The Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center’s mission is to improve the status of Latinx students and to promote awareness, understanding, and appreciation of the richness and diversity of Latinx individuals and Latin American cultures. PRLACC works independently and collaboratively with other University departments and community organizations to sponsor educational and cultural programs, provide services and leadership opportunities, foster connections, and educate the greater University community about Latinx issues. Their services and programs seek to enhance and support student, faculty, and staff recruitment and retention, as well as enrich the multicultural climate of the community.
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Green Mountain Aid
Green Mountain Aid’s mission is to build mental health resilience through increasing access to holistic, culturally responsive services for refugees and asylees in Vermont and beyond. Organizational goals include the following:
1. Provide mental health services, including psychotherapy and case management.
2. Increase availability of mental health services by providing consultation and training to mental health clinicians and agencies.
3. Collaborate with community organizations to aid in accessing social services, obtain basic needs and access mental health services.
4. Provide evaluations and training for N648 medical waivers.
5. Provide training and consultation on working with interpreters in mental health settings.
6. Provide outreach to stakeholders to ensure culturally responsive and pertinent services.
7. Aid families in supporting loved ones from whom they are separated.
8. Advocate with agencies and government to ensure access to these services are being prioritized.
Hartford Deportation Defense
Hartford Deportation Defense is an immigrant-led mutual aid collective that works to fight for the rights of all immigrants in the Hartford area, so that we can all have access to a dignified, peaceful, and joyful life. We think ICE, CBP (Customs and Border Patrol), and immigration detention should be abolished. Nobody should be put in a cage for trying to find a better life.
Scholars at Risk Network
Scholars at Risk protects scholars suffering grave threats to their lives, liberty and well-being by arranging temporary research and teaching positions at institutions in our network as well as by providing advisory and referral services.
Legal Services of Hudson Valley
The mission of LSHV is to provide high quality counsel in civil matters for low-income individuals and families and other vulnerable persons who do not have access to legal representation to maintain their basic needs, and to pursue equity through dismantling systemic oppression. These include urgent legal needs such as: housing emergencies (eviction and foreclosure prevention), domestic violence (orders of protection, child custody, etc.), healthcare, disability and benefits, elder law, consumer fraud and more.
CEJIL
The Center for Justice and International Law’s (CEJIL) mission is to contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights in the Americas through the effective use of Inter-American System tools and other international human rights law protection mechanisms.
CEJIL offers advice and free legal representation to victims of human rights abuses—and to organizations that defend their causes—when justice proves impossible to achieve in their own countries. In this effort, CEJIL prioritizes the hemisphere’s most persecuted and excluded populations.
The Education Project
They’re an entirely volunteer-run organization providing a platform that connects professionals and college students with students in grades K-12. Through different online mediums (e.g. Zoom, WebEx, Google Meets, etc.), students receive a one-on-one education coupled with an irreplaceable mentorship experience.
LiveWell Dementia Specialists
LiveWell Dementia Specialists, formerly the Alzheimer’s Resource Center, opened in 1992 as a nonprofit focused exclusively on caring for individuals at all stages of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.
Food Rescue
Food Rescue US engages volunteers to transfer fresh food surpluses from local businesses to social service agencies serving the food insecure.
Desegregate CT
They are a pro-homes coalition of neighbors and nonprofits advocating for better local & state land use policies to make every community in Connecticut more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable.
Formed in June 2020, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the renewed conversation on racial justice, their work is about first imagining and then enacting a new vision for local and state land use policies that promotes economic growth, racial inclusivity, and environmental sustainability. They leverage original research and grassroots organizing in service of public education and policy change at all levels of government.