Metro Organizations for People, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition & Padres Unidos
Metro Organizations for People (MOP) is working with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) & Padres Unidos/Jovenes Unidos (Padres) on a CPER Special Opportunities Fund project.
Metro Organizations for People is a 27 year-old federation of 35 member schools, congregations, youth and neighborhood associations, representing 55,000 people in the Metro-Denver Area with chapters in western and southern Colorado. MOP is affiliated with the PICO National Network.MOP is building a metro-wide and state-wide power organization, capable of tackling social justice issues at the local, regional and state-wide level. The social change agenda is executed through grassroots community organizing, leadership development, non-partisan political education and organizing and influence through research and communications.
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition is a statewide alliance of immigrant, faith, labor, youth, community and ally organizations founded in 2002 to defend and advance justice for all immigrants and refugees in Colorado and the United States. CIRC achieves this mission through capacity building for member organizations, broad-based strategic alliances, civic participation, rapid response to raids and repression, and winning public policies that improve the lives of immigrants.
With roots in the struggle for educational justice, Padres/Jovenes Unidos is a multi-issue organization led by people of color who work for equality and justice in education, youth and immigrant rights. Padres/Jovenes Unidos challenges the root cause of discrimination, racism and inequity by exposing the economic, social and institutional basis for injustice, as well as developing effective strategies and tactics to shift power and achieve institutional change.
CPER Funded Project
The SOF work is supporting MOP, Padres and CIRC's joint work on the Higher Education Access Alliance, a coalition designed to increase higher education opportunities for all Colorado students, regardless of immigration or economic status. Through their SOF grant, the groups are:
- Creating a campaign power map;
- Creating new strategic alliances;
- Training teams of volunteer civic leaders;
- Documenting stories of immigrant youth;
- Developing a well-grounded policy agenda with short- and long-term goals; and
- Coordinating an effective communications strategy to increase immigrant students' access to higher education.
Contact Representative
Denver, CO 80220
Fax: (303) 399-1969