MurthyFoundation Supports Endeavors of SAALT
Posted Mar 07, 2008
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The MurthyFoundation is partnering with South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) to support a series of educational documents and forums on immigration issues. This national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, is dedicated to fostering civic and political engagement by South Asians in the United States. With a staffed office in the Washington DC area and a national network of individual members and community-based South Asian organizations, SAALT engages in policy analysis and advocacy on civil and immigrant rights issues, conducts community education, builds coalitions, and develops leadership.
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The MurthyFoundation has supported SAALT’s work on immigrant rights and immigration reform, including writing opinion editorials in South Asian ethnic publications and convening educational forums with South Asians on immigration matters. Funds from the Murthy Foundation helped enable SAALT to conduct a townhall meeting in Northern Virginia that convened more than 60 South Asians to discuss local anti-immigration sentiment, send letters calling for an end to anti-immigrant ordinances and legislation to several city councils in surrounding Virginia and Maryland counties, and to hire a full-time Director of Policy.
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Attorney Sheela Murthy recently was named to the Council of Advisors for SAALT.
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More information on SAALT, is available on their website at http://www.saalt.org/.