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Prepared by: Grace Chun
Program Coordinator Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua Co.
Immigrant Justice
Organizations Directory
Theatre for Community Change (TfCC)
Facebook: @comomunitychangetheatre Phone number: (352) 871-0564 Syraj Syed (850) 459-0442 Ann Kinnebrew
Theatre for Community Change (TfCC) grew out of a partnership between Ignite Applied Theatre and Your Authentic Self Work. TfCC carries a vision for creating inclusive, open spaces in community for engaging, learning and communicating across our differences. We do this through customized workshops, playback theatre performance and improvisational and scripted theatre designed to involve the larger community in meaning-making dialogue around organizational missions. We specialize in crafting interactive and engaging experiences that combine opportunities for small groups and audiences space for deep reflection that can lead to dynamic and meaningful calls to action.
Mission and Program Support Services
www.igniteappliedtheatre.com [email protected] Facebook: @igniteappliedtheatre
www.yourauthenticselfwork.com [email protected] Facebook: @yourauthenticselfwork
Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua Co. Website: welcominggainesville.org Facebook: @WelcomingGainesville Email: [email protected]
WG&AC is a nonprofit dedicated to making Gainesville an inclusive community that welcomes immigrants, international students, and refugees and celebrates diversity as a source of strength and innovation. Outreach activities include the English Conversation Partners, Cross-Cultural Suppers, and "Impact of Immigration on Gainesville" documentary project. Our greatest need is volunteers.
Westminster Presbyterian Church United Website: www.wpcgainesville.com/outreach Facebook: @wpcgainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 378-4032
Our mission is to is to nurture, equip and send out disciples to be Christ’s ministers of compassion, healing and peace in their daily lives. We fund several agencies and programs in serving the disenfranchised and victims of unfair systems, and other areas of peace and justice. Programs include Family Promise, National Farmworker Ministry, and more.
August 12, 2018
Dear Friends,
This Directory of Gainesville and Alachua County organizations concerned with Immigrant justice is the first edition of a directory of local civic and other private organizations concerned with social justice. The Directory is a project of Welcoming Gainesville and Alachua County (WGAC). I want to thank Grace Chun, WGAC Program Coordinator, who researched and compiled the Directory. The Directory is purposed to make the Gainesville Community and surrounding areas aware of the range of local organizations concerned with immigrant humanitarian and justice issues affecting all of our communities. We hope very much that the Directory will be used, as well, as a catalyst for cooperative community action to address these concerns together in ways that increase each organization’s overall impact. Please take this Directory home with you and share with others in our community and especially let the Welcoming Gainesville Board know if there are other organizations that we have missed and need to be included in future editions. Peace and Justice, Richard Macmaster President, Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua Co.
Alachua County Coalition Against Human Trafficking Website: www.accaht.org Facebook: @accaht Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 639-0924 ACCAHT builds a network of partnerships in Alachua County that unites governmental agencies, non-governmental and faith-based organizations, victim service providers, educational institutions, civic groups, and concerned citizens to prevent the exploitation of adults and children in all forms of human trafficking, rescue victims, and provide rehabilitative services for survivors.
Alachua County Labor Coalition Website: www.laborcoalition.org Facebook: Alachua County Labor Coalition Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 375-2832
ACLC is a group of individuals, unions, and worker-friendly organizations committed to the rights of working people, their families, and communities. If you want to fight for wage raises in Alachua County, join the Living Wage Campaign! If want to advocate for health care as a human right, join the Just Health Care Campaign! And if you'd want help ensure safe, environmentally efficient, and accessible housing in Alachua County, join our Affordable Housing Campaign!
University Evangelical Lutheran Church Website: www.ulcgainesville.com Facebook: @ULCGainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 373-6945
Baker Interfaith Friends is a visitation ministry of the University Evangelical Lutheran Church offering a compassionate offering a compassionate presence and friendship to people held in detention in Baker County. Opportunities include visiting, letter-writing, and prayer, in partnership with others from our Gainesville community. ULC also collects donations for the food bank and homeless “residents”.
United Way of North Central Florida Website: www.unitedwayncfl.org Facebook: @unitedwayncfl Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 331-2800 Our mission is to positively impact the education, health and financial stability of people living in our region. Since our inception, we have raised nearly $95 million for the region. United Way leads the community to focus on issues and build solutions through giving, advocating and volunteering.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville (UUFG) Website: www.uufg.org Facebook: @uugainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 377-1669
Our mission is to honor the inherent worth and dignity of all people of the world in which we live, respect and encourage the many different approaches to spiritual fulfillment, support each other in life's passages and struggles, work compassionately for peace, liberty and justice; and celebrate our connection to the sacredness of life and protect life's sustaining systems.
United Church of Gainesville Website: www.ucgainesville.org Facebook: @ucgainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 378-3500
Social Justice Committee is the action oriented arm of our UCG outreach. Through Social Justice we provide opportunities to engage their faith by promoting and working towards systemic and cultural change. Social Justice oversees our letter writing campaigns, sponsors and recruits volunteers for the Community Weatherization Coalition, and provides and sells fair-trade coffee, tea and chocolate to our church.
Beltram Peace Center Website: gainesvillemennonites.org Email: [email protected] (Eve MacMaster) Phone Number: (352) 377-6577 Facebook: @EmmanuelMennoniteChurchGainesville
The Beltram Peace Center is a community outreach of Emmanuel Mennonite Church that aims to encourage interfaith understanding and cooperation and understanding as we work together in our community to foster peace, justice, and creation care. We host Muslim-Christian dialogues, Dismantling Racism study, and other organizations. Our greatest need are volunteers, donations, and artists and photographers to keep our gallery exciting.
Alachua County Migrant Education Website: fl02219191.schoolwires.net/Domain/7041 Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 955-6855 ext. 6361
The Title I Migrant Education program is a compensatory education program designed to address the unique needs of migratory children in preschool through grade twelve. The program provides supplemental instruction in basic skills to compensate for academic deficiencies inherent in a highly mobile population. Support services are also provided.
Catholic Charities Website: www.catholiccharitiesgainesville.org Facebook: @CatholicCharitiesGainesville Email: [email protected] Phone number: (352)372-0294 The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide services to anyone in need, regardless of race or religion; to advocate justice, human dignity and quality of life; and to call all people to join in these efforts; thereby reflecting the compassion of God in Christ. Our programs include Rural Mobile Outreach program, Emergency Assistance, Food Pantry, and Weekend Hunger Backpack Program. We need volunteers in our Food Pantry, donation of diapers (size 4-6), and financial support.
Central Florida Community Action Agency Website: www.cfcaa.org Facebook: @cfcaa Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 373-7667
CFCAA’s mission is to implement programs that focus on achieving outcomes by engaging community partners in helping people living in poverty strengthen their lives. Programs include: Raising and Improving Self Sufficiency Expectations, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance, and Weatherization Assistance.
Rural Women’s Health Project Website: www.rwhp.org Facebook: @rwhporg Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 372-1095
RWHP’s mission is to involve community members in the development of community-based, health education projects, trainings and materials to assist in broadening their understanding of critical health issues; thereby, increasing their capacity to replicate programs and strengthen their advocacy skills. Projects include Let’s Talk About it, a women’s HIV Peer Advocacy group and Project SALUD that build community assets to reverse the factors that create health disparities in immigrant communities.
Trinity United Methodist Church Website: www.trinitygnv.org/projects Facebook: @TrinityGNV Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 376-6615
Trinity holds a faith that combines head and heart and hand. Programs include Family Promise, mobilizing community resources and local congregations to provide shelter, meals and case management, Kids Count, an after school program, and Mommy Reads, recording mothers imprisoned reading books for their children. Needs include diapers (all ages), underwear, socks, toiletries, gift/telephone cards, and day care center supplies.
Parkview Baptist Church Website: www.parkview-baptist-church.org Facebook: @GatorParkview Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 378-2606
The mission of Parkview Baptist Church is to love and meet the needs of our community. As we do so, we believe we will impart the love of Jesus Christ to those we encounter as we serve. We prepare and serve our Wednesday Community Meal, free of charge, provide emergency household food boxes when requested, provide bagged lunches for those in need, and host English language classes. Volunteers for these services are always appreciated.
Peaceful Paths Website: peacefullpaths.org Facebook: @PeacefulPaths Phone Number: (352) 377-8255 Peaceful Paths is the certified domestic violence center that serves survivors of domestic violence in Alachua, Bradford, and Union counties. We provide a wide range of services including emergency shelter, 24-hour helpline, victim advocacy, children’s programming, education and training, crisis counseling and support groups, community awareness and intervention, and violence prevention programs. We are always in need of volunteers.
Chispas at UF Website: www.chispasuf.com Facebook: @chispasuf Email: [email protected]
Chispas is the only student run organization at the University of Florida that focuses on immigrant rights and immigrant advocacy. Our mission is to address the pressing needs and issues of the immigrant community through advocacy, service and awareness. We believe in an engaged student body that promotes equal rights, fair treatment, and the empowerment of the immigrant community.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Website: www.ciw-online.org Facebook: @CIWonFB Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (239) 657-8311
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of social responsibility, human trafficking, and gender-based violence at work. CIW’s work encompasses three broad spheres: Fair Food Program, Anti-Slavery Campaign, Campaign for Fair Food.
Florida Immigrant Coalition Website: www.floridaimmigrant.org Facebook: @FloridaImmigrantCoalition Email: [email protected] Phone number: (305) 571-7254
FLIC’s mission is to amplify the power of immigrant communities to impact the root causes of inequality, defending and protecting basic human rights. Programs include voter registration, know your rights training, citizenship clinics, and education about Florida's mass incarceration history. Top needs include volunteers for the programs above.
Florida Legal Services Website: www.floridalegal.org Facebook: @FLSImmigrantmigrantProject Email: [email protected] Phone number: (407) 801-4350
Florida Legal Services is a statewide leader in advancing economic, social, and racial justice. Florida Legal advocate for poor, vulnerable, and hard to reach people through impact litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, education, and strategic partnerships. The Immigrant and Migrant Rights Project of Florida Legal Services, Inc. protects and advances the rights of immigrants and migrants through community-lawyering, legislative and administrative advocacy, and impact litigation.
National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM) Website: nfwm.org Facebook: @nfwministry Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (919) 807-8707 NFWM educates and mobilizes people of faith and conscience to stand in solidarity with our farm worker partners who are organizing themselves to create safer, better paid and more respectful working and living conditions. NFWM gives presentations and workshops in churches, campuses and community groups, organize vigils, pickets and marches. We coordinate boycotts, shareholder actions, national call-ins and petitions and social media campaigns. Our top needs are volunteers and financial support.
North Central Florida Central Labor Council Website: https://unionhall.aflcio.org/north-central-florida-central-labor-council Facebook: @NCFCLC Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 222-1991
NCFCLC is one of the labor councils of the AFL-CIO. We represent the interests of working people at the state and local level. We mobilize our members and community partners to advocate for social and economic justice and we strive daily to vanquish oppression and make our communities better for all people. Those wanting to form a union in their workplace, please reach out.
Humans of Gainesville Facebook: @HumansOfGainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 374-4478 HOG's mission is to portray the character of Gainesville, Fl (aka Hogtown) via random sightings of its lovable, often quirky, characters in the locations we love. HOG is a immigrant friendly Facebook page that showcases Gainesville community. From newcomers to thirty year residents, HOG showcases the diversity and vivacity of the Gainesville community. Check out the Facebook page to learn a little about the people that make up the place we call home.
Madres Sin Fronteras
(Mothers Without Borders)
Facebook: @MSFGainesville Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 792-1374
Madres Sin Fronteras is a local grassroots immigrant-led organization that work to protect the rights of immigrants families in our community and to ensure that all treated with dignity and respect. We conduct Know Your Rights trainings for the affected community, and develop Sanctuary and Sanctuary-in-the-Streets programs with HRC like the Faith Action ID program. We need bilingual volunteers and general volunteers including funds for Rapid Response Hotline, and Bail/Bond fund to bond out those detained so they can fight their cases from their communities.
Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice (IAIJ) Website: www.gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com Facebook: Gainesville’s IAIJ Email: [email protected]
Gainesville IAIJ is a coalition of faith communities and individuals who want to support farm workers and other immigrants in their efforts for social and economic justice. Our mission includes visiting immigrants held in detention centers, responding to undocumented immigrant needs for sanctuary, and educating the public about immigrants and refugees. We need volunteers to visit the Baker Detention Center, work with Fair Food Campaign, and community outreach. IAIJ meets the 2nd Monday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Mennonite meeting house, 1236 NW 18th Avenue in Gainesville.
IAIJ
Gainesville Community Ministry (GCM) Website: www.gcmhelp.org Facebook: @gcmhelp Email: [email protected] Phone number: (352) 372-8162
GCM, with God’s help, seeks to provide compassionate emergency care for those persons who cannot help themselves. GCM further seeks to provide, through education and support, the kind of assistance that will encourage those who can be helped to end a cycle of poverty and despair. Services include: running a Food Pantry, USDA Food, Job Search Counseling and more. Volunteers are always welcome to help provide these services.
Gainesville Quaker Meeting
Website: www.gainesvillequakers.org Facebook:@GainesvilleQuakers Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 372-1070
Quakerism is a way of life built upon values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship, having a long-held commitment to putting their faith into direct action in the world. We provide monetary, needed supplies, and sweat equity for the Sanctuary House and stage a weekly (5pm) Immigration Justice witness on Monday at the corner of 23rd Ave and 43rd St.
Gators for Refugee Medical Relief Facebook: @UFGRMR Email: [email protected]
Gators for Refugee Medical Relief is dedicated to raising resources and awareness for in-need refugees and their families. GRMR is a student-ran nonprofit with the goal of helping elementary age refugees break down cultural barriers they face when they arrive in America.
Human Rights Council of North Central Florida Website: www.hrcncf.org Facebook: @hrcncf Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 234-6060
HRCNCF works to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the interest of civic betterment and social welfare. HRCNCF fosters all kinds of diversity in our community including newly arrived community members regarding concerns about LGBT inclusion. Community volunteers are welcome to attend our monthly meetings, where we'll have opportunities to provide local outreach and advocacy on these LGBT issues.
Human Rights Coalition of Alachua County
Website: hrcalachua.com Facebook: @hrcacfl Email: [email protected] Phone Number: (352) 354-2480
We are committed to educating and assisting individuals and groups who are experiencing difficulties receiving their basic human rights. The Sanctuary Church program provides a safe space for those fighting immediate deportation orders and the Sanctuary in the Streets program works to make sure that all of Alachua County’s residents are guaranteed full enjoyment of their rights as members of this community and as human beings. We need volunteers and fundraising for our community ID program, Rapid Response Hotline, and Bail/Bond fund.