Funding from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, LCMS World Relief and the Lutheran World Federation, along with a partnership with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, allowed LIRS to make asylum and immigration grants to 29 organizations in April 2001. Among the grant recipients are 12 organizations that provide legal services to detainees; 13 that provide legal services to asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrants, but not to detainees; and four that provide nonlegal services-including documentation services, advocacy and social services-to detainees, asylum seekers or other immigrants. This year's grantees are as follows, in order by state:

• Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project—Florence, Ariz.
• Lutheran Social Ministries of the Southwest—Phoenix, Ariz.
• Asylum Project of Southern Arizona—Tuscon
• Casa Cornelia Law Center—San Diego
• Survivors of Torture, International—San Diego
• Lutheran Refugee Services—Lakewood, Colo.
• Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network—Lakewood, Colo.
• InterChurch Refugee & Immigration Ministries—Chicago
• The Immigration Project—Granite City, Ill.
• Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project and Refugee Immigration Ministries—Boston
• Freedom House—Detroit
• Interfaith Immigration Services of Nebraska—Omaha
• El Centro Hispanoamericano—Plainfield, N.J.
• Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey—Trenton
• VIVE—Buffalo, N.Y.
• Lutheran Children and Family Services of Eastern Pennsylvania—Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center—York, Pa.
• Human Rights Documentation Exchange—Austin, Texas
• Political Asylum Project of Austin—Austin, Texas
• BARCA—Edinburg, Texas
• Las Americas—El Paso
• Casa de Proyecto Libertad—Harlingen, Texas
• GANO/CARECEN—Houston
• Citizens and Immigrants for Equal Justice—Mesquite, Texas
• Refugee Aid Project—San Antonio, Texas
• Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area—Falls Church, Va.
• Vermont Refugee Assistance—Montpelier
• Northwest Immigrant Rights Project—Seattle

See lists of grantees from other years: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.
See contact information for current grantees.
Read more about LIRS's Asylum and Immigration network.

Page updated September 17, 2007.