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Civil
Rights Links & Other Resources:
These resources are provided by
The Law Offices of David H. Greenberg, a law firm in Beverly
Hills, CA, which specializes in the area of employment law and other
civil rights litigation.
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to5, National Association of Working Women:
The largest membership organization of working women in the country.
Advancing Women: International
business, career networking community for women in the workplace.
The American Association
of University Women: A national organization that promotes education
and equity for all women and girls.
Association for Women in Computing:
Dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in computing professions.
Black Women in Sisterhood
for Action (BISA): Develops & promotes alternative strategies
for educational and career development of black women in the world
of work.
Career Women: Women's
career center including job bank, resume bank, resources, news and
more.
Center For Women's Global
Leadership: Develops and facilitates women's leadership for
women's human rights & social justice worldwide.
Femina: Directory of links to female friendly sites & information.
Ms. Foundation for Women:
Supports the efforts of women & girls to govern their own lives
& influence the world around them.
National Association for Female Executives:
Professional association dedicated to the advancement of women in
the workplace through education, networking and public advocacy.
National Center For
Policy Research For Women & Families: Dedicated to providing
information that can be used to improve the lives of women and families.
National Council
of Women's Organizations: Network of more than one hundred women's
organizations, which together represent more than 6 million members.
National Organization for Women (NOW):
Official home page of the National Organization for Women.
NOW Legal Defense and Education
Fund: Advocacy organization for women dealing with reproductive
rights, violence, and sexual harassment.
Women's Bureau of the U.S.
Department of Labor: The only Federal Agency to have a Congressional
mandate to promote the welfare of working women.
The Feminist Majority Foundation:
Working to eliminate social and economic injustice.
The National Partnership
for Women & Families: Promotes workplace fairness, quality
health care, & policies that help women meet work & family responsibilities.
Third Wave Foundation:
Resources & Grantmaking, giving direct financial support to young
women activists & the organizations they lead.
Voters For Choice: Pro-choice
political action committee devoted solely to electing pro-choice
candidates to office.
Women's Environment & Development
Organization: Advocates power of women as policymakers at all
levels in governments, institutions & forums.
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Administration
on Aging (AoA):
Designed for Older Americans and their families.
Age of Reason: Practical
information relative to seniors lifestyles.
American Association of Retired Persons
(AARP)
Serving the needs of people 50 and over through information and
education, advocacy, and community services provided by a network
of local chapters and experienced volunteers throughout the country.
Funsites.Com-Seniors
& Retirement: Online catalog of information web sites.
GeroWeb:
Online resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and others
interested in aging and older individuals.
National Council of Senior Citizens:
Nonprofit activist organization dedicated to senior and retirement
issues such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
National Senior Citizens Law Center:
Advocates, litigates and publishes on low-income elderly and disability
issues.
Older Women's League
(OWL):Presents programs of interest to midlife and older women,
and advocates for policy changes.
SeniorCom: A leading
site on the Internet for the 50+ market.
Senior Sites: Comprehensive
web source of non-profit housing and services for seniors.
Third Age: The web for grown-ups.
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American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU)
America's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating,
legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues
affecting individual freedom in the United States.
Americans Against Discrimination
and Preferences (AADAP): Works for the abolition of racial and
gender discrimination and preferences at the local, state, and federal
levels.
Center
for Constitutional Rights: A national public interest law firm,
working for constitutional and human rights under the U.S. Constitution
and international human rights laws.
Center for Law and Social Policy
(CLASP): Education, policy research and advocacy organization
seeking to improve the economic conditions of low income families.
Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund: A national organization committed
to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians,
and people with HIV/AIDS.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights:
Working to protect and promote fundamental human rights.
National Urban League: The premier
social service and civil rights organization in America.
Out on the Web: Supporting
the gay and lesbian community.
PlanetOut: A worldwide online
community of gay, lesbian, bi and trans people.
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and
litigation
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Findlaw
Thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law
schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, CLE courses, and
much more.
LawInfo: Resource for
attorneys, legal support services and the public.
Law Journal Extra!: Legal news,
jobs/classifieds,continuing legal education, legal marketplace,
technology, and more.
National Lawyers Guild: An association
dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political
and economic system.
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National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The principal objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political,
educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens
of the United States.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Western
Regional Office): Publicizes the civil rights litigation and
advocacy work of the Los Angeles office.
National
Conference of Black Lawyers: An activist organization of legal
workers, including lawyers, legal scholars, judges, law students
and paralegals.
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Accesss
Interactive:
Entry level jobs, resume and interview tips for college students
and new grads.
America's Employers:
The job seeker's home on the Internet.
Association for
Union Democracy: The only national Pro-labor organization solely
devoted to advocating the democratic rights of union members.
A Write Impression: A
resume and CV writing service including job search, resume posting,
interviewing tips, and career links
BenefitsLink
Information and services for employers sponsoring employee benefit
plans, companies providing products and services for plans, and
participating employees.
Best Jobs USA: Employment
search engine.
California Employment Lawyers Association
- A statewide organization of attorneys primarily representing employees
in employment termination and discrimination cases.
Career Alternatives:
Providing alternative career search solutions to job seekers and
employers alike using the latest technologies available.
Career Enhancement Resources:
Maximizes your interviewing potential through interactive seminars
and post-classroom consulting during your actual job search.
CareerExchange: An extensive
job search database with online conferencing and a "people-match"
program to email you new jobs on a daily basis.
Career Exposure: Online
career resource center with resume bank, job bank and direct links
to 1000's of corporate HR websites.
Career Magazine: Interactive
career, employment and job resource center.
Career Mosaic: Visit
CareerMosaic to research employers and opportunities in sales, engineering,
high-tech, health care, insurance, finance, software, and other
industries.
Career Moves: Online employment
referral service based in Boston.
CareerPark: Offers employment
opportunities with some of the world's most respected and fastest-growing
employers.
Career Shop: Offers free
job searches and resume posting to all job seekers.
CareerWeb: Professional,
technical and managerial jobs.
Office
of Civil Rights - Equal Employment Opportunity
DICE: Job search engine for full-time,
permanent & contract computer consulting and programming employment
opportunities.
Disgruntled: The business
magazine for people who work for a living.
Employer & Employee:
Helps the employer and employee resolve workplace problems.
Employment
Law Forum
An online discussion group to answer questions, provide tips and
discuss legal issues about employment law.
EEOC - District
Offices: A list of EEOC district offices.
Go Jobs: An online job board and
resume bank.
Hireweb.com: Let employers
find you.
HR Zone:Guide to Human Resources
on the Web.
International Personnel
Management Association Assessment Council: Leading organization
of applied personnel assessment professionals.
JobBank USA: JobBank USA
specializes in providing employment and resume information services
to job candidates, employers and recruitment firms.
Jobs.NET:The leading provider
of cost-effective online recruitment solutions for employers worldwide.
JobNext Career Network:
Provides job search, resume and job posting services.
JobOptions:
Job database, private resume builder and recruitment resource.
Job-Search-Engine:
Facilitates on-line job hunting by retrieving employment opportunities
from the Internet.
JobWeb: Linking jobs, job seekers,
and job-search information.
Marshall School of Business
at USC: Directory of MBA Education, career and business web
sites.
National Employment Lawyers Association
(NELA)
NELA is the country's only professional organization that is exclusively
comprised of lawyers who represent individual employees in cases
involving employment discrimination, wrongful termination, employee
benefits and other employment-related matters.
Net-Temps, A World of Jobs
Neatly Packaged
Online Career Center: A career
center with over 8,000 employers advertising annually, including
over 400 of the FORTUNE 500 corporations.
Quintessential
Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide: Career and job resources
as well as a fairly inclusive list of the best jobs.
Recruiting-Links.com:
Unique job search engine links to jobs posted by employers on corporate
sites all over the Web, based on any combination of over 700 location,
industry, and occupational categories.
The Black Collegian Online:
Career site for students and professionals of color.
Tier21: Access to over one
million jobs worldwide.
US Careers Resource
Center: WWW based Employment and Career Resource Center.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC)
Aims to ensure equality of opportunity by vigorously enforcing federal
legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment. (See also
our about the EEOC)
Willamette Law Online:
Labor/Employment section:
A service providing information in all areas of Labor and Employment
Law.
Workforce Online:
Human Resources information and chat rooms on employee relations,
personnel, recruiting, harassment,benefits, performance appraisals,
relocation and more.
Working Today:
A national nonprofit membership organization that promotes the interests
of people who work independently.
Workplace Fairness
A new organization founded to assist individuals, both employed
and unemployed, in understanding, enforcing, and expanding their
rights in the workplace.
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Harassment Training: Learn more than just
the legal definition of sexual harassment through this online course
designed to help you become a more sensitive and effective communicator
at work and in your personal life.
Stop Harassment:
A helpful resource for women who are victims of harassment.
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Handitel:
Information on disability.
Job Accommodation Network
(JAN): Free consulting on the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA), job accommodations, and the employability of people with
disabilities.
President's Committee on Employment
of People with Disabilities: Facilitates the communication,
coordination and promotion of public and private efforts to enhance
the employment of people with disabilities.
Southern Tier
Independence Center: Making sure that people with disabilities
are integrated into the community and play their proper role in
leading society and its organizations.
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Mining
Co. Guide to Pregnancy/Birth: Chat,
boards, articles, newsletters, and stories.
National Legal Aid & Defender
Association: Nationwide network of persons, programs and organizations
committed to equal access to justice for the poor.
National Veterans Legal Services
Project (NVLSP): An independent organization with experience
in identifying the obstacles that keep veterans from better lives.
Native American Rights Fund:
A non-profit legal organization dedicated to the preservation of
the rights and culture of Native Americans.
Nolo Press Self-Help Law
Centre: A plain-English site for non-lawyers.
The Labor of Love:
Pregnancy and parenting resource on the web.
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