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Lobbying for Change
In 2007, the Campaign for Community Change played a supporting role to the work of its sister organization, the Center for Community Change. The Campaign acted as the Center's lobbying arm and provided other support. Our grassroots and direct lobbying focused on two issues that were in the national spotlight:
Immigration Reform
The Campaign for Community Change worked with allies such as the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM),to play a leadership role in the push for Immigration Reform.
The Campaign built a national coalition of grassroots groups to advocate for reform, generated intense media coverage, trained hundreds of immigrants to tell their own compelling stories to policymakers in Washington, DC and deployed our expert staff to negotiate directly with policymakers to craft humane and just immigration reform legislation. Although we did not win legislative change in 2007, we did:
- Conduct national advocacy and action days in January, February, March, April, May and June 2007 that galvanized hundreds of grassroots organizations from 30 states and mobilized allies such as labor unions, clergy, business owners, and local officials.
- Generate hundreds of thousands of calls into Congress by reaching out to immigrants through community media.
- Through public events and media outreach, introduced policymakers and the public to families that had been torn apart by Dept. of Homeland Security workplace raids.
- Attract more than 736 media stories between Oct 06 and Oct 07 that mentioned FIRM or the Center.
- Work closely with policymakers and national allies such as SEIU, the National Council of La Raza, the National Immigration Forum and Democracia USA to develop joint strategies and craft legislation.
