Field Building & Partnerships
The Refugee Advocacy Lab works to grow and fortify the movement for refugee inclusion by supporting a diverse set of partners and refugee leaders across sectors who can help scale this work. The Lab provides tools, resources, best practices and strategic guidance to allies to build capacity in advocacy and narrative shift, and serves as a convener to bring partners together to strategize and align efforts.
Our Partner-Powered Work
Defend Refuge
In its first week in office, the Trump administration indefinitely suspended the U.S. refugee resettlement program. Part of its rationale for doing so was an unfounded claim that refugees place a burden on local communities. In reality, the U.S. refugee resettlement program enriches communities and strengthens local economies. More than 300 bipartisan state and local elected leaders nationwide have called on the Trump administration to immediately restart the U.S. refugee resettlement program, affirming that their communities want to welcome refugees.
These leaders have continued to do so, including calling for the restart of the U.S. refugee resettlement program and condemning the Trump administration’s sweeping anti-refugee, anti-asylum, and anti-immigrant actions.
Let Them Stay
With the Trump administration waging an all-out assault on immigration and refuge in the United States, the Lab is joining Refugees International and other partners in urging Congress to protect people who have found safety in the United States through humanitarian parole.
Humanitarian parole programs provide safe pathways to the United States, yet the administration is stripping humanitarian status from people living and working in the United States legally and targeting them for arrest and deportation. We’re here to say: Let Them Stay!
Businesses for Refugees
The Lab organized with partners to recruit more than 480 business owners who pledged support for our nation’s refugees and displaced people.
Become a Lab Partner
The Lab is powered by a wide range of partners and we always welcome more. Are you interested in becoming a Refugee Advocacy Lab Partner? Click here to meet our partners and learn more.