
DONATE: Defending Our Neighbors Fund
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As people’s due process rights continue to be violated — affecting tens of thousands of people who are immigrants, children, and even U.S. citizens and green card holders — the need for legal counsel is skyrocketing. Studies show that in 2024, there were more than 2.5 million cases in immigration court where people did not have legal representation. Having access to a lawyer is often the difference between a family staying together or being separated indefinitely.
United We Dream (UWD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Abundant Futures Fund(AFF), have joined forces to launch the Defending Our Neighbors Fund: a bold new initiative that will scale up crucial financial support to legal organizations all across the country. Housed within AFF, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund will help ensure immigrant families facing the threat of separation and wrongful detention and deportations have access to lawyers.
Use your power this month and DONATE HERE!
ABOUT DEFENDING OUR NEIGHBORS FUND
The Defending Our Neighbors Fund is powered by everyday people, like you, stepping up and building a vital lifeline to support our immigrant neighbors, loved ones, and communities against injustice.
With more than 11 million U.S. citizens living in households with an undocumented family member, countless American families face imminent risk of being torn apart. Many are forced to navigate a complex and punishing system alone, without access to legal counsel. Even young children, the most vulnerable members of our communities, are facing trained prosecutors without anyone by their side. Access to legal support is a vital lifeline for families facing the threat of being separated from their loved ones. This is why the Defending Our Neighbors Fund exists.
Supported by United We Dream and the ACLU, the Defending Our Neighbors Fund is hosted by Abundant Futures Fund (a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors), and aims to raise and deploy $30 million to grassroots organizations to meet this crisis with action and care.
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VOLUNTEER: Write for Rights
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Now through January 31, 2026, take a few minutes to write letters for Amnesty International’s 2025 Write for Rights campaign! Letters from people just like you have had some magnificent results, including these SUCCESS STORIES.
Since Write for Rights started in 2001, millions of people have changed the lives of those whose human rights have been taken away. Over the past 24 years, more than 50 million actions have been taken, and over 100 people featured in their campaign have seen a positive outcome in their case.
YOU CAN FIND MORE INFO AND RESOURCES HERE!
ABOUT WRITE FOR RIGHTS
Every year to mark Human Rights Day on December 10th, hundreds of thousands of people around the world send letters and sign online petitions on behalf of people they’ve never met, as part of Write for Rights. Their messages help convince government officials to release people who have been imprisoned solely for who they are or what they believe, support human rights defenders, stop torture, commute death sentences, and end other human rights abuses.
Letter writing has always been at the heart of Amnesty International’s human rights campaigning, and 64 years of human rights activism shows that it still works. Check out their Successes Page for proof!
Source: Amnesty International Write for Rights
Watch This Video To Learn More About Write for Rights!
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BONUS: Operation Santa!
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For those of our members who “believe” in Santa– You can read letters from Santa’s mailroom and answer the ones he can’t through the US Postal Service’s Operation Santa Program. Adopt a letter today and make a holiday wish come true! Gifts must be sent off by December 13th, so adopt a letter today!
You can also watch a heartwarming Christmas documentary about the Operation Santa program: Dear Santa. Watch the trailer below and find more info on the film and where to watch it HERE!Dear Santa – Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films



















