Organizations Prepare for New Policies
Immigrant-Serving Funders and Nonprofits Collaborate
With the incoming presidential administration promising to prioritize deportations in the coming year, local families with mixed immigration statuses are at risk of being separated. In preparation of this policy change, nonprofits and funders across Connecticut, including The Community Foundation, are collaborating to develop rapid response strategies to help keep local immigrant communities stabilized.
Funding partners in this collaboration include The Connecticut Project, which has been instrumental in leading this effort, and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Partnering nonprofits include Connecticut Students for a Dream and Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), both longtime grant recipients of The Foundation.
Funders are planning to pool and align funding to support efforts including legal services, community organizing, narrative change and policy, and communication infrastructure.