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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 in each region, exploring advocacy models, and healing were all part of the two ...

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 federal advocacy efforts. “Sonoma UndocuFund was the first of its kind collect...

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

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 frustrated and angry and with no more patience," said Renee Saucedo, program director for ALMAS, calling the county's ...