Join Us
Six Ways to Support Immigrants
in an Anti-Immigrant
Environment
1
DONATE MONEY, CLOTHES,
NEW TOILETRIES, FURNITURE, MATRESSES, BICYCLES,
OR COMPUTERS
We can each work to rebalance what has been put out of balance by generously sharing the resources that have been gifted to us.
Because we support families at all stages from having just arrived, to moving in to and setting up their own apartment, we accept (and are always in need of!) all types of donations. For smaller items we have a drop point. For larger items, please contact us at the email address below.
3
GET TO KNOW
A NEW NEIGHBOR
You can become a volunteer teaching english or sorting donations, but, even more powerfully, you can enter into community walking alongside our new neighbors.
Family partners are matched with immigrant families just starting out, to help them navigate a new place, system, and culture, but also to offer friendship. No special skills or language ability necessary -- just a belief that our new neighbors are human beings just like you.
4
START A SPECIAL FUND
Are you particularly interested in helping children with significant special needs, single mothers, pregnant mothers, families facing life-threatening illness, people trying to start a new business or kids who have never seen a squirrel experience nature?
Immigrant communities are like concentrated reflections of the spectrum of issues facing society as a whole. We can make sure your funds go to supporting a specific need in our community.
5
TELL A DIFFERENT STORY
Immigrants bring with them an indomitable hope for a life of flourishing, which is what we all want. Instead of taking away from our ability to flourish, we could see how immigrants could be energetic, hardworking partners in our wish for a better world. We could see the ways that together with them, we can reinvigorate our community.
To change the narrative, we have to speak up about the good news of welcoming the stranger. We have to engage with questions that we don't have answers to. We have to step into a story that is bigger than just us. We have to resist the temptation to choose comfort.
6
JOIN OUR SA IMMIGRANT SUPPORT COALITION
We have formed multiple working groups focused on different forms of supporting our new neighbors now and in the months to come. If you are interested in organizing donations, helping families organize their documents, or shedding light on anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions to come, please reach out to us at the email below.
