Nearly all of the thousands of people currently living on the streets of San Diego county are there because they couldn’t pay their rent, and that number will sky rocket if unemployed families aren’t offered either a way to pay their rent or forgiveness of their debt.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund
The membership of Workers Defense Project created this fund as a form of 'mutual aid' recognizing that our current economic system fails us and it's up to us to create alternative solutions for the well-being of our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be able to give $250 to 60 families / households of low-income immigrant families in Texas.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund
... partners: How can I thank you enough?! Funding immigration is not easy—it requires infinite tenacity and ...
December 15, 2020
Philanthropic News
... 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
April 13, 2020
News Article
... Svajlenka is the associate director for research on the Immigration team at the Center for American Progress. ...
April 6, 2020
News Article
The COVID-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County was established by a partnership between United Way of Forsyth County, The Winston-Salem Foundation, the City of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, and Community Organizations Active in Disaster to support local community members impacted by the novel coronavirus. The fund is designed to complement the work of government and public health officials to address all aspects of the outbreak in Forsyth County.
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
... freedom to move equitably and be welcomed,” and that “immigration should be a safe and empowering choice that is ...
September 29, 2022
President's Message
... of migrants. Under the previous administration, U.S. immigration policy was characterized by a series of ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
... have limited their ability to seek other forms of immigration relief that would allow them to stay in the U.S., ... or receive another form of relief, they will lose their immigration status and be vulnerable to deportation. The ... we can afford to conduct business as usual. While many immigration funders are answering the call to respond to the ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
... partner organizations are gravely concerned about the health and welfare of the farmworker community, ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
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
... 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
2020 has been a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. The fourth consecutive year of escalating policy attacks on immigrants and many other marginalized communities.
October 13, 2020
President's Message
... 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 ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
... facing legal organizations is the lack of qualified immigration attorneys, especially in rural areas. The result ... – Liza Diniakos, Program Manager for MICOP’s Immigration Legal Assistance Program (MILA) Provide ...
January 22, 2024
Response Fund