MIC Partners
Our Partners
Agencia ALPHA
Overview
- Year Established: 2002
- Service Area: Statewide
Mission Statement
Agencia ALPHA’s mission is to improve the quality of life of immigrants in Massachusetts by empowering our community members to become leaders, overcome challenges, and fight xenophobia. We accomplish this through our legal services, citizenship and community organizing program.
Services
- Immigration Legal Services
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Citizenship classes
- Organizing
Get in touch
- Address: 62 Northampton St., Suite H101 Boston, MA 02118
- Phone: 617-522-6382
- Executive Director: Patricia Sobalvarro
- E-mail: info@agenciaalpha.org
- Website: www.agenciaalpha.org
Boston International Newcomers Academy
Overview
- Year Established: 2003
- Service Area: Boston
Mission Statement
Boston International Newcomers Academy is a Boston Public School that embraces new immigrant adolescent English learners and their families. We teach English across the content areas while honoring students’ native languages and cultures. We partner with our families and community to ensure students will be college and career ready and motivated to pursue a life of learning and civic engagement by instilling the habits of ownership, perseverance, expression and service.
Services
- Education
- Work and College Preparedness
- Resource Services
- Mental Health Support
- Emergency Assistance
Get in touch
- Address: 100 Maxwell St.
Dorchester, MA 02124 - Phone: 617-635-9373
- Principal: Tony King
- Email: tking@bostonpublicschools.org
- Website: www.bincabps.org
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Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Overview
- Year Established: 1969
- Service Area: Greater Boston, Quincy and Malden
Mission Statement
The mission of BCNC is to ensure that the children, youth, and families we serve have the resources and supports they need to achieve greater economic success and social well-being.
Services
- Education
- Career Advancement
- Workforce Development
- Case Management
- Mental Health Support
- Citizenship Classes
- Research
Get in touch
- Address: 885 Washington St.
Boston, MA 02111 - Phone: 617- 635- 5129
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Ben Hires
- Email: info@bcnc.net
- Website: www.bcnc.net
Brazilian Worker Center Inc.
Overview
- Year Established: 1995
- Service Area: Greater Boston and Eastern MA
Mission Statement
The Brazilian Worker Center is a grassroots community worker center that supports immigrant men and women on issues of workplace rights and immigration. Through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership training, capacity building, civic participation, research, and policy work we promoteour community’s exercise of its civil andhuman rights, fight economic and political marginalization, and promote recognitionof immigrants’ positive contributions to our communities and economy, all in order to create a more just society for everyone.
Services
- Workers’ & Immigrant Rights
- Education & Training, Organizing
- Safety & Health
- Advocacy
- Case Management
- Emergency Assistance
- Policy & Legislative Work
- Research, and Legal Support
Get in touch
- Address: 14 Harvard Ave., 2nd Floor
Allston, MA 02134 - Phone: 617-783-8001
- Executive Director: Lenita Reason
- E-mail: lenita@braziliancenter.org
- Website: braziliancenter.org
Caribbean Youth Club
Overview
- Year Established: 2010
- Service Area: Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Jamaica Plainand Brockton
Mission Statement
Founded in October 2010, Caribbean Youth Club, is a 501c3 non-profitorganization that serves newly arrived Caribbean immigrant and refugeeyouth by delivering comprehensive resettlement services. Our missionis:“To help Afro-Caribbean immigrant and refugee youth make successfultransitions into American life and succeed through higher education”. Wesupport youth from traditionally “closed communities” with culture-specificprogramming.
Services
- Housing assistance
- Higher education access
- Pre-employment training and summer jobs
- Education stipends
- Life skills training
- Mental health services
- Culture specific mentoring
- Career exposure
- Community support network
- Civic leadership training
Get in touch
- Address: 1601 Blue Hill Ave Mattapan MA 02126 Suit #209
- Phone: 617-224-6471
- Executive Director: Nickey Nesbeth
- E-mail: caribbanyouthclub@gmail.com
- Website: www.caribbeanyouthclub.org
Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT)
Overview
- Year Established: 2009
- Service Area: Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Mission Statement
CCT is a workers’ center run by immigrant workers. CCT combats workplace abuses such as wage theft, health & safety violations, sexual harassment and retaliation for organizing. We address workers’ complaints; focus on workplaces with a history of abuse; target temp agencies that mask companies’ reliance on the undocumented.
Our approach
- Educate workers on their rights
- Help them organize
- Empower them to take action –both legal and direct. A key goal is to train immigrant workers to become leaders and take action on their own behalf.
Services
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Worker’s Rights
- Research
- Safety training
- Organizing
Get in touch
- Address: 1532 Acushnet Ave.
New Bedford, MA 02746 - Phone: 508-979-1961
- Executive Director: Adrian Ventura
- E-mail: cctnbm@hotmail.com
- Website: www.cct-newbedford.org
Centro Presente
Overview
- Year Established: 1981
- Service Area: Greater Boston
Mission Statement
Centro Presente is a member-driven, state- wide Latin American immigrant organization dedicated to the self-determination and self-sufficiency of the Latino immigrant community of Massachusetts. Centro Presente struggles for immigrant rights and for economic and social justice. Throughthe integration of community organizing, leadership development and basic services, Centro Presente strives to give our members voice and build community power.
Services
- Immigration and Legal Services
- Education
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Citizenship
- Organizing
- Leadership Development
Get in touch
- Address: 12 Bennington St., Suite 202
East Boston, MA 02128 - Phone: 617-483-2937
- Executive Director: Patricia Montes
- E-mail: pmontes@cpresente.org
- Website: www.cpresente.org
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Overview
- Year Established: 1984
- Service Area: Roxbury/North Dorchester
Mission Statement
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s (DSNI) mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high-quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
Services
- Plan and control the physical development of the neighborhood
- Cultivate young leaders
- Lead collaboratives and organize for comprehensive community development Initiatives
- Empower and support residents to assume leadership roles
Get in touch
- Address: 550 Dudley St.
Roxbury, MA 02119 - Phone: 617-442-9670
- Executive Director: John Smith
- E-mail: urbanvillage@dsni.org
- Website: www.dsni.org
ICNA Relief – MA
Overview
- Year Established: 2005
- Service Area: New England States
Mission Statement
ICNA Relief USA seeks to alleviate human suffering by providing caring and compassionate service to victims of adversities and survivors of disasters. ICNA Relief USA strives to build healthy communities, strengthen families and create opportunities for those in despair while maintaining their dignity and advocating for their basic human needs.
Services
- Resource Services
- Case Management
- Mental health support
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Hunger Prevention
- Transitional Housing
- Providing food to low income neighborhoods and providing shelter to women
Get in touch
- Address: 100 Malcolm X Blvd.
Roxbury, MA 02119 - Phone: 781-964-3675
- Regional Director: Mashhod Afzal
- E-mail: mashhod.afzal@icnarelief.org
- Website: newengland2
Immigrant Family Services Institute
Overview
- Year Established: 2015
- Service Area: Mattapan, Hyde Park, Dorchester, Roxbury, Malden, Brockton and Everett
Mission Statement
FSI’s mission is to reduce barriers to accessing services for immigrants through direct support services, referrals, education, and leadership training, thus facilitating their successful transition into the social and economic fabric of their cities. We aim to build bridges, unite funders, providers, and stakeholders to meet the needs of immigrants in the US.
Services
- Immigration Legal Services
- Education, Career advancement / Workforce development
- Resource Services
- Case Management
- Mental Health Support
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
Get in touch
- Address: 1626 Blue Hill Ave.
Mattapan, MA 02126 - Phone: 617-447-6522
- Executive Director: Dr. Geralde V. Gabeau
- E-mail: gegabeau@ifsi-usa.org
- Website: www.ifsi-usa.org
Metrowest Worker Center – Casa
Overview
- Year Established: 2010
- Service Area: Metrowest region
Mission Statement
MWC-Casa is a membership-based immigrant worker center, based primarily in the Metrowest region of east-central Massachusetts, whichis engaged in a community and workplace organizing, advocacy, services, and legal support.
MWC-Casa uses innovative and effective strategies for combating wage theft, addressing occupational injuries and workplace discrimination, particularly sexual harassment, led by a membership base of native Brazilian Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking as well as indigenous immigrants from Latin America.
Services
- Case Management
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Worker’s Rights
- Organizing
- Injured Worker Support
- Support injured workers navigating medical & legal obstacles
Get in touch
- Address: 116 Concord St., Suite 5 Framingham, MA, 01702
- Phone: 508-532-0575
- Director: Diego Low
- E-mail: casa@mwc-casa.org
- Website: www.mwc-casa.org/
New North Citizens Council
Overview
- Year Established: 1973
- Service Area: Springfield and Hampden County
Mission Statement
The Mission of NNCC is to provide advocacy, public and human services to Hampden County residents with an emphasis on serving the multi-Cultural community for the purpose of enhancing the preservation and support
of the family resulting in the improvement of quality-of-life issues.
Services
- Career advancement / Workforce development
- Case Management
- Learning Exchange Program
- Advocacy
- Emergency Assistance
- Organizing
- Financial Literacy
- EOSL
- Youth Programs
Get in touch
- Address: 2455 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01107 - Phone: 413-747-0090
- Executive Director: Maria Lingus
- E-mail: mlingus@newnorthcc.org
- Website: www.newnorthcc.org
Pioneer Valley Workers Center
Overview
- Year Established: 2014
- Service Area: Hampshire, Hampden, and Franklin counties
Mission Statement
The Pioneer Valley Workers’ Center builds power with low-wage immigrant workers throughout Western Massachusetts. Together, we organize to build community and win real change in the lives of working people.
Services
- Community Organizing
- Leadership Development
- Education
- Worker’s Rights
- Referrals for Immigration Legal Services
- Labor Legal Services
- Policy Advocacy
- Workplace Organizing
- Campaign Development and Support
- Deportation Rapid Response
- Driver’s license support
Get in touch
- Phone: 413-570-3060
- Website: pvworkerscenter.org
Rian Immigrant Center
Overview
- Year Established: 1989
- Service Area: New England’s Welcome Center for immigrant and refugee families.
Mission Statement
Rian empowers immigrant families on the path to opportunity, safety, and a better future for all. We do this by providing, immigration legal services, resource and support services, education programs, and advocating for just and humane immigration policies.
We build community through our inclusion and civic engagement programs and lead an international exchange program for recent, international, graduates. We are working toward a society where all are welcomed and valued and enjoy equitable opportunities and protections.
Services
- Immigration legal services
- Education and Career advancement
- Resource and Support Services
- Learning Exchange Program
- Advocacy
- Inclusion Program
- Emergency Assistance
Get in touch
- Address: 1 State St., 8th Floor
Boston, MA 02109 - Phone: 617-542-7654
- Executive Director: Kevin Mawe
- E-mail: kmawe@riancenter.org
- Website: www.riancenter.org
Sociedad Latina
Overview
- Year Established: 1968
- Service Area: Mission Hill, Roxbury, Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain
Mission Statement
Sociedad Latina works inpartnership with Latine youth and families to create the next generation of Latine leaders who are confident, competent, self-sustaining, and proud of their cultural heritage.
For over fifty-five years, we have partnered with the community of Boston to end the cycle of poverty, inequality to access of health services, and lack ofeducational and professional opportunitiesin our community.
We serve youth ages 11 to21, creating a community that values youngpeople and enables them to be leaders in theircommunity. Sociedad Latina serves youngpeople and families with a focus on Education,Workforce Development, Civic Engagement,and Arts and Culture.
Services
- Immigration Legal Services
- Education
- Career advancement / Workforce development
- Advocacy
- Organizing
- Youth Development
Get in touch
- Address: 1530 Tremont St.
Roxbury, MA, 02120 - Phone: 617-442-4299
- Executive Director: Alexandra Oliver-Dávila
- E-mail: alex@sociedadlatina.org
- Website: www.sociedadlatina.org
Steering Committee
Dr. Geralde Gabeau
Chief Executive Officer
IFSI-USA
Kevin Mawe
Interim Executive Director
Lenita Reason
Executive Director
Patricia Sobalvarro
Executive Director