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California Immigrant Organizations Advocating For and Serving Immigrants in Disaster

View the 2023 California UndocuFund Network Impact Report Over the last decade, California has experienced extreme shifts in weather and climate that have contributed to several major natural disasters including wildfires, storms and a global pandemic. Understanding the power and ability to create change through collaboration, UndocuFund and 805 UndocuFund brought together over 25 undocumented and immigrant serving organizations from across California in September of 2022 for the first California UndocuFund Summit. Relationship building, sharing lessons learned ...

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The First-Ever UndocuFund Summit hosted by 805 UndocuFund, UndocuFund, and Latino Community Foundation, Calling for Equitable Disaster Relief

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UndocuFund, 805 UndocuFund and The Latino Community Foundation (LCF), will co-host the first-ever UndocuFund Summit during the start of peak wildfire season in California. From September 18-20th at North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP) in Sonoma, the Summit will convene leaders from over 30 grassroots immigrant-serving organizations across California that responded to the pandemic and other disasters. Community leaders will highlight the experiences of undocumented Californians throughout the state and explore collective state and ...

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Housing organizer hired as Undocufund’s first director

Beatrice Camacho, 34, is the first director of Undocufund, the disaster relief organization created in the midst of the 2017 North Bay firestorm to help local undocumented families.| Beatrice Camacho is the new director of Undocufund, an organization that supports undocumented families in Sonoma County during disasters, such as wildfires and the pandemic. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat) THE PRESS DEMOCRAT January 14, 2022 After a week of smoke-filled skies during the 2017 North Bay firestorm, Beatrice Camacho found relief at Santa Rosa’s Unitar...

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Organizaciones denuncian que familias indocumentadas no reciben ayuda por coronavirus en el condado Sonoma

La comunidad de inmigrantes del condado de Sonoma aplastada por la crisis de COVID: Los líderes piden al condado que pruebe nuevos enfoques: https://www.telemundoareadelabahia.com/videos/videos-noticias/organizaciones-denuncian-que-familias-indocumentadas-no-reciben-ayuda-por-coronavirus-en-el-condado-sonoma/2122193/

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Sonoma County immigrant advocates call for more financial help for Latinos struggling during pandemic

Photo credit: Kent Porter, Press Democrat Sonoma County immigrant rights advocates on Wednesday urged local elected and public health leaders to respond with greater urgency to the devastating health care and economic setbacks area Latinos have suffered during the coronavirus pandemic.Although the disparity has been clear for months, Latino residents, many of them immigrants, are still contracting the infectious disease at a rate three times that of other county residents. Some of them are undocumented, but have lived and worked in the community for years. "We feel ...

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Community fund helps undocumented migrants rebuild after NorCal fires

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After the destruction of the North Bay Fires, most Sonoma County residents could get financial assistance to help rebuild. But for the more than 40,000 undocumented immigrants living there, access to financial support has been limited. So a group of community organizations teamed up to raise money for Undocufund— a special fund that provides financial aid without strings attached or the risk of deportation. Just like the DMV — except not The organizers publicized an initial goal of raising $2 million. Today, they’ve raised almost $5 million. So far they’ve ...

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The Bay Area’s Housing Crisis Is Even Worse After the Wildfires

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During the night of October 8th, Santa Rosa, California, found itself pinned between two wildfires. To the southeast, the Nuns fire burned west of Highway 12. To the northeast, the Tubbs fire charred the hills outside Calistoga and worked its way southwest. In Santa Rosa, the latter would prove the more devastating. The Tubbs fire tore through the wealthy community of Fountaingrove before jumping Highway 101 and claiming about 1,500 homes in dense, working-class Coffey Park. By the time they were contained at the end of October, a spate of fires around the North Bay had ...

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Want To Make A Difference This Giving Tuesday? Support These Organizations That Are Making An Impact

It’s Giving Tuesday, a day which amplifies the message of supporting local, national, and international organizations doing good (which I believe you should support year round!). As someone dedicated to supporting small, local businesses...

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This Holiday Season, Please Support These Fundraiser Events for Fire Relief

This year’s holiday season is going to be especially challenging for a large number of people affected by the devastating North Bay fires, whether they lost their homes or their jobs, to those who tragically lost their loved ones...

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From Sonoma County’s Ashes, a Fund for Undocumented Immigrants Rises

Like many who awoke to the smell of smoke in the early hours of October 9th, Agustin Vivienda and his family raced out of their home and tumbled into the family car. As flames streamed into their neighbor’s backyard, Vivienda’s wife had just enough time to toss the children’s U.S. birth certificates and other important documents into a bag...

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