demographics
Community Based Organizations
Cash flow support
Provide grants, bridge loans, and low-interest loans, streamlined loan forgiveness processes, and 100% coverage of the unemployment insurance costs for self-insured employers to help nonprofits cover cash flows and reduce income losses.
resources to serve communities of color
Advance cross-sector partnerships between government, philanthropy, and the private sectors to direct more resources to organizations led-by and serving Latinx communities.
Advocate for Federal Funds
Support the National Council of Nonprofits, Independent Sector, and Nonprofit Association of Oregon priorities to ensure nonprofits are able to continue to provide the critical programming and services our communities rely on.
Health / healthcare
Culturally Specific Services
Address the immediate physical and mental health needs of our community by hiring culturally specific leaders to increase access and improve service delivery.
Testing & Tracing
Ensure accessible and culturally and linguistically responsive testing and contact tracing, including low or no cost testing sites.
Treatment & PPE
Establish special health insurance benefit program for undocumented, underinsured, or uninsured adults not otherwise eligible. Require hospitals, clinics, and research teams to develop culturally specific protocols to ensure safety and that Latinx communities are effectively served. Ensure that provision of PPE is accessible, and prioritized to reach the most vulnerable Latinx community members.
Wraparound
Provide dignified wraparound supports to Latinos and Indigenous people who test positive. Services must be flexible in times, days, locations to meet the work schedules of essential workers.
Communications
Enhance/expand communications and outreach for COVID prevention and mitigation.
Data
Improve data collection for Latinos on testing, morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality.
k-12 education
Latinx Student Success Act
Make and protect investments in the Latino/a/x Student Success Act.
Distance Learning Support
Improve distance learning practices and access to electronic devices, internet, and support to utilize these systems or alternate systems for all students (including adult learners).
Linguistically-Appropriate Support
Ensure schools and educators communicate with families in their preferred language, and that parents receive the resources they need to successfully support their children’s education. Hiring practices need to reflect this priority.
affirmative immigration legal services
DACA Services
Prevent deportation by investing state and federal funds to identify and serve 3,000 Oregon DACAistas/Dreamers and their family members.
Immigration/Naturalization Services
Honor workers, stabilize families and drive economic growth by investing state and federal funds to provide financial support for work-enhancing immigration applications.
housing
Forgivable loans
Prioritize forgivable loans to communities of color-based organizations and to community-based agencies who house farmworkers.
Safe housing
Ensure safe housing for Latinx and Indigenous people who develop COVID-19, and those impacted by that, so they do not have to choose between helping stop the spread and financial hardship.
Advance affordable housing
Explore new sources of revenue for advancing the state’s goal of 25K units of affordable housing, especially in majority Latino communities.
police accountability & criminal justice reform
Accountability
Swiftly implement police accountability measures passed in the 2020 special sessions, and continue to advance additional measures in upcoming sessions.
Reinvest in community-driven models
Reduce investments in policing; reinvest in Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other disproportionately affected communities by partnering to develop a community-centered health and safety model.
End qualified immunity
End qualified immunity; close loopholes.
Community oversight
Ensure stronger accountability and community oversight in criminal justice and policing systems, including court appointed advocates for marginalized communities
small business
Earmarked Latinx business relief funds
Allocate funding earmarked for Latinx businesses (including those operating with ITIN only) for coronavirus relief and recovery.
Technical assistance beyond 2020
Along with resources made directly available to businesses, allocate funding for the 2021-23 biennium for Technical Assistance support (including adequate administrative dollars to run the programs) for Latinx business recovery efforts. Current TA resources expire at the end of 2020.
Contract equity
Achieve state contract equity with Latinx led and serving small businesses and CBOS
employment
Oregon Worker Relief Fund
Allocate additional funding for Oregon Worker Relief Fund, as a $100M gap remains for providing pandemic relief funds for people with financial need who are excluded from the federal unemployment insurance program due to their immigration status.