The Pennsylvania Citizenship & Immigration Coalition
Pennsylvania Immigraiton & Citizenship Coalition (PICC)
Philadelphia, PA
What is PICC?
The Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition is a program that made up of hundreds of organizations that work towards the goal of helping immigrants in Pennsylvania by advocating campaigns, service projects, and connection meetings. Right now, PICC was working on passing the Dream Act, which will help undocumented students obtain free and fair education and break the "fear wall" within the undocumented immigrant community.
Voter Registrations
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Volunteers will help future citizens during their naturalization ceremonies and help with their voter registration after immigrants have obtained their citizenship. The service project is mostly available during Mondays and Fridays each week at the 40th Street USCIS building.
Phone Banks
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Volunteers will help citizens in Pennsylvania and surrounding counties by informing them about upcoming election dates (along with required documents during an election and providing ballot address to voters). This is also a great service project to call in more volunteers into the program and surveying the immigrant needs.
Canvasses
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Volunteers get to connect with other volunteers and coalition members to talk about upcoming campaigns and service projects. This is a great opportunity to know about the progression of immigrant bills and updated information from the immigrants.
PICC Documentary
Volunteers at Work
*All photographs in this slideshow are shared to me by Maria Sotomayor