Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Held Feb. 18, 2010

This webinar discussed tips for working proactively with the media to gain positive coverage for your immigration program. Participants learned about media cultures and how to cultivate media contacts, pitch story ideas, develop media protocols, and create appropriate tools to work effectively with the media.

This webinar was presented by CLINIC's Capacity Building section.

Presenters: Jeff Chenoweth, director of CLINIC's Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities and Rose Alma Senatore, executive director, Catholic Charities of Hartford, CT.

This webinar idiscusses ways to recruit more leaders and financial donors in order to grow and sustain charitable legal immigration services for the challenges of today and a new environment for tomorrow.

Is your legal immigration program challenged to find additional revenue above its fee collection? Does your program need to expand its capacity but fundraising opportunities seem few? Has your program never, or seldom, been awarded a grant and you don’t know how to begin?  

This webinar aims to promote the effective use of the group application workshop model to expand the availability of charitable legal immigration services, principally for naturalization but also for other purposes, including legalization application processing.

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Does your legal immigration program struggle to know when and how to charge fees to clients?
Can your immigration program determine a case load mix for staff that serves both the organization’s mission and need for revenue?
Does your legal immigration program have financial controls and procedures by which it can quickly expand services under an anticipated legalization program?

This webinar is intended for experienced program directors and also for start-up programs seeking to grow.

Webinar: Case Management Systems

June 3, 2009
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time; 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
Cost: Free for nonmembers and members

Your non-profit agency has no attorneys on staff and you have no money to hire them, but you want to offer immigration legal services. Perhaps your agency has been helping immigrants for years with “simple” immigration matters, but you’ve realized that what you’re doing is the unauthorized practice of law.

Nonprofit immigration legal programs have a range of staffing options. Programs may employ licensed attorneys, law graduates, fully accredited representatives, partially accredited representatives, nonaccredited immigration counselors, support staff, interns, and volunteers.