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American Association for World Health : The American Association for World Health educates the United States population about world health problems and issues. In 1995, AAWH begin a study of the impact of U.S. policy on the health of the Cuban population. Their report, Denial of Food and Medicine: The Impact of the US Embargo on Health & Nutrition in Cuba, chronicles the findings of the yearlong investigation, principally that the embargo has "dramatically harmed the health and nutrition of large numbers of ordinary Cuban citizens ... [leading to] a significant rise in suffering-and even deaths-in Cuba." AAWH no longer does work in Cuba, but MEDICC now continues their program. Contact Information: American Association for World Health, 1825 K Street NW, Suite 1208, Phone 410.625.2220 Fax 410.685.1635, DC, 20006; telephone: 718-623-1306; fax: 718-623-1309; e-mail: AAWHstaff@aol.com; http://www.medicc.org.

American Council of Learned Societies : The American Council of Learned Societies brings together national scholarly organizations in order to "advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies." In conjunction with the Social Science Research Council, the ACLS founded the Cuba Working Group to increase scholarly cooperation between the United States and Cuba. The Working Group funds Cuban researchers to travel to the United States and abroad, North American educators to travel to Cuba, and other activities that stimulate academic cooperation as well as assist Cuban scholarship. Additional grants are distributed through a grant competition. Awards which normally range from $2,500-$1500. The Working Group is administered at the SSRC. Contact Information: Mira Edmonds, Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019; e-mail: edmonds@ssrc.org; http://www.acls.org

American Friends Service Committee : The Quaker based American Friends Service Committee has worked towards normalizing relation between the United States and Cuba since 1961. In the subsequent decades, AFSC has undertaken humanitarian assistance, academic exchange, medical aid and other projects. Within the United States, they work to change U.S. foreign policy and promote reconciliation between the United States and Cuba. The Cuban International Affairs Program also cultivates relationships between Cuban NGOs and U.S. and international NGOs. Respectful Engagement: Cuban NGO Cooperation with Latin America, Europe and Canada, published by AFSC, describes the development of Cuban NGOs and interactions with international NGOs. Contact Information: Richard Erstad, American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102; telephone: 215-241-7146; fax: 215-241-7026; e-mail: idlac@afsc.org; http://www.afsc.org.

Arca Foundation : The Arca foundation is a grantmaking organization that centers on changing U.S. policy with focuses such as US relations with Cuba, together with domestic policy concerns like campaign reform. They distribute over $2.5 million a year. Additionally, Arca provides funding for a wide range of US and international policy issues. Contact Information: Alesha Daughtrey, Arca Foundation, 1308 19th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036; telephone: 202-822-9193; fax: 202-785-1446; www.arcafoundation.org.

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 Catholic Relief Services : Since 1993, Catholic Relief Services has supported the efforts of Caritas Cuba, the social action arm of the Catholic Church in Cuba. Catholic Relief Services' assistance to Caritas has focused on aid to vulnerable groups: the elderly, chronically ill, young children and families in need of pre- and post-natal care. Catholic Relief Services supports Caritas in three areas: humanitarian assistance; institutional development and socio-economic development projects, and also engages in public awareness and domestic outreach activities in the United States. As part of the agency's mission to assist the people of Cuba through Caritas, CRS seeks to engage the people of the United States in a common effort to be in spiritual and material solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Cuba. Contact Information: Tom Garofalo, Cuba Director, Catholic Relief Services, 209 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201-3443; e-mail: tmgarof@catholicrelief.org; http://www.catholicrelief.org.

Center for Cuban Studies : Founded in 1972, the Center for Cuban Studies is the longest standing United States organization which facilitates travel to Cuba. As part of CCS's commitment to provide U.S. citizens with information about Cuba, CCS organizes trips to Cuba for both groups and individuals that fall within the legal exemptions to the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba, i.e., professional research, news-gathering and educational study. The Center organizes cultural activities, and has a gallery, the Cuban Art Space, devoted to exhibitions of art from the island. Their magazine, CUBA Update covers politics, economics, and the arts, with an emphasis on U.S.-Cuba relations. Contact Information: Sandra Levinson, Center for Cuban Studies, 124 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011; telephone: 212-242-0559 x437; fax: 212-242-1937; e-mail: cubanctr@igc.org; http://www.cubaupdate.org.

Center for Defense Information : The Center for Defense Information is an independent research organization that monitors military affairs throughout the world. CDI's weekly publication, The Defense Monitor contains a collection of pieces on a wide range of military and foreign policy issues, intended to provide timely information, as well as publicize key military issues often hidden from the public. CDI's Cuba Issues department researched the U.S-Cuban security relationship, and produced TV and radio documentaries on the U.S. and Cuban militaries; this includes such titles as, "The U.S. Navy in Cuba," "Does Cuba Threaten the United States?," "Faulty US Policy Toward Cuba," and "Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba: Ending Cold War Foreign Policy." Contact Information: Lynn Schuster, Center for Defense Information, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036; telephone: 212.242.0559; fax: 212-242-1937; e-mail: Info@cdi.org; http://www.cdi.org.

Center for International Policy : The Center for International Policy promotes a U.S. foreign policy based on peace, international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights. The Cuba project, headed by Wayne S. Smith, chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana 1979-1982, considers United States policy towards Cuba as obsolete and counterproductive, and has mobilize against it using research, education and direct public advocacy. Numerous delegations have been organized by CIP between Cuba and the United States including agricultural, business, religious, and political representatives. CIP was also involved in the Baltimore baseball game where the Cuban national baseball team played the Baltimore Orioles. Most recently, CIP hosted a conference on Afro-Cubans in Cuban society, and sponsored a delegation of U.S. mayors to Cuba. Contact Information: Kim Waldner, Center for International Policy, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 312, Washington, DC, 20036; telephone: 202-232-3317 x113; e-mail: cip@ciponline.org; http://www.ciponline.org/cuba.htm.

Center for US-Mexican Studies : The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies coordinates a residential fellowship program for researcher from all disciplines interested in Mexico and US-Mexican policy issues. The scholars address such issues as: economic and political consequences of North American integration, political transition in Mexico in comparative perspective, and political and social consequences of restructuring in Mexico. They also conduct a six-week Summer Session in U.S. Studies for social scientist and nonacademic professionals which includes Cuban participants. The Center also uses annual conferences and publications to disseminate information regarding these topics. Contact Information: Kevin Middlebrook, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0510, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0510; telephone: 202-466-1300; e-mail: usmex@weber.ucsd.edu; http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/USMex/welcome.htm.

Cuba Friendship Committee: Begun as a cultural exchange group arranging visits by Cuban performing arts and sports teams, political activists for speeches, etc. Currently not active other than maintaining a web site for references to Cuba. Contact Information: Ala'n Ala'n Apurim, 4330 Knottynold Ln, Houston TX 77053-1619; telephone: 713-413-1134; e-mail: apurim@uh.edu for text-only, apurim@dr.com for html, attachments, pix; http://geocities.com/namorado.geo/amistad.html

Cuban American Alliance Education Fund : The Cuban American Alliance Education Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit national network of Cuban Americans that educates on issues related to hardships caused by current United States-Cuba relations and develops mutually beneficial engagements in order to promote understanding and human compassion. The Alliance publishes a Spanish/English newsletter, La Alborada, for individuals interested in U.S.-Cuban affairs. One of their current projects, La Gran Familia, works with the Cuban Association for the Physically Disabled (ACLIFIM) to deliver medicine and equipment to disabled children in Cuba. Contact Information: Delvis Fernandez Levy, Cuban American Alliance Education Fund, . 614 Maryland Avenue, NE #2, Washington, DC 20002-5825; telephone: 202-543-6780; fax: 202-543-6434; e-mail: caaef@igc.org; http://www.cubamer.org

Cuban Committee for Democracy : The Cuban Committee for Democracy began in 1993 in order to represent the more moderate sector of the Cuban American community, whose voice is not otherwise represented by other existing organizations, and thus fill a void while addressing the misperception that the Cuban American community is monolithic and uniformly conservative. CCD's intention is to promote a climate of political tolerance, civil debate, and respect for civil and political rights while supporting a peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba and the democratization of politics on the island as well as within the Cuban-American communities in the United States. CCD sponsors activities that expand the public space for expression and discussion of alternative opinions and proposals concerning the future of Cuba and Cuban Americans. Their publication, Cuban Affairs, discusses issues related to politics, culture and economics of Cubans in the exile community and on the island. Contact Information: Sean Garcia, Cuban Committee for Democracy, 1777 T Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20009; telephone: 202-319-0056; fax: 202-319-0058; e-mail: ccd@us.net; http://www.us.net/cuban.

Cubanow.org : Cuba Research and Education Programs: Our programs main focus is a people-to-people program on architecture, planning, sustainable development, housing and preservation. Our program has gotten much acclaim from tour books, media and numerous professional organizations--see testimonials on our website. Folks that go on our programs have an established interest in urban affairs and range from college students to senior citizens. We have published several articles on Cuba and are currently working on a book. Contact Information: John I. Gilderbloom, Executive Director, 1931 Eastview Avenue Suite 3, Louisville, Kentucky 40205; telephone: 502-479-3666; fax: 502-459-4908; e-mail: jgilde02@sprynet.com; www.cubanow.org

Cuban Research Institute: The CRI was established in 1991 by the Provost of Florida International University (FIU) upon the recommendation of a faculty committee, so as to fulfill, in the area of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, the University’s three-fold mission: research, teaching, and service. As the largest institution of public higher education in southern Florida, FIU (a part of the State University System of Florida) has unique obligations and opportunities in developing Cuba-related programs. To accomplish its mission, the CRI develops academic programs in a wide range of areas: support for faculty and graduate student research; organization of conferences, seminars, lectures, and symposia; community outreach through the sponsorship of events (lectures, exhibitions, etc.) of special interest to the community; facilitate the participation of faculty experts in the public discussion, media coverage, and public policy formulation on issues regarding Cuba and the Cuban-American community; enrich the educational experience offered to undergraduate and graduate students at the University, especially through the expansion of course offerings on Cuba or Cuban Americans; nurture the growth in the number of faculty at the University with expertise in Cuban and Cuban American Studies; publications; make FIU an important international and national hub of scholarly activity in relation to Cuba and its Diaspora; assist in the development of the Cuba-related holdings and collections of the University Library. Contact Information: Lisandro Pérez, Director; Uva de Aragón, Assistant Director, Florida International University, University Park Campus, DM 364, Miami, Florida 33199; telephone: 305-348-1991; fax: 305-348-3593; e-mail: crinst@fiu.edu; http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri

Cuban Studies Institute: The Cuban Studies Institute evolved out of several years of sustained effort in developing relations with Cuban counterpart organizations for the purposes of academic collaboration and exchange, curricular development, cultural exchange and international development and dialogue. In addition, the Institute fosters and coordinates Cuba-related initiatives in other units of the University, such as in the Schools of Architecture, Social Work, and Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Reflecting the success of these efforts, Tulane University in recent years has had a greater presence of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduates students in Cuba than any other American university. The Institute's extensive network of collaborating institutions includes, among others, the University of Havana, the Echeverría Superior Polytechnic Institute, the Higher Institute for the Study of International Relations, the Directorate of Environmental Policy, the Cuban Institute of History, the Cuban Zoological Society, the Fernando Ortiz Foundation, The Felix Varela Center, Catholic Relief Services (Caritas), the Foundation for Nature and Man, and the National Union of Jurists. Contact Information: Tulane University, Caroline Richardson Building, New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 telephone: (504) 862-8629; fax: 504-862-8678; e-mail: cuba@tulane.edu; www.Cuba.tulane.edu

Data Center : The Data Center is an independent non-profit research center providing information to activists working for progressive social change since 1977. Their ISLA program, Information Services Latin America, provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. and British media coverage on Latin America through a monthly publication of approximately 350 pages. The Conexiones Project, a subset of ISLA, focuses on contributing to a U.S.-Cuba dialogue through information exchanges, in particular by providing research information for Cuban organizations as well as a public forum for Cuban analysts through the ISLA Web Site Conexiones section, which serves as a resource on Cuban politics, economy, culture and society. Contact Information: Fred Goff, Data Center, 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 900, Oakland, CA, 94612-2912; telephone: 202-319-0056; fax: 202-319-0058; e-mail: datacenter@datacenter.org; http://www.igc.apc.org/datacenter.

Disarm Education Fund: Cuban Medical Project: Disarm's Cuban Medical Project began in 1994 to combat the effects of the US embargo against Cuba on the health of ordinary Cuban citizens.  This project is now one of the world's most effective international aid programs, benefiting almost 20% of the Cuban population.  Disarm is one of the largest donors of medicines to Cuba (over the past seven years, we have shipped more than $68 million worth of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies).  We also have one of the largest single issue constituencies for lobbying on anti-embargo legislation. Project Locations:  Disarm provides medicine and medical supplies to 60 primary care clinics across the island, and three pediatric hospitals. Last year Disarm joined with Aids Treatment Access-Cuba, and now has a large program providing medicines for the Pedro Kouri Institute for Tropical Diseases. Issue Areas/Sectors:  Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba. Contact Information: Bob Schwartz, Executive Director, Disarm Education Fund, 36 East 12th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003; telephone: 212-475-3232; Fax: 212-979-1583; e-mail: bschwartz@disarm.org; www.disarm.org

Fund for Reconciliation and Development: The Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FRD) began in 1985 as the US-Indochina Reconciliation Project. It evolved from a program of the American Friends Service Committee established in 1972. FRD was the first American non-governmental organization (NGO) devoted solely to normal diplomatic, economic and cultural relations with Indochina and expanded its work to include Cuba in 1999. FRD carries out its own programs of cultural and educational exchange and humanitarian assistance. It also facilitates communication and cooperation between private business, NGOs, foundations and educational institutions interested in the region by publishing the quarterly newsletter Interchange and by organizing national and international meetings. FRD funding comes from foundations, US and European government agencies, international organizations, and private donations. Contact Information: Zach Berman, 355 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018; telephone: 212-760-9903; fax: (212)760-9906; e-mail: info@ffrd.org; www.ffrd.org

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Georgetown University Caribbean Project : The Georgetown University Caribbean Project's Cuba Program seeks to improve the quality of debate on Cuba and Cuba policy by providing information to policy makers and others involved in the process and by encouraging communication between groups from varied ideological perspectives. The Cuba Study Group, the Cuba Analytical Workshops, Congressional Staffers' Briefings, and Cuba Program Meetings all facilitate informed discussion regarding Cuba to different constituencies. Their quarterly publication, The Georgetown University Cuba Briefing Paper Series, also provides information for those involved with Cuba policy. In addition, the Research Facilitation Service, Research Dissemination Service, and Cuban Academic Exchanges promotes academic research in Cuba. Contact Information: Shawn Malone, Georgetown University Caribbean Project, 3307 M Street NW, Suite 302, Washington, DC, 20007-3539; telephone: 202-687-2058; fax: 202-687-2583; e-mail: carib@gunet.georgetown.edu; http://sfshttp://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/clas/Caribe/main.htm.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA): Environment, Economy and Community in Latin America: Semester program for academic credit, open to all majors, interdisciplinary courses taught in Spanish by Latin American faculty. Extensive field work, family homestay, U.S. transcript provided. Explore the impact of global development on local cuture and environment. Student develop a broad understanding of current political, economic and social conditions in Guatemala with comparative perspective through field study in Cuba (Guatemala with field study in Cuba; Spring). Contact Information: 2233 University Ave. W., Suite 210, Saint Paul, MN 55114-1629 United States; telephone: 800-554-1089 or 651-646-8832; e-mail: info@hecua.org; www.hecua.org


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Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) : The Institute for Food and Development Policy, or Food First, is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center focusing on the issues of poverty and hunger worldwide, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right. Food First was licensed in 1996 to pursue scientific and technological exchanges on organic agriculture. The Cuban Organic Agriculture Exchange Program organizes support for organic farming attempts in Cuba as well as publicizing these efforts internationally. The Cuban Organic Farming Exchange Program, co-sponsored with Global Exchange, organizes delegations to and from Cuba, bringing farmers, researchers and sustainable agricultural programs closer together. Contact Information: Martin Bourque, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), 398 60th Street, Oakland, CA, 94618; telephone: 617-496-5245; e-mail: foodfirst@foodfirst.org; http://www.foodfirst.org.

The Institute for Human Rights & Responsibilities (IHRR): Cuba/US Kingian Nonviolence Exchange Project-1998-2003: The 1998-2003 Cuba/US Kingian Nonviolence Exchange Program is jointly sponsored by The Centro Memorial Martin Luter King, Jr. (CMMLK) in Havana, Cuba and The Institute for Human Rights & Responsibilities (IHRR) in Galena, Ohio. In April 1998 the CMMLK hosted the first Socio/Theological Seminar on Dr. King’s Legacy of Hope for the Challenges of the Third Millennium with sixteen US church and twenty Cuban church leaders to initiate the Kingian Nonviolence Exchange Program. In January 2001 the program conducted another three-day Socio/Theological Seminar at the CMMLK in Havana designed to initiate commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Black Theology of Liberation and Kingian Nonviolence in Cuba. Seven (of a total of eight) five-day Kingian Nonviolence Leadership Seminars have been conducted in different regions of Cuba. The five-day seminars are designed to prepare Cuban religious and civic leaders to make presentations on nonviolence in fifty areas of Cuba as part of CMMLK’s civic and religious leadership and popular education program. The goal is to strengthen religious leadership and develop a Cuban faculty to teach the Kingian Nonviolence education program. The Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities, Inc. was established in 1978 and received its IRS 501 (C) (3) Federal Tax Exemption in 1980. The IHRR purpose is to promote adult leadership education for nonviolence democratic social change programs and projects. It publishes nonviolence and democracy educational materials, conducts residential adult education programs and helps to develop nonviolence conflict reconciliation projects in the United States and with people in other nations. Participation only by Invitation of IHRR or CMMLK. Contact Information: David C. Jehnsen, Chair, Post Office Box 297, 173 Walnut Street, Galena, Ohio 43021; telephone: 740-965-5118; fax: on a call first basis; e-mail: djehnsen@columbus.rr.com

Inter-American Dialogue: Cuba Program: The Inter-American Dialogue has been working to create an economic policy dialogue between staff of the IFIs and Cuban economic officials and analysts. This multi-year project is designed to provide Cuba with greater access to important forums for economic policy discussion, while simultaneously enabling IFI officials to become more familiar with Cuban economic policies and policy makers. We seek to foster academic, professional, and technical exchanges between Cubans and professionals in the international financial community. Contact Information: Daniel P. Erikson, Deputy Director, 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 510, Washington, DC, 20036; telephone: 202-822-9002; fax: 202-822-9553; e-mail: derikson@thedialogue.org; www.thedialogue.org

Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization : IFCO-Pastors for Peace is an ecumenical agency designed to help forward the struggles of oppressed people for justice and self-determination. Since 1992, IFCO's US/Cuba Friendshipment Caravans have taken over 2000 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba, everything from computers to bibles and powdered milk. Morally opposed to the U.S. embargo and travel restrictions, the Caravans travel without a treasury license as a form of non-violent civil disobedience. The most recent Friendshipment, IX, focused on the doctors and nurses of Cuba, delivering over 200 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuban hospitals and churches, including raw pharmaceutical materials, medicines and medical equipment. Contact Information: Ellen Bernstein, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, 402 West 145th Street, New York, NY, 10031; telephone: 212-926-5757; fax: 212-926-5842; e-mail: ifco@igc.org; http://www.ifconews.org.

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Latin America Working Group : The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region. The Working Group regularly convenes its participating organizations to analyze developments in Washington and the hemisphere, and to craft common positions and effective strategies for action, while the Working Group's staff members assist organizations in designing and implementing coordinated advocacy efforts and public education campaigns. Recently LAWG mobilized in support of the Ashcroft Amendment and other legislation advocating humanitarian trade with Cuba. Contact Information: Mavis Anderson, Latin America Working Group, 11O Maryland Avenue, Box 15, Washington, DC, 20002; telephone: 202-546-7010; e-mail: manderson@lawg.org; http://www.lawg.org.

Latin American Studies Association : The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional Association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. LASA brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe to encourage effective training, teaching and research in Latin American studies and to provide a forum for dealing with matters of common interest to its members. Activities of LASA's Cuba Section The activities of this Section are oriented by three broad goals: strengthening scholarly relations between the United States and Cuba; providing a structure for the association of scholars whose research focuses on Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations; and facilitating the integration of Cuban scholars and scholarship on Cuba in LASA Congress programming. Contact Information: Reid Reading, Executive Dirstor, Latin American Studies Association, University of Pittsburgh, 946 William Pitt Union, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260; telephone: 412-648-7929; fax: 412-624-7145; e-mail: lasa@pitt.edu; http://lasa.international.pitt.edu"

Let Cuba Live: Let Cuba Live is a Maine solidarity organization that works to end the US economic blockade of Cuba and the restrictions facing US citizens who wish to travel there.  We conduct educational campaigns and distribute travel information.  We also send medical and other assistance to the Cuban people in direct challenges to the Treasury Department regulations. Contact Information: Barbara West, Treasurer, Let Cuba Live, P O Box 245, Brunswick, ME  04011; telephone: 207-443-2899; e-mail: bwest@gwi.net; www.letcubalive.org

MADRE: Cuba Medical Project: Together with the Cuban Red Cross and the Federation of Cuban Women, MADRE: Delivers life-saving medicines and medical supplies to combat AIDS, breast cancer, pediatric diseases and other threats to public health in Cuba; advocates in the US for an end to the embargo and normalized US-Cuba relations; and organizes bi-annual delegations to Cuba to enable people to see firsthand the impact of the embargo and Cuba’s efforts to build a just society. Contact Information: Monica Aleman, Latin America and Caribbean Program Coordinator, 121 W. 27^th St., #301, New York, NY 10001; telephone: 212-627-0444; fax: 212-675-3704; e-mail: madre@madre.org; www.madre.org

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba : Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) offers electives and rotations in Cuba for U.S. and Canadian students in medicine and the health sciences. The four to eight-week courses include community-based clinical experience and field work, and "Spanish for Health Professionals" is integrated into each course. Other MEDICC programs, designed to facilitate cooperation and dialogue between health professionals in the U.S. and Cuba, include the Medical Literature Project (providing 60 U.S. medical journals to the National Medical Library, Havana); Professional Bridges (sponsoring travel of U.S. and Cuban medical educators and specialists between the two countries); and MEDICC Review (an on-line journal of current Cuban medical research in English). Contact Information: Diana Garcia, Program Director, 328 Flatbush Avenue, Box 406, Brooklyn, NY 11238; telephone: 718-623-1306; fax: 718-623-1309; e-mail: dgarcia@medicc.org; http://www.medicc.org.

National Policy Association: Foreign Investment and Worker Rights in Cuba program: With financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), NPA has launched efforts to promote best business practices and worker rights in Cuba. NPA’s broad-based international Working Group of business and labor leaders, human rights groups, and private sector policymakers carry forward its mandate to develop strategies to foster democracy and human and labor rights in Cuba. In the year 2000, the Working Group approved a set of "Principles for Private Sector Investment in Cuba" that encourages foreign investors in Cuba to promote worker rights to organize freely. The Principles urge companies to maintain a corporate culture that respects the right of workers to express themselves freely and that works to gain the right to recruit, contract, pay, and promote workers directly, rather than through government intermediaries. The NPA Working Group has sponsored four international conferences in Mexico, Canada, the US and Spain to increase dialogue on these issues, and the project produces a quarterly newsletter, Cuba Today, to reflect the variety of perspectives on the worker rights issue in Cuba. Contact Information: Kaylin A. Bailey, Cuba Program Director / International Program Associate, 1424 16^th Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; telephone: 202-884-7640; fax: 202-797-5516; e-mail: kbailey@npa1.org; http://www.cubabusinesspractices.org

National Security Archive : The National Security Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. Cuba Documentation Project has gathered declassified government documents relating to U.S. Cuban policy. Their publications include Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined and The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Contact Information: Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive, George Washington University Gelman Library, 2130 H Street, NW, Suite 701, Washington, DC, 20037; telephone: 202-994-7000; fax: 202.994.7005. e-mail: nsarchiv@gwu.edu; http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.

Nova Scotia-Cuba Association (NSCUBA): Facilitation of visits from Cuba to Canada of speakers, cultural groups, officials to provide Canadians an opportunity to learn about the Cuban reality from Cuban sources. Contact Information: Mark Rushton, Director, Nova Scotia-Cuba Assocation (NSCUBA), P.O. Box 632 Halifax Central, Halifax, N.S., B3J 2T3 Canada; telephone: 902-429-5547; fax: (902) 429-5547; e-mail: info@nscuba.org; www.nscuba.org

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The Ocean Conservancy : The Ocean Conservancy combines science-based advocacy, grassroots activism, litigation, education and outreach to find lasting solutions to issues affecting our oceans and all marine life. The Cuban-U.S. Scientific Exchange supports travel by Cuban scientists and conservationists to pursue research objectives and present research at scientific conferences in the US. The organization also coordinates marine conservation projects in Cuba, collaborating with Cuban partners on sea turtle monitoring projects and major marine inventories in the Cuban Gulf of Mexico. The Cuban-U.S. Exchange in Marine and Environmental Law carries out workshops for the improvement of environmental legislation and for evaluation and implementation of the resulting policies. The International Coastal Clean-up Campaign involves Cuban volunteers in an international data-gathering event. Local partners include the University of Havana, National Aquarium and NGOs such as Pronaturaleza and the Sociedad Cubana de Zoología. Contact Information: Fernando Bretos, The Ocean Conservancy, 1725 DeSales Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036; telephone: 202-429-5609; fax: 202-872-0619; email fbretos@oceanconservancy.org www.oceanconservancy.org.

Operation USA : Operation USA is an international relief agency. The Cuba Medical Assistance Project conveys medical supplies and hospital equipment to Cuba as well as facilitating knowledge exchange. The shipments, donated by private US companies, hospitals and physicians, are received by three major pediatric hospitals in Havana, and their clinics and counterpart hospitals in the rest of Cuba. They also assist the nationwide medical assistance project run by the Cuban Council of Churches. Contact Information: Richard Walden, Operation USA, 8320 Melrose Avenue #200, Los Angeles, CA, 90069; telephone: 323-658-8876; e-mail: walden@opusa.org; http://www.opusa.org.

Oxfam America : Oxfam America is dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and social injustice through long-term partnerships with poor communities around the world. Oxfam's Cuba program supports Cuban groups actively engaged in organic methods of food production in order to strengthen the efforts of non-governmental organizations promoting sustainable agriculture and food security. Oxfam America also supports the Group for Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC), which promotes urban rehabilitation and development through community initiatives and the use of ecological approaches to food production. urban gardens. Through humanitarian aid and direct money transfers, Oxfam America works to encourage long-term development built on community-based efforts. It is also one of the few to be allowed to transfer monies rather than humanitarian goods, allowing inputs to be purchased in Cuba. Contact Information: Minor Sinclair, Oxfam America, 26 West Street, Boston, MA, 2111; telephone: 617-728-2503; e-mail: info@oxfamamerica.org; http://www.oxfamamerica.org.

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Send A Piana To Havana: In an effort to help restock embargoed Cuba with pianos and trained tuners, we have been sending donated uprights and grands (160 to date), tons of related parts and supplies, and brigades of volunteer tuners. Our 2002 plan is to present young conservatory students from Cuba in Florida recitals to raise consciousness, funds and pianos. We sail to Havana from Tampa Bay in May on the 1917 fast cargo schooner Avontuur with 60 more pianos.Project Locations: Our taller/escuela (workshop/school) in Western Havana has twelve Cuban students in piano and woodwind technology. Contact Information: Benjamin Treuhaft, Project Coordinator, Send a Piano to Havana, 39 E. 7th St. #3 New York NY 10003; telephone: 212-505-3173; fax: same, press Start; e-mail: blt@igc.org; www. sendapiana.com

The Stanley Foundation: Emerging From Conflict: The Stanley Foundation develops programs that will lead to the search for common ground with Cuba while promoting mutual and equal dialogue, expanded contacts, and improved communications and information-sharing toward the goal of a stronger political and economic relationship. The Foundation organizes a variety of projects that focus on the US-Cuban bilateral relationship as well as US Cuba policy. Projects include bilateral conferences, policy workshops, policy forums and congressional briefings; Contact Information: Jennifer Davies, Program Associate and Sherry Gray, Program Officer, 209 Iowa Avenue, Muscatine, Iowa 52671; telephone: 563-264-1500; fax: 563-264-0864; e-mail: jdavies@stanleyfoundation.org / sgray@stanleyfoundation.org; www.emergingfromconflict.org / www.stanleyfoundation.org

Student Exchange between Cuba and America : The Student Exchange between Cuba and America (SECA) is a US-based organization that implements educational exchanges between Cuba and the United States. The organization, founded in 1998 by David Mericle and Jacob Kitzman in Madison, WI, USA, is run exclusively by and for students. SECA currently has one exchange project between Madison and Camagüey, Cuba. SECA can provide support in establishing student exchange programs and other educational, technological and people-to-people links between the US and Cuba. We work with schools and sister city associations, helping you create your own exchange. SECA works with the Madison-Camagüey Sister City Association and is the youth arm of the US-Cuba Sister City Association. We also collaborate with other organizations on an educational summer program for US students and a computer center project in Havana. Contact Information: SECA at 21 Pinehurst Circle; Madison, WI 53717; phone 608-831-0876, fax 608-827-0876; email: info@seca.org, http://www.seca.org/

University of Arizona, College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture: Study and research opportunity in Cuba focusing on Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design between 1940 and 1970. Curriculum Highlights: Field trips and "outside classroom" teaching , sketching, photography and discussions with Cuban architects, historians, and planners (Summer; Havana, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara, Trinidad). Contact Information: 1040 North Olive, Tucson, AZ 85721-0075 United States; telephone: 520-621-4802; e-mail: hamman@u.arizona.edu ; www.architecture.arizona.edu/travel/cuba

U.S. and Cuban Women's Solidarity: End the U.S. Blockade: Submitted by: WILPF Cuba Action Committee Leadership Team (comprised of diverse women from across the US), Jan Strout and Lisa Valanti, Co-chairs. Long-term goals: to end the US government blockade of Cuba and to normalize relations between the two countries. All of our campaign actions aim to empower diverse women in the US and other parts of the world to participate in and develop just and peaceful international relations, deepen global women's solidarity and use a woman-to-woman citizen diplomacy model to craft methods to normalize US-Cuba relations. Short-term goals: to bring diverse women's voices, visions, values and WILPF leadership to a growing movement to change US policy toward Cuba using annual delegations, US-Cuba Sister City projects, cultural and media activism, legislative and advocacy strategies, community education, humanitarian aid projects and coalition-building with a variety of women's and feminist organizations which work for peace, justice and international solidarity. Contact Information: http://www.wilpf.org/cuba/cuba1.htm

The U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment/Bay Area: The Cuban International Affairs Program: The U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment/Bay Area: The U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment/Bay Area is an independent organization dedicated to working in solidarity with the Cuban revolution and the people of Cuba. Since 1992, we have been pressing for an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba, working to build relationships with the Cuban people, and sending humanitarian aid to Cuba. Our projects include participating in the Pastors for Peace U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment caravans; publicizing and recruiting for Cuba's program to provide free medical education to U.S. students who will then return to the U.S. and extend medical services to underserved communities here; and a number of other educational and solidarity activities. Contact Information: P.O. Box 2218, Berkeley, CA 94702; telephone: 510-869-2577; e-mail: caravan22@hotmail.com.

US-CUBA Sister Cities Association : U.S.-Cuba Sisters Cities Association (USCSCA) facilitates and coordinates sister-cities programs with Cuba, fostering exchanges at individual, community group, organizational, institutional, and municipal levels. Founded in Pittsburgh, which had an established relationship with Matanzas, the organization includes such city pairs as Mobile/Havana, Madison/Camaguey, Bloomington/Santa Clara, and Oakland/Santiago de Cuba. USCSCA promotes the growth of long-term, sustainable, people-to-people partnerships between programs and communities as a mutually constructive way to develop ties of peace and friendship with full respect and recognition of Cuba's national sovereignty. Contact Information: US-CUBA Sister Cities Association, 320 Lowenhill Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15216; telephone: 412-563-1519; fax: 412-563-1945; e-mail: USCSCA@aol.com; http://www.cubamer.org/al_eng4.htm.

US-Latin American Medical Aid Foundation : The U.S.-Latin American Medical Aid Foundation is a grassroots non-profit organization that helps provide medical supplies to Cuba and Latin America. The Foundation offers individuals the opportunity to legally travel to Cuba to deliver licensed medical supplies and experience local conditions firsthand. They have successfully delivered over $165,000 worth of medical supplies to the people of Cuba in compliance with our license from the U.S. Commerce Department. USLAMAF is committed to conducting all aid shipments and travel in full compliance with U.S. laws and regulations. Contact Information: US-Latin American Medical Aid Foundation, PO Box 552, New York, NY, 10025; telephone: 888-669-1499; fax: 212-749-7596; e-mail: USLAMAF@aol.com; http://members.aol.com/USLAMAF.

USA/Cuba Infomed : USA/Cuba Infomed is an all volunteer not-for-profit organization based in California and dedicated to the support of public health and medical informatics in the Republic of Cuba and in the "Global South" through Cuba. Network equipment and some 2100 desk-top computers have been sent to Cuban hospitals and clinics sinve 1995. The Cuban Ministry of Public Health and its medical informatics branch (INFOMED) are the recepients of these solidarity donations. Volunteers are needed. Contact Information: USA/Cuba InfoMed, P.O. Box 450, Santa Clara, CA, 95052. email dwald@igc.org; phone 408-243-4359 or 408-738-2237; fax 408-243-1229 website: http://cubasolidarity.net/, http://www.igc.org/cubasoli/.

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Witness for Peace: Cuba Program: Heeding the call from our Cuban partners, Witness for Peace began working in Cuba in March of 1999. Our primary goal in Cuba is to bear firsthand witness to the impacts of the 40 year-old U.S. embargo on Cuba, and to help revitalize the movement to defeat this failing and destructive policy. Witness for Peace offers stateside action programs on Cuba, and organizes delegations to Cuba. Delegations offer insight into the Cuban reality, breaking down the myths created by years of misinformation about our island neighbor. The warmth and openness of the Cuban people sustain our program in Cuba. Since 1999, hundreds of North Americans have traveled to Cuba with WFP. On a delegation, people are able to experience revolutionary Cuba for themselves — asking probing questions and learning about Cuban national priorities, national achievements and failures. In order to assess the impacts of the embargo from different angles, delegates have the opportunity to talk with Cubans from various sectors of society and to share in their everyday lives. Contact Information: Roxanne Hanson, Delegations Coordinator, 1229 15th Street NW; telephone: 202-588-1471; fax: 202-588-1472; e-mail: roxanne@witnessforpeace.org;; www.witnessforpeace.org/sites/cuba.html

Wisconsin Committee for Peace and Justice: We send medicines, money and people to Cuba. We also support the programs to lift the blockade and promote free travel to Cuba. Contact Information: John Gilman, Director, Wisconsin Committee for Peace and Justice, 614 Maryland Avenue, NE #2, Washington, DC 20002-5825; telephone: 202-543-6780; fax: 202-543-6434; e-mail: johngilman@aol.com; http://www.cubamer.org

Washington Office on Latin America The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is a nonprofit policy, research and advocacy organization working to advance democracy, human rights and social justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. Founded in 1974, WOLA plays a leading role in Washington policy debates about Latin America. WOLA facilitates dialogue between governmental and non-governmental actors, monitors the impact of policies and programs of governments and international organizations, and promotes alternatives through reporting, education, training and advocacy. WOLA's Cuba program works to change current U.S.-Cuba policy by encouraging U.S. policy-makers to move towards normalized relations with Cuba.  WOLA also does educational outreach to the U.S. press and public on Cuba policy issues.  WOLA's Cuba work is based on the belief that engagement with Cuba is a more sensible, more effective, and more humane strategy for promoting human rights and social justice on the island.   1630 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20009, Tel. (202)797-2171 Fax (202)797-2172, http://www.wola.org wola@wola.org

World Policy Institute : The World Policy Institute facilitates policy research and advocacy on critical world problems. WPI works to promote public debate and public understanding of government policy and world issues. The Cuba Education Project focuses on the humanitarian impact of the US embargo, and serves as a resource for information on the status of health care, nutrition, and education in Cuba. The U.S.- Cuba Cooperation Feasibility Study explore avenues for asserting non-governmental leadership in redefining U.S. interests and reshaping U.S. policy toward Cuba, through consultation with U.S. and Cuban NGO's, U.S. legal experts, representatives of Cuban ministries and international development agencies. Contact Information: Lissa Weinmann, Project Director, World Policy Institute, New School for Social Research, 64-39 83rd Place, Juniper Valley, NY, 11379; telephone: 718-416-1653; fax: 718-416-1673. e-mail: randl725@newschool.edu; http://worldpolicy.org/.

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