Donations to OHIA Now Tax Deductible!
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance has been around with various names since 2007. Today we begin our first fundraising campaign as a 501(c)(3) non-profit! All donations made here are 100% tax deductible.
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You’ve been with us through so much—celebrating when an Ohio immigrant gets to stay with their loved ones, crying when someone we’ve come to know and love is deported. Uniting with immigrants, lawyers, and allies to end ICE contracts with county jails and send people back to their lives.
Together we raised more than $50,000 from individual donors to pay for bonds and legal fees; commissaries and connection inside immigration jail; and post-deportation “start over” funds. Who can forget Diop’s “walk of freedom,” when we bonded him out of the Adelanto immigration jail? Donating amounts from $5 to $5,000, often more than once, you helped Ohio immigrants express and experience their human dignity.
Let’s keep it going. We have three main priorities for 2023:
Exposing racism in immigration court through a ground-breaking new report
Easing policies to allow more people who were deported to return (#ReuniteUS)
Publishing Volume 2 of the Ohio Migration Anthology
We are challenging Ohio to be a better, more welcoming place for everyone—including immigrants—and influencing federal policy. We are working for a paradigm shift in the way civil immigration laws are administered—centering humanitarianism and true fairness, not racism, cruelty, and the illusion of justice.
You are a crucial part of this work! There are so many ways you contribute, and we are grateful for all of them. If you can and would like to donate money, please use this link. Thank you!
In addition to terrific volunteers and grassroots donors like you, we have an amazing team of experts working on specific projects, like Maryam Sy and Saidu Sow with #ReuniteUS, and stellar researchers preparing the report about racism in immigration court. Read about some of our consultants and Board members here.
We’re applying for foundation grants and looking for other ways to raise money to fund this important work, like our holiday gift guide. If you have ideas, please email us (admin AT ohioimmigrant DOT org).
Thank you for being a part of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance!
Or text “OhioImmigrant” to 44321 to donate
