#GivingTuesday

Today is #GivingTuesday, the most charitable time of the year. You can just hear Andy Williams cheering you on as you donate to one of the MANY fabulous immigration-related 501(3)(c) organizations. Here are just a few that have been on my radar this year:

• IRIS, “a non-sectarian, independent nonprofit refugee resettlement agency that has welcomed more than 5,000 refugees to Connecticut since 1982.”
• HIAS, whose mission is to “Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee.” (The Pittsburgh attacker railed against this organization on Twitter.)
• RAICES, “the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas.”
• Ayuda, providing immigration legal services in the DC area.
• Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, championing “the best interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world.”
• 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.”
• Al Otro Lado, “serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana and Los Ángeles.”
• Kidsave, facilitating international adoptions of older children.

Have more ideas? Post them in the comments.

-KitJ