NOW: Take our ICE preparedness survey — help us all become ready to respond to ICE encounters in cultural heritage workplaces!

Cultural Heritage Advocacy and Action Coalition

Welcome to CHAACo.org

We are a volunteer organization dedicated to serving the cultural heritage community by gathering, creating, and sharing needed resources that help empower you to act on behalf of yourselves, your institutions, and the cultural heritage you protect and celebrate.

Read our mission statement.

This site is new and growing. Check back often as we add more ways to support you and our community.

Virtual Event! Empowerment Hour with the conservation community: a discussion on combatting threats to the National Historic Preservation Act

Wednesday, Oct. 21

8 p.m. Eastern

CHAACo is hosting a discussion session about how the conservation community can leverage its skills and expertise to help protect the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106, and our historic spaces from imminent threats from the federal government. See our Call to Action for more about this issue.

To RSVP, please fill out this form.

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NOW: Help us help you!

Take a survey about ICE preparedness and related needs in your workplace.

Anonymous and secure

This is your opportunity to shape our efforts to help cultural heritage organizations and workers prepare for ICE encounters in your workplace and community.

Do you need more information? Leadership buy-in? A seat at the table? Customized training? Legal referrals? Tell us in the survey!

Click here for more information.

NEW: Donation Updates

Thanks to recent generous gifts of monetary support from individuals through our new Givebutter account, CHAACo is expanding our outreach and resources, with more plans in the works!

Visit our Donations page to learn more about how we are using our new seed funding to support the cultural heritage community.

If you would like to donate to us, you can do so here!

https://givebutter.com/support-chaaco

Donating to CHAACo

Calls to Action page

Act now! This new page of our website highlights opportunities for you to participate in urgent advocacy work!

Take a few minutes to help protect our cultural heritage.

You can submit your own calls to action to our public resource page, or let us know of opportunities you would like us to highlight.

Calls to Action

Immigrant Solidarity & ICE Preparedness resources

Guidance for museum, library, and other cultural heritage workers: an introduction to many steps workers and organizations can take to prepare for ICE encounters, stand up for justice and human rights, and more, plus an annotated resource library to help you tackle the actions. Share this guide with your colleagues and exercise your agency as we strive for a more just and inclusive future.

Go to Immigrant Solidarity and ICE Preparedness Hub

Explore our Public Resource Hub

A free, crowdsourced database to help the cultural heritage community find and share information about jobs, funding and training opportunities, professional associations, advocacy templates, online resources, and more.

Share a resource with the community today!

Go to the Public Resource Hub (Main Page)

Use our free Job Board to find and advertise work opportunities

CHAACo hosts a free, barrier-minimizing job board designed to support all kinds of work in the cultural heritage sector. No account needed. Come browse and share opportunities here:

Go to the Job Board

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