Our grantees

January 2010

1. Migration and Public Awareness – United States

Grants Awarded in 2009:

Active Voice
San Francisco, CA
$300,000, 4 years
For outreach activities that will deepen the local impact of “Torn From Home:  My Life as a Refugee,” a traveling exhibit for children’s museums that increases understanding of the experiences of refugee children, adults and families.

Center for American Progress
Washington, DC
$90,000, 1 year
To promote support for comprehensive immigration reform in the progressive blogosphere.

Center for American Progress (renewal of 2008 grant)
Washington D.C.
$87,544, 1 year
For Pushing Back Against Hate, a project that brings together civil rights, research, and immigrant rights groups to share research and analysis on anti-immigration organizations.

Center for Community Change
Washington, DC
$300,000, 18 months
To train and provide leadership opportunities for over 300 young people, especially immigrants, to educate their communities about the need for comprehensive immigration reform, including the DREAM Act.

Center for New Community
Chicago, IL
$300,000, 2 years
To launch the Initiative on Migration, Race and Environment, a multi-year project to strengthen the capacity of environmental and related progressive organizations to delegitimize the anti-immigrant movement’s use of environment, climate change, and resource allocation issues as a political wedge to defeat immigration reform efforts at the national and state levels.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Sebastopol, CA
$125,000, 1 year
In general support of its mission to influence the philanthropic field to advance the contributions and address the needs of immigrants and refugee.  This year’s activities will include educating foundations about anti-immigrant groups’ efforts to link immigration to concerns about the economy and the environment; strengthening relationships among US and UK funders to promote collaboration and exchange; and creating a cutting-edge global framework for immigrant and refugee grant making.

Media Matters for America
Washington D.C.
$150,000, 1 year
To support Immigration Monitoring and Research, rapid response to misinformation in the media, and the Progressive Talent Initiative to train progressive leaders to address immigration issues on television and radio.

Migration Policy Institute
Washington D.C.
$95,000, 1 Year
To support the Preparing to Succeed initiatives to provide a detailed demographic analysis of undocumented youth and women in the US and the potential effects of different legislative scenarios on their ability to legalize. 

National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000, 1 year
To help the United We Dream Network establish itself as an independent national immigrant youth organizing infrastructure that advocates on immigration reform issues, including the DREAM Act.

Public Interest Project for America’s Voice Education Fund
Washington, DC
$250,000, 18 months
In general support of its mission to utilize cutting-edge communications strategies that build the public support and political power necessary to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.

Public Interest Projects for Four Freedoms Fund
New York, NY
$65,000, 1 year
To advance the sustainability of the US immigrant rights field through research and development of collective strategies for cost-saving and new revenue generation.

Public Interest Project for Four Freedoms Fund and Welcoming America
Washington D.C.
$210,000, 1 year
To re-grant funds to (1) Welcoming America affiliates and (2) to at least one organization that can help the Spanish language media promote Latino participation in the immigration reform debate.  Welcoming America works to promote understanding and respect between recent immigrants and their US-born neighbors through public engagement, communications and community organizing.


Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition for Welcoming America
Washington D.C.
$240,000, 2 years
To fund Welcoming America’s national office, which supports local and statewide Welcoming America affiliates by performing functions that individual affiliates cannot do effectively on their own (evaluation, marketing, national fundraising, national partnerships), pooling resources for services (training/coaching, technology), reaching out to new members, and facilitating communications within the network.

Grants Awarded in 2008

Active Voice
San Francisco, CA
$84,400, 4 months
For the planning and piloting of outreach activities that will deepen and broaden the impact of “Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee,”  a nationwide traveling exhibition designed by the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum in Las Vegas, NV to raise awareness among young people of the plight of refugee children and families.

Center for American Progress (renewed 2009)
Washington, DC
$46,000, 1 year
For Pushing Back Against Hate, a project that brings together civil rights, research, and immigrant rights groups to share research and analysis on anti-immigration organizations.

The Epidavros Project
New York, NY
$200,000, 10 months
To support the planning and production of outreach materials for a long-term public awareness campaign around “My American Dream: How Democracy Works Now,” a multi-documentary series on immigration policy to air on HBO in 2009.

American Immigration Law Foundation for the Immigration Policy Center
Washington, DC
$250,000, 2 years
In support for AILF’s Immigration Policy Center to shape a rational, national conversation on immigration and integration and to advance the immigration debate toward achieving workable and effective immigration reforms.

Lied Discovery Children’s Museum
Las Vegas, NV
$130,000, 4 years
To support evaluation and other costs of “Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee,” a nationwide traveling exhibition to children’s museums designed to raise awareness among young people of the plight of refugee children and families.

National Immigration Forum
$300,000, 2 years
In support of the Forum’s core communications activities, including a new Strategic Communications Network of national and state/local organizations that will drive pro-immigrant messages in a variety of media.

Opportunity Agenda
New York, NY
$500,000, 2 years
Support for the Immigrant Opportunity Initiative, an OA project that seeks to strengthen the US immigrant rights infrastructure through framing, messaging and communications assistance that builds public support for the integration of immigrants into American society.

2. Migrant Justice – United States

Grants awarded in 2009:

American Civil Liberties Union
New York, NY
$250,000, 2 years
For its Immigrant Rights Project, to protect immigrants’ civil and constitutional rights in the context of comprehensive immigration reform, with a focus on improving federal immigration policies as much as possible prior to the start of, as well as during, the Congressional debate.

National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000, 2 years
To protect the rights of low-income immigrant workers in the context of comprehensive immigration reform, with a focus on improving federal immigration policies as much as possible prior to the start of, as well as during, the Congressional debate.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, AL
$300,000, 2 years
To continue support SPLC’s projects on fighting hate and bigotry and seeking justice for the immigrant workers and women.

Grants Awarded in 2008:

Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery, AL
$150,000, 1 year
Continued support for its Immigrant Justice Project, which uses litigation, advocacy and education strategies to protect the rights of immigrant workers in the Southeastern United States.

3. Migration and Public Awareness– United Kingdom

Grants Awarded in 2009:

Citizen Organising Foundation
London, United Kingdom
$150,000, 2 years
For the Strangers into Citizens campaign, a community organizing campaign to build public, political and media support for earned regularization of long-term immigrants in the U.K. and to empower local immigrant and refugee communities to organize and advocate on their own behalf.

Migrant Rights Network
$211,000, 2 years
To strengthen migrant voices in immigration debates in the UK by helping community organizations engage in local policy advocacy and connecting them to high-level national debates through coordinated media activities.

Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom
$ $525,000, 3 years
For the establishment of the Migration, Information, Data and Analysis website (MIDAS), an independent web-based data source for the best available evidence on UK migration issues, to promote more balanced public debate and evidence-based policymaking on immigration and integration issues.

Refugee and Migrant Justice (1/2 Migration and Public Awareness, ½ Migrant Justice)
London, United Kingdom
$217,000, 2 years
Develop RMJ as an advocacy voice and resource for policy change through building public consent for a just migration policy through the media, coalition-building with other civil society actors and policy research based on casework evidence, and delivering migrant justice through specific litigation, legislative and policy changes.

4. Migrant Justice – United Kingdom

Asylum Aid
London, United Kingdom
$180,000, 2 years
For support of the Refugee Women’s Resource Project which seeks to influence and change the government’s policy and practice of the treatment of women asylum seekers.

Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID)
London, United Kingdom
$200,000, 2 years
For general support of ongoing BID programs that assist immigrant detainees seeking bail and seek to change the immigration system through advocacy.

Children’s Legal Centre
London, United Kingdom
$160,000, 2 years
For the support to the CLC’s Migrant Children’s Project to raise awareness of the rights and entitlements of migrant children in the UK and ensure that they receive necessary support and assistance.

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
London, United Kingdom
$200,000, 18 months
To increase the capacity of ILPA to provide information and analysis to improve legal advice and representation, as well as to support advocates and experts in influencing immigration policy.

Grants Awarded in 2008:

New Philanthropy Capital
London, UK
$200,000, 1 year
Support to Asylum Aid, Bail for Immigrant Detainees, Children in Vulnerable Accommodation, Children’s Legal Centre, and Information Centre about Refugee and Asylum Seekers, five UK charities that are working with refugees.

5. Migrant Children and Youth – Global

Grants Awarded in 2009:

Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
$480,000, 2 years
For the Center for Universal Education, to advance the goal of quality education for children and youth in crisis settings by promoting smart global policies and innovative national/local policies with special attention to conflict, post-conflict and emergency situations.

International Rescue Committee for the Women’s Refugee Council (renewal of 2008 grant) 
New York, NY
$400,000, 2 years
For the second phase of research, reporting and advocacy on employment needs for displaced youth to build on the Tapping Potential of Displaced Youth project.

Grants Awarded in 2008:

International Rescue Committee for the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
New York, NY
$600,000, 3 years
To strengthen the evidence base for the value and impact of education in crisis settings and to increase the quality of program planning and management in this field.

International Rescue Committee for a partnership between IRC and the University of Nairobi
New York, NY
$630,000, 3 years
To establish the University of Nairobi’s Faculty of Education as the East African hub for Education in Emergencies.

International Rescue Committee for the Women’s Commission on Refugee Women & Children (renewed 2009)
New York, NY
$300,000, 1 year
For the first phase of research, reporting and advocacy on employment needs for displaced youth to build on the Tapping Potential of Displaced Youth project.

New Israel Fund/Netanya Initiative
Washington, DC
$375,000, 3 years
To improve the literacy and numeracy skills of refugee children learning in schools in Netanya, Israel.

New Philanthropy Capital/Education Action
Washington, DC
$204,000, 1 year
Modification of existing grant to support production and dissemination of education manuals.

6. Migrant Children and Youth – East Africa

Grants Approved in 2009:

The Global Fund for Children
Washington, DC
$100,000, 1 year
To provide funding and support to grass roots groups in East Africa that reach migratory children and/or those children who are not enrolled in state sponsored educational programs.

Jesuit Refugee Service
Washington, DC
$100,000, 1 year
To support JRS’ Education in Emergencies work in Eastern Africa that ensures quality education for refugees, internally displaced persons and recent returnees in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan (both S. Sudan and Darfur). 

Population Council
New York, NY
$80,000, 1 year
For building the health, social, literacy and economic assets of migrant girls in East Africa aged 10-14 who are outside family structures, not in school, and having migrated from rural to urban areas by sub-granting to organizations working in East Africa.

7. Migrant Women and Girls

Grants Approved in 2009:

Global Fund for Women
San Francisco, CA
$150,000, 1 year
For community-based strategies to advance the human rights of migrant, refugee, and internally displaced women and girls by supporting ten community-based, women-led organizations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Urgent Action Fund for Urgent Action Fund-Africa
Boulder, CO
$100,000, 1 year
To provide emergency funds and structural support to women’s organizations through the issuance of rapid response grants and fostering collaborative initiatives. 

8. Commitments and Opportunities

Grants Awarded in 2009:

French American Foundation for Development of Relations Between France and the United States
New York, NY
$50,000, 18 months
To organize a two-part international symposium with journalists in the US and Europe and media executives to improve the quality of reporting on immigration and immigrant integration issues on both sides of the Atlantic.