Local and National Groups

Great sources of information, ways to be involved and much more!

  • United States Catholic Conference-Justice for Immigrants:  Works to mobilize a network of Catholic and non-Catholic institutions and people in support of comprehensive immigration reform. Many downloadable fact sheets and advocacy tools for both individuals and organizations
  • American Immigration Council: Former American Immigration Law Center, works to increase public understanding of immigration policy and to advancing fundamental fairness under the law for immigrants. Excellent resource for teachers with a downloadable curriculum.
  • American Friends Service Committee: A faith-based organization working towards social justice, including immigrant rights. Link to Activists' Guide on Documenting Human Rights and other useful resources.
  • Catholic Legal Immigration Network: CLINIC aims to enhance and expand delivery of legal services to indigent and low-income immigrants principally through diocesan immigration programs and to meet the immigration needs identified by the Catholic Church in the United States. The network employs roughly 1,200 attorneys and "accredited" paralegals who, in turn, serve 400,000 low-income immigrants each year. CLINIC and its member agencies represent low-income immigrants without reference to their race, religion, gender, ethnic group, or other distinguishing characteristics.
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center: The ILRC is a national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, the ILRC trains lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. They develop leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice. And they educate and empower those in the immigrant community so that they may organize and advocate for the rights and privileges that best define our democratic traditions.
  • Immigration Policy Center: The IPC is the research and policy arm of the American Immigration Council. IPC's mission is to shape a rational conversation on immigration and immigrant integration. Through its research and analysis, IPC provides policymakers, the media, and the general public with accurate information about the role of immigrants and immigration policy on U.S. society.
  • Reform Immigration for America: A united national effort that brings together individuals and grassroots organizations with the mission to build support for workable comprehensive immigration
  • The Kentucky Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: The KCIRR works for improving the lives of millions of immigrants and refugees. Currently, KCIRR works towards ensuring just rights, but mainly focused on grassroots organizing in immigrant communities. In addition to community organizing and advocacy work, KCIRR runs a Democracy School in which new immigrants learn about immigration laws and history of the United States, advocacy, legislation, thus motivating them to take leadership roles in their own causes.
  • League of United Latin American Citizens-Ohio: LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.
  • United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries:  One of four Covenanted Ministries in the UCC, helps local congregations and all settings of the church respond to God's commandments to do justice, seek peace and effect change for a better world.
  • International Center of Greater Cincinnati: The center seeks to serve to a growing need providing basic social services for the foreign-born population in Greater Cincinnati and to give Cincinnatians the opportunity to build a more global community.
  • DREAM Activists: DreamActivist.org is a multicultural, migrant youth-led, social media hub for the movement to pass the DREAM Act and pursue the enactment of other forms of legislation that aim to mend the broken immigration system.
  • United We Dream: As a national immigrant youth-led organization, the mission of the United We Dream Network is to achieve equal access to higher education for all people, regardless of immigration status. United We Dream aims to address the inequities and obstacles faced by immigrant youth and to develop a sustainable, grassroots movement, led by immigrant youth, documented and undocumented, and children of immigrants.
  • National Immigration Law Center: Since 1979, the National Immigration Law Center has been dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants and their family members.  Over the past 30 years, NILC has earned a national reputation as a leading expert on immigration, public benefits, and employment laws affecting immigrants and refugees.  Our extensive knowledge of the complex interplay between immigrants' legal status and their rights under U.S. laws is an essential resource for legal aid programs, community groups, and social service agencies across the country.
  • Immigration Impact: ImmigrationImpact.com was launched in 2008 to help shape and develop a rational conversation on immigration that shifts the terms of the debate towards achieving workable and effective comprehensive policy reform. It is a project of the American Immigration Council.