URGENT NEEDS
- FINANCIAL DONATIONS: bit.ly/BABRatPVF
- For a current wish list of basics, please go to AmazonSmile via ALAS Ayudando Latinos a Sonar
- We will post additional specific needs here, eg furniture, as they arise.
- Email us at: [email protected]
What else can YOU do to help?
- Support the next chapter in the 5-part film series Documenting the Asylum Seeker by Guerra Production, go to bit.ly/BABRatPVF to donate. Chapter 1 RESIST: Documenting the Undocumented; Chapter 2 STRENGTH; Chapter 3 LOVE, LIFE & THE VIRUS; Chapter 4 PANDEMIC BORDER (pending)
- Join Bay Area Border Relief’s Facebook group to stay connected
- Purchase masks--bit.ly/BABRmasks
- Support the seamstresses' mask-making efforts for coastside workers--bit.ly/alasmasks
DONATIONS
Tax-deductible contributions to Bay Area Border Relief's efforts can be accepted via Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, EIN# 94-3136771.
BY CREDIT CARD: bit.ly/BABRatPVF via Network for Good
BY CHECK: Make payable to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Note BORDER RELIEF on the memo line
Mail to:
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612-1201
BY VENMO: @Lilli-Rey
Tax-deductible contributions to Bay Area Border Relief's efforts can be accepted via Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, EIN# 94-3136771.
BY CREDIT CARD: bit.ly/BABRatPVF via Network for Good
BY CHECK: Make payable to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Note BORDER RELIEF on the memo line
Mail to:
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
1222 Preservation Park Way
Oakland, CA 94612-1201
BY VENMO: @Lilli-Rey
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We are heartbroken about our dear BABR team member Margaret Levine's passing. She was one-of-a-kind with a brilliant laugh and such a generous, good-hearted, excellent human being.
Our paths first crossed when Sister Norma of the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, TX visited California and spoke at the University of San Francisco (USF) in April 2019. Since then, Margaret was passionately involved in supporting our hands-on, grassroots efforts to support asylum seekers at the border and joined our BABR team in July 2019 as we worked and volunteered at the Humanitarian Respite Center. We are extremely touched that Margaret's family reached out for Bay Area Border Relief to be so honored, by setting up the Margaret Levine Memorial Fund in our special friend's memory. There is now a designated tab at bit.ly/BABRatPVF (via Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, BABR's nonprofit fiscal sponsor EIN# 94-3136771). Our most sincere condolences to Margaret's family. We will ALL miss her tremendously. Estamos contigo, Margaret! The website https://margaretlevine.com/ includes a link to her obituary, a donate button for BABR and a link to where people can leave photos/memories of her--If you have any, feel free to leave them there! |
Any questions, please email: [email protected]
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HELPING THIS CAUSE (evolving list, there are many more)
Click on this link for a list of 200+ organizations around the country helping immigrants and asylum seekers. Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley They run the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Sister Norma Pimentel's 5-year effort. They accept any donations, financial, in-kind, or in-person volunteering. To volunteer at the center, please register/sign up here. Team Brownsville Helps asylum seekers who find themselves in Brownsville, Texas and at the Brownsville/Matamoros international bridges. RAICES Texas RAICES is the largest immigration legal services non-profit in Texas, focusing on under-served immigrant children, families and refugees. In immigration court, there is no guaranteed right to counsel. Their art installations are intended to jar the senses, e.g. #NoKidsInCages Freedom for Immigrants Supports immigrants in ICE detention and has an Oakland, CA office. Arranges visits for detainees, hosts & supports asylum seekers in the community, provides transport, ICE appointment support & other services. Refugee Transitions Assists newcomer families in becoming self-sufficient in the U.S. by providing services to help attain English language, life, job, and academic skills needed to succeed in their new communities. Good Neighbor Settlement House Works with the volunteers of Team Brownsville in Brownsville, TX who daily feed and care for asylum seekers waiting on the bridge. KIND: Kids in Need of Defense KIND tries to provide every child in immigration court with quality representation, through their national pro bono network of nearly 40,000 KIND-trained attorneys, paralegals and law students. Annunciation House This charity in El Paso gives shelter, food, clothing, hygiene products, bus tickets, etc., to 1000s of refugee families released by CBP, to help get them over the next few days and then on to family they have in the US. Immigration Justice Project A joint project of the American Immigration Lawyers Assocation (AILA) and the American Immigration Council. Here is a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their families from the Texas Tribune. |
PAST CALLS TO ACTION
1. Sample Call to Action Letter A suggested cover letter/script/fax 2. A letter by attorney Peter Schey, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law |
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