Just Neighbors provides immigration legal services to low-income immigrants and refugees. Based in Northern Virginia, its Baltimore office offers direct legal representation, community education, and partnerships with libraries, congregations, and nonprofits to increase access to services. Though newer to Baltimore, Just Neighbors was founded in 1996 and currently operates five offices in the Washington, DC metropolitan region and Baltimore City. This grant provided support for the Immigration Lawyer in the Library program.

The mission of Next Generation Language Access is to provide professional interpreter training to bilingual and/or multilingual high school students to increase the number of professionally trained interpreters in community settings. The program is offered at Patterson High School, Digital Harbor, and Benjamin Franklin High School. This grant provided core operating support.

The mission of Soccer Without Borders (SWB) is to use soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing newcomer youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success. The program’s holistic, evidence-based model combines soccer practices with academic and language support, civic engagement, and cultural exchange activities, while proactively reducing barriers to entry that typically leave refugee and immigrant youth excluded. SWB participants come from 40 countries and speak more than 20 languages at home. In Baltimore, SWB’s out-of-school time programming serves 500 immigrant youth annually. SWB currently serves students in Northeast (Frankford, Cedonia, Parkside) and Southeast Baltimore City (Highlandtown, Patterson Park). This grant provided core operating support.