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.
Strategy: Power Building in Marginalized Communities
Welcoming America Inc.
Welcoming America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by ensuring everyone belongs. Through the Welcoming Network, they help communities develop the roadmap they need to create welcoming policies and share new approaches to creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive.
Movement Law Lab
Movement Law Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, helps develop a legal arm for social movements through deep consultation with organizers and grassroots groups to understand legal vulnerabilities and needs. They recruit and vet lawyers to provide advice and strategy, and conduct outreach, training, and planning sessions for large groups of lawyers.
Taproot Earth
Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy. They create spaces for frontline communities to gather and advance climate strategies that emerge from the group.
Grassroots Asians Rising
Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.
NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) focused on building capacity within Muslim and allied communities for racial justice. MuslimARC creates anti-racism curriculum and education resources, connects multi-racial and multi-faith networks via storytelling and media, and cultivates racial justice through leadership and community development programs.
Human Rights First
Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) works for a more humane, efficient, and welcoming refugee and asylum processes in the United States by empowering displaced persons to use the law as a tool to claim their rights, through an aligned program of legal aid, impact litigation, and advocacy.
The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is researching the impact of climate change and climate migration on American systems of democracy and governance.