The American Council for Voluntary International Interaction

Federal and non-federal awards: awards from The federal government, foundations, private sector companies, and other partners support Interaction's work with its members in several areas: humanitarian action - saving lives, alleviating suffering, and maintaining human dignity without regard for race, ethnicity, religion or political affiliation. Aspects of this work include: current crisis; humanitarian policy; humanitarian practice; ngo security; prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse; protection and shelter for those affected by humanitarian crisis; The transition from relief.

Legislative activities: in addition to general advocacy as described above, Interaction engages in lobbying for particular legislation on a limited scale. This represents time spent on capitol hill meeting with members of congress, or members of their staff, to discuss particular pieces of legislation. These discussions may focus on The language of potential legislation when it is in The drafting stage; they may also focus on legislation that has been proposed in one of The houses of congress.

Member services: Interaction has more than 180 member organizations working in every developing country. Members are faith-based and secular, large and small, with a focus on The world's most poor and vulnerable populations. Interaction serves as The largest alliance of u.s. Private Voluntary organizations and partners. Members share common commitment that define their work, and Interaction works closely with its members, sometimes individually, sometimes in small groups, and sometimes in large groups.