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Celebrating Imelda: guest post from Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
FBB is proud to share this post from our partners at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. In this Women's History Month, "we at the Florence Project celebrate the strong, resilient women who inspire us every day: our clients who are mothers, daughters, sisters, and survivors. We celebrate Imelda. Imelda grew up in the mountains…
Read MoreThe Florence Project
The Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project provides free legal services to people, including unaccompanied children, in immigration custody in Arizona. 86% of detained people go through immigration removal proceedings without legal representation because of poverty. The Florence Project strives for all immigrants facing removal to have access to counsel, to understand their rights, and…
Read MoreHelp us take our disaster recovery program to the next level!
Want to help with hurricane recovery and take the FBB disaster recovery program to the next level? Starting in June 2019, Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB) will send a volunteer to New Bern, North Carolina to help with recovery in the area. In addition to helping rebuild, this volunteer will help us organize our two week…
Read MoreGuest post: Defending against ongoing attacks on the right to seek asylum
In 2018, the Florence Project responded to unprecedented attacks on the right of immigrants to seek asylum in the United States – a right guaranteed by both United States and international law. Unlike defendants in criminal court proceedings, who are guaranteed free legal representation, detained immigrants do not have the right to a public defender.…
Read MoreAnnouncing new slate of beneficiaries
Welcome to 2019 and welcome to our new slate of Humanist Grant beneficiaries! We are thrilled to announce the four organizations that we will be supporting in Q1. We are excited by the work they are doing and our ongoing partnerships with these organizations. Poverty and Health: The Tandana Foundation, our 2018 Compassionate Impact Grant recipient, works in Ecuador…
Read MoreUpdate: Family Separations at U.S. Border
There are currently 13,200 children in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is more than ever before, and the average stay has doubled from that of two years ago. (The official Health and Human Services number is 54 days, but officials have anonymously reported that the number is closer to 74.) The…
Read MoreDisaster Appeal: Hurricane Recovery 2018
Last August, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston and the surrounding area and the damage was extraordinary. Then Hurricane Irma hit Florida, the US and British Virgin Islands, and to a lesser degree, Puerto Rico. By the time Hurricane Maria caused such catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico, it was hard to believe so much devastation…
Read MoreDisaster Appeal: Hurricane Recovery 2018
Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to hit the southeastern US coast on Thursday September 13th, with tropical storm force winds expected to arrive as early as Wednesday night. Florence is expected to be a major event, possibly being the worst hurricane to hit the region in US history. If Florence is…
Read MoreRefugee Children at the U.S. Border
Humanist Crisis Response is now raising funds for The Florence Immigration and Refugee Rights Project and KIND (Kids In Need of Defense), two organizations helping refugee children from Central America who are attempting to enter the United States. The child migration crisis in the United States continues to escalate. The Obama Administration estimates up to 90,000 children from Latin American…
Read MoreDeserving organizations benefit from strong Q3 2014 giving results
The grants we provide to our featured beneficiaries each quarter are funded by our monthly giving members. Each quarter we see a steady increase in total member giving, and therefore an increase in the support we can give to our beneficiaries. This quarter, our Natural World beneficiary was Rainforest Foundation US. Their techniques are to…
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