ACORN International is a federation of member-based community organizations that is active in Cameroon, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, France, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Peru, Scotland, Tunisia, the United States, and Wales.
[3] Since its creation it has focused on a wide variety of local campaigns and initiatives, including fighting for potable water, paved roads, schools and parks in San Juan Laragancho in Lima, Peru,[4] working to organize ragpickers and hawkers in India's mega-slums,[5] and working to raise the standards for tenants in cities across Canada.
Recent topics have included rural electrical cooperative governance, voter purges, and hospital accessibility and accountability.
A white paper, along the lines of those developed for the Remittance Justice Campaign, entitled "Mega Troubles for Micro-Finance"[15] was released in the summer of 2011 demanding among other things that no additional donor or government money be invested in micro-finance since it has failed to reduce poverty according to both ACORN International's research and research done by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
[16][17] Since 2014, groups in the United Kingdom in Bristol, Brighton, Weston-super-Mare, Ceredigion, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle have operated under the ACORN name.