Our Community Partners
None of our work would be possible without the many people and organizations who support us with their time, expertise, and giving. From pro bono attorneys representing our clients in court, to volunteers spending their Saturday with us at a Citizenship Fair, to all of our faithful donors: we are so grateful for our broad base of community support.
We believe collaboration brings about the best results. Our community partners stand alongside us in our mission, offering their guidance, support, and resources to maximize our collective impact.
Holistic Services Providing Partners
Centro Savila
Centro Sávila’s staff and network of volunteers provide culturally and linguistically relevant care that enhances the natural resiliency of their clients. Their services are offered in English and Spanish and accessible to community members regardless of their ability to pay.
Enlace Comunitario
Enlace Comunitario is a social justice organization led by Latina immigrants whose mission is to eliminate domestic violence in the Latino immigrant community and promote healthy families in Central New Mexico through: comprehensive domestic violence intervention services in Spanish, preventative community education, policy advocacy and leadership development.
Lutheran Family Services
Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains is a faith based, non-profit human services agency providing adoption, foster care, older adult & caregiver, prevention, and refugee services since 1948. We provide help and support to children and families during their most challenging times regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or age. At LFS, we believe that all people, from the newborn to the most elderly, are valued members of our community.
New Mexico Asian Family Center
NM’s only service provider tailoring its services to be culturally and linguistically appropriate for the Asian community. Their mission is to provide culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself.
SOLACE
SOLACE responds to the needs of individuals who are in crisis or suffering from trauma. They are a state-of-the-art non-profit agency, located in Santa Fe, combining the healing power and life changing services of a specialized clinical team, advocacy center, and education and prevention experts to help survivors and our community restore strength in the face of adversity. Their Center provides a safe place to receive evidence-based services including therapy for post-traumatic stress and anxiety disorders, victim advocacy and primary prevention programs. Solace serves Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos Counties and central northern New Mexico.
Legal Services Providing Partners
Catholic Charities (Archdiocese of Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
Catholic Charities are committed to creating a community that thrives in the abundance of God’s love and selflessly serves the needs of one another by partnering with all people of good will, reducing poverty, improving personal opportunity through education, utilizing our resources appropriately and adequately, and affording and encouraging opportunities for service. Some of the services they offer include Children’s Learning Center, Educational Opportunities, Self Sufficiency Housing Assistance, and Refugee Support.
Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services, Inc.
Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services, Inc. (DMRS) is the only full-service immigration legal aid clinic serving low-income immigrants and refugees residing in the southwestern United States. A ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, DMRS began providing legal services in 1987 to Central and South America refugees fleeing their war-torn countries and undocumented immigrants needing legal assistance resulting from the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act or 1986, which offered legal resident status to undocumented immigrants and agricultural workers within the United States.
Pegasus Legal Services
Pegasus Legal Services for Children is a private, non-profit agency that serves the civil legal needs of New Mexico’s vulnerable children and youth. Pegasus promotes and defends the rights of children and youth to safe and stable homes, quality education and healthcare, and a voice in decisions that affect their lives.
Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Santa Fe Dreamers Project serves primarily immigrant youth and families, focusing on economic and community development. Santa Fe Dreamers Project is committed to representing every qualified immigrant who walks through our doors. We make every effort to understand the barriers that normally prevent immigrant families in our community from accessing legal representation and design our services with those barriers in mind.
Legal Litigation Partners
ACLU of NM
ACLU of NM are an affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union and work with them on many important projects. Their primary focus, however, is on the issues that affect residents of the state of New Mexico—LGBT equality, freedom of speech, reproductive freedom, immigrants’ rights, privacy concerns, police abuses, fair treatment of prisoners, and more.
New Mexico Legal Aid
New Mexico Legal Aid has dedicated their services to erasing barriers to justice for low-income New Mexicans by providing free and high-quality civil legal assistance and education for over 60 years. As the largest nonprofit provider of civil legal services in the state, NMLA serves all 33 counties in New Mexico.
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty is dedicated to advancing economic and social justice through education, advocacy and litigation. We work with low-income New Mexicans to improve living conditions, increase opportunities and protect the rights of people living in poverty.
Community Partners
Center for Civic Policy (community partner we advocate with)
Center for Civic Policy strives to involve everyday New Mexicans in the public policy decisions that affect their lives with the goal of achieving positive and lasting change – the kind of change that strengthens the safety and security of New Mexico families.
Comunidades En Acción Y De Fé
Café is part of the PICO National Network, the largest faith-based community organization in the country. Café is a membership organization led by the concerns and vision of our congregations and communities that organize through NM CAFe. They are a multi-faith, multi-cultural organization that trains and builds the capacity of low and moderate-income families to help shape public policies aimed at improving people’s quality of life in New Mexico.
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
El CENTRO is a grassroots, immigrants’ rights and workers’ justice organization based in Central New Mexico that works with Latino immigrant communities and allies to defend, strengthen, and advance the rights of our community.
Encuentro
Encuentro’s mission is to transform New Mexico into a thriving community for all of its residents. They do this by engaging Latino immigrant families in educational opportunities that build skills for economic and social justice.
New Mexico Dream Team / United We Dream
The New Mexico Dream Team is a statewide network committed to create power for multigenerational, undocumented, and mixed status families towards liberation. Through trainings and leadership development, we work to engage our community and allies, in becoming leaders using an intersectional, gender, and racial justice lens—to develop and implement an organizing and advocacy infrastructure for policy change fighting to dismantle systematic oppression.
Partnership for Community Action
The Partnership for Community Action has worked to build strong, healthy communities in Albuquerque’s South Valley and across New Mexico since 1990. PCA focuses on critical community issues like education, economic sustainability, wellness and immigrant rights. Through raising awareness and advocacy opportunities, we support people and families to become strong leaders in their neighborhoods and in New Mexico.
Prosperity Works
Prosperity Works builds the capacity of organizations and advocates for policies that generate economic prosperity for all New Mexicans. Prosperity Works provides a highly effective strategy moving limited-income families from the margins to the mainstream of economic security. They work with organizational partners to provide family supports, financial education, and asset planning.
Somos Un Pueblo Unido
Somos Un Pueblo Unido works to build a community that does not discriminate against people based on their national origin, that institutes humane migration policies, and that protects the human rights of everyone irrespective of where they are born or what documents they carry.
SouthWest Organizing Project
The SouthWest Organizing Project was founded in 1980 by young activists of color to empower our communities in the SouthWest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice. They seek to redefine power relationships by bringing together the collective action, talents, and resources of the people within our communities. They work primarily in low-income communities of color to gain community control of our land and resources
Transgender Resource Center (community partner we advocate with)
TGRCNM is dedicated to serving the transgender communities in the state of New Mexico and strives to exist as a clearing house for resources which can support, assist, educate, and advocate for the transgender and gender non conforming population of this state and their families and loved ones. They provide social, educational, emotional, and functional support for all facets of transgender living and promote mutual understanding, acceptance, and equality to achieve a more positive and healthy society.
Pro Bono & Legal Education Partners
Innovation Law Lab
A small team of lawyers in Portland, Oregon convened a group of activists, software coders and graphic designers and charged them with answering this challenge: how can we leverage technology and activist-organizing theories to stop the illegal removals and support constitutional principles of due process? What can we do here to help the lawyers there? Can we create new technology that will harness and focus the legal power of hundreds of lawyers to solve this crisis?The Innovation Law Lab was founded to bring new technology to the legal fight for justice
National Immigrant Justice Center
Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
With offices in Chicago, Indiana, and Washington, D.C., NIJC provides direct legal services to and advocates for these populations through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education. Since its founding three decades ago, NIJC has been unique in blending individual client advocacy with broad-based systemic change.
New Mexico Bar Immigration Law Section
The general purpose of the Section shall be to sponsor continuing legal education programs for the Bar in the field of Immigration Law.
New Mexico Bar Children’s Law Section
The general purpose of the Section shall be the promotion of the objectives of the State Bar of New Mexico to promote the legal interests of children and youth by improving the legal system and the administration of justice as it pertains to youth and children.
UNM School of Law
Their mission is to educate and train students to become excellent lawyers who will enrich and serve local, state, tribal, national and international communities after graduation. They seek to maintain their long tradition of opening access to the profession. They also seek to make legal education more broadly available by educating practicing attorneys and non-lawyers in New Mexico. They endeavor to focus our resources on some of New Mexico’s most pressing legal needs through educational, research and service programs of national and international prominence.
Funders
Access to Justice Commission—Consolidated Legal Service Fund
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) – Texas Chapter
Civil Legal Service Commission
County of Santa Fe
Crime Victims Reparation Commission (CVRC)
Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundation
Equal Justice Works
Hispanics in Philanthropy
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
McCune Charitable Foundation
Mexican Consulate
Nusenda Foundation
Santa Fe Community Foundation
United Way of Central New Mexico
U.S. Department of Justice / Office of Violence Against Women
Thank you to all of our community partners!
