The Workers' Rights Center (WRC) is dedicated to educating and advocating for worker justice by empowering workers in the workplace and in the community. WRC trains and works with immigrant workers to build support for fair and just immigration reform.
Patrick Hickey, WRC Director, “What we see on a day to day basis at the WRC is a broken immigration system that leads to increasing levels of exploitation in our labor markets. Organizing around improving labor conditions is directly and intimately tied into fixing our immigration system.” For more on the Worker’s rights center: http://www.wrcmadison.org/
The Workers’ Rights Center received $7,000 through Wisconsin Community Fund's 34th General Fund Cycle and $2,000 through the Yeager/Schwartz Donor Advised Fund.
1/22/2010 update on next general grant cycle: Wisconsin Community Fund remains commited to our mission to make grants to social justice groups that are too new, too small or too controversial for mainstream funding. To better serve that mission we are exploring a new and innovative method of grantmaking. Further information is coming in spring 2010. Please check back here for more info. Or e-mail us at info@wcfund.org to make sure you get the announcement. Thanks!