Amidst travel restrictions and other government responses to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of March 17, 2020, temporarily suspended refugee resettlement departures—the actual travel of a refugee from their initial country of asylum to the country where they will be resettled. In addition to travel disruptions, the UNHCR cited concerns that refugees would be placed at a higher risk of contracting and transmitting the virus if they continued to travel as reasons behind their decision.
April 21, 2020
News Article
April 13, 2020
News Article
... and a feeling of normalcy is returning for many of us. But those hit hardest by the pandemic, including ... traumas of the past four years, including hostile immigration policies, toxic rhetoric, surging hate crimes, ... 2020 report on secondary traumatic stress and join us for a strategy session in August . Reopening and ...
July 8, 2021
Issue Spotlight
... each county. HOW: Funds can be directed to specific counties. Undesignated funds will be distributed based on a ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
... the CDC guide . Here’s what you need to know about how COVID19 affects the new Public Charge Rule. ... pregnant, you can get care in some states, regardless of immigration status: WA, OR, CA, MN, NE, OK, TX, LA, AR, MO, ... under 18 can get care in some states regardless of immigration status: WA, OR, CA, IL, NY, MA, DC. California is ...
April, 2020
Resource Portal
One family laid off its nanny but wondered if she would video chat with the children for free. Across the country, undocumented household workers are being cast out with little help.
March 25, 2020
News Article
... our undocumented community members can only get help from us. Nearly 31,000 undocumented immigrants live in Long ...
April 10, 2020
... must adapt quickly to this crisis. Our grantees need us to respond immediately in this time of global health ... has exposed our industry’s failure to think holistically about our grantees’ financial needs as functioning ... in motion by the health crisis. We must be thinking now about how to support them as that unfolds. We believe that ...
March 16, 2020
Philanthropic News
Description Interested in learning more about how your peers are tackling the challenges of ... Future of Work(ers) initiative - will share information about the Families + Workers Fund , a new response fund ...
May 28, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
... are well. We are in personal triage mode with many of us trying to determine child care options given school ... them to fill out the census questionnaire. Details about the paid media program and how to participate can be ... groups received accounts with Thru-Text and information about how to hold a “distributed text bank”. ...
March 13, 2020
Memo
... for? An estimated two to three million farmworkers feed us through their labor, bringing fruits, vegetables and other ... partner organizations are gravely concerned about the health and welfare of the farmworker community, ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
... Svajlenka is the associate director for research on the Immigration team at the Center for American Progress. ...
April 6, 2020
News Article
... will be eligible for assistance regardless of their immigration or documentation status — offering a lifeline ... $275,000 to provide free guidance in multiple languages about how to access relief options and contact mortgage ... a mere few months, we’re going to be making decisions about laying off our own staff in an effort to put money out ...
April 3, 2020
Response Fund
... whose marginalization exists in the intersection of immigration and poverty. Immigrant families have been ...
June 5, 2020
Response Fund
... to emergency health and medical services. Increased immigration enforcement and deportations , continued en-masse court proceedings, delays in immigration and asylum procedures, and other policy changes ... Rapid Response Migration Fund and invites you to help us offer support to all our partners doing critical work on ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
... when immigrant communities were already threatened by anti-immigration policies like public charge. UndocuFund ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
Census 2020 California Statewide Funders’ Initiative: Adaptive Strategies to Get out the Count: How California Census Grantees are Pivoting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May, 2020
Group Materials
Make the Road New York's COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund will provide direct support to our most vulnerable workers and low-income immigrant families, and to organize to ensure they are not left out of government solutions.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund
... so in that spirit, please do not hesitate to contact us if you see the need to make changes to your activities and ... the moment to become “a greater we” and “a larger us” is upon us and who are boldly and lovingly stepping into this space. ...
March 16, 2020
Statement
