The Weingart Foundation and the California Community Foundation (CCF) have released a new learning brief that highlights staff wellness as key to sustaining a powerful immigrant justice sector. The brief examines the impact of the Immigrants Are Essential (I.A.E.) Fund, a joint initiative designed to strengthen Southern California’s immigrant justice ecosystem by investing directly in staff wellness, coaching, and organizational infrastructure, to promote long-term resilience. The evaluation, grounded in a mixed-methods study of executive leaders and frontline staff, reveals that the immigrant-serving movement requires a fundamental shift in philanthropic strategy: treating staff wellness and organizational infrastructure as critical to the long-term sustainability of the immigrant justice sector.

We Invite you to read the full brief here.