#GivingTuesday

It’s Giving Tuesday, time to assuage the guilt of yesterday’s Cyber Monday sprees with some charitable contributions.

There are a LOT of wonderful immigration-related 501(3)(c) organizations that you might consider donating to today. Here are just a few that we’ve noted in years’ past:

• The ACLU fights for immigrant rights among other causes.
• Al Otro Lado, “serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana and Los Ángeles.”
• American Immigration Council, working “to strengthen America by shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration and by working toward a more fair and just immigration system.”
• 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 Immigration Forum works to “build trusted relationships to create a shared vision for immigration.”
• 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.”
• The Safe Passage Project is all about representing children in immigration proceedings.
• The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC), “creating a better world for refugees.”
• 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.”

Have even more ideas? Post them in the comments. Or shoot me an e-mail and I’ll update this list.

-KitJ