causes
unlocal, inc
UnLocal, Inc. is a community-centered non-profit organization that provides direct immigration legal representation and community education to New York City’s undocumented immigrant communities. UnLocal recognizes the needs of all immigrants and tailors its programming to identify specific gaps in services that are not sufficiently provided elsewhere. UnLocal accomplishes its mission through its two main programs: the Legal Representation Program and the Community Education Program.
The
IF
Project
When Seattle Police Department (SPD) Detective Kim Bogucki traveled to the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) after becoming a Girl Scouts Beyond the Bars partner. As part of her assignment in the SPD Youth Outreach Unit, Detective Bogucki worked with girl scouts whose mothers were incarcerated at WCCW. Kim wanted to meet their mothers to discuss the program and to explain why a police officer was meeting with their daughters. Kim also wanted to tell the girls that she had met their mothers and to assure their mothers that the police would not say anything negative about them to their children. She hoped her visit would start to build trust among the inmates, their daughters, and the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars organization.
The IF Project took off soon thereafter when one inmate, Renata Abramson, started collecting essays answering the IF question from meeting attendees and even non-attendees throughout the prison. When Kim returned for a follow-up meeting a few weeks later, Renata handed her 25 essays, and thus began The IF Project.
SEEDING SOVEREIGNTY
Our Indigenous Impact Community Care Initiative works in partnership with Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo communities in New Mexico, in addition to Paiute, Lakota, Dakota, and Ojibwe communities around the country, where need is critical to immediately provide personal protective equipment and reusable masks to communities, distribute healthy food to elders and families, redistribute money to fund essential aid to those in need providing on-the-ground care to LGBTQIA+/Two Spirit and unsheltered relatives, and send Indigenous authored books to quarantined families.
THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION
Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. We are becoming the ones we’ve been waiting for.
