Frances Perkins - Another big FAN of St. Bede!
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post in the United States, was a social reformer who advocated a variety of liberal causes in the interest of workers, including social security, unemployment compensation, minimum wage and maximum hours, and child welfare legislation. A true Labor Day advocate!

ONE - Change through Advocacy
ONE is a grassroots campaign and advocacy organization backed by more than 2 million people who are committed to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African policy makers and activists. At ONE, we achieve change through advocacy. We hold world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and we campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively.

Interfaith Worker Justice
The topic of poverty and economic injustice is discussed time and time again in both the Old and New Testaments. Interfaith Worker Justice promotes biblical ideals of social justice. The Chapel is a member of IWJ.

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
This group promotes the Millennium Development Goals and is the Episcopal Church's partner to the ONE Campaign to make poverty history.

Bereavement Support Group
A Young Adult Bereavement Support Group meets on campus at Hillel on Tuesday evenings. If you are grieving the death of a loved one, this free support group may be for you. Once you open the link, click on either "CBC News" or "Groups," then click on "Young Adult Bereavement Support Group."

Speaking of Faith - Podcast by Krista Tippett
Winner of a Peabody Award, Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly program about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas." Produced and distributed by American Public Media and currently heard on over 200 public radio stations across the U.S. and globally via the Web and podcast.

Shropshire Music Foundation
The Shropshire Music Foundation's mission is to redress psychosocial trauma, advance emotional health, develop scholastic achievement, foster ethnic tolerance, promote peace, and improve the quality of life for war-affected children and adolescents through the establishment of on-going music education and performance programs. The foundation was conceived in 1999 by Liz Shropshire, a Los Angeles-based music teacher and composer. Since then this remarkable organization has touched the lives of over 9,500 children in Kosovo, Northern Ireland and northern Uganda.