2012 Annual Report - National Immigration Law Center

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Organizations listed for identification purposes only.
Muzaffar Chishti, Chair
Migration Policy Institute at NYU
School of Law
Richard A. Boswell
UC Hastings College of the Law
Sara Gould
Caring Across Generations
Emma Leheny, Vice Chair
California Teachers Association
Charles Claver
New Empire Entertainment
Insurance Services, Inc.
Lucas Guttentag
Yale Law School
Lilia Garcia-Brower, Secretary
Maintenance Cooperation
Trust Fund
Iris Gomez
Massachusetts Law Reform
Institute
Allen Erenbaum, Treasurer
Erenbaum Legal Strategies, Inc.
Inez Gonzalez
Latino Communications Initiative
at California State University,
Fullerton
Della Barnett
Bahan & Associates
Robert J. Horsley
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen &
Loewy, LLP
Cynthia Lange*
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen &
Loewy, LLP
Hiroshi Motomura
UCLA School of Law
*Special thanks to Cynthia Lange for her nine years of service on NILC’s board of directors, which ended in December 2012.
Cynthia made significant contributions to NILC over the years and continues to guide and support the organization today.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Marielena Hincapié
Executive Director
Linton Joaquin
General Counsel
Reza Badiee
Chief Financial and
Administrative Officer
Don Lyster
DC Office Director
STAFF
Marisa Aguayo
Development Manager
Acasia Flores
Development Coordinator
Ellen Sittenfeld Battistelli
Policy Analyst
David Hernandez
Research Associate
Armen Bazikian
Staff Accountant
Alvaro Huerta
Staff Attorney
Tanya Broder
Senior Staff Attorney
Mai P. Lam Huynh
Policy Associate
Alejandra Casillas
HR & Administration Manager
Richard Irwin
Editor
Raquel Chavez
Finance & Administration
Coordinator (UWD)
Melissa Keaney
Staff Attorney
Shiu-Ming Cheer
Immigration Policy Attorney
Maria Cisneros
Junior Staff Accountant
Adela de la Torre
Communications Manager
Nicholas Espiritu
Staff Attorney
Kamal Essaheb
Immigration Policy Attorney
Claudia Lara
Senior Executive Assistant
Angelo Mathay
DACA Fellow
Sheila Miller
Senior Paralegal
Avideh Moussavian
Economic Justice Policy Attorney
Karla Navarrete
DACA Fellow
Nayeli Pelayo
Online Communications
Associate
Nora Preciado
Staff Attorney
Jenny Rejeske
Policy Analyst
Ashley Reveles
Executive Assistant/Office
Manager
Ignacia Rodriguez
Equal Justice Works Fellow
Michelle Silva
DC Office Coordinator
Joshua Stehlik
Workers’ Rights Attorney
Nina Torres
Legal Assistant
Emily Tulli
Worker’s Rights Policy Attorney
Karen Tumlin
Managing Attorney
It feels like an understatement to say that so much
has changed since the beginning of last year. But I
imagine that, looking back, you’d agree with me.
In the winter of 2011, the climate was dark and
foreboding: We at the National Immigration Law
Center, along with sister organizations, were filing
case after case to battle new anti-immigrant state
laws modeled on Arizona’s notorious SB 1070. We
crafted our arguments against these dangerous laws
by learning from people living in the affected states
about the devastating impact the laws were having on
their lives.
Meanwhile, deeply disturbing initiatives were
cropping up in some states to relegate immigrants
to permanent second-class status. State legislators
and voters considered proposals that would make
it even more difficult for undocumented youth to
pursue education past high school. Other proposals
would deny the most basic of services, such as water
and housing, to immigrant families. Record numbers
of deportations were tearing families apart, leaving
children without parents and devastating entire
communities.
But in the heat of the battles against these new laws
and proposals, at the beginning of 2012 we took a
step back to figure out how we could get ahead of the
curve and go on the offense.
Buoyed by the courageous “comings out” and actions
of some of our closest allies in the struggle, such as
young DREAMers and low-wage immigrant workers
in New Orleans, we resolved to advance change
that would provide long-lasting relief for immigrant
families who have become an integral part of our
country’s fabric. Our intent was to shake things up,
to use all the tools in our legal and policy advocacy
toolkits to support grassroots social change.
Your ongoing support helped sustain and strengthen
our commitment to long-term change. Your
investments in our work last year made our vision
viable.
And then came an extraordinary turn of events.
The evening of June 14, 2012, will forever be burned
into my memory. A range of emotions coursed
through me when I received that phone call from
the White House. The Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program would be announced. It was
a new approach to dealing with immigration issues in
our country. One based not on punishing and exiling
immigrant members of our communities, but rather
on embracing at least a segment of them as part and
parcel of our country’s present and future.
DACA infused the immigrants’ rights movement with
new hope and energy. Supporters like you, young
DREAMer leaders, and community members of all
stripes voiced their perspectives at the polls in the
2012 presidential election. “Self-deportation” was
rejected outright as a policy platform. You lent your
voice to our collective chorus. And our movement for
change is stronger as a result.
Throughout 2013, NILC has been playing a lead
role in the federal immigration reform debate. We’re
advocating for a clear and broad road to full-fledged
citizenship for all immigrants. We still face an uphill
battle in many ways. But our fight for a better and
more humane future, in which every one of us who
calls America home has equal opportunity to thrive,
continues.
With your ongoing support, I’m confident we will
prevail. Thanks for all you do every day. ¡Si se puede!
Marielena Hincapié
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SNAPSHOTS OF OUR WORK AND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Over the last 12 years, NILC has fought for policy
solutions to expand opportunities for immigrants
brought to the U.S. as children and who are
American in every way except on paper. Last year,
our fight paid off. On June 15, President Obama
announced that young immigrants would be able
to apply for temporary relief from deportation
and work permits through the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
DACA was a result of years of advocacy and
collaboration with the United We DREAM
Network and key allies, and we’re not done
yet. We’re working now to ensure that young
immigrants get the legal advice and information
they need to successfully apply for and benefit
from the program. This work has included coleading the Own the Dream campaign to make
more quality legal services available to DREAMers,
as well as meeting regularly with federal officials
to highlight program challenges as they arise and
share recommendations for improving DACA
program and application processes.
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NILC engaged in a range of collaborative projects
to build support for pro-immigrant state policies
as a counterpoint to harsh state laws and policies
intended to drive immigrants to “self-deport.”
Collective efforts to build a case that it’s good
policy to increase immigrants’ access to in-state
college tuition and driver’s licenses successfully
swayed policymaker opinion in key states.
In Colorado, we helped expose the moral and
fiscal cost of SB 90, a “show me your papers”
law that actually preceded Arizona’s notorious SB
1070. We worked with advocates in Colorado to
set up a hotline so that immigrants could report
SB 90–related abuses. And we convened a call
with reporters to allow people who had suffered
civil rights abuses to tell their stories.
In early 2013, Colorado’s legislature agreed that
the cost of SB 90 to Colorado’s taxpayers was
simply too high. Legislators repealed the law and
passed other proposals to allow all Coloradans—
regardless of immigration status—to pursue their
dreams of higher education and apply for driver’s
licenses.
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NILC worked with allies to prepare for the April
25, 2012, U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the
federal government’s legal challenge to Arizona’s
SB 1070, the notorious anti-immigrant law
enacted in 2010.
NILC helped secure friend-of-the-court briefs
from a broad range of groups expressing
support for the federal government’s lawsuit.
We also made sure that plaintiffs in our lawsuit
against SB 1070—people who would be harmed
if the law were upheld and enforced—were
provided opportunities to explain to legislators
in Washington, DC, and state capitals across
the country why SB 1070 is poor public policy.
Impacted people such as Jim Shee, a SpanishChinese Arizonan who was asked for his “papers”
while on his way to a birthday party, showed
the country that, while other states are moving
forward on inclusive policies, Arizona is stuck in
reverse.
•
In its June 2012 ruling, the Supreme Court
declared most of SB 1070 to be unconstitutional.
After the Supreme Court ruled, NILC and
co-counsel used the decision to reshape and
strengthen legal arguments and strategies in our
ongoing litigation against similar laws in Georgia,
Alabama, Utah, and South Carolina.
Throughout 2012, a small minority of federal
legislators pushed for new tax policies that would
have prevented some immigrant tax-filers from
qualifying for the Child Tax Credit, a critical
program designed to prevent children from
sinking further into poverty.
NILC led a broad coalition to illustrate the great
harm this policy would have on the economic
security of approximately two million low-income
families—including up to four million U.S.-citizen
children. We helped mount a major campaign to
educate the public and policymakers about this
issue. Campaign-organized letters, phone calls,
lawmaker visits, and media strategies helped
policymakers and the public better understand
the severe impact of this tax restriction.
Some courageous policymakers helped block
the restrictions from taking effect last year. But
the issue keeps cropping up, so our fight is not
over yet. We continue to work with allies to
try to bust myths about the Child Tax Credit,
and to highlight how important these types of
anti-poverty programs are to the health and
well-being of children living with their immigrant
parents.
•
Late last year, when we learned that immigrant
youth granted work authorization and relief
from deportation through DACA were being
denied driver’s licenses in Arizona and Michigan,
we pushed to get these discriminatory policies
changed. When advocacy failed, we took our
fight to the courts. Our plaintiffs included people
such as Leen Nour El-Zayat, a pre-med student
at Wayne State University who hoped to get a
driver’s license so she could fulfill her dream of
becoming a doctor in her community.
In Michigan, the lawsuit resulted in a swift and
resounding victory: A few months after we filed
the suit, the state’s department of motor vehicles
reversed its position and allowed people such as
Leen to apply for driver’s licenses. Our fight in
Arizona to change state policy so that immigrant
youth granted DACA can get driver’s licenses
continues today.
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NILC
ACTIVE LITIGATION
NILC Active Litigation
• ONE Michigan v. Johnson. Our
class action challenge to
Michigan’s discriminatory policy
that denied driver’s licenses to
DREAMers with deferred action.
Utah
• UCLR v. Utah. The lawsuit filed to
stop HB 497, Utah’s Arizona-inspired
racial profiling law.
• Valle del Sol v. Whiting. Our classaction challenge to Arizona’s
notorious racial profiling law,
SB 1070.AZ Dream Act v Brewer.
• AZ Dream Act v. Brewer. Our classaction challenge to Arizona’s
discriminatory policy that denies
driver’s license to DREAMers with
deferred action.
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Michigan
• Buquer, et al. v. City of Indianapolis.
Our lawsuit against Indiana’s
discriminatory racial profiling law.
New York
• Palma v. NLRB. Our
lawsuit was filed to
protect the rights of all
workers—regardless of
immigration status—to
assert their rights at
the workplace.
Indiana
• GLAHR v. Deal. Our lawsuit against
Georgia’s discriminatory racial profiling
law, HB 87.
Arizona
Alabama
Georgia
South
Carolina
• Lowcountry v. Haley.
Our lawsuit against
South Carolina’s
discriminatory racial
profiling law, SB 20.
Louisiana
• Cacho v. Gusman. Plaintiffs in this
lawsuit were unlawfully held for
weeks—or months—in local jails.
We filed a lawsuit to stop this
unconstitutional practice—and won!
• CAFHC v. Magee. NILC and partners filed this lawsuit
to stop a provision of Alabama’s discriminatory HB
56 from turning immigrants and their families out of
their homes.
• HICA v. Bentley. Our lawsuit against Alabama’s HB
56, which has been described as “Arizona’s SB 1070
on steroids” because of its attempt to push
immigrants off roads, schools, and their own homes.
NEARLY 6,000 DREAMS
REALIZED
In the first few months that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was being implemented in 2012, NILC staff
educated, advocated and litigated to ensure that all immigrant youth can benefit from this life-changing program.
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THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
The following groups and individuals made our work and accomplishments in 2012 possible.* For this support and
commitment to NILC’s vision, we are deeply grateful.
PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
•
21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund
•
The New York Women’s Foundation
•
The California Endowment
•
•
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
•
Discount Foundation
Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related
Unfair Employment Practices, U.S. Department of
Justice
•
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
•
Open Society Foundations
•
Ford Foundation
•
Public Welfare Foundation
•
Four Freedoms Fund
•
Rosenberg Foundation
•
Grove Foundation
•
State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund
Program
•
Horace Hagedorn Foundation
•
Unbound Philanthropy
•
Immigration Reform Collaborative Fund
CORPORATIONS, LAW FIRMS, AND UNIONS
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•
Advancement Project
•
Laborers’ International Union of North America
•
Altshuler Berzon LLP
•
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
•
American Civil Liberties Union – Immigrants’
Rights Project
•
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
•
National Health Law Program
•
American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations
•
National Immigration Forum
•
American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees
•
National Immigration Project of the National
Lawyers Guild
•
American Immigration Lawyers Association
•
Opportunity Agenda
•
America’s Voice Education Fund
•
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
•
Applied Research Center
•
Rights Working Group
•
Center for Community Change
•
Service Employees International Union
•
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
•
Service Employees International Union, Local 615
•
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
•
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
•
Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC
•
Thorsen French Advocacy LLC
•
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
•
United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union
•
Institute of International Education
•
•
Kalorma Partners
United Food and Commercial Workers, Local
Union 540
•
Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Lyons, Greenwood &
Harley
•
United Food and Commercial Workers, Local
Union 99
•
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
INDIVIDUALS
• Magdalena &
Jose Aguayo
Stephen Bartlett
• Lisa Dixon
• Marisa Aguayo
• Cathy Donoso
• Isabel Letona Alegria
• Daniel Loren Altschuler
• Rachel Andersson
• Vibiana Andrade
• Katie Annand
• Judith Appelbaum
• Custodio Avalos
• Garen Baghdasarian
• Isabel Balboa
• Della Barnett
• Laura & Stuart
Baskes Litwin
• Allen Erenbaum
• Arnoldo Fabela
• Priscilla Fairbank
• Michael Earl Fix
• Acasia Flores
• Aaron Fox
• Dave Fronske
• Jorge Garcia
• Lilia Esther Garcia
• Laura Goldblum
• Iris Gomez &
Phillip J. Kassel
• Virginia King &
Stuart Rickey
• Bill & Terry Pelster
• Marcia Kupferberg
• Nora Preciado
• Anita Ann Laguna
• Claudia Lara
• Emma Leheny
• Melinda Lewis
• Emily Leys
• Joanne & Greg Lin
• Adam Lisagor
• Martha Lujan
• Elena Macias
• Margarita Manwelyan
• Patricia Martinez
• Roberto Gonzalez
• Araceli MartinezOlguin
• Suzette Brooks Masters
• Myrna Benavidez
• Sara Gould & Rick
Surpin
• Tamara H. McCrossen
• Judith Benson
• Lucas Guttentag
• Margaret M. McHugh
• Rebecca Bernhardt
• Paul Haahr
• Brian McInerney
• Jonathan Blazer
• Ernest Hadley
• Doris M. Meissner
• Richard Boswell
• Wade Henderson
• Eric Boucher
• Michael &
Phyllis Herman
• Louise Merchant
Hannan
• George Batek
• Elizabeth Bellavance
• Ellen Bravo
• Jody & Sheila Breslaw
• Tanya Broder
• Sam Brooke
• Meredith Cabell
• Alejandra Casillas
• Tina Castanares
• Jessica Cattelino
• Wendy Cervantes
• Greg Chen
• Muzaffar A. Chishti
• Wendy Chun-Hoon
• Peter Coan
• Silvia Contreras Garcia
• Daniel Costa
• Azzurra Cox
• Robert Creamer
• Adela de la Torre &
• Sheila Miller
• Rachel Heuman
• Margaret Mintz
• Carlos Hincapié
• Juan Miranda
• Marielena Hincapié
• Kelly Moore Brands
• Marina Hincapié
• Tyler Moran
• Ella Hirst
• Hiroshi Motomura
• Diane & Jim Holland
• Bonita Mott
• Alan & Susan
Houseman
• Victor Narro
• Alvaro Huerta
• Nicki Newby
• William Imhof
• Myra Jeskey
• Ben Johnson
• Robert Juceam
• J.J. Kang
• M.J. Kay
• Gloria Keeney
• Nicole R. Kief
• Kathleen Kim
• Susana Navarro-Valenti
• Jennifer Ng’andu
• Rael Nidess
• Robert W. O’Connor &
Monica Halas
• Sonia Olinto & Michael
Saperstein
• Josh Posey
• George Prochnik
• Victoria Pulos
• Afshan Qureshi
• Andrew Reid
• Allan G. Rodgers
• William Rodriguez
• Sara Sadhwani
• Elizabeth Saenger
• Michael Sander
• Gabriel Sandoval
• Maria Sandoval
• Jose Santiago
• Frances Schreiberg
• Dara L. Schur
• Gary Sernovitz
• James Sessions & Fran
Ansley
• Francis Sharry
• Eliot Shepard
• Eric Sigmon
• Wm. Carr Smith
• John Templeton
• Stacy Tolchin
• Silvia Tomaskova
• Paul Uyehara
• Janet Varon
• Carmen Velasquez
• Annie Wang
• Nadine Wettstein
• Andrew V. White
• Carol Wolchok
• Lin-Hua Wu & Michael
Fisher
• Richard L. Yamasaki
• Haeyoung Yoon
• Pia Orrenius
• Noah Zatz
• Demetrios G.
Papademetriou
• Patricia Zavala
*Those recognized here contributed during NILC’s 2011–12 fiscal year,
which covers the period from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012.
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* M any o f t hese g rants a re m ulti-­‐year g rants. T he f ull a mount o f t he f unding f rom t hose g rant
during t he f iscal y ear e nding J une 3 0, 2 013, a lthough a p ortion o f t hose f unds a re t emporarily
NILC w ill c arry o ut i n s ubsequent f iscal y ears. FINANCIAL
STATEMENT
SUMMARY
3% 12% Program Servi
Management General Fundraising 85% Condensed statement of activity for the year
ending June 30, 2012
For complete audited financial statements,
visit www.nilc.org/financialinformation.html.
Program Services
Management and General
Fundraising
Expense Breakdown Total Revenue and Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,980,087
Grants*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,679,775
Trainings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,193
Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,988
Special Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,937
Reimbursable Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,421
Litigation Settlement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,983
Investment Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,527
Other Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Total Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,278,313
Program Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,660,680
Supporting Services
Management and General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503,174
Fundraising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,459
Change in Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $701,774
Net Assets – Beginning of Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,226,359
Net Assets – End of Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,928,133
* Many of these grants are multi-year grants. The full amount of the funding from those grants was recorded as received
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, although a portion of those funds are temporarily restricted for work that
NILC will carry out in subsequent fiscal years.
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DONOR PROFILE
We had an opportunity to talk recently with one of our
committed supporters, Suzette Brooks Masters, about why
she and husband Seth contribute to NILC. This is what
Suzette had to say:
I first came to know NILC professionally when I entered
the immigrants’ rights field in 2000. Several years later
I developed a formal relationship with NILC when I
became a program officer at a family foundation in New
York and was able to fund NILC for its impact litigation
to push back on state and local policies that were
undermining immigrants’ rights.
Over the years, even as the focus of my professional
philanthropy shifted, I was constantly reminded of NILC’s value and unique contributions to the field. When
my husband and I decided to make a significant personal gift to NILC, we were responding to a particular
moment in time—the rise of “DREAMer” movement, the possibility of administrative relief from deportation
for young immigrants, and the possibility that the DREAM Act might pass. We wanted our personal
contributions to leverage the opportunities presented by this moment and give NILC and the United We
Dream Network[*] momentum early on to advance this work and deliver on its promise. My husband was also
very taken with the DREAMer movement and with the transformational role that DACA was going to have on
young lives. So, in addition to our personal contribution, he chose to allocate some of his employer match to
our NILC gift.
Because of my professional philanthropy background, I’m actually very strategic about my personal
philanthropy. Our support of NILC over the last couple of years is really a testament to how pivotal their role
has been in getting us to this point in the national debate and to the central role they play with DREAMers,
DACA, and national immigration reform.
—Suzette Brooks Masters
*NILC is fiscal sponsor of the United We Dream Network.
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