Four Freedoms Fund: A Pioneering Foundation Partnership Advocates for Immigrants

Reviews the development and achievements of a collaborative to leverage funding, share ideas and lessons learned, and forge strategies for engaging immigrants and refugees in civic life by supporting grassroots advocacy groups across twenty-eight states.

• Midpoint analysis indicates collaboration and networking as the field's greatest overall strengths, while fundraising remains its greatest challenge. Tweet
• Communications capacity continues to be underdeveloped, and sustaining coalitions puts a strain on organizations with limited resources. Tweet
• Over 40 percent of the grantees claimed success in protecting immigrant rights and facilitating citizenship status, and they cited accomplishments in youth organizing, voter registration and leadership development. Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven the effectiveness of an "anchor strategy" of supporting strong groups and coalitions in many states that add up to a coordinated national network. Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven the effectiveness of donor collaboration at a high and sustained level, encompassing both collaborative and individual grants. Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven its ability to leverage more overall support for immigrants' rights and integration; Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven the importance of trust and cooperation among funders and grantees that drives a vital partnership for social change. Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven the usefulness of strategic research to align field and funding priorities Tweet
• The Four Freedoms Fund has proven the effectiveness of utilizing capacity building and strategic communications support to equip and strengthen a national infrastructure to address escalating, hostile anti-immigrant attacks at the national, state and local levels. Tweet