Support the Movement! Become a Member!

NNIRR welcomes membership of both organizations and individuals. As part of a larger movement, members both receive benefits and actively participate in NNIRR’s collective efforts.

With space for up to three representatives at national membership meetings and conferences, gain access to free downloadable organizing tools and resources. Includes regular updates and information, including monthly email blasts and regular actions. Full benefits below.

Gain access to free downloadable organizing tools and resources. Includes regular updates and information, including monthly email blasts and regular actions. See below for full benefits.

Our Mission

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.

The National Network bases its efforts in the principles of equality and justice, and seeks the enfranchisement of all immigrant and refugee communities in the United States through organizing and advocating for their full labor, environmental, civil and human rights. We further recognize the unparalleled change in global political and economic structures which has exacerbated regional, national and international patterns of migration and emphasize the need to build international support and cooperation to strengthen the rights, welfare and safety of migrants and refugees. 

Click here to read more about NNIRR in our membership flyer.

What you get with your membership

Organizational members receive the following benefits:

  • Space for up to three representatives at national membership meetings and conferences
  • Access to free downloadable organizing tools and resources
  • Access to receive and send emails through our member listserv
  • Regular updates and information, including monthly email blasts and regular actions
  • Preferential access to NNIRR trainings, conferences, work groups, forums and other activities
  • Options for participation in NNIRR campaign work, policy development and other programs and projects
  • Options for participation in NNIRR project/program working groups, and chair up to one working group
  • Eligibility to propose and influence NNIRR policymaking through work group and membership meeting participation
  • Eligibility for nomination to NNIRR Board of Directors (Nomination requires three years of active membership in good standing; all nominations must be forwarded by a current board member)

Individual members receive the following benefits:

  • Access to free downloadable organizing tools and resources
  • Regular updates and information, including monthly email blasts and regular actions
  • Access to receive and send emails through our member listserv
  • Second priority (after organizational members) to attend or participate in NNIRR trainings, conferences, work groups, forums and other activities
  • Options for participation in NNIRR campaign work and other programs or projects
  • Eligibility to join one NNIRR project/program working group
  • Eligibility for NNIRR Board of Directors (Nomination requires three years of active membership in good standing; all nominations must be forwarded by a current board member)

 

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What we ask of you


NNIRR organizational membership is open to organizations that agree to:

  • Work to promote the principles and values of NNIRR, as contained in NNIRR’s Mission Statement, through their activities
  • Assist in recruiting new organizational and individual members in NNIRR
  • Pay annual dues

NNIRR individual membership is open to those who agree to:

  • Work to promote the principles and values of NNIRR, as contained in NNIRR’s Mission Statement, through their work and movement activities
  • Promote NNIRR as part of their own work and activities, and help to recruit new members
  • Pay annual dues

Organizational and individual members may or may not agree with all policy positions taken by or on behalf of the Board of Directors, NNIRR’s policy-making body. Members often receive information on specific policy issues that they may wish to consider themselves.