STAFF

Marisa Aguayo Development Manager

Ellen Sittenfeld Battistelli Policy Analyst

Armen Bazikian Staff Accountant

Tanya Broder Senior Staff Attorney

Alejandra Casillas HR & Administration Manager

Raquel Chavez Finance & Administration

Coordinator (UWD)

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

Acasia Flores Development Coordinator

David Hernandez Research Associate

Alvaro Huerta Staff Attorney

Mai P. Lam Huynh Policy Associate

Richard Irwin Editor

Melissa Keaney Staff 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

BOARD OF DIRECTORSOrganizations listed for identification purposes only.

Muzaffar Chishti, Chair Migration Policy Institute at NYU

School of Law

Emma Leheny, Vice Chair California Teachers Association

Lilia Garcia-Brower, Secretary Maintenance Cooperation

Trust Fund

Allen Erenbaum, Treasurer Erenbaum Legal Strategies, Inc.

Della Barnett Bahan & Associates

Richard A. Boswell UC Hastings College of the Law

Charles Claver New Empire Entertainment

Insurance Services, Inc.

Iris Gomez Massachusetts Law Reform

Institute

Inez Gonzalez Latino Communications Initiative

at California State University, Fullerton

Sara Gould Caring Across Generations

Lucas Guttentag Yale Law School

Robert J. Horsley Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen &

Loewy, LLP

Cynthia Lange* Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen &

Loewy, LLP

Hiroshi Motomura UCLA School of Law

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Marielena Hincapié Executive Director

Linton Joaquin General Counsel

Reza Badiee Chief Financial and

Administrative Officer

Don Lyster DC Office Director

*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.

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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• 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 co-leading 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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Impacted people such as Jim Shee, a Spanish-Chinese 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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Arizona

NILC Active Litigation

• UCLR v. Utah. The lawsuit filed to stop HB 497, Utah’s Arizona-inspired racial profiling law.

• GLAHR v. Deal. Our lawsuit against Georgia’s discriminatory racial profiling law, HB 87.

• Valle del Sol v. Whiting. Our class-action challenge to Arizona’s notorious racial profiling law, SB 1070.AZ Dream Act v Brewer.

• AZ Dream Act v. Brewer. Our class-action challenge to Arizona’s discriminatory policy that denies driver’s license to DREAMers with deferred action.

• 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.

Louisiana

Alabama

Georgia

• 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!

South Carolina • Lowcountry v. Haley.

Our lawsuit against South Carolina’s discriminatory racial profiling law, SB 20.

Michigan New York

• ONE Michigan v. Johnson. Our class action challenge to Michigan’s discriminatory policy that denied driver’s licenses to DREAMers with deferred action.

• 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.

Utah

Indiana • Buquer, et al. v. City of Indianapolis.

Our lawsuit against Indiana’s discriminatory racial profiling law.

NILC ACTIVE LITIGATION

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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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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 California Endowment

• David & Lucile Packard Foundation

• Discount Foundation

• Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

• Ford Foundation

• Four Freedoms Fund

• Grove Foundation

• Horace Hagedorn Foundation

• Immigration Reform Collaborative Fund

• The New York Women’s Foundation

• Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, U.S. Department of Justice

• Open Society Foundations

• Public Welfare Foundation

• Rosenberg Foundation

• State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund Program

• Unbound Philanthropy

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

CORPORATIONS, LAW FIRMS, AND UNIONS

• Advancement Project

• Altshuler Berzon LLP

• American Civil Liberties Union – Immigrants’ Rights Project

• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

• American Immigration Lawyers Association

• America’s Voice Education Fund

• Applied Research Center

• Center for Community Change

• Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP

• Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

• Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC

• Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

• Institute of International Education

• Kalorma Partners

• Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Lyons, Greenwood & Harley

• Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance

• Laborers’ International Union of North America

• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

• Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

• National Health Law Program

• National Immigration Forum

• National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

• Opportunity Agenda

• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

• Rights Working Group

• Service Employees International Union

• Service Employees International Union, Local 615

• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

• Thorsen French Advocacy LLC

• United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

• United Food and Commercial Workers, Local Union 540

• United Food and Commercial Workers, Local Union 99

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INDIVIDUALS

• Magdalena & Jose Aguayo

• Marisa Aguayo

• 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

• George Batek

• Elizabeth Bellavance

• Myrna Benavidez

• Judith Benson

• Rebecca Bernhardt

• Jonathan Blazer

• Richard Boswell

• Eric Boucher

• 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 &

Stephen Bartlett

• Lisa Dixon

• Cathy Donoso

• 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

• Roberto Gonzalez

• Sara Gould & Rick Surpin

• Lucas Guttentag

• Paul Haahr

• Ernest Hadley

• Wade Henderson

• Michael & Phyllis Herman

• Rachel Heuman

• Carlos Hincapié

• Marielena Hincapié

• Marina Hincapié

• Ella Hirst

• Diane & Jim Holland

• Alan & Susan Houseman

• Alvaro Huerta

• William Imhof

• Myra Jeskey

• Ben Johnson

• Robert Juceam

• J.J. Kang

• M.J. Kay

• Gloria Keeney

• Nicole R. Kief

• Kathleen Kim

• Virginia King & Stuart Rickey

• Marcia Kupferberg

• Anita Ann Laguna

• Claudia Lara

• Emma Leheny

• Melinda Lewis

• Emily Leys

• Joanne & Greg Lin

• Adam Lisagor

• Martha Lujan

• Elena Macias

• Margarita Manwelyan

• Patricia Martinez

• Araceli Martinez-Olguin

• Suzette Brooks Masters

• Tamara H. McCrossen

• Margaret M. McHugh

• Brian McInerney

• Doris M. Meissner

• Louise Merchant Hannan

• Sheila Miller

• Margaret Mintz

• Juan Miranda

• Kelly Moore Brands

• Tyler Moran

• Hiroshi Motomura

• Bonita Mott

• Victor Narro

• Susana Navarro-Valenti

• Nicki Newby

• Jennifer Ng’andu

• Rael Nidess

• Robert W. O’Connor & Monica Halas

• Sonia Olinto & Michael Saperstein

• Pia Orrenius

• Demetrios G. Papademetriou

• Bill & Terry Pelster

• Josh Posey

• Nora Preciado

• 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

• Noah Zatz

• 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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FINANCIAL STATEMENT SUMMARYCondensed statement of activity for the year ending June 30, 2012

For complete audited financial statements, visit www.nilc.org/financialinformation.html.

FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  SUMMARY  Condensed  statement  of  activity  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  2012    For  complete  audited  financial  statements,  visit  www.nilc.org/financialinformation.html.    

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.  

 

 

Expense  Breakdown  

85%  

12%  

3%  

Program  Services  

Management  and  General  

Fundraising    

Marisa Aguayo 10/11/13 12:58 PMComment  [1]:  I  don’t  think  we  need  this  heading.  See  below  re:  adding  a  chart  caption  instead.  

Marisa Aguayo 10/11/13 12:58 PMComment  [2]:  I  would  like  to  have  this  as  a  caption  within  the  chart  area  itself,  instead  of  below  it.  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.

Program Services Management and General

Fundraising

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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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