Organization Name: One Michigan
Organization Overview: One Michigan is an organization led by immigrant youth and supported by strong allies. We work towards providing resources to immigrant communities through organizing, education, and empowerment. We answer to and are driven by the needs of our community.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All,Hispanic
State: Michigan
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 721-5056
Email: jose@1michigan.org
Website: http://1michigan.org/
Organization Name: OneMacomb (One Macomb, 1 Macomb)
Organization Overview: Macomb County Executive’s Office created a work group to focus on cultural diversity and inclusion efforts. There focus is on three key objectives: promoting multiculturalism and inclusiveness; strengthening Macomb County’s economy; and identifying and implementing workplace best practices and how they deliver County services.
Language: English
Cultures: All,American,Multicultural
Street: 1 S. Main Street, 8th Floor
City/Township: Mount Clemens
State: MI
Zip Code: 48043
Country: USA
Phone: (586) 493-4877
Fax No: (586) 469-7257
Email: Lavers@MacombGov.org
Website: http://diversity.macombgov.org/
Organization Name: Peoples Community Services Hamtramck
Organization Overview: Owned by People's Community Services (PCS), the H. Irving Mayson Hamtramck Center is a large facility with many resources for the community. Located on the south end of Hamtramck, a diverse community of long-time residents and recent immigrants, the center also has several classrooms used for arts and crafts, adult education and meetings. A large common room with comfortable seating houses pool tables, foosball and ice hockey tables. This room can also be set up for large meetings or used as a dining area to the adjacent full kitchen and pantry area. Community members also enjoy our full indoor gym and basketball court.
More than 250 youth use the center each year and enjoy great programs such as the Youth Stay In School Initiative and many dynamic summer programs. ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) has an office onsite.
This center also provides basic needs services for community members most in need including food assistance, clothing, employment, shelter, medical, and transportation. PCS has amazing success in being a resource for all ethnic groups in this area and encouraging participation from individual groups as well as dialogue between groups.
Language: English
Cultures: African-American,All,American
Street: 8625 Joseph Campau Avenue
City/Township: Hamtramck
State: MI
Zip Code: 48212
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 875-1750
Fax No: (313) 875-2261
Email: l.spivey@pecose.org
Website: http://www.pecose.org/
Organization Name: Piast Institute
Organization Overview: The Piast Institute is a national research center devoted to Polish and Polish American affairs. It is also one of forty-eight United States Census Bureau Information Centers (CIC) and one of two located in Michigan.
The Piast Institute develops conferences, seminars, publications, public programs, lectures, and exhibits that provide accurate information about Poland, Poles, and Polish Americans. It also has a special interest in the role of Ethnicity in American Life.
With its resources and its position as a Census Information Center, the Piast Institute also acts as a data resource center helping Polish, Polish American and other community groups develop policy papers and historical, cultural, political, economic, social and demographic studies on a wide variety of topics.
The Piast Institute is also officially certified by the Department of Homeland Security as an Immigrant Assistance site with trained staff to help immigrants with visa, documentation, and status issues.
The Institute’s mission and programming also aim to celebrate Polish contributions to America as well as world culture, and to address and counter inaccurate or defamatory information about Poland, Poles or Polish Americans.
The Institute was founded in 2003 by the late Dr. Thaddeus Radzilowski, a celebrated historian, writer and academic, and Mrs. Virginia Skrzyniarz, an accomplished executive serving non-profit organizations in various capacities for over thirty years.
Mrs. Skrzyniarz was appointed the CEO by the Piast Board of Directors in 2018.
Language: English,Polish
Cultures: East European,Polish
Street: 11633 Joseph Campau
City/Township: Hamtramck
State: MI
Zip Code: 48212
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 733-4535
Fax No: (313) 733-4527
Email: info@piastinstitute.org
Website: http://www.piastinstitute.org
Organization Name: The Shlama Foundation
Organization Overview: SHLAMA FOUNDATION
Connecting the Diaspora to the Homeland
WHO WE ARE | OUR MISSION
The Shlama Foundation’s mission is to engage the diaspora to fund humanitarian aid and other community projects that will help the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac people live and prosper in their ancestral homeland.
YOUTH-BASED
Nothing would be possible without the wide range of support we receive, from different countries and cultures, from young children to the elderly and from businesses and organizations. We have been moved to tears from all the groups and individuals who have found empathy in their hearts to fundraise for our cause. Although support comes from all areas, we believe it's important to keep The Shlama Foundation leadership primarily in the hands of the youth. Energetic, caring, united, honest, and passionate, the youthful zeal of Shlama has ignited our mission to influence genuine volunteerism in the homeland.
Situation Timeline
WHO WE ARE | OUR VALUES
TRANSPARENCY
According to Transparency International, Iraq is perceived to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Many people are not aware of the true reason that The Shlama Foundation was started. When the situation began, we had an outpouring of people who wanted to help, but the same thing stopped them every time. They would not trust that their donation would fully reach its destination. We put our thinking caps on and plotted out every single way we could show transparency: Receipts, Photos, Videos, Personal Video Mentions, Public Donation Listings, etc. It sounded like a lot of work, but we had no choice. We knew that the key to successful humanitarian aid in this case was transparency, and an organization was born.
Nineveh Map
WHO WE ARE | OUR VISION
We envision a thriving homeland for the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac people that is strongly connected to the diaspora through the act of giving.
MORE ABOUT US
FAQ
WHO WE ARE | OUR MISSION
The Shlama Foundation’s mission is to engage the diaspora to fund humanitarian aid and other community projects that will help the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac people live and prosper in their ancestral homeland.
QUALITY OF LIFE
We believe everyone has a right to a good quality of life. We believe everyone should live with dignity and in peace, without daily fear. Although our immediate focus will always be Emergency Response, our long term goals are to continue to improve the quality of life in the Nineveh Plains through Community Development, Youth Activities & Education, Cultural Preservation, Supporting Our Troops and Housing.
TEAMWORK
We love working with others! Working with other organizations is an important value we hold that we hope will become extremely contagious. We strive to be a model of cooperation with churches and other organizations for the greater mission we all share. From the youth to the soldiers, the sight of volunteers working together to make projects possible in our homeland makes us feel pretty great about what we do!
CONNECTED
One of our most important values is minimizing the space between the diaspora and the homeland. We believe in the love of our community. We have witnessed an incredible response to those in need beyond anything we could have ever expected. We don't think physical space should separate us from our community throughout the world. It is our aim to utilize the power of media to become more connected than ever before.
Language: Arabic,Assyrian,Chaldean,English
Cultures: Arabic,Assyrian,Chaldean,Iraqi
Street: P.O. Box 4961
City/Township: Troy
State: MI
Zip Code: 48099
Country: USA
Email: info@shlama.org
Website: http://www.shlama.org/
Organization Name: South Asian American Voices for Impact (SAAVI)
Organization Overview: South Asian Americans for a Stronger Michigan: SAAVI is a non-partisan community organization to serve specific issues of South Asian Americans through advocacy, education, and outreach efforts.
Language: Bengali,English,Hindi,Nepali,Punjabi,Urdu
Cultures: Bangaladeshi,Indian,Nepali,Pakistani,Sri Lankin
Street: P.O. Box 4664
City/Township: Troy
State: MI
Zip Code: 48099
Country: USA
Phone: (248) 330-5269
Email: info@saa-vi.org
Website: http://www.saa-vi.org/
Organization Name: The Power of We Consortium – Immigrant and Refugee Resource Collaborative
Organization Overview: Created in 2004, the vision of the Immigrant and Refugee Resource Collaborative (IRRC) is of a community where refugees, immigrants, and language minorities are welcomed and are able to integrate and participate fully in society at all levels. With that as an expectation, we work to provide services, promote opportunities, and build a network of relationships to foster the realization of Ingham County Michigan as a home for people seeking a better life from all parts of the globe.
Language: English
Cultures: All,Refugees or Asylees
City/Township: Lansing
State: MI
Zip Code: 48933, 48901, 48909, 48911, 48854, 40010, 48864, 48912
Country: USA
Phone: 517) 887-4691
Email: irrcmidmichigan@gmail.com
Organization Name: Trabajadoras/res Hispanos Unidos de Detroit (Hispanos Unidos)
Organization Overview:
Description
Organización de Trabajadoras/res Hispanos Unidos de Detroit se dedica a la promoción de los derechos de trabajadores inmigrantes y reforma de leyes. Esto incluye, pero no limitado a abogar y negociar con empleadores, negocios, practicas de labor justas, representantes y educación a la comunidad.
Language: Spanish
Cultures: Hispanic,Latin American
Street: 7354 Whittaker
City/Township: Detroit
State: MI
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 444-9229
Organization Name: United for a Free Syria (UFS)
Organization Overview: United For a Free Syria holds biweekly letter campaigns targeting policy makers on key issues regarding the promotion of democracy and freedom for the Syrian people. Visit the ACTION ALERTS section on our website to find sample letters and available links. Contact us at contactus@freesyria.org for instructions on how to set up a campaign in your city.
Language: Arabic,English
Cultures: Syrian
Street: 4400 S. Saginaw St. Suite 1362
City/Township: Flint
State: MI
Zip Code: 48507
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 288-9558
Website: http://www.unitedfreesyria.org/
Organization Name: Waad Murad Advocacy Fund
Organization Overview: The Waad Murad Memorial Advocacy Fund supplies a minimum of $10,000 reward money for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the assailant(s) of violent crimes perpetuated against businesspeople. In the event of a violent crime, the group mobilizes immediately to publicize the reward and details of the crime, keeping the event fresh in the news and helping to generate leads for the police to pursue. By working with CrimeStoppers, the fund helps bring justice in the victim’s name and closure to family members.
The Advocacy Fund is named in memory of Waad Murad, a founding member of the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce. Murad was murdered at his business, Metro Car Company in Detroit on March 17, 2005. In Metro Detroit, nearly 100 Chaldean Americans have been killed at their place of business.
If you have information on a violent crime, please contact the Chaldean Community Foundation at (248) 996-8340.
The Free press would like to speak with Chaldean friends and families who have lost a loved one to workplace violence in Metro Detroit, with regards to those deaths that have not been solved. Translation assistance will be available. Please contact Megha Satyanarayana at (586) 826-8267 or email megha@freepress.com.
Language: Arabic,English
Cultures: All,Chaldean,Iraqi
Country: USA
Phone: (248) 996-8340
Organization Name: Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrants Rights (WICIR)
Organization Overview: We are a diverse, morally conscious coalition of many community groups fighting the oppression of immigrants.
Mission
Our mission is to
• End the targeting and oppression of our immigrant population by our government and by others in our society
• Stop immigrant families from being torn apart, like mothers taken away from their babies, by our government
• Share the positive contributions that immigrants have made to our country since its founding, right up to the present
• Expose the exploitation of immigrants by corporate entities that benefit financially from immigrant incarceration
• Expose the relationship between those corporations and anti-immigrant laws and practices
• Remind others that, historically, the targeting of scapegoat populations is a process that eventually consumes broad swaths of the society in which it occurs
• Remind people of relevant moral teachings, such as Matthew 25:34-40
• Remind people of one of the most profound statements of human rights in history, a statement found at the beginning of our Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Not "all landed gentry," not "all citizens," not even "all voters," but "all men" (today:people).
• Stop the clear violations of human rights and atrocities that are happening in our community, and finally
• Act to support the God-given rights of all people to live in a safe and just society regardless of documentation.
Description
The Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR) is an ever-expanding organization of morally conscious people, who are members of numerous community groups and faith-based organizations. We are diverse in race and ethnicity, national origin, language, gender, age, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and socio-economic class status, and immigration status.
Language: English,Spanish
Street: PO Box 980413
City/Township: Ypsilanti
State: MI
Zip Code: 48198
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 355-2707
Email: createcoun@comcast.net
Website: http://www.Facebook.com/WICIR
Organization Name: Welcoming Michigan
Organization Overview: When it comes to immigration, it’s easy to let differences separate us. Michigan thrives when we bring the best of what has been and the best of what can be together to create a stronger, more vibrant Michigan for all. At Welcoming Michigan, we seek to build mutual respect among foreign-born and U.S.-born people who call Michigan home today. Together. It’s better.
Language: English,French
Cultures: All,American
Street: 4605 Cass Ave,
City/Township: Detroit
State: MI
Zip Code: 48201
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 845-8695
Fax No: (269) 492-7198
Email: csauve@lsscm.org
Website: http://welcomingmichigan.org/
Organization Name: Welcoming Michigan Administrative
Organization Overview: When it comes to immigration, it’s easy to let differences separate us. Michigan thrives when we bring the best of what has been and the best of what can be together to create a stronger, more vibrant Michigan for all. At Welcoming Michigan, we seek to build mutual respect among foreign-born and U.S.-born people who call Michigan home today. Together. It’s better.
Language: English
Cultures: All,American
Street: 3030 S. 9th St., Suite 1B
City/Township: Kalamazoo
State: Michigan
Zip Code: 49009
Country: USA
Phone: (269) 492-7196
Fax No: (269) 492-7198
Website: http://welcomingmichigan.org/
Organization Name: World Affairs Council of Detroit
Organization Overview: Bringing the World to Detroit
Our mission is to promote a balanced discourse on national and international issues.
Language: English
Cultures: All,American,Multicultural
State: MI
Country: USA
Email: info@globaldetroit.org
Website: http://www.globaldetroit.org/
