“This organization creates opportunities and opens doors, often for people that don’t think those doors even exist.” — Alvaro Morales, Entrepreneurship Fund Grantee
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| Systems-Level Change |
Increase access to funding and support for undocumented students to initiate and sustain their higher education journeys. Increase access to capital and technical assistance for undocumented entrepreneurs to start and scale businesses. Increase awareness of immigration remedies for undocumented people among key decision-makers. |
| Storytelling & Narrative Change | Transform the media representation of undocumented people by uplifting their authentic voices. |
| Individual Agency |
Increase agency of undocumented students in higher education. Provide tools, training and financial support to undocumented entrepreneurs. Introduce undocumented individuals to the legal rights and immigration remedies available to them. Provide access, training, and financial support to undocumented professionals to reach career goals. Increase access to mental health services for undocumented immigrants. |
| Organizational Resilience |
Foster internal leadership and forge long-term vision alignment. |
Legal Services Team, Program Participant
"The people working on the Immigrants Rising's Legal Intake Service do a really good job of including information that's relevant to you. It opens you up to a world that you may not have been aware of. And within that world there are links to other resources."