NATIONAL ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT RESOURCES
The National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN ) is a coalition of immigrant rights, labor, human rights, religious, and student activist organizations from across the country. We work with leading immigrant rights, students and labor groups. In solidarity with their campaigns, and organize community immigrant rights education campaigns. From legislative letter-writing campaigns to speaker bureaus and educational materials, we organize critical immigrant-worker campaigns that are moving toward justice for all immigrants!
www.immigrantsolidarity.org
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/index.html
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) works with immigrants and citizens to make critical legal assistance and social services accessible to all, regardless of income, and to build a society that values diversity and respects the dignity and rights of all people.
http://www.ilrc.org/
National Immigration Forum embraces and upholds America 's tradition as a nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates and builds public support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and that are fair and supportive to newcomers in our country.
http://www.immigrationforum.org/
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.
http://www.nnirr.org/
National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
Since 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) has been dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of low income immigrants and their family members. In the past 20 years, NILC has earned a national reputation as a leading expert on immigration, public benefits, and employment laws affecting immigrants and refugees. Our extensive knowledge of the complex interplay between immigrants' legal status and their rights under U.S. laws is an essential resource for legal aid programs, community groups, and social service agencies across the country.
http://www.nilc.org
Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), a project of the Center for Community Change, is led by low-income immigrant and non-immigrant grassroots community organizations working for immigration reform and immigrant rights. Formed under CCC’s campaign on issues of poverty, welfare and low-wage work, FIRM broadens the framework of immigration and immigrant rights to include an anti-poverty agenda. The coalition consists of organizing networks, statewide immigrant rights coalitions, and faith-based and low-income groups. FIRM also works in partnership with national organizations.
http://www.fairimmigration.org/home/index.php
FUNDING RESOURCES
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Funds (MALDEF) provides a list of scholarships for undocumented immigrants.
http://www.maldef.org/pdf/Scholarships_072003.pdf
Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund (SALEF)
http://salef.org/Scholarships.html
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
http://www.hsf.net/scholarships.php
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
http://www. chciyouth.org
Aspira Association, Inc.
http://www.aspira.org/Scholarships.html
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
http://www.hacu.net/student_resources/index.shtml
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