Results List
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National Immigration Forum Action Fund
$200,000
Resource type: Grantee
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National Immigration Forum
$60,000
Resource type: Grantee
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The Defeat of Immigration Reform in the U.S. – Now What?
Source: Gara LaMarche
Some weeks after the U.S. Senate failed to muster the necessary votes to deal with America’s immigration challenges, a clearer picture is emerging of what happened and what needs to happen next. Atlantic has supported The Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and a number of…
Resource type: News
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Hate Campaigns Can’t Block Overdue Steps Toward Fair Treatment of Immigrants
Source: Gara LaMarche
Barack Obama’s campaign gave hope to millions of immigrants and their leading advocates. Atlantic has been proud to support and stand with these groups in the long campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. But that hope has been strained of late, and it is time to…
Resource type: News
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A Growing Drumbeat from Activists Energizes Drive for Urgent Immigration Reform
Source: Gara LaMarche
This Sunday, I will join 100,000 other supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States – a cause to which Atlantic has been deeply committed since 2004 – in a march on Washington to demand that the U.S. Congress act this year. I hope…
Resource type: News
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Forum Mourns Tragedy at Immigrant Center in Binghamton, New York
Source: National Immigration Forum
The National Immigration Forum is an Atlantic grantee. Washington, DC The following is a statement by Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a non-Partisan pro-immigrant advocacy organization based in Washington. What happened in Binghamton is a horrific tragedy. It appears that an…
Resource type: News
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Elev8 Students to Congressman: Immigration Reform Now
Source: LISC/Chicago
By Maureen Kelleher. For many Chicago middle school students, immigration reform isn’t an academic abstraction. Some of them are undocumented, or have friends and classmates who are, and they’re apprehensive about what life beyond the 8th grade holds for them. This was abundantly clear earlier…
Resource type: News
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Immigrant Activists Regroup
Source: The Nation
by Daniel AltschulerOver the past decade, the immigrants' rights movement has become one of this country's strongest grassroots forces. Nationwide, grassroots groups and legislative coalitions have mobilized millions of people to protest punitive enforcement laws, promote legalization for undocumented people and demand access to state…
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Chuck Feeney charity funds citizens' assembly idea, national citizens’ assembly
Source: The Irish Times
By Mary Minihan.ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES has given €630,000 to a new initiative aimed at encouraging people to engage with the political system through a national citizens’ assembly. The chairman of We The Citizens, Fiach Mac Conghail, who is also director of the Abbey Theatre, said most…
Resource type: News
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ICE Raids a Hot Issue for Next Presidency
Source: NY Newsday
by ALBOR RUIZ YOU WOULD'VE thought the dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in full battle gear that descended on Laurel, Miss., Monday had found Osama Bin Laden. That, though, was not the case. It turns out that their mission was much easier and…
Resource type: News
