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TBE Immigration Action Team Receives URJ Grant 

04/16/2020 01:53:17 PM

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The TBE Immigrant Rights Action Team has been awarded a $1,500 grant from the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Initiative for Immigrant and Refugee Justice at the Religious Action Center of the Union for Reform Judaism. The grants are intended to support projects advancing justice for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Projects may include direct service, education campaigns, events, advocacy, and other ideas.

TBE will use these funds to focus on legal services in collaboration with the Community Immigration Law Center of Madison (CILC). CILC assists low-income immigrants by providing information, support, and referrals as well as by providing legal representation to a small number of undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation. CILC will use the grant funds to support additional training for the agency’s three staff attorneys to enhance the services provided.

We will update the TBE community about the results of these efforts in the coming months and hope to sponsor a presentation by CILC regarding the trainings that were attended and how they are being used.

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