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UFW FOUNDATION

Founded in 2006, the UFW Foundation is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that advocates for workers’ rights and protections for farm workers across the United States and provides educational outreach and critical services such as immigration legal services to low-income rural communities. With its core purpose being to empower communities to ensure human dignity, the UFW Foundation has mobilized farm workers across the country to advocate for more equitable policies like immigration reform, pesticide protections, heat standards, hazard pay, and other worker protections. It has engaged constituents in systemic change to break the cycle of poverty while also providing critical services in California, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Washington state, and is one of the largest federally accredited immigration legal service providers in rural California.

The UFW Foundation has successfully advocated for overtime pay in California, helped strengthen the State’s heat protection laws, and contributed to the passage of federal legislation that provided pandemic relief for farm workers, and, as a result, distributed $23 million in direct emergency relief assistance payments to farm workers from 2020-2022. In 2023, the UFW Foundation served at least 211,000 farm workers through immigration legal services, COVID-19 pandemic disaster relief, storm recovery services, and a call center in California for farm workers to call if their employers violated employment-related laws, among other services.

 

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OUR IMPACT

Food Boxes Distributed to Farm Worker Families

400,000+

Masks Distributed for Farm Workers

2 Million

Pandemic Financial Assistance for Farm Workers

$23 Million

FEATURED

ACTION

The UFW Foundation is proud to present our 2023-2024 Impact Report, a comprehensive report on all our activities and projects that we have been working on for the past year. We are incredibly proud of the work we did during this time, providing much needed programs, services, and advocacy for the immigrant and farm worker communities.

In 2023, we kicked off with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm and Food Workers Relief (FFWR) program, providing $600 relief payments to eligible farm and food workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We also championed new rules for the H-2A Temporary Guest Workers Program, as proposed by the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security. In our ongoing efforts to enhance worker safety, we pushed for OSHA to establish new national heat standards and implemented new smoke regulations to protect outdoor workers. Additionally, we fought for the continuation of DACA and other vital immigration relief initiatives. To raise awareness about the challenges faced by farm workers, we produced Farm Worker Voices, a compelling video series that highlights the impact of climate change on their lives.

Check out our 2023-2024 Impact Report and please help the farm worker movement through a donation if you can.

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November 05, 2024 UFW Foundation Fresno Office

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