Immigration Circle

2016-2017 Docket

Please join the WDN Immigration Circle members in supporting three outstanding organizations fighting for immigrant rights and immigration reform that keeps families together.

Organizing the Coalition: The Alliance for Citizenship (A4C) is a broad coalition of national, regional, and local organizations founded in early 2013 to catalyze and support the movement for fair and humane immigration reform, including a path to citizenship. A4C is led by a Working Group of seven partner organizations: AFL-CIO, America’s Voice, Center for American Progress, Center for Community Change/Fair Immigration Reform Movement, National Council of La Raza, National Immigration Law Center, and the Service Employees International Union/Mi Familia Vota.

A Coordinating Committee, which includes dozens of organizations representing a diversity of perspectives and constituencies, develops and coordinates strategies for organizing the field and communicating A4C’s message; shares information; and acts as a consensus-building body to forge broad agreement at key moments.

Goal: $30,000

Organizing on the Ground: The Center for Community Change's (CCC) mission is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. CCC embodies intersectionality. Their priorities are jobs and wages, retirement security, affordable housing, racial justice, barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated individuals, and immigration. CCC has housed the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) since its inception in 2003. FIRM is the nation's largest coalition of immigrant rights groups, fighting for immigrant rights at the local, state, and federal levels.

Goal: $30,000

Organizing Women and Families: We Belong Together is a campaign of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, with the participation of women’s organizations, immigrant rights groups, children, and families across the country.

The Immigration Circle has supported We Belong Together since 2013 because it is a national campaign to mobilize women, build their leadership, and centers gender justice in all their work. The campaign was launched on Mothers’ Day 2010 when a group of women traveled to Arizona in the wake of SB1070’s passage. You can read first-person accounts of the impact of deportations here.

We Belong Together have presented on both of our State of the Union immigration calls and were strategic partners for WDN on the Hill advocacy for comprehensive immigration reform. Our last grant helped to support a trusted website, Step Forward, about knowing your rights and options in an increasing anti-immigrant culture.

Goal: $30,000