Wider Opportunities for Women mission: "Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) works nationally and in its home community of Washington, D.C., to build pathways to economic independence for America's families, women and girls. WOW has a distinctive history in changing the landscape of women and work.
"For more than 40 years, WOW has helped women learn to earn, with programs emphasizing literacy, technical and nontraditional skills, the welfare-to-work transition, career development and retirement security. Since 1964, WOW has trained more than 10,000 women for well-paid work in the D.C. area.
"WOW leads the National Women's Workforce Network, which is comprised of organizations committed to increasing women and girls' access to well-paid work, the Family Economic Security Program (FES), and the Elder Economic Security Initiative."
EPRN researcher Mary Gatta is a WOW senior scholar.
From the American Rights at Work web site's "About Us": "Since 2003, American Rights at Work has informed the American public about the struggle to win workplace democracy for nurses, cooks, computer programmers, retail cashiers, and a variety of workers who we all depend on every day. Our vision is a nation where the freedom of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with employers is guaranteed and promoted." LERA member Erin Johansson is American Rights at Work's Director of Research. American Rights at Work is located in Washington, D.C. 
The Labor Project for Working Families is a Berkeley, Calif.-based non profit organization whose mission, according to its web site, is "to win and advance work family rights through the collective power of working people." Its vision: "We envision an American workplace that places equal value on doing our jobs and caring for our families. We envision an active and engaged movement that collectively ensures our rights as workers, family members and caregivers." Its values are "building union power, fostering strategic collaborations and respecting family diversity."
From the National Association of Manufacturers web site: "The NAM offers a variety of manufacturers’ resources that support and advance the manufacturing agenda and highlight the vital role of manufacturing in our nation’s economic vitality. These resources range from economic statistics and manufacturing industry data to analysis of recent manufacturing related court cases and policy issue one-pagers."
From the Poverty and Race Action Council web site:
From the Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity web site:
The American Arbitration Association, with offices in New York City, Dublin and Mexico City, and is scheduled to open an office in Singapore. provides dispute resolution services worldwide.
Based in New York, the American Mediation Association's members are attorneys, forensic accountants, psychologists, appraisers custody experts.
From the International Labor Organization web site: "The ILO is the international organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards. It is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency that brings together representatives of governments, employers and workers to jointly shape policies and programmes promoting Decent Work for all.
From the National Asociation of Arbirtrators' web site: "The National Academy of Arbitrators was 
The Society for Human Resource Management is a national and international professional human resources organization, founded in 1948, with headquarters in Alexandria. Va. SHRM has 250,000 members. From the SHRM home page: "SHRM is the global HR professional organization that exists to build and sustain partnerships with human resource professionals, media, governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses and academic institutions to address people management challenges that influence the effectiveness and sustainability of their organizations and communities.Provide a community for human resource professionals, media, governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses and academic institutions to share expertise and create innovative solutions on people management issues." 
The Chamber of Commerce has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. From the Chamber web site: "Mission Statement: "To advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity, and responsibility." About: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. More than 96 percent of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or fewer. As the voice of business, the Chamber’s core purpose is to fight for free enterprise before Congress, the White House, regulatory agencies, the courts, the court of public opinion, and governments around the world." 
From the Union for Radical Political Economics web site: "About URPE: 
Founded in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, based in New York City, is a non-profit grantmaking foundation. Grantees are those involved with original research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance where funding from the private sector, government or other foundations is not readily available. The Sloan Foundation has six program areas in which it dispenses grants: basic research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; science education; public understanding of science; economic performance and the quality of life; select national issues, such as biosecurity and how information technolgy affects the scientific endeavor; and New York City in science, technology and educational civic initiatives. From the Sloan Foundation web site: "The Sloan Research Fellowships - This program seeks to recognize the achievements of outstanding young scholars in science, mathematics, economics and computer science. Past recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships have gone on to win 38 Nobel prizes, 14 Fields Medals (mathematics), and eight John Bates Clark awards (economics)." A history of 75 years of Sloan Foundation grants is available by 
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, established in 1948 and located in Baltimore is a private foundation with assets of $2.7 billion that provides annual grant funding of $122 million. From the Web site: "The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. It was established in 1948 by Jim Casey, one of the founders of UPS, and his siblings, who named the Foundation in honor of their mother. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs. For a brief overview of our work, we offer a two-page 
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is one of the nation's largest foundations and the world's largest foundation dedicated to enterpreneurship and education. The foundation's president states that it aims to find, test, refine and disseminate new ideas in education at all levels including new "high-impact enterprises." The foundation, located in Kansas City, Mo., uses its endowment income to devote $90 million per year to grants and programs. The Kauffman Foundation has provided the Employment Policy Research Network with start-up funding to develop its 
The Ford Foundtion, headquartered in New York City, was established in 1936. According to its web site the Ford Foundation is "an independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization ... entirely separate from the Ford Motor Co." The foundations makes grants in all 50 states and more than 50 countries. The 
Founded in 1913 and based in New York City, the Rockefeller Foundation's lofty goal is "to promote the well-being of humanity" nationally and internationally. From the foundation's web site: "The Rockefeller Foundation envisions a world with Smart Globalization – a world in which globalization’s benefits are more widely shared and social, economic, health, and environmental challenges are more easily weathered. We support work that enables individuals, communities, and institutions to access new tools, practices, resources, services, and products. And we support work that enhances their resilience in the face of acute crises and chronic stresses, whether manmade, ecological, or both. This is our 21st century interpretation of the Foundation’s pioneering – and enduring – philanthropic mission to 'promote the well-being' of humanity." The Rockefeller Foundation provided a startup grant for the Employment Policy Research Network.
From the Op-Ed Project web site: "The OpEd Project is an initiative to expand the range of voices we hear from in the world, with an immediate focus on increasing the volume of women thought leaders in the public sphere to a tipping point. Since women currently do not submit to key opinion forums with anywhere near the frequency that men do — and because these gateway forums feed all other media and drive thought leadership and policy — we target and train women experts at top universities, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations to write op-eds and more broadly to take thought leadership positions in their fields; we connect them with a national network of high-level mentor-editors, and we channel them to the media gatekeepers who need them, across all platforms."
The Center for American Progress is a progressive policy institute with offices in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. From the organization web site: "We develop new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate."
From the Generation Web site: Generation Investment Management LLP is an "independent, private, owner-managed partnership with offices in London, New York and Sydney ..." Generation is "dedicated to long-term investing, integrated sustainability research and client alignment." The partnership was founded in 2004 by former Vice President Al Gore and David Blood. "
The National Bureau of Economic research, located in Cambridge, Mass., is "a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a great understanding of how the economy works" ... for "policymakers, business professionals and the academic community." the 1,100 economics and business professors ("research associates") "concentrate on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the economic effects of public poliices and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals." Full text downloads of NBER working papers are available free to institutional (most universities) and individual subscribers, corporate associates, journalists, federal govenment employees and military personnel and residents of developing nations. A number of NBER associates are also Employment Policy Research Network researchers.
From the National Law Review web site: "The National Law Review compiles timely, well-researched articles submitted to us from 
The Organisation of Economic and Co-operative Development has headquarters in Paris, France. Its motto is "Better Policies for Better Lives." One might add "globally." From the OECD web site: "The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict future trends. We set international standards on a wide range of things, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. We look, too, at issues that directly affect the lives of ordinary people, like how much they pay in taxes and social security, and how much leisure time they can take. We compare how different countries’ school systems are readying their young people for modern life, and how different countries’ pension systems will look after their citizens in old age." 
