World Wide Web Sites Of Interest

Other Political Participation Sites

• Other League of Women Voters Websites
• The Federal Election Commission Includes the universal voter registration form.
• Project Vote Smart
• Human SERVE
• Rock the Vote
• Electronic Policy Network
• Common Cause
• The Ballot Box Battle An election site for kids.
• Fifty Plus One A nonprofit group dedicated to training women to run for elective office.
• Congressional Quarterly's American Voter '96
• Vote America
• The American Prospect magazine
• Center for Policy Alternatives
• Policy.Com A public policy information site featuring organizations and individuals shaping public policy
• Public Campaign
• Citizens' Research Foundation A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to broadening public knowledge of political financing and election reform.
• AFL-CIO
• John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Political Resource A commercial site listing campaign products and services.
• Vote America
• Hearts and Minds
• People for the American Way
• American Voter Coalition

Federal Government

Congress

• House of Representatives
• House and Senate Legislative Information
• CapWeb An Internet Guide to the U.S. Congress

The Executive Branch

• The White House. This web site also provides access to the Cabinet Departments.
• The President's Interagency Council on Women
• The Federal Election Commission
• The Environmental Protection Agency

The Judiciary

• Federal Court System
• Supreme Court Decisions

Other Government Sites

• Yahoo List of Government Sources

 State Governments

• WWW and Gopher Sites Maintained by State Governments
• Governing Magazine

Civil Rights

• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• NAACP
• American Civil Liberties Union

Campaign Finance Reform

• Public Campaign
• Citizens' Research Foundation A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to broadening public knowledge of political financing and election reform.
• Follow the Money, a companion website to the 24-part PBS series on campaign finance reform.
• Common Cause
• The Brookings Institution
• The Aspen Institute
• Hearts and Minds

Women's Issues

• The President's Interagency Council on Women
• Center for the American Woman and Politics Think tank, education and resource center specializing in women's changing relationship to politics and government
• U.S. Information Agency (USIA) Resource Page on Follow-Up to Beijing Conference
• FEMINIST.COM
• Fifty Plus One
• Women Online Worldwide
• International Network of Women in Technology
• WOWFactor, Inc Focuses on facilitating women's greater participation in the new digital economy.
• National Policy and Resource Center on Women and Aging
• An Income of Her Own Focuses on economic empowerment for young women.
• Women's Educational Equity Act Resource Center
• Great Lakes Women's Leadership Network

Children's Issues

• Children's Defense Fund
• The KidsCampaign
• Coalition for America's Children
• Student Pledge Against Gun Violence
• The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is sponsoring "Welfare Interface" Audio Conferences, September-December 1997, focusing on critical issues that will affect whether individuals and states can meet the new welfare law's requirements.
• Girl-Child Follow Up to Beijing Women's Conference NEW!

Civic Renewal

• Alliance for National Renewal
• National Civic League
• Civnet: Journal for a Civil Society An international journal dedicated to exchange of ideas on democracy, civil society and civic education.
• National City Government Resource Center

Natural Resources Issues

• Sierra Club
• Home*A*Syst A USDA/EPA-sponsored program to enable homeowners, renters and communities to
• take voluntary action to protect their health and the environment.
• Farm*A*Syst A USDA/EPA-sponsored program to prevent pollution on farms and in homes.
• League of Conservation Voters

 International Issues

• International Development Conference A forum for the exchange of experience, information and ideas to foster international development.
• Civnet: Journal for a Civil Society An international journal dedicated to exchange of ideas on democracy, civil society and civic education.
• Girl-Child Follow Up to Beijing Women's Conference NEW!

Foundations and Associations

• American Bar Association
• Benton Foundation
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Council on Foundations
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Independent Sector
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

On this page and other places on this League of Women Voters website, live links to other internet addresses can be accessed. Such external internet addresses contain information created, published, maintained or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of the League. The League does not endorse, approve, certify or control these external internet addresses and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness or correct sequencing of information located at such addresses. Use of any information obtained from such addresses is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy and timeliness. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the League of Women Voters.

File updated 12/22/97

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