Useful Links
Other Simon Communities
Simon Community of Ireland
www.simoncommunity.com
St.Andrew's House, 28-30 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 01-6711606
Email: info@simoncommunity.com
Cork Simon Community
www.corksimon.ie
PO Box 76, Cork
Tel: 021-4300970
Email: csimon@iol.ie
Galway Simon Community
www.galwaysimon.ie
18 Sea Road, Galway
Tel: 091-589415
Email: officegalsimon@eircom.ie
Dundalk Simon Community
Sunnyside House, Barrack Street, Dundalk
Tel: 042-9339583
Email: dlksimon@iol.ie
Midlands Simon Community
PO Box 27, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Tel: 0906 444 641
Email: info@midlandssimon.com
Midwest Simon Community
45 Tait Business Centre, Dominic Street, Limerick
Tel: 061 403 145
Email: mwsimon@eircom.net
Northwest Simon
Ballyshannon IT Centre, Portnason, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
Tel: 071 985 1680
Email: nwsimon@eircom.net
Southeast Simon Community
Unit 33 Johnstown Business Park, Waterford
Tel: 051 874 838
Email: sesimon@eircom.net
Northern Ireland Simon Community
www.simoncommunity.org
57 Fitzroy Avenue, Belfast, BT7 1HT, Northern Ireland
Tel: 028-90232882
Email: info@simoncommunity.org
Irish Sites
www.homelessagency.ie
The Homeless Agency is responsible for the management and coordination of services to people who are homeless in the Dublin area
www.threshold.ie
Threshold Ireland. Advice and information on rights for tenants and landlords
www.svp.ie
St. Vincent de Paul. Voluntary sector provider of services to people homeless and in poverty
www.mqi.ie
Merchants Quay Ireland. Voluntary sector provider of services for those who use drugs and/or are HIV positive
www.focusireland.ie
Focus Ireland. Voluntary sector provider of services to people homeless, especially young people and families
www.salvationarmy.ie
Salvation Army. Voluntary sector provider of services for people homeless.
www.trust-ireland.ie
Trust. Voluntary sector provider of medical and social services for people who are homeless in Dublin
International Sites
www.homelesspages.org.uk
A complete guide of all voluntary organisations working with homeless people in the UK
www.shelter.org.uk
UK voluntary organisation campaigning on behalf of and offering advice to people who are homeless
www.crisis.org.uk
UK voluntary organisation working directly with rough sleepers
www.centrepoint.org.uk
UK NGO working with young homeless
www.feantsa.org
European federation of national organisations working with the homeless
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
List of member organisations, including a link to workshops in Ireland
www.nhchc.org
National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Organisation of health care providers working with people homeless across the US
www.nlchp.org
National Law Centre on Homelessness and Poverty. US NGO
www.nationalhomeless.org
US directory on homelessness and housing policy
Housing
Irish Sites
www.icsh.ie
Irish Council for Social Housing. Representative body for the non-profit, voluntary and co-operative housing movement in Ireland
www.environ.ie
Irish Department of the Environment, with responsibility for housing
www.irish-architecture.com
Online community for Irish Architecture and Design
International Sites
www.nhi.org
Website of the National Housing Institute, a US nonprofit organisation that examines the problems in housing and community in America
www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp
Housing Institute, York University, UK
www.cohre.org
International Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
www.hud.gov/homeless/index.cfm
US Government Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
www.unchs.org
UN Centre for Human Settlements
www.cih.org
UK's Chartered Institute of Housing
www.housing.org.uk
UK's National Housing Federation
Social Inclusion
Irish Sites
www.aware.ie
Voluntary organization aiming to assist those directly affected by depression
www.iol.ie/~dfi
Disability Federation of Ireland
www.sophia.ie
Sophia housing association.
www.iol.ie/lucia/si
Schizophrenia Ireland, Lucia Foundation
International Sites
Volunteering
www.avso.org
European Platform of national and international non-profit organisations active in the field of longer term voluntary service
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), platform for UK NGOs
www.dsk.de
German Charities Institute. Register of 8,000 German not-for-profit organizations
Sustainable Communities
www.oecd.org/env
Environmental Section of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
www.urban.nl
Dutch based "International Institute for the Urban Environment" (English version)
www.sustainableusa.org
Non-profit US organisation focused on sustainable development
www.rprogress.org
"Redefining Progress" is a non-profit organisation that "develops policies and tools that reorient the economy to value people and nature first"
www.iscvt.org
US based Institute for Sustainable Communities
www.smallisbeautiful.org
EF Schumacher Society, founded on the ideas of the author of "Small is Beautiful: economics as if people mattered"
www.iied.org
International Institute for Environment and Development.
www.naturalstep.org
The Natural Step is an international organisation that "uses a science-based, systems framework to help organisations and communities understand and move towards sustainability"
Advocacy and Research Organisations
www.policylink.org
US advocacy, research, capacity building and communication organisation
www.jrf.org.uk
Site of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which sponsors and disseminates research on poverty and social exclusion
www.eapn.org
European Anti-Poverty Network
www.oneworld.net
Web-site for the dissemination of global news, human rights, campaigns and job opportunities with NGOS.
www.hri.ca
"Human Rights Network"