Annual Report 2019
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Thank you for standing with us in the fight for Immigrant Rights FROM OUR LEADERSHIP We've come a long way fighting for what we believe is right, 26 years fighting for justice and for gender equality right here on Long Island. For the last 11 years I wake up every day inspired by the amazing SEPA’s and the community we serve. This past year our strength and resilience was tested as a community and as an organization. In the darkest of times, it was the courage and heart of those who we fight alongside with that allowed us to keep pushing. It was with this
Our
inspiration that we dedicate this year’s 2019 edition to the
Mission
people;
"WE,
the
people;
NOSOTROS,
el
pueblo". We, the immigrant mother working 60 hours a week on minimum wage and still finds time to speak at a town hall. We, the young Latina who is caught support
to
working
been
has
Mujer
SEPA
women
immigrant
on
Long Island since 1993, together
bringing
between two worlds found a sisterhood of friends at a summer internship. We is the woman who said no more abuse, and now travels to Washington to fight for immigration reform. We are the immigrant family who marched in Albany for their rights.
We, is a
community members and
movement funded by the people for the people. We
advocates to speak out
will continue to push the limits and boundaries as we
against injustice, provide opportunities
to
access
and services, take a stand against women
violence and
against
push
for
no longer accept the systems of oppression for women, immigrants, people of color and the working class community. We are the new face of power. We are the people.
social justice change. We aim to highlight the value of
Latina
immigrant
women in our community and
to
develop
and
celebrate our role on Long Island.
Martha Maffei Exceutive Director SEPA Mujer Inc Services for the Advancement of Women
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RON FISHER Treasure
EXECUTIVE BOARD & STAFF JOHANNA ROTTA
NOEMI SANCHEZ
President
Board Member (Jan-Nov 2019)
JENNIFER BRADY
SIRIS BARRIOS
Secretary
Board Member
DOROTHY Q. THOMAS
MARTHA MAFFEI
Board Member
Executive Director
DULCE ROJAS
LUDMILA MOLINA
Senior Community Organizer
Paralegal & Administrative Assistent
CLARICE MURPHY
VICTORIA HERNANDEZ
Victim Assistance Program
Western Suffolk Lead
Director & Grant
Coordinator
Administrator
SEUNG JU LEE
YULIANA RODRIGUEZ
Evaluation Impact & Research
Eastern Suffolk Lead
Specialist
Coordinator
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2019 DONOR LISTING
Thank you to our donors and sponsors we have received records level of donation this year. To express our gratitud, we have reported the names of all our donors who had made significant contributions. Thank you!
PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS
Alpern Foundation Groundswell Fund Heising Simons Foundation JM Kaplan Long Island Community Foundation Long Island Presbytarian Church New York Immigration Coalition Northstart Foundation The Horace & Amy Hagedorn Fund Scherman Foundation Unbounded Philanthropy Verizon Foundation
GOVERMENT GRANTS
Office of Violence Against WomenOVW Office of Victim Services-OVS Southampton Town BUSINESS SPONSORS
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Alpern Foundation Groundswell Fund Heising Simons Foundation JM Kaplan Long Island Community Foundation Long Island Presbytarian Church New York Immigration Coalition Northstart Foundation
WE CAN'T DO
THIS WORK WITHOUT DONORS LIKE YOU. THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH US!
girls! d n a en om w r fo ce en er iff d a You are making
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2019 Item 5 20%
Item 1 20%
Item 4 0%
Fundraising Revenue 20.5%
Goverment Grants 2.1%
Item 4 20%
Item 2 20%
Private Grants 77.4%
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Chapters- Sisterhood- Network Huntington Station
Riverhead
Hampton Bays Patchogue (Central Office)
INFORMING Reaching more than 26,8880 allies, impacted community,
UNITING
38
service providers and other
Organizing and working collaboratively in dozens of coalitions and round-tables
organizations with critical
Community Based
information.
Presentations
reaching 1,140 allies.
EMPOWERING
104
Making our collective voice
20
heard in more than 23
Refferals
media news articles.
Professional Development trainings
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Legal Immigration Assistance & Referrals SEPA Mujer's Legal Assistance for Victims Program has been able to provide the proper legal assistance to immigrant victims of crime and their families for 26 consecutive years! The anti-immigrant rhetoric under the current administrations has made it difficult for the immigrant community to access the resources they need, and has further isolated victims and their families into lives of violence and despair. In spite of this, we continue to provide legal assistance to immigrant survivors of gender violence.
Legal Assistance Report
73 U -VISAS/T-VISAS & ADJUSTMENTS
7 VAWA & ADJUSTMENT
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Leadership Model & Launch of New Pilot Program
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEVEL 1 At this level we explore ; building the power of the community through advocacy. We also learn about the history of migration and civil rights in the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, legislative process and government, community organizing tools and communications with the purpose of organizing. This year we have graduated 18 from our Western Suffolk Chapters and 12 from our Southampton Chapters. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEVEL 2
In this training, we explore the history of immigration specifically on Long Island by learning about the core of current systemic and cultural problems. We immerse ourselves in the intersectionality of the feminist movement in Latin America, gender inequality in immigrant communities, and learn about past and present Latino activists. We explore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as tools for effective defense. Finally, we learn more about voting, gerrymandering and power mapping as tools to organize and promote greater local and state civic participation. This year in an effort to ramp up efforts to introduce this training into our new Huntington Station Chapter, we have delayed implementation to continue outreach, consistent meetings, civic engagement and a second Level 1 training.
SEPA Mujer’s unique 5-week, 25 hour intensive Civic Engagement and Leadership Development Training's (C.E.L Level 1 & 2), also known as “Talleres de Liderazgo”, are especially crafted using popular education methods and in partnership with the American Friends Service Committee; an Immigrants Rights Program from Newark, New Jersey in December 2006.The training manual is designed to engage local Latina immigrant women with insider advocacy tools and skills concentrating on the fundamentals of civic engagement. The training also prepares participants to be more actively engaged in local grassroots campaigns and community projects. The training ends with a closing ceremony with certificates of completion with local legislators. The entire program is conducted in Spanish and is intentioned to be a safe space for latina immigrant women and girls.
LAUNCH OF NEW COORDINATORS the sales increase for TRAINING first quarter of 2020 For our last tier in our Leadership Development and Mentorship Program and Model, we launched a new COORDINATORS Training. This training was built to offer our member leaders with the tools they need to self organize and create self sustaining and self running chapters throughout Long Island. In January with a pilot training with 4 member leaders and a full launch in November with 13 new COORDINATORS.
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SEPA MUJER INC Expands Services to Victims New York State Office of Victims Services has award SEPA Mujer a 3 year award to work with victims of crime. Through this Victim's Assistance Program SEPA Mujer will be providing: * AYUDA LATINA, an hotline for victims of gender based violence, hate crimes, wage theft, and gang violence. Hotline volunteers will participate in 40 hours of training on these issues. It is anticipated that AYUDA Latina hotline will begin in April 2020. *A Sexual Assult Survivors Support Group meets on Tuesday nights, and is open to anyone who has experienced sexual assault as an adult. *Case Management Services will help crime survivors access any needed services after the crime, and will help them apply for Crime Victims Compensation if they meet the eligibility criteria. *Expanded immigration legal case relief services
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Girls A.C.T (Activists Creating & Transforming) SEPA'S SUMMER LATINA YOUTH PROGRAM This is the third year of SEPA Mujer’s Latina Youth Program, Girls A.C.T. (Activists Creating and Transforming). As the Girls A.C.T program has grown, so have our community relationships and efforts. SEPA is so proud of our participants and can’t wait to see how they affect change in their lives and communities. It is critical to our mission that we invest in, foster and nurture growth and leadership in our GIRLS ACT is the only future generation. culturally-competent and uniquely designed and tailored to each individual girl’s interest with a focus on social justice and community-building exercises. Concentrations include: grant writing, community videography, design, graphic organizing and event building. They are our leaders of tomorrow and SEPA sheroes!
2019 HIGHLIGHTS: Stony Brook University comprehensive tour in partnership with STRONG Youth, the participants were in a day-long series of department orientation, campus tours, workshops and seminars. Mentored by Latina Bosses Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz of Queens is the first New York State elected DREAMer who was born in Colombia and brought as a child l
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Community Organizing Report Back Outreach (Tabling, Flyering, Events) Coalition & Roundtable Meetings Speaking Engagements & Presentations Rallies & Actions Supported SEPA Mujer Inc. Led Events WHO ARE WE ENGAGING? Our mission is to reach and directly engage Latina immigrant women and girls into action! We've engaged and recorded in Chapter Meetings, outreach, presentations tabling events, trainings and orientations more than 1,163 women and girls! WHAT IS OUR REACH? Though we can't record every signature and contact information of every person we outreach and work with through an estimated recording of every speaking engagement, rally, or event we've calculated our overall community reach for 2019 has been more than 13,440 persons!
Monthly Chapter Meetings Organized
Member Trainings and Workshops
Orientations Legislative Visits & Public Hearings Members Directly Engaged
1,163 COMMUNITY REACH
13,440
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Social Justice Campaigns & COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ISSUES WE FOCUS ON: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IMMIGRATION GENDER INEQUALITY CIVIL RIGHTS
2019
This year has been one of hardship, resilience and justice for our immigrant families. Through one of the hardest times for our immigrant community, it has been community hope and perseverance that has led the advocacy and community mobilization efforts to make our voices strong and powerful. SEPA Mujer also thanks our amazing grassroots partners and allies whom have joined forces and believed in SEPA Mujer inc.
Green Light NY 2019 Legislation A03675/ S1747 (STATE) SEPA Mujer joined the fight to restore access to drivers licences for all regardless of immigration status in New York State on February 2019 at the most critical point of the state-wide campaign where everyone was looking for support and the final push from the Long Island Democratic Senators. It was in this time when SEPA Mujer decided to respond to the community needs and confusion and organize with our partners local committees made up of organizations, leaders and most importantly community members to roll out a comprehensive community response targeting the areas with the most need as well as a massive grassroots mobilization. Massive Town Halls were organized within days, Riverhead has a response of 350+ people in assistance forcing us to organize two simultaneous presentations in two separate rooms. 3 Days after we marched to the DMV in Riverhead with over 300 people in assistance. A week later we organized in Huntington with over 150 people in assistance and just 2 weeks later a third in Patchogue was organized with over 300 people in assistance. We continued to organize 2 more town halls were organized in Nassau County, Hempstead, and Hicksville and collected more than 1,000 petitions from the local latino community. On June 17th 2019 SEPA Mujer was in Albany to witness the historic 7 hour vote in the Senate and on our way home we celebrated Governor Cuomo signing into law. SEPA Mujer is conituing the grassroots work to ensure successful implementation and community educaiton.
PASSED
Public Charge & Public Benefits (FEDERAL) The Trump administration moved to target legal immigration and immigrants applying to become first time legal residents and those petitioning to entre legally into the United States. Historically, Public Charge is an unofficial test immigration agents conduct on applicants, if considered public charge, not only will immigrants get denied their adjustment of legal status, but could face deportation in extreme circumstances. The Trump administration filed to to expand to SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid (NY exempt) and Medicare part D (medicine assistance for people with disabilities). SEPA Mujer created grassroots education material and action items to engage the community about their rights on the changes to the Public Charge rule. On September 2019, news was made public that the proposal rule change was approved and would go into effect October 15th 2019. SEPA Mujer acted quickly on a local level, organizing dozens of people to submit their testimonies and also helped translate and submit testimonies for people who were unable to do so themselves. We quickly moved to start an educational campaign to alert service providers and community members that no changes have been made, but action is required to stop the dangerous changes. SEPA Mujer also enacted an online campaign to inform and engage people into action on Long Island (bit.ly/cargapublica19). Days before the date of implementation a New York Federal Judge submitted the first of five Federal Injuctions blocking the change.
BLOCKED
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Social Justice Campaigns & COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
V.A.W.A Re-authorization & IWVPA H.R.4319 (Federal)
ONGOING
When Trump shut down the government, he also halted the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The House has passed their version, however, the bill is at a stand-still in the Senate. VAWA not only provides resources for victims of violence, it also allows for immigrant victims of domestic violence to self-petition. SEPA Mujer organized one of the largest rallies to be held out of Congressman Lee Zeldin’s office in Patchogue to push him to stand for our Long Island victims and survivors regardless of immigration status. We also created a letter of support with over 40 organizational sign on’s that were sent to all Long Island Senators and Congress representatives. We collected petitions with hundreds of signatures both online and grassroots. We continued supporting efforts of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Planned Parenthood. As we continue to advocate for full VAWA Reauthorization we also are starting to mobilize and advocate for IWVPA Immigrant Witness & Victim Protection Act H.R.4319 act Provisions in the IWVPA include:eliminating the restrictive annual cap on U Visas providing employment authorization to survivors while their petitions are pending for immigration protections under U and T visa and VAWA self-petitioners. Limiting deportation of victims and survivors with pending U visa, T visa, or VAWA-based relief should be released from detention. The fight continues...
DREAM ACT, D.A.C.A., AND T.P.S.
ONGOING
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients have been used as bargaining chips on a federal level by the Trump administration. As it stands right now DACA is no longer available for new applicants under Federal Executive Order and still uncertain pending a U.S Supreme Court ruling. TPS has also been moved to also end for certain countries. Organizations and leaders now are calling for the passing of the American Dream and Promise Act (HR6) that looks to create a path to residency for DACA TPS and even those who qualify for legal permanent residency. As with many campaigns, there is a huge need to explain, break down and make the critical ever evolving information of campaign changes and create targeted specific content and action items for the latino immigrant community. This is the task SEPA Mujer brought on for our Long Island community who are often times disconnected and neglected from larger organizations. We have also been participating in roundtables, coalitions and committee organizing on a local level around DACA/ DREAM Act specifically the Long Island Dream Act Coalition targeting Long Island Senators and stakeholders, organizing rallies and forums to bring attention to DACA and DREAM Act. This year we also joined efforts with the local organizing group Pro Residencia TPS that’s in coordination with National Alliance TPS to support the grassroots organizing across Long Island. We organized rallies when the Journey for TPS bus arrived to Long Island, we marched together in Washington and have visited Congressman Peter King among others to fight for TPS holders! UPDATE HR6 PASSES CONGRESS! NOW IT’S UP TO OUR U.S SENATE TO GET IT DONE AND PASS IMMIGRATION REFORM NOW! (7/10/2019)
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Social Media Engagement A message to create awarness and reach thousands!
MAKING FRIENDS Facebook followers Facebook liked the page Instagram followers Instagram post Twitter followers Youtube video
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Radio Aclarando dudas sobre el proceso de la nueva ley de manejo “Green Light NY” con la organización SEPA MUJER. facebook.com/LaFiesta985FM/videos/673241959874534/
DMV offices packed with undocumented immigrants seeking driver's licenses newsday.com/long-island/green-light-law-long-island-1.39599429?utm_source=fb_nd&fbclid=IwAR1a7hRinSPracr42-IV8PN-rj3rCdtFHKwr2dbFdyR4EPZt0MuNUle7lo8
cal Hundreds line up at Riverhead DMV office after ‘Green Light NY’ law takes effect headlocal.com/2019/12/16/hundreds-line-up-at-riverhead-dmv-office-after-green-light-ny-law-takes-effect/?fbclid=IwAR3NAlYsfaNL1429bmnLHRaA-rTv6_U4Pzf529-ueZ1Dx-hTqRw1rA8SKRo
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WINS Nearly 100 Long Islanders Travel to Supreme Court to Support DACA for DREAMers slandwins.com/news/national/nearly-100-long-islanders-travel-to-supreme-court-to-support-daca-for-dreamers/?fbclid=IwAR0L0NkneEH8xTlxWB2n3ewcbU9scEg8j09kJCZyXD2AZ9SiVwdulcn7ZUU
WINS Join the Vigil at Lee Zeldin’s Office Supporting Needs of Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence slandwins.com/news/national/join-the-vigil-at-lee-zeldins-office-supporting-needs-of-immigrant-victims-of-domestic-violence/?fbclid=IwAR3SGRVn0ozRBIB2umSfpDJFt5MoJyV2ugH8IR612KuoNhO8Sxmvvnj2u_0
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sland Instan a inmigrantes a informarse bien en el tema de “carga pública” (Fotos y Videos) ticiali.com/articles/instan-a-inmigrantes-a-informarse-bien-en-el-tema-de-carga-publica-fotos-y-videos/?fbclid=IwAR0YLYYwfn0omGFrMQplFst7qFPTokhTvzhOLmavh5IS0crU5fVxymEE07Y
mes Review ‘Unity rally’ shines spotlight on health care, immigration and climate issues ktimes.timesreview.com/2019/10/unity-march-shines-spotlight-on-health-care-immigration-and-climate-issues/?fbclid=IwAR0lXRBLGnogKjdetREVQIIBXvNw6EDKmC_cRoRd1wxzpIQUBxdGzMYg0KE
WINS LI Immigrant Community & Supporters Rally to Denounce Trump Public Charge Rule slandwins.com/news/national/li-immigrant-community-supporters-rally-to-denounce-trump-public-charge-rule/?fbclid=IwAR1IUjNnAj_8XJgASFc_4ahW08d5HykzTs1vSE5sUlzhk4SOmPX02JmDMC8
sland Presentan a especialistas que abordan el delicado tema de la regla de Carga Pública propuesta por la Administración Trump dentro de su dura política inmigratoria facebook.com/NoticiaLI/videos/2535794583318524/
vocates urge reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act
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Thank You. On behalf of SEPA Mujer Inc. members, board, staff, interns and volunteers.