By Nathan Hickling | Community Impact Officer & Executive Assistant
With your support, 805 UndocuFund has been working tirelessly on multiple projects this past year, such as creating an outreach program to educate the immigrant community on disaster preparedness, co-hosting the first ever California UndocuFund Summit, launching their first Summer Internship Program, and other amazing projects.
Hosting Virtual Events
On May 18, 805 UndocuFund hosted their first virtual panel discussion with Dr. Michael Mendez from UC Irvine and 805 UndocuFund founding partners from Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Future Leaders of America (FLA) and Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE). The virtual panel discussion focused on sharing lessons learned in serving the undocumented community in disaster and explored how disasters illustrate underlying socio-economic factors as well as systemic barriers that need to be addressed before, during and after a disaster. About 180 community members and community stakeholders attended the virtual panel discussion to be educated on 805 UndocuFund recent work and to learn about the vulnerabilities of local immigrant communities in disaster.
Outreach and Education
805 UndocuFund decided to launch their outreach program this year to engage and educate the immigrant community on disaster preparedness. On May 21, 805 UndocuFund participated in Sound the Alarm Campaign with American Red Cross Central California Region and Oxnard Fire Department to install free smoke detectors in Oxnard, CA. 805 UndocuFund volunteers and their team worked alongside these organizations to help with translation (many monolingual Spanish) and educate the immigrant families about homefire prevention and earthquake safety. On August 27, 805 UndocuFund team and their volunteers attended the Pacific Pride event hosted by Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA to share information about 805 UndocuFund and to educate the community on why immigrant communities are highly vulnerable to disasters. 805 UndocuFund has served more than 200 individuals in their community outreach efforts. Also, they have published heat wave preparedness and other emergency alerts in Spanish on their Facebook page that has engaged about 3,000 of their followers.
UndocuFund Summit
805 UndocuFund co-hosted the first ever UndocuFund Summit with UndocuFund and Latino Community Foundation that took place in Santa Rosa, CA from September 18 to September 20. The UndocuFund Summit gathered leaders from more than 30 grassroots immigrant-serving organizations across California who worked with philanthropy and the state to distribute more than $100 million in emergency, one-time, cash mutual aid to undocumented Californians affected by COVID-19. The gathering was a unique opportunity for immigrant organizations across California to highlight the experiences of undocumented Californians around the state and to explore long-term policies to reduce the vulnerability of undocumented communities to disasters caused by the climate crisis.
Also, 805 UndocuFund started their first Internship Program this Summer. The 805 UndocuFund interns were from the local community, and they helped design a culturally competent outreach program. In addition, 805 UndocuFund worked with undergraduate students from UCLA and UCSB for their research project to collect stories from undocumented workers from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties that were impacted by COVID-19.
The Future for 805 UndocuFund
805 UndocuFund continues to mobilize resources when disaster hits, providing short-term financial relief to undocumented residents in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and advocating for long-term systems change to ensure undocumented residents are effectively included in disaster planning, preparedness, response, and recovery.
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