Welcome

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JOIN US TODAY!
We are pleased to announce the Coalition's first-ever membership drive!


MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
When you join the Coalition, you will:
• Receive a monthly e-newsletter with the latest statewide and national legislative and other news focused on issues affecting immigrant and refugee communities
• Have the Coalition as an additional outlet to share your organization’s
news
• Find opportunities to collaborate on projects with other groups with
shared community concerns
• Be able to share table space with the Coalition at community events
• Be able to help shape events through committee participation
• Have your organization’s web site linked to the Coalition’s

YEARLY MEMBERSHIPS – CIRCLE ONE
Student $10.00
(Join/renew for 2 yrs at $15.00)

Individual $25.00
(Join/renew for 2 yrs at $40.00)

Nonprofit Organizations (based on operating budget):

*Operating Budget/Membership Fee*

$49k --- $50
$50k-$149k ---$75
$150k-$499k --- $150
$500k on up --- $300

For-profit Organizations (based on operating budget):

*Operating Budget/Membership Fee*

$49k --- $75
$50k-$149k --- $100
$150k-$499k --- $175
$500k on up --- $350

Your Name:


Organization:


Phone/Email:

Print out and mail with your check made payable to Coalition for New South Carolinians:
Coalition for New South Carolinians
7900 Nell St.
Columbia, SC 29223

Questions? Email coalitionsc@gmail.com or call (803)429-8742. Donations, not memberships, are tax-deductible. Membership begins the fall of each year and renews the following. As a member, I support the Coalition's mission.

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The Coalition for New South Carolinians is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our work is made possible thanks to funding from the American Dream Fund, the Center for Community Change, and the Four Freedoms Fund.

Coalition for New South Carolinians, 7900 Nell St., Columbia, SC 29223, (803)429-8742. coalitionsc@gmail.com. www.coalitionfnsc.org


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The mission of the Coalition for New South Carolinians is to support, organize with, and advocate for immigrant and refugee communities in South Carolina.

The Coalition for New South Carolinians collaborates with other state nonprofit organizations to monitor state legislation affecting immigrants and other new South Carolinians. Check back for more information on brown bag meetings and phone conferences for members. For more information, email coalitionsc@gmail.com or call (803)429-8742.

Wednesday, June 24, 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Come join Coalition members to have a conversation and share your concerns about the welfare of immigrants and refugees in South Carolina.

Become a member and help advance the efforts to support, organize with, and advocate for immigrant and refugee communities. Join our efforts!

REPORT: Latino Commission on AIDS
On World AIDS Day December 1, 2008 the Latino Commission on AIDS released "Shaping the New Response: HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the Deep South" Report, documenting the extraordinarily high rates of HIV and AIDS diagnoses among Latinos.

Hate Crime in Patchogue, New York
November 11, 2008 - "Even though he'd been in the United States for 16 years, he always said, 'I miss home. I'm going back,' " his brother Joselo said yesterday. "Now he'll never be able to go home."