What Did We Do With Your $67,600?

Coastside Hope

Team TLC

Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Refugee Biryani and Bananas

Northern Lights Aid

Med’EqualiTeam

For this issue of our newsletter, we’re announcing the results of our Fall 2025 Funding Cycle. This report includes information on our first-ever round of funding for aid teams operating in the United States. As immigrants in this country have faced increased hardship this year, we offered these grants to try to address that vulnerability. We spent a few months researching organizations and conducting interviews to make sure that our grants would target serious gaps in humanitarian aid. We identified teams that are doing excellent work. We also had sufficient funding to offer grants to several Humanity Now partners in Greece and Ukraine. Thank you! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Here’s What You Funded in the United States:

• Coastside Hope (Half Moon Bay, California): $3300 to cover the repair of their delivery truck, which moves food aid throughout the region

• Church World Service (Wilmington, North Carolina): $2000 to fund Muslim and Christian holiday celebrations and toys for refugee children

• Immigrant Allies Forum (Wilmington, North Carolina): $2000 for a bookkeeper and $1000 for interpreters to help refugee parents communicate with their children’s teachers in the public schools

• Immigrant Legal Resource Center (San Francisco, California): $3000 to print 2500 Spanish- and English-language “Know Your Rights” Red Cards, for distribution throughout the country

• La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco, California): $4200 to purchase a large-format printer, ink, and paper to streamline green card and asylum application procedures for legal aid clients

• Latino Alliance (Wilmington, North Carolina): As part of a collaboration with the Lions Club free vision clinic, Humanity Now will provide $2800 to pay for eye glasses for individuals from the undocumented community who can’t afford them on their own

• New Neighbors Partnership (New York, New York):  $3500 will fund Welcome Kits and Postpartum Kits to newly arrived refugee families

•Ruth’s Refuge (New York, New York): $2500 will will cover the cost of beds and bedding for six refugee families

• Team TLC (New York, New York): $3000 to fund Department of Justice accreditation for three non-lawyer staffers who will offer legal aid for displaced clients, and $2000 to cover application fees for asylum seekers

Here’s What You Funded in Greece:

• Aegean Boat Report (based in Norway, aid provision in the Aegean Sea region): $7200 to cover  6 months of general overhead

• Equal Legal Aid (Thessaloniki, Greece):  $3500 to cover 50% of the team’s yearly rent

• Med’EqualiTeam (Thessaloniki, Greece):  $6700 to cover 2 months’ stipend for their field coordinator, 6 months’ rent, 6 months’ wifi/communications costs and transport fees for two coordinators

• Northern Lights Aid (Kavala, Greece): $3500 to support community center activities including women’s space, language classes, arts and recreation programming, and kitchen renovation

• Refugee Biriyani and Bananas (Chios Island, Greece):  $3000 for distribution of food parcels for residents of Vial Camp

• SafePlace Greece (Athens, Greece): $3500 for immediate food relief, skills development training, and emergency funding for medical and transportation needs of displaced people from the LGBTQ+ community

Velos Youth (Athens, Greece): $10,900 for general support of the organization’s day center, $900 of which comes from Humanity Now donors and $10,000 of which comes through a partnership grant from the US-based Shapiro Foundation

Here’s What You Funded in Ukraine:

• Dobra Fabryka (Kyiv, Ukraine): $3900 to cover the costs of winter coats for the organization’s staff and two industrial power banks to maintain operations during Ukraine’s frequent power outages