NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS
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Mission Statement
The National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) is a national multiethnic, multiracial partnership network of the country's 49 largest immigrant and refugee rights organizations. NPNA works for and with new Americans to be powerful participants and leaders in creating a more vibrant, just, and welcoming democracy for all. In 2010, NPNA was founded by twelve of our member organizations. NPNA was formed to leverage the collective expertise among its member organizations for greater collective impact. Specifically, NPNA was founded to work on immigrant integration policy and to develop the capacity of its members to deliver high quality, empowering services in their communities.
About This Cause
The nation's direction changed when Donald Trump was elected president on an unapologetically anti-immigrant and anti-refugee platform. In its first months, the new Administration has already taken measures to scale immigration enforcement, construct a wall along our southern border, gut the American refugee program, and punish Muslim immigrants and travelers. These first moves--many of which have already faced concerted resistance in courts and communities--are just the beginning of the "America First" policy framework, which has dire and long-term implications for immigrants and refugees. The immigrant and refugee rights movement faces a critical juncture. This political moment, perhaps more than any other in recent history, threatens the constituencies that we represent. It confronts the aspirational values of our country, enshrined in our founding documents and on our monuments. This juncture brings us a fundamental challenge: to protect immigrants and refugees and to build power with and for their communities. It also presents an opportunity: to build a broader and deeper coalition of support for immigrants and refugees, including through channeling public outcry into solidarity with our movement. This is a moment that requires agility and meaningful intersectional organizing. Movement building, which has always been central to our work, cannot be limited to our movement alone. Several of the attacks against immigrant and refugee communities in the first month of the new Administration are undeniably anti-Muslim. The administration's affronts on health care, the environment, and worker's rights will also disproportionately impact our communities. It is more important than ever that our movement organizes with others and builds a sustainable infrastructure to do so in the long term. The National Partnership for New Americans is network of the country's 30 largest immigrant and refugee rights organizations. Our members provide direct services--including immigration legal services, deportation defense, community education, voter registration, health care enrollment, English classes--as well as strategic and powerful organizing, policy, and advocacy. To meet the moment, we must adopt a robust strategy centered on protection. At NPNA, we developed a four-point post-election pivot plan. In the new year, we have begun implementing it. Our plan includes: 1) Protection from deportation: All immigrants and refugees, regardless of status, need to know their rights and about available immigration relief. Legal capacity is critical but sorely limited. Community education, through our Community Navigator training program, will be essential. We will strengthen our existing legal services infrastructure and expand our Know Your Rights community education and deportation defense. 2) Citizenship as permanent protection and electoral transformation: Citizenship is the only permanent protection from deportation. Nearly nine million people are eligible to naturalize but haven't done so yet. Over three million of them could become citizens for free or for a reduced cost due to fee waivers that NPNA led the policy fights to win. Naturalization is our network's bread and butter--and it's also a strategic investment to grow a new American electorate for 2018, 2020, and beyond. We will launch a campaign with a goal of one million people applying to become citizens in 2017. 3) Refugee protection and organizing: The refugee program is under attack. With our partners--the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Welcoming America, America's Voice, Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services (LIRS), and more, we are building a strategy to defend the American refugee program--and to fight local backlash against refugees and Muslims in particular. NPNA will lend its expertise as a network of organizations with a long history of organizing. The refugee resettlement and advocacy community will bring critical issue-specific expertise. In 2017, we have already hosted over 95 solidarity events and in-district Congressional visits across the country. Combined with a coordinated communications strategy, this is a critical strategy to 4) Defensive and proactive policies: We must effectively organize our constituencies to shape an integration agenda that is aligned with their interests. Immigrant integration is--and will continue to be--critical to the nation's civic, cultural, and economic vibrancy. We will have to play defense with the Federal budget and appropriations process and with agencies like DOL, ED, DHS, and more to protect immigrant and refugee communities, our wins from years past, and to offset cuts. States and municipalities will be more critical than ever. We will continue to pursue pro-active, pro-immigrant integration policy at the state and local levels. Recently NPNA issued an RFP to our membership to fund proactive policy and campaign work. We plan to give seed grants to 4-6 organizations in our network, and offer policy and technical assistance to the grantees. 5) Transatlantic dialogue. NPNA will host a Transatlantic Democracy Dialogue on resisting nationalist backlash with migrant and refugee leaders, in partnership with the Migration Policy Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation. At NPNA we believe America's success is rooted in our ongoing commitment to welcoming and integrating newcomers. Our democracy is stronger when we love our neighbors. Our culture is vibrant when we celebrate and encourage diversity. Our nation prospers when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We will defend these values and fight forces that threaten them. The practitioners, policymakers, advocates, funders, and researchers who comprise our extended movement family, will be critical partners as we chart our nation's course together.