor, City of Prince George
Delta Teachers’ Association
Development and Peace Diocesan Council, Diocese of Victoria
Dietitians of Canada, BC Region
Director, Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre
DisAbled Women’s Action Network (DAWN) Canada
Division of Prison Health and Education, UBC
Donna Macdonald, Councillor, City of Nelson
Doug Donaldson, Municipal Councillor, Village of Hazelton
Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House
Duncan City Council
Duncan United Church
Eagle Valley Community Support Society (Sicamous)
Ellen Woodsworth, City Councillor, Vancouver
EMBERS (Eastside Movement for Business and Economic Renewal Society)
Ending Violence Association of BC
Faith and Society Committee of the BC Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Faith in Action
Faith Lutheran Church (Powell River)
False Creek Co-operative Housing Association
Federation of BC Youth in Care Networks
Federation of Community Social Service BC
Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC
Fernie City Council
Fernwood Community Association, Victoria
First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver
First Unitarian Church of Victoria
First United Church Mission
Fleetwood Christian Reformed Church – Social Justice Group
Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
Gabor Maté, M.D., author and health practitioner
Gallery Gachet
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Graduate Caucus, SFU
Geoff Meggs, City Councillor, Vancouver
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women – Canada (GAATW-Canada)
Grand Forks City Council
Grandview Woodlands Area Council
Grandview Woodlands Drug and Alcohol Coalition
Greater Trail Community Skills Centre
Greater Vancouver YFC/Youth Unlimited
Greater Victoria Citizens’ Counselling Centre
Growing Together Child and Parent Society
Gulf Islands Teachers’ Association
Heal Network
Health Officers Council of BC
Health Sciences Association of BC
Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon
Heather Deal, City Councillor, Vancouver
Hospital Employees’ Union
Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements
Interspiritual Centre of Vancouver Society
Island J.A.D.E. Society
Jewish Family Service Agency
Jim Abram, Director, Area C, Strathcona Regional District and Former President of the Union of BC Municipalities
Joel Solomon, President and CEO of Renewal, Executive Director of Endswell Foundation
John Millar, Executive Director, Population and Public Health Program, Provincial Health Services Authority
Joy Kogawa, novelist and poet
Julia and Ed Levy, ILLAHIE Foundation
Justice and Peace Unit of the (Anglican) Diocese of New Westminster
Justicia for Migrant Workers BC
KAIROS BC-Yukon (Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives)
KAIROS Parksville/Qualicum
KAIROS Prince George
KAIROS Richmond
KAIROS Salmon Arm
Kamloops and District Elizabeth Fry Society
Kamloops Christian Hostel
Kamloops Women’s Resource Group Society
Kerry Jang, City Councillor, Vancouver
Kingcrest International Neighbours
Kitimat District Teachers’ Association
Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
Knox United Church, Terrace
Learning Disabilities Association of BC (LDABC)
Lutheran Urban Mission Society
Lynne Sinclair, City Councillor, White Rock
Make Poverty History, Canada
March of Dimes Canada
Mavis McMullen Housing Society
Michael McKnight, CEO, United Way of the Lower Mainland
Mid-Main Community Health Centre
Mike Harcourt
Mission and Outreach Committee for Knox United Church (Terrace)
Mission Teachers’ Union
MOSAIC (Multilingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities)
Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
Mount Seymour United Church
Murry Krause, City Councillor, Prince George
Nelson Area Society for Health
Nelson Community Services Centre
Nelson Food Cupboard
Nelson, BC Diocesan Development & Peace Committee
Network for East Vancouver Community Organizations (NEVCO)
New Foundations (a Mennonite Central Committee poverty alleviation project)
New Westminster City Council
Next Up
Nicola Valley Teachers Union
North Island Women’s Services Society
North Okanagan Child Care Society
North Okanagan Early Childhood Development Coalition
Northern Society for Domestic Peace
Oceanside Coalition For Strong Communities (Parksville, BC)
Okanagan Skaha Teachers’ Union
Oliver/Osoyoos Mental Health Consumers
Overseers Canada (Latin American immigrant collective in BC & Canada)
PACE (Prostitution, Alternatives, Counselling & Education) Society
Pacific Community Resources Society
Pacific Health & Development Sciences Inc.
Pacific Northwest Labour History Association
Parent Support Services Society
Parksville City Council
Parksville Qualicum KAIROS
Peace Arch Community Services Food Bank
Pedal Energy Development Alternatives(PEDAL)
Pilgrim United Church Social Justice Committee
Pivot Legal Society
Port Alberni City Council
Potluck Café Society
Poverty Law Advocacy Society, Powell River
Powell River City Council
Prince George Diocesan Council for the Canadian Catholic Organization of Development and Peace
Prince George District Teachers’ Association
Professional Employees Association
Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) Society
Prostitutes Empowerment, Education and Resources Society
Public Health Association of BC
Qualicum School Board
Quest Food Exchange
Rabbi Dr. Robert A. Daum, Director, Iona Pacific Inter-Religious Centre
Raise the Rates Coalition
Ray-Cam Cooperative Center
Raymond Louie, City Councillor, Vancouver
REACH Community Health Centre
Réseau-Femmes Colombie-Britannique
Revelstoke City Council
Revelstoke Renters Voice
Revelstoke Social Development Committee
Revelstoke Women’s Shelter
Richmond Centre for Disability
Richmond Community Health Advisory Committee (Vancouver Coastal Health)
Richmond Family Place Society
Richmond Poverty Response Committee
Richmond Women’s Resource Centre
Robert A. Daum, Rabbi, PhD
Sacred Heart Parish Social Justice Committee
Salmo Community Resource Society
Salmon Arn Deo Lutheran Church
Salsbury Community Society
Settlement Orientation Services (SOS), Vancouver Refugee Services Alliance
Shalom Seekers
Sheway
Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG)
Simon Fraser University Women’s Studies Graduate Caucus
Sisters of St. Ann (Victoria)
Skeena Diversity Society
Social Planning and Research Council of BC
Social Planning Council of Williams Lake & Area
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Seniors (SPCS)
South Fraser Unitarian Congregation, Social Justice Committee
South Okanagan Women in Need Society
South Peace Building Learning Together Society
South Vancouver Neighbourhood House
Spring Ridge Co-operative Housing Association
St. David’s Anglican Church Parish Council, Castlegar
St. James Anglican Church Social Gospel Coordinating Group
St. John the Baptist Outreach Committee, Cobble Hill
St. Paul’s Catherdral Peace and Justice Committee, Kamloops
St. Rita’s Roman Catholic Church, Castlegar
Sto:lo Tribal Council
Streams of Justice
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society
Surinderpal S. Rathor, Deputy Mayor, City of Williams Lake
Surrey Foundation
Surrey Urban Mission Society
Sustainable Environment Network Society
Sylvan United Church
Terrace Anti-Poverty Group Society
The Advocacy Centre (Nelson, BC)
The Church of St. John the Divine
The Eco-Cell at St. John’s, North Saanich
The Nelson CARES Society
The Realistic Success Recovery Society
The Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness (RSCH)
The Vancouver Island Mayworks Project
Threshold Housing Society
Tides Canada Foundation
Tim Stevenson, City Councillor, Vancouver
Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS)
Touchstone Family Association
Toxic Free Canada
TRAC Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre
Trail Family & Individual Resources Centre Society
Trail Poor No More Committee
Trail Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Seniors (SPCS)
Trail United Church
UBC Bike Co-op
Union of BC Indian Chiefs
UNITE HERE Local 40
United Way of Campbell River
United Way of Castlegar
United Way of Greater Victoria
United Way of North Okanagan Columbia Shuswap
United Way of Powell River and District
United Way of the Central and South Okanagan Similkameen
United Way of the Fraser Valley
United Way of the Lower Mainland
United Way of the Thompson Nicola Cariboo
University of BC School of Social Work
Urban Coalition (Vancouver)
Vancity Credit Union
Vancouver and District Labour Council
Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST)
Vancouver City Council
Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition
Vancouver Island Mayworks Project
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG)
Vancouver Island Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
Vancouver School Board
Vancouver South Presbytery, United Church of Canada
Vancouver-Burrard Presbytery of the United Church of Canada
Vernon & District Women’s Centre Society
Vibrant Abbotsford
Vibrant Surrey
Victoria City Council
Victoria Diocesan Council of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Victoria Friends Meeting, Peace and Social Concerns Committee (Quaker)
Victoria Women’s Transition House Society
West Coast Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund
West Kootenay Labour Council
Westcoast Family Resources Society
Wheelhouse Project
Wilson Heights United Church
WISH Drop-In Centre Society
Women Elders in Action (WE*ACT)
YFC/Youth Unlimited Greater Vancouver
YWCA Vancouver