Community Change is responding to the migrant bussing crisis. They coordinate with immigrant rights groups across the country that are receiving buses, and make connections between immigrant rights groups and other economic justice groups. They also build the grassroots field’s capacity to respond, and explore strategies to build long-term power from the rapid-response situation.
Strategy: Power Building in Marginalized Communities
The Roosevelt Institute
The Roosevelt Institute’s Fellowship is conducting research on climate migration and migrant integration issues. Climate migration is an emergent megatrend that is reshaping our culture, economy, and politics in profound ways. This research contributes to the ongoing discussion and to more just outcomes for migrants, refugees, and all marginalized people.
ACCESS
The National Network for Arab American Communities, an institution of ACCESS, builds the capacity of Arab American community organizations. NNAAC’s capacity building program helps its member organizations through trainings, technical assistance, workshops, convenings, and peer-to-peer learnings.
El-Hibri Foundation
The El-Hibri Foundation (EHF) is a philanthropic organization that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. EHF has provided capacity building trainings and programs through their Collective Action Leadership Incubator (CALI) for over six years to leaders from American Muslim and ally communities who are collectively seeking to advance inclusion and promote pluralism in society.
Pillars Fund
Pillars Fund supports Muslim organizations and leaders who advance social good. They invest in community-focused initiatives, push back against harmful narratives, uplift Muslim stories, and give collectively to generate resources within Muslim communities for Muslim communities.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is conducting a major research project that aims to answer key questions about the causes, perceptions, and realities of climate migration.
National Partnership for New Americans
We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.
National Partnership for New Americans
Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.
Center for Constitutional Rights Inc
Center for Constitutional Rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat—fusing litigation, advocacy, and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk. They use creative and aggressive legal strategies against the most virulent forms of oppression to push the law to meet the demands of justice.
Inner-City Muslim Action Network
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) was established with the goal of addressing structural and systemic injustices in inner-city communities by employing integrative holistic interventions. These include support services in: healthcare, ReEntry, arts access, community engagement and safety as well as inter-generational organizing and advocacy.