Special Projects

PIP manages several special projects, providing strategic direction, day-to-day management, administrative support and/or financial oversight:

  • Council for Global Equality - Advances an American foreign policy inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. Supports efforts to create a stronger American and international voice on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human-rights concerns.
  • Dream for Darfur – Supports advocacy and strategic communications aimed at encouraging China to use its leverage to press Sudan to create peace in Darfur.
  • Legacies of War - Supports a volunteer-driven effort to preserve and digitize narratives for an exhibition highlighting the effects of war on Laotian-Americans.
  • National Immigration Bond Fund - Helps immigrants remain in their communities and with their families while seeking due process in America’s courts.
  • Freedom from Fear Award is a new national award that will honor ordinary people who commit extraordinary acts of courage in defense of immigrants and refugees.