How You Can Help
1. Volunteer
Provide assistance to the WEAP team! We welcome all kinds of volunteers with different objectives and skill levels.
-If you are interested in learning more about poverty elimination and health justice, becoming a Human Rights & Health Care advocate by helping our Social Justice team document, protest, and educate that poverty is an economic human rights violation, or providing administrative/development work for WEAP through mediums like research, fundraising, website updates, data entry, & more, then fill out and send in a “WEAP Volunteer Form”!
- If you or your organization is interested in fighting for our economic human rights including supporting the campaign to secure health care as a human right by participating in WEAP sponsored events, fill out and send in a “How to Get Involved Flyer.”
2. Book a Training
If your organization is interested in learning more about how Health Care is an Economic Human Right or about the connections between poverty and health care, contact WEAP and we will set up an in-depth and interactive training with your organization.
Phone: 510-986-8620
E-mail: weap@weap.org
3. Join our E-mail List
If you are interested in receiving e-mails flagging WEAP’s upcoming events, important news articles, and information about updates to WEAP’s website, then send weap@weap.org your e-mail and information in order to join our listserv. This is a great way to stay informed and active around the issues of poverty and health care.
4. Get your organization to endorse the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. ENDORSE!!!
5. Help Build the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign in five simple ways.
HOW TO BUILD A PPEHRC COMMITTEE. What does a PPEHRC Committee do?
6. Contribute Financially
WEAP encourages those who can to give support financially. Donations allow WEAP to continue building and organizing the movement that demands economic justice for poor women and their families. We recognize our supporters at the following levels based on their annual giving total:
Regular $10 -$249 $1 - $20
Regular: A donation of $1 - $250 will help pay for a couple of WEAP’s community based educational trainings around issues like Just Health Care and Leadership and Development.
Super $250 - $749 $21 - $64
Super: A donation of $250 - $750 helps WEAP put together local educational community events like “Health Care is a Human Right” Teach-Ins, Town Hall Meetings, and Health Access Community Forums.
Premium $750 - $1,499 $65 - $124
Premium: A donation of $750 - $1,500 can help WEAP provide larger community, statewide, and national events, such as Freedom Bus Tours and our upcoming Truth Commission!
Rocket Fuel $1,500 and up $125 and up
Rocket Fuel: A donation of $1,500 and up will increase important WEAP resources and help pay for part and full-time staff members.
"We, the poor, jobless, downsized, uninsured victims of welfare reform and others abused by the institutions of domination are no longer silent. We are moving forward with the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and so many freedom fighters to improve the lives of Americans."
-Portia Anderson, WEAP

Upcoming Events
| 05/15/08 | Truth Commission- Health Care: A Human Right - Oakland, CA |
| 06/18/08 | Teach-In & Dialogue- Health Care: A Human Right - Oakland, CA |
| 10/10/08 | Town Meeting - Health Care: A Human Right - Oakland, CA |
