Organization Name: Macomb Hispanic and International Service Center (MHISC)
Organization Overview: MHISC provides comprehensive human services, advocacy, and empowerment programs to foster and increase self-suffiency and independence among Hispanics and persons of other cultures in need.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All,Hispanic,Mexican
Street: 16330 Trailway Dr.
City/Township: Macomb Township
State: MI
Zip Code: 48042
Country: USA
Phone: (586) 484-9038
Fax No: (586) 741-5413
Email: emily60@comcast.net
Organization Name: Michigan Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
Organization Overview: The mission of MCIRR is to: 1) coordinate educational and organizational efforts that build capacity within Michigan’s immigrant advocacy community; 2) supportimmigrants’ rights in federal, state, and local policy;
and 3) promote a more positive and inclusive atmosphere for immigrants and refugees in Michigan.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 3030 S. 9th St., Suite 1A
City/Township: Kalamazoo
State: MI
Zip Code: 49009
Country: USA
Phone: (269) 492-7196
Fax No: (269) 492-7198
Website: http://www.mcirr.org
Organization Name: Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC)
Organization Overview: The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) is a resource center for advocates seeking equal justice for Michigan's immigrants. MIRC works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities are fully integrated and respected.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 3030 S. 9th Street, Suite 1B
City/Township: Kalamazoo
State: MI
Zip Code: 49009
Country: USA
Phone: (269) 492-7196
Fax No: (269) 492-7198
Email: mirc@michiganimmigrant.org
Website: http://www.michiganimmigrant.org/
Organization Name: Michigan Immigrants Rights Center (Ann Arbor office)
Organization Overview: The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) is a resource center for advocates seeking equal justice for Michigan's immigrants. MIRC works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities are fully integrated and respected.
In order to realize this mission the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center:
Builds capacity through education and training about immigration law and the complex relationship between immigration status and immigrants' rights in areas including access to public benefits, family law and child welfare, civil rights, and worker's rights.
Answers questions and provides technical support to attorneys and advocates serving low-income immigrants.
Recruits, trains, and mentors volunteer pro bono attorneys.
Leads systematic advocacy to advance the rights of low-income immigrants and their families.
Tracks and analyzes legislative and legal developments related to immigration law and immigrants' rights.
Builds coalition among immigrant advocacy and other social justice and civil rights organizations statewide.
Represents individual clients in priority areas including naturalization and citizenship matters and the rights of survivors of domestic violence, refugees, and unaccompanied minors.
Promotes respect and understanding among immigrants and receiving communities through our Welcoming Michigan initiative.
Represents clients in impact cases involving violations of civil rights by law enforcement or government entities, access to public benefits for immigrants and children of immigrants, the unauthorized practice of immigration law, and any other civil legal issue relating to immigration status.
The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is one of several statewide advocacy programs created by the Michigan Advocacy Program, formerly Legal Services of South Central Michigan. The Michigan Advocacy Program's direct service components are Legal Services of South Central Michigan and Farmworker Legal Services. MAP provides administrative services to several statewide programs, including MIRC. These statewide programs are all housed at Michigan PLP, LLC.
Language: English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 220 E. Huron Street, Suite 600A
City/Township: Ann Arbor
State: MI
Zip Code: 48104
Country: USA
Phone: (734) 239-6863
Fax No: (734) 998-9125
Email: mirc@michiganimmigrant.org
Website: http://michiganimmigrant.org/
Organization Name: Michigan Migrant Legal Aid – La ley a su lado
Organization Overview: In 1973, migrant workers and their families had no voice to stand up for their right to safe housing and working conditions or their right to earn a fair wage. They struggle to maintain basic human dignity, from lack of bathroom facilities, dangers posed by pesticides, and discrimination. Because of their poverty, their transitory lifestyle, and their language difficulties, they face barriers to civil legal services. Out of this need, the legal community in Michigan formed Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project, also known as Migrant Legal Aid, a non-profit agency.
In 1973, the agency moved to a house on Mount Vernon in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The agency’s services expanded inside that house. From there, the agency spent 10 years in the Minhaar Building at 49 Monroe Avenue NW in downtown Grand Rapids, and 10 years at 638 Monroe Ave NW, another rental facility. Today, having moved to a permanent location at 1104 Fuller Avenue NE, the agency offers a continuum of services as an independent non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of directors and operated by a staff of eight.
The agency also handles referrals from other non-profits, such as the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan, Farmworker Legal Services, Latin Americans United for Progress, Hispanic American Council, Legal Aid of Western Michigan, and private attorneys.
Language: English,Spanish
Street: 1104 Fuller Ave NE
City/Township: Grand Rapids
State: MI
Zip Code: 49503
Country: USA
Phone: (616) 454-5055
Fax No: (616) 454-7022
Website: http://migrantlegalaid.com/
Organization Name: Michigan State University, Office for International Students and Scholars
Organization Overview: The mission of the Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS) is to provide support to Michigan State University’s international students, scholars and families.
Services include:
Advising on and facilitating compliance with U.S. immigration regulations.
Conducting orientations and other special programming that help international students and scholars integrate into and adjust to the academic, cultural and social life of MSU.
Serving as a liaison with U.S. government agencies, foreign embassies, sponsors and educational foundations that support international students and scholars.
Contributing to the internationalization of MSU by providing opportunities for growth through cross-cultural interactions.
Language: English
Cultures: International Students,Multicultural
Street: 427 N. Shaw Lane, Room 105
City/Township: East Lansing
State: MI
Zip Code: 48824
Country: USA
Phone: (517) 353-1720
Fax No: (517) 355-4657
Email: oiss@msu.edu
Website: http://oiss.isp.msu.edu/
Organization Name: Michigan United
Organization Overview: Michigan United is a coalition of over 100 faith, labor, business, social service, and civil rights members all across Michigan, fighting for the rights of homeowners, renters, immigrant workers, families, and students.
We’re about shifting the balance of power in Michigan back to the people! We elevate the individual stories and collective voice of our communities so that people affected by injustice are heard!
Language: Arabic,English,Spanish
Cultures: All
Street: 4405 Wesson Street
City/Township: Detroit
State: MI
Zip Code: 48120
Country: USA
Phone: (877) 507-7774 x701
Website: http://www.miunited.org/
Organization Name: Michigan United - West
Organization Overview: Michigan United is a statewide organization of community members and institutions fighting for the dignity and potential of every person. We are committed to a participatory democracy at every level, an economy that works for the many, and a society that dismantles racism while uplifting our common humanity. To ignite the power of our communities and shift the balance of power, we cultivate the leadership of those directly affected by injustice, and build popular institutions for the future.
In March of 2013, after a year long merger of the organizations, a transitional board was established and a new name as picked to represent this new union. Together, we are MICHIGAN UNITED.
Language: English,Spanish
Street: 1009 E. Stockbridge Ave. Suite 300
City/Township: Kalamazoo
State: MI
Zip Code: 49001
Country: USA
Phone: (248) 509-4430
Website: http://www.miunited.org/
Organization Name: New Americans Campaign - Detroit (DNAC)
Organization Overview: The Detroit New American Campaign (DNAC) is a collaborative project of six local immigration services organizations whose purposes are to mobilize and leverage local and national resources, civic and community partners, immigrant communities, and volunteers in an effort to promote and assist naturalization for eligible lawful permanent residents (LPRs) throughout the metropolitan Detroit area.
The project encourages naturalization and its benefits through media-based advocacy, informational sessions, and one-on-one meetings with immigration attorneys in individual appointments, clinics, and/or group workshops.
Free citizenship classes and naturalization clinics are available in Detroit, Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Troy for those eligible for naturalization.
Language: English
Cultures: All,Multicultural
City/Township: Detroit
State: MI
Country: USA
Phone: (313) 871-8600 Mr. Z
Website: http://detroitnac.org/wp/
Organization Name: جنة نور الغربية ميشيغان Noor's Heaven of West Michigan
Organization Overview: Our Vision is to integrate the Arab and Muslim community by providing them with training and support
رؤيتنا هي دمج المجتمع العربي والإسلامي من خلال تزويدهم بالتدريب والدعم
Language: Arabic,English
Cultures: All,Arabic,Syrian
Street: 2723 Sarnia St
City/Township: Wyoming
State: MI
Zip Code: 49519
Country: USA
Phone: (616) 589-1625
Email: wafa@noorheaven.org
Website: http://noorheaven.org
Organization Name: Padnos International Center, GVSU
Organization Overview: Get Globally connected Locally
Language: English
Cultures: American,International Students,Multicultural
Street: 130 Lake Ontario Hall, 1 Campus Drive
City/Township: Allendale
State: MI
Zip Code: 49401
Country: USA
Phone: (616) 331-3898
Email: pic@gvsu.edu
Website: http://www.gvsu.edu/pic/
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: Piast Institute-Immigration
Organization Overview: Begun as a research and policy center, Piast Institute has evolved into a community nonprofit offering community leadership for the Polish community at large, as well as the general Hamtramck community.
Language: English,Polish
Cultures: All,East European,Polish
Street: 11633 Joseph Campau
City/Township: Hamtramck
State: MI
Zip Code: 48212
Country: USA
Phone: (248) 366-7328
Fax No: (313) 733-4527
Email: ymtmich@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.piastinstitute.org
Organization Name: Samaritas (Lutheran Social Services of Michigan (LSSM) - Immigration )
Organization Overview: Immigration Legal Services
We offer professional, immigration legal services for refugees, asylees and immigrants at nominal fees, to help them in achieve independence and stability in the United States. These services include assistance with adjustment of status, naturalization, travel documents, and family visa petitions. The program has an accredited representative on staff who is recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), as well as interns who are students at local law schools. Coming soon: citizenship training classes to prepare naturalization applicants for the Civics and English portions of the naturalization test. - See more at: http://www.lssm.org/refugee#sthash.5f5iny1z.dpuf
Language: Arabic,Chaldean,English
Cultures: Arabic,Chaldean,Iraqi,Refugees or Asylees
Street: 4247 E. 14 Mile Road
City/Township: Sterling Heights
State: MI
Zip Code: 48310
Country: USA
Phone: (248) 423-2790
Fax No: (586) 698-1001
Website: http://www.lssm.org/refugee
Organization Name: Samaritas (Lutheran Social Services of Michigan (LSSM) - Refugee Resettlement Central Michigan)
Organization Overview: Refugee Services
Refugees are people of all ages who are forced from their own countries by war or political unrest and who cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, ethnicity, religion or political affiliations. Many spend years in refugee camps before they are given permission to enter the United States. They arrive with little more than the clothes they are wearing.
Refugees come here seeking protection and a chance to build a new life. They are eager to learn, to work and to become productive contributors to society. As they become settled, they build businesses, create jobs, revitalize neighbourhoods, fuel the economy and strengthen the tax base, enriching their communities.
Lutheran Social Services of Michigan has been the Michigan affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service since the 1950s. In 2002, Lutheran Social Services became the Michigan affiliate of Episcopal Migration Ministries as well. As the largest refugee resettlement agency in the state, Lutheran Social Services has resettled thousands of people from dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central and South America.
Language: Arabic,English
Cultures: Arabic,Bosnian,Chaldean,Iraqi,Refugees or Asylees,Syrian
Street: Nussdorfer Center 1545 Keystone
City/Township: Lansing
State: MI
Zip Code: 48911
Country: USA
Phone: (517) 321-7663
