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UCLA Receives $1.5M From Ford Foundation

Financing May 2019
UCLA has received $1.5 million from the Ford Foundation to assist disadvantaged populations, including youth from immigrant families, and undocumented and low-wage workers.

UCLA Receives $1.5M From Ford Foundation

University To Assist Disadvantaged Populations

UCLA has received $1.5 million from the Ford Foundation to assist disadvantaged populations, including children and youth from immigrant families, and undocumented and low-wage workers.

A $750,000 grant for The Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education will improve the experiences of immigrant-origin children and youth, who often are stigmatized for their backgrounds. UCLA will help equip educators at schools, museums, libraries and other sites across the nation with training and resources to foster empathy, inclusion and an understanding of migration as a fundamental part of human experience.

Funds will help to develop Re-imagining Migration, a curriculum applying the latest research in educational practices; the Moving Stories app, a tool for gathering immigrant narratives; and UndocuScholars, a research program to support undocumented youth. The grant also will drive a national media campaign designed to change the public narrative about migration. Activities will engage the institute’s growing network of more than 35 partner agencies.

“While immigration continues to be in the headlines, the children of immigrants endeavor to grow up to be tomorrow’s scientists, teachers, nurses, social workers and so much more,” said Carola Suárez-Orozco, professor of human development and psychology and co-director of the institute. “This generous grant from the Ford Foundation is supporting our work with teachers, school leaders and museum directors to nurture these young people as they become members of the tapestry of our nation.

The Labor Center will use their $750,000 grant to increase access to higher education and employment through leadership development providing yearlong Immigrant Justice Fellowships and facilitates the Dream Summer Fellowship program, that places youth participants from across the nation at organizations working in immigrant justice, technology and labor.

The Labor Center also seeks to improve working conditions and career prospects for low-wage employees, including immigrants and young workers. The Ford Foundation’s grant will help the center provide technical assistance for worker centers in Los Angeles, engage in local and national industry research and evaluate state workforce development programs.

“This new support from the Ford Foundation will make it possible for the UCLA Labor Center to continue to partner with workers, people of color and young people to promote social, racial and economic justice in higher education and the workplace,” said Kent Wong, director of the center. “These partnerships have helped Los Angeles emerge as a national center to raise the minimum wage, advance the rights of immigrant youth and workers and support multiracial worker movements.”

Read more at http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/1-5-million-ford-grants-immigrant-youth-low-wage-workers

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