U.S. Jesuit Conference
The U.S. Jesuit Conference is part of the Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola and the largest religious order in the Catholic Church. Today there are more than 19,000 Jesuits serving the Church in 112 nations on six continents. The U.S. Jesuit Conference is one of the groups of the Society of Jesus. For more information, visit www.jesuit.org.

Asociación de Universidades Confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús (AUSJAL) is an association of 29 Jesuit colleges and universities from 14 countries across the region. The network has identified as one of its priorities the various efforts and programs of their members in the arena of social change to enable poor communities to join the mainstreams of their countries, and it is fostering alliances with a wide range of other groups that are working towards this goal. For more information, visit www.ausjal.org

Individual Jesuit Provinces, which are part of the Conference of Latin American Provincials (CPAL), and CPAL support numerous programs and projects in education and livelihood skills for poor communities under their "social sector" activities. These schools and related programs, often addressing the needs of the most vulnerable and suffering groups in society, provide services to many hundreds of communities. They need support to sustain and deepen their work, and they offer partners from other groups very highly respected and cost-effective ways of entering and working with the most marginalized communities. For more information, visit www.cpalsj.org