FFF/USHRF Co-Granting

To support work at the intersection of the human rights and immigration movements, the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF), a national funding collaborative created to energize American democracy by supporting and engaging immigrants and refugees, is collaborating with the U.S. Human Rights Fund (USHRF), a national funding collaborative that provides strategic, field-building support to U.S. human rights work.

The partnership began with donors and staff of FFF and USHRF discovering intersections between their respective work. USHRF had received many inquiries from groups involved in immigrant rights, indicating that human rights provided a viable framework for social justice work among recent immigrants who have often been directly engaged in human rights issues and abuses. At the same time, FFF was discovering that interest in human rights could serve as an overarching structure of reference for supporting alliances between the many diverse communities it serves.

The resulting co-granting program, created by both funds, now supports immigrant rights projects that make use of a human rights framework to address:

• Alliance building between native-born and immigrant communities
• Workers' rights campaigns
• Due process rights within U.S. policies on arrest, detention and deportation

The potential cross-fund benefits of this joint-funding initiative include:

• Alliance building between diverse grantees and donors
• Donor-education - providing donors opportunities to learn more about issues affecting their work and that of their grantees, where they intersect and how they can support each other
• Knowledge and relationship-sharing among PIP and fund staff

The joint initiative is overseen and administered by USHRF staff, with the FFF providing expertise where appropriate. To learn more about the FFF/USHRF joint-funding initiative, visit the USHRF site.