Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Fellowship.
Background and Overview
The Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Fellowship recognizes and supports individuals with a demonstrated commitment to immigrant rights advocacy work within the State of Oregon.
Fellowship funds provide monetary support for professional development and immigrants rights advocacy work, such as:
- training, workshops, or coaching;
- skills development in leadership, community organizing;
- continuing education or study;
- development of a new community-based organization or initiative.
The Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Fellowship was established from funds managed by Seeding Justice due to the dissolution of Causa. The dissolution of Causa was a huge and disruptive loss to the Immigrant Rights Advocacy community. Our charge is to manage the distribution of assets and to steward these funds into immigrant advocacy and organizing.
We have already made Immigration Rights and Advocacy Fund Grants to Vision Comunitaria, Centro de Servicios Para Campesinos, Oregon for all (Willamette Valley Law Project), and MERIT (Prosperidad). We now look forward to providing a round of funding for individuals.
Selection Criteria and Eligibility
Seeding Justice will prioritize individuals who:
- through their immigrant rights and advocacy work they have addressed root causes of injustice and focus(ed) on changing systems, or built collective power in their work.
- are intentionally anti-racist, anti-oppression, and intersectional in their thinking, approaches and solutions;
- are Black and Indigenous people or from other communities of color, especially those people who identify as LGBTQIA2S+, immigrants and refugees, folks living with disabilities, people living with low incomes, folks that are currently or formerly incarcerated, houseless people, and those living in rural communities.
In order to be eligible for funding, individuals must:
- be 18 years of age or older;
- have a demonstrated commitment to Immigrant Rights work in Oregon;
- work or have worked in an immigrant rights and advocacy focused non-profit organization in the last five years, whether in a paid or volunteer capacity.
Grant Types and Amounts
$3,000 per fellow for a 12 month long fellowship. Up to 75 fellowships to be awarded.
The Fellowship committee is composed of Immigrant Rights advocates.
Open Applications
Applications must be submitted via our online platform, below. (View or download the application questions here.)
After individuals submit applications, the Grantmaking Committee will review them and select the individuals that will receive funding.
The timeline for this cycle is as follows:
Monday, December 23, 2024 – Applications open
Monday, February 10, 2025 – Applications DUE by 5 p.m. PST.
By end of March 2025 – Awards and Payments made
*At the end of the six months the fellow will report back to Seeding Justice on the fellowship period.
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