in other ways
As we are a startup volunteer organization, donations or funding of any amount will open the door to new possibilities in fulfilling our mission. These early donations will be some of the most important funding we ever receive!
As of 5/2026, we are using the Givebutter to manage donations. If you'd like to support our work with a donation, please donate through this link:
https://givebutter.com/support-chaaco
Please note that Givebutter will ask for "tips," which are strictly optional and no-obligation. These tips go to Givebutter to support their operating costs, in lieu of charging CHAACo mandatory processing and platform fees. Tipping has no impact on CHAACo either way; allowing Givebutter to ask for tips means all donations to us go further.
Examples of what we can do with funding:
$12 will cover the cost of keeping our website domain name for 1 year
$50 will pay for a modest run of "sponsored" social media posts or ads on one platform to help get the word out about CHAACo's resources and mission, especially our Immigrant Solidarity and ICE Preparedness tools.
$100 will cover printing costs for 200 copies of our Immigrant Solidarity and ICE Preparedness informational flyer, to distribute at cultural heritage conferences.
$32 will purchase 250 basic business cards for CHAACo to share at conferences
set up email management tools to help us get the word out (costs TBD)
get a paid video call plan for more flexible meeting options
engage lawyers to review our immigrant aid resources and assist with ICE preparedness training
host modest in-person events to build community solidarity and solutions-oriented networking
subsidize costs for volunteers to do outreach and education at conferences in our sector
$500 per year: A future goal: get a paid Airtable database plan to provide more powerful tools for our job board and resource hub, including precise location based searches, automated emails to interested job seekers, better submission form features, and more, possibly including the ability to create a synced network of interconnected free job boards to share with volunteer-run, nonprofit regional associations. (Sustained funding of about $500 per year would get us two seats on the basic "Team" paid plan.)
If you can only provide support if it is tax-deductible or to organizations with 501(c) nonprofit status, we're working on it! Please read more and pledge to donate below!
CHAACo is does not yet have 501(c) nonprofit status, and therefore donations to us are not tax-deductible at this time. Becoming an independent nonprofit is relatively expensive for us in both time and money. For the foreseeable future, we are working toward finding fiscal sponsorship—that is, becoming a sponsored project of a compatible nonprofit organization that can extend its 501(c) status and protections to us.
If you would like to make a donation to us, but only after we have 501(c) nonprofit status and/or it would be considered tax-deductible, please let us know by pledging a donation today!
Pledges for future donations provide meaningful support now. Pledged donations will help us make a case to a nonprofit fiscal sponsor to take us on, allow us to plan for future expenditures, and enable us to apply for grants that want to see demonstrated support for projects.
Please email us through our Contact Us page and pledge to donate.
You can volunteer for a project or contribute in other ways without being publicly associated with CHAACo. We will leave your name off of external communications and acknowledgements.
Refer to our Privacy Policy for more details!
When you come across relevant opportunities or resources, add them to our searchable database by filling out a simple form! This is open to the public and anonymous. There is no need to be otherwise involved with CHAACo.
When you come across relevant opportunities or resources, add them to our searchable database by filling out a simple form! This is open to the public and anonymous. There is no need to be otherwise involved with CHAACo.
Talk with your colleagues and friends about our organization, our efforts, and send them to our website. As a new organization, every bit of this truly helps us begin to fulfill our mission.
The more engagement our hub and job board get, the better they will become! The more people know about the resources we are building for you, the stronger our community becomes.
We encourage you to link to our website and our Public Resource Hub and Job Board pages from your own website and social media. The data on our database is available for your personal or internal institutional use.
If you want to share it publicly, we encourage you to do so by sharing our website. If you take material out of context and place it on your website, please credit the Cultural Heritage Advocacy and Action Coalition and include a clear link to our website.
If you are going to conferences or cultural events, you can print and distribute our flyers, and talk to people about CHAACo! We can even send you a set of flyers to share at major conferences. See Sharing our flyers.
Have feedback or ideas for our website, public resource hub, or other offerings? Let us know about it!