Giving Tuesday

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day when many nonprofits receive matching gifts for donations. So it's an optimal time to make your year-end donations! Below find some of my favorite immigration-related nonprofits. If you've got another entity in mind, please let me know and I'll add it to the list!

The National Immigration Forum hooks me up every week with its legislative bulletin.

The American Immigration Council offers free webinars that provide helpful updates on the world of immigration.

The Safe Passage Project providing legal assistance to kids.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

National Immigration Law Center

The Innovation Law Lab "a cutting-edge nonprofit that leverages technology and litigation to combat the mass incarceration of refugees and immigrants."

And here are a bunch more whose url's I am too tired to look up but who are nonetheless wonderful entities:

• ACLU
• Al Otro Lado, "serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana and Los Ángeles."
• Ayuda, providing immigration legal services in the DC area.
• CARCEN, "providing low-cost immigration legal services"
• Catholic Charities, "providing essential services to immigrants and refugees to the U.S.."
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), "working to rebuild our asylum system and expand the United States’ promise of protection for those escaping persecution."
• Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CLIP) at UCLA Law, "A hub for immigration scholarship and advocacy, engaging community organizations, practitioners, lawmakers and experts in the field."
• Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE) at UC Law San Francisco, supporting "scholarship, education, and public service on the ways that intersectional and marginalized identities produce and reflect structural inequality."
• Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice "creating a future where all Maryland families and residents are stable and secure regardless of immigration status."
• The Florence Project provides free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona
• HIAS, whose mission is to "Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee."
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center "Work[s] with and educat[es] immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people."
• Immigrants Rising works to "help undocumented young people recognize and achieve the potential in themselves and their communities."
• Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) is "a non-sectarian, independent nonprofit refugee resettlement agency that has welcomed more than 5,000 refugees to Connecticut since 1982."
• Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) addressing the "multi-faceted needs of unaccompanied migrant children."
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS), "dedicated to helping restore a sense of home to immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees."
• Muslim Advocates is a national civil rights organization that works on immigration issues among other important topics.
• The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), "dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers."
• The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG) "working to defend and extend the rights of all noncitizens in the United States, regardless of immigration status."
• Northwest Immigrant Rights Project provides direct services to immigrants.
• Orange County Justice Fund, which aims "to ensure that no Orange County resident is forced to defend themself from deportation without an attorney, and to provide support so that those individuals eligible to be released from detention can do so without being financially devastated."
• Project Rousseau, proving "free full-scope legal representation" to migrants in NYC.
• The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), "the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas."
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) – you know you use it!
• The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC), "creating a better world for refugees."