Below are a list of organizations that you can support everyday! The list is nowhere near exhaustive. If you have a great organization in mind – let us know!
IMMIGRATION REFORM / ASYLUM SEEKERS
| Border Angels | A non-profit organization that is dependent on volunteers. They advocate for human rights, humane immigration reform, and social justice. This work is done in an attempt to reduce the number of fatalities along the US-Mexico border by educating and assisting the communities on both sides of the border. Services include free immigration and employee rights consultation, educational programs, water drops in the desert, day labor outreach, and Caravans of Love to Tijuana to support and aid migrants that are in need. |
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| Detention Watch Network (DWN) | A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States. The Detention Watch Network fights to expose and challenge the injustices happening to immigrants in detention and deportation within the United States. |
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| Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) | A group of undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers building a resistance movement against deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding areas. |
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| Border Kindness | This began in the fall of 2018 as a direct response to the “migrant caravans” leaving impoverished Central American countries on a quest for a better life. They have provided asylum-seekers, migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care and legal services. Their programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most vulnerable including women, children, elderly and families. Today, Border Kindness remains the ONLY humanitarian aid organization operating in Mexicali, Mexico. |
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| Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) | IDP was founded 20 years ago to combat an emerging human rights crisis: the criminalization of immigrants targeted for mass incarceration and exile. As the ICE deportation complex has exploded, IDP has continued to confront this crisis head on by developing deep expertise and interventions at the intersection of the criminal legal and immigration systems. |
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| The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights | Protects and advances the rights and best interests of immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal law. The Young Center is a champion for the best interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world. We serve as trusted allies for these children while they are in deportation proceedings, advocating for their best interests, and standing for the creation of a dedicated children’s immigrant justice system that ensures the safety and well-being of every child. The Young Center’s goal is to change the immigration system so that children in immigration proceedings are recognized as children, and best interests are made a part of the decision making process. |
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| National Immigration Law Center (NILC) | One of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income. The National Immigration Law fights against unjust new immigration laws and policies. |
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CULTURE
| The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York | An organization “committed to generating awareness of the richness, dynamism and cultural diversity of Mexico as a plural and creative nation.” There are also institutes located in other cities, such as Washington D.C. |
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| Farmwork Justice | A nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice. |
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| Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) | A national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. |
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CIVIL & LEGAL RIGHTS
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) | The nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Our commitment is to protect and defend the rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans. The MALDEF is working to bring social change within communities through “advocacy, communications, community education, and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrant rights, and political access.” |
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| Make The Road | Is working in New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey to build power within Latino communities “to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.” Not only can you donate, but you can get involved by volunteering. – http://www.maketheroadaction.org/ |
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| Powerful Latinas Rising | And us of course! Powerful Latinas Rising provides resources for Latina leaders and entrepreneurs. Our resources are sustainable and available for all Latinas interested in building their career and reaching the next level. Volunteer as a writer, graphic designer, or artist, or donate! |