Support Weil Gives in New York
Please donate to 1) LatinoJustice’s DACA Program in support of DREAMers and/or 2) the Rebuilding Puerto Rico Project to help with the disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Maria
LatinoJustice DACA Program
LatinoJustice has been a steadfast supporter of the efforts of thousands of undocumented students who came to the U.S. as children (calling themselves DREAMers) and who advocated for years for temporary immigration status (DACA). Many DREAMers are no longer students; they have graduated, work, pay taxes, and are raising families. In short, they embody the best of the immigrant experience.
How this project makes a difference
LatinoJustice supports these hardworking individuals to ward off the rollback of DACA status in three critical ways: Privacy Protections; Increased Capacity for Legal Assistance; and Professional Licenses.
Your support of these efforts will go a long way to help keep families intact, preserve the contributions to this country by an amazing and accomplished set of immigrants, and respect the rule of law.
Rebuilding Puerto Rico Project
LatinoJustice is collecting funds to cover the costs to train and deploy attorneys to help Puerto Ricans navigate the rebuilding process. The organization is also bringing legal assistance needed for residents of Puerto Rico to complete claim forms that will help them qualify for FEMA aid, unemployment, public health benefits and insurance recovery. Trained, bilingual attorneys and paralegals will be sent to the island for both immediate and longer term support.
Donors
- Eric Peterman
- Georgia Beach
- DIANE SULLIVAN $20.00
Weil Jeans Friday/10/17
- Stephany Silva-D'Antone
- Konrad Cailteux
- Denise Alvarez
- Joan Harvey $20.00
- Chelsea Berry
- Robert Taylor
- Joan Ashland
- Erica Bushc
- Natasha R. Hill
- khadhyja $25.00
- Fred Doss
- Sandra Angeles
- Andrew Peli
- Susan Lombino
- Meggin Bednarczyk $25
- Rick Levine
- Chris Kim $25
- Lisa Cuevas
- Jonathan Bloom
- Dan Dokos $25
- Gaby Smith
- Victor Leung
- Hedieh F
Hispanic Heritage Month
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF
LatinoJustice PRLDEF champions an equitable society. Using the power of the law together with education and advocacy, LatinoJustice PRLDEF protects opportunities for all Latinos to succeed in work and school, fulfill their dreams, and sustain their families and communities.
By litigating precedent-setting impact cases across the country and training young people to be leaders in their community, LatinoJustice PRLDEF has profoundly improved the way Latinos are treated in U.S. society, working to ensure that they have more opportunities for political, economic, social and educational equality.
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LatinoJustice Rebuild Puerto Rico Fund
LatinoJustice is bringing legal assistance needed for residents of Puerto Rico to complete claim forms that will help them qualify for FEMA aid, unemployment, public health benefits and insurance recovery. Trained, bilingual attorneys and paralegals will be sent to the island for both immediate and longer term support including advocacy work to:
- Extend the suspension of the Jones Act
- Extend the 60 day FEMA claims deadline
- Place a moratorium on public debt payments
- Eliminate formula for Puerto Rico’s ceiling on Medicaid
- Appropriate additional funds for Puerto Rico
- Approve the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Weil Gives encourages employees across Weil’s office’s in the United States to contribute to charitable organizations over the course of the year.
The minimum donation for wearing jeans each Friday of the month is $25. If you do not plan to wear jeans, you may still make a donation to the organization in any amount. To donate via check, please make checks out to “The American Heart Association” and send to Crystal King (Rm: 2329-S1). Cash donations will not be accepted.