{"id":9104,"date":"2021-05-10T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maketheroadstates.org\/?page_id=9104"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:53:29","slug":"our-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maketheroadstates.org\/?page_id=9104","title":{"rendered":"Our Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We are poor and working-class people\u2019s organizations \u2013 rooted in the neighborhoods where our members live.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We work to support our members to overcome oppression and to heal from trauma. We build campaigns to challenge the systems of oppression affecting our communities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founded in 1998<\/strong>, Make the Road New York has grown to become the largest participatory immigrant organization in New York, with programs that serve 30,000 low-income community members every year. We have community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights\/Corona, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island,\u00a0 Brentwood, Long Island; and White Plains, Westchester. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Make the Road New York has won many high-impact victories that have changed the lives of millions of New Yorkers.<\/span><\/h4>

From the Wage Theft Prevention Act and the Dream Act to drivers licenses for the undocumented and the unprecedented $2.1 billion fund for excluded workers, MRNY\u2019s victories have served as models for various states seeking to improve the lives of immigrant and working class people.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MRPA was established in 2014<\/strong> in Reading and has expanded to Philadelphia, Allentown , and Hazleton. We run robust\u00a0 civic engagement programs every year for the primary and general elections, and we also help lead organizing campaigns at the local, state and federal levels on the issues of education justice, housing and climate justice, democracy, worker rights, and immigrant rights<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A significant recent accomplishment in our efforts to fully and fairly funding PA\u2019s public schools is that on June 10, 2024, the House of Representatives passed a historic investment bill, HB 2370.<\/span><\/h4>

After the school funding formula was deemed unconstitutional, the state created the Basic Education Funding Commission (BEFC). This group was charged with determining a plan to fix the funding formula. We engaged in this work by having our members and other stakeholders submit comments directly to BEFC, meeting with members of BEFC, and providing testimony. BEFC created a funding plan that outlines the state needs to provide $5.4 billion over the next 7 years. Governor Shapiro has since proposed an FY25 education budget for a $1.1 billion increase in education funding, targeting the poorest districts (which include where we work: Philadelphia, Allentown, and Reading), $300 million for facilities, and additional investments in pre-K, early intervention mental health, and special education.<\/p>

We have held multiple meetings with key legislators, held rallies, and planned advocacy days, namely May Day. The passage of HB2370, takes us one step closer towards constitutional compliance in our efforts of fair and equitable public school funding. Unfortunately, the bill is currently being stalled in our Senate.<\/p>

In 2023, MRPA was a part of the efforts alongside Speaker Joanna McClinton on two pieces of legislation around voting rights that were introduced, for early in-person voting and same day voter registration. These pieces of legislation will make participating in our democracy and voting more accessible. Our members and staff are primarily Black, Latinx, women, and other BIPOC groups. Understanding the history of voter suppression of these groups allows us to recognize the significance of these pieces of legislation in confronting systemic barriers that both our staff and communities face in our society.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Founded in 2014, Make the Road New Jersey<\/strong> started in a church basement in Elizabeth, NJ and has grown to a powerful membership based organization with 6,000 dues paying members, 40 staff, serving tens of thousands of low income immigrants and people of color.<\/p>

MRNJ operates three thriving community centers in Elizabeth, Passaic and Perth Amboy that provide a wide array of educational, legal and support services and are hubs for community organizing. MRNJ has won more than 20 campaigns that have expanded the rights and economic opportunities for more than 1 million immigrant and low income New Jersey residents, including a $15 minimum wage, the strongest anti-wage theft laws and temp worker protections in the nation, drivers licenses, occupational licenses and in state financial aid for undocumented immigrants, and more.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MRNJ has won more than 20 campaigns that have expanded the rights and economic opportunities<\/span><\/h4>

For more than 1 million immigrant and low income New Jersey residents, including a $15 minimum wage, the strongest anti-wage theft laws and temp worker protections in the nation, drivers licenses, occupational licenses and in state financial aid for undocumented immigrants, and more.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Make the Road Connecticut (MRCT)<\/strong> was founded in 2015 in Bridgeport through conversations with community members around the need for a local organization fighting for the Latine, working class, immigrant community across the city. Since then MRCT has grown into an organizing powerhouse with 8 organizing committees across 2 cities focused on education equity, housing justice, health equity, worker rights, youth power, all through the lens of immigrant justice achieving several policy wins on both the local and state level that have impacted tens of thousands of community members across the state.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MRCT, with coalition partners,\u00a0 has helped lead a successful campaign to expand Husky Health Insurance<\/span><\/h4>

The state Medicaid program, to undocumented immigrant children under the age of 15, people that are pregnant and for one year postpartum for people that give birth. Recent data shows that thousands of children have been able to access this insurance because of this victory.\u00a0 In addition, MRNJ won local campaigns in Hartford and Bridgeport that improved translation and interpretation services in the local public schools. This advocacy helped us build the power we needed to win a statewide campaign in 2023 that led to the passage of a Bilingual Education Bill of Rights, laying out the responsibilities of districts to support families that speak languages other than English. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Make the Road Nevada (MRNV)<\/strong> was founded in response to the October 1, 2017 Mandalay Bay mass shooting tragedy, focusing on aiding undocumented survivors turned away due to their status. Initially focused on in immigration and worker rights campaigns, MRNV has since expanded to address several intersectional issues including economic, health, youth, and housing, LGBTQ, and reproductive justice and continues to organize and empower Latine, New American, and low-income communities through our work.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MRNV organized our first cohort of members, undocumented survivors of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting, to engage in a public pressure campaign that forced law enforcement to work with them to address the broken U-Visa system in Clark County.<\/span><\/h4>\nThis campaign not only led to the approval of U-Visas for these survivors, but in the reorganization and reprioritization of the U-Visa processing system going forward. MRNV led the charge to create a pathway to licensing for street vendors in Nevada, ensuring that these micro-entrepreneurs have the same opportunities to earn a living and support their families as larger, more traditional business owners.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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