Protecting Our Communities: A Resource Guide for Our Network 

February 14, 2024

At Hispanics in Philanthropy, we honor the courage and aspirations that drive migrant journeys that reflect hope for a better future. Migrant dreams embrace cultural diversity that strengthens our communities - in children who master multiple languages and entrepreneurs who launch businesses. Migrants flourish despite systemic barriers and cruel policies.

Policy changes are threatening fundamental protections across the US and Latin America. Now is the moment for philanthropy to channel resources to organizations that embrace migrant communities. The decision to freeze USAID funds is destabilizing global work, and we must trust grassroots leaders working to strengthen protections for migrant families.

This toolkit helps organizations act strategically to protect our communities and advance meaningful change.

We hope to continue to share and amplify the resources and voices of HIP’s network. If you have a resource we missed or would like to include in future newsletters – please send an email to Jen Meehan at jen.meehan@hipfunds.org. 

Resource Toolkit

Strategic Defense & Policy Intelligence

Legal & Policy Tracking

• Just Security: Litigation Tracker
  A comprehensive tracker detailing legal challenges to Trump administration policies.
• Just Security: Executive Actions Collection
  A curated resource covering executive actions and their implications.
• National Council of Nonprofits: Executive Orders Affecting Charitable Nonprofits
  This living document provides updates on executive orders impacting nonprofits.

Sector Response & Adaptation

• Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees: Funder Recommendations - Practical actions to protect immigrant rights and defend democracy
• United Philanthropy Forum: Executive Actions Impacting the Sector
  Mobilization strategies for PSOs, foundation leaders, and nonprofits.
• Forthright Advising: Don’t Live in Reaction Mode
  Practical steps to maintaining organizational focus amidst uncertainty.

Immigrant Rights & Community Empowerment

Strategic Community Protection

• National Immigration Project: Community FAQ
  A guide to prepare for expected policy changes.
• American Immigration Council: Analysis of Trump’s First Executive Actions
  A high-level analysis of policy implications and future developments.
• Immigration Hub: What We Learned About Interior Enforcement
  Lessons from previous enforcement policies to prepare and protect our communities.
• Migration Policy Institute: ICE Arrests and Deportations from the U.S. Interior - An explainer of immigration enforcement and deportation policies 
• Latino Community Foundation: Leading Through Crisis: A Townhall with California’s Immigrant Rights Advocates - Learn more about organizations that support immigrant and vulnerable communities across California. 

Narrative Change & Advocacy

• The Ultimate Messaging Guide to Winning the Immigration Narrative - Provides research-backed messaging strategies that honor our communities' dignity while advancing effective advocacy. 

Global Impact & Solidarity

International Partnerships

• Global Aid Freeze Tracker
  A survey measuring the impact of US aid freezes on global communities.
• Unlock Aid: 90-Day Foreign Aid Freeze Update
  A breakdown of how US policy shifts impact global communities. 
• WOLA: Trump’s Pause of U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America
  Analysis of the impact on Latin American partners.
• Humentum: Navigating the USG Funding Pause for Foreign Assistance Programs - Detailed explanation of executive order on foreign aid freeze and what it means. 

Community Voices & Solidarity

• Solidarity Pledge: “While he chooses cruelty and chaos, we choose community. While he chooses hate, we choose love.”
• Immigration Hub: “Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda isn’t just about targeting immigrant families—it’s about reshaping the entire U.S. immigration system through cruelty and chaos.”
• America’s Voice: “The Trump administration is criminalizing law-abiding people in order to seek to deport them.”
• READI Coalition: “Current corporate and political leadership decisions are centering the idea of a colorblind meritocracy, one that ignores race in favor of recognizing merit. It’s a false choice.”
• Alianza Americas: “The U.S. Congress trampled the presumption of innocence and the right to due process of immigrants in an attempt to create the illusion of enhancing public safety.”
• Unidos US: “The President should keep in mind that voters want to hear first and foremost about the economy and that his Administration will be held accountable by what he does or doesn’t do to help Americans cope with rising prices and other daily economic challenges.”
• ACLU: “This is an unprecedented power grab that will put countless lives in danger. No president has the authority to unilaterally override the protections Congress has afforded those fleeing danger.”
• WOLA: “That is causing great uncertainty and alarm among “implementing partners”—civil society organizations, international organizations, and contractors region-wide-: they are being forced to cancel events, lay off staff, and determine how or if they will be able to honor commitments.”