AIDNW – OUR WORK CONTINUES: Advocating for immigrants, reconnecting families, and joining people together in 2025

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We appreciate annual donors, and we love monthly donors at any level who help us budget and provide consistent services throughout the year.

For less than you think, you can help us get resources into detention and make life more tolerable for detained immigrants, and help people released from detention get settled with family and sponsors around the U.S.

Donate with Credit Card or PayPal Account:

Or send a check to AIDNW, 2367 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA 98402. You can also stop by our Welcome Center in front of the Northwest Immigration Detention Center on East J Street every Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 2:30-5:00 and use a donation envelope. Thank You!

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FINANCIAL DONATIONS

Donate with Credit Card via the PayPal button above, or send a check to AIDNW, 2367 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA 98402. You can also stop by our Welcome Center in front of the Northwest Immigration Detention Center on East J Street every Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 2:30-5:00 and use a donation envelope. Thank You!

Paypal & Credit Card:

Mail checks to the office address: 2367 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA 98402.

Or use your Bill Pay bank service to authorize a check (specifying Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest on the memo line) and send to the above address. Most Bill Pay systems allow for one time or recurring payments.

Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest. is a US-based 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered in the State of Washington and identified by the US IRS with EIN #27-1031009. If you wish to donate via your Donor Advised Fund or Charitable Giving Account, the fund brokerage manager can easily access all required AIDNW information for verification and find the registered mailing address for distributions. For any additional information, contact info@aidnw.org.

Donors who work for companies offering a corporate match to the employee donation can double, even triple, their donation to AIDNW. If you don’t know how your company’s match program works, contact your Human Resources Department.

Your donations to an annual dedicated campaign will allow AIDNW to provide sustainable program assistance to detained and released immigrants in the future. Donations can be made in any form: credit card, cash, PayPal, check, DAF or charitable fund distribution, stock transfer, etc. Please provide a note with your donation indicating your intent for deposit into a named dedicated fund. For questions or instructions, contact AIDNW at info@aidnw.org.

You can include Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest in your will or as an IRA beneficiary. Making a bequest to AIDNW will advance our mission and ensure continuous assistance to immigrants arriving in the Pacific Northwest.

Donations of appreciated stock can present a tax advantage to the donor while helping to support the work of AIDNW. Contact your investment advisor or tax accountant for more information.

Supportive companies and their employees can help detained and released immigrants, while promoting their goods and services to the Greater Puget Sound community. This is done by making a cash contribution, donating goods or services, donating a percentage of sales, creating a cooperative marketing partnership, or becoming an event sponsor. To discuss opportunities, contact us at info@aidnw.org.

Include your honoree’s name and contact information; they will receive a special acknowledgement, and you will receive a tax-deductible receipt and acknowledgement.

DONATE VIA QCD

Did you know that people over 70 who have a regular IRA can make a Qualified Charitable Distribution that’s tax-deductible even if they also take the standard deduction? It’s a great benefit for them and AIDNW at the same time, but we recommend having a tax professional take care of it to ensure the write-off.

DONATE VIA EMPLOYER MATCH

Logo of the Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD)

Can you help AIDNW get listed as an approved matching recipient by your employer? Employers often match donations made by workers. For instance, the Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) provides state workers, university faculty, staff and all retirees the opportunity to give to their favorite charities including AIDNW. Since the founding of the CFD in 1984, state employees have donated more than $168 million to local, national and international organizations.

OUR THREE PILLARS OF SUPPORT

Help support our vision of a welcoming community that affirms the dignity of all immigrants by making a tax-deductible contribution today. Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, EIN #27-1031009. Flexible donation options allow you to make a monthly recurring donation, a one-time contribution that may be a tribute in honor of someone special, or a donation of goods such books, puzzles and phone funds for detained immigrants, or food, clothing, backpacks and care packages for immigrants who are released or deported.

SUSTAINING MONTHLY GIFTS

A woman embraces her husband who was just released after two years in the Northwest ICE Processing Center

Sustaining monthly donors are the backbone of AIDNW. Our monthly expenses include one paid staff member to coordinate dozens of volunteers, shared office and storage space to sort donated goods, phone funds to provide detained immigrants a lifeline to the outside world, cell phones to help immigrants coordinate travel upon release, insurance and professional bookkeeping systems to keep your trust, and so much more. With your financial support, we keep on keeping on, no matter the fluctuations of grant awards and other variables. We appreciate any sustaining contribution level of support, including from:

  • Foundation Builders: $10/month
  • Framing Sustainers: $25/month
  • Finish Work Donors: $45/month
  • Fixture Contributors: $70/month
  • Endowment Heroes: $100/month

ONE-TIME CONTRIBUTIONS

Released immigrant from Asia flashed “thumbs up” to volunteers helping him at the AIDNW Welcome Center.

Maybe you have just a little extra right now, or you’re giving for the holidays, or for Giving Tuesday or Give Big, or for a year-end tax write-off or in memory of a loved one whose legacy includes support for the dignity of all people in our country no matter national origin, or maybe you just want to help in this critical time of concern. No matter the moment, we appreciate your support for the work AIDNW does. Suggested one-time donation levels include:

  • $5 provides pairs of shoelaces for immigrants whose laces were removed from their shoes in detention.
  • $10 provides a case of snacks and drink for immigrant with long travel journey to family awaiting elswhere in the country.
  • $15 helps acquire a used coat, backpack, pair of pants or shoes for an immigrant released from detention.
  • $20 sponsors one detained immigrant phone fund account deposit (of 100 account deposits/month currently budgeted)
  • $35 sponsors an immigrant care package or deportation bag consisting of backpack with travel items such as toiletries and more.
  • $50 provides a shared taxi ride for asylum seekers to the Sikh Temple in Renton, often from Punjab region of India.
  • $75 provides a grocery store gift card to immigrant staying at AIDNW host home.
  • $100 provides a month of service for Welcome Center phone lines, wifi services or portable toilet cleanings.
  • $250 subsidizes the cost of an airline ticket for released immigrant whose family cannot afford purchasing travel fare (donation of airline miles also welcome – email operationsmanager@aidnw.org to arrange)
  • $500 pays for phone funds for 23 immigrants in detention
  • $1,000 pays for a month of office space rental.

or send a check to AIDNW, 2367 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA 98402 and thanks!

DONATING TANGIBLE ITEMS

AIDNW volunteers give asylum-seekers released from the detention facility warm coats, hats, and gloves.

Check out all the items above that we need to support immigrants in detention and upon release. Whether supplies to stock the Welcome Center outside the detention center, or books and puzzles going into detention to help people keep minds productive while awaiting court hearings, or care packages to help release immigrants travel to meet family across the country, or deportation bags to relieve the sting of deportation, we’re always in need of tangible donations. Anytime you buy or or sell items at one of the companies below, think of AIDNW and have items shipped to our office at 2356 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma WA 98402.

For help donating tangible items, please send an email to operationsmanager@aidnw.org.

Dozens Of Volunteers – One Volunteer Coordinator

AIDNW is a lean organization, including just one wonderful Operations Manager who coordinates volunteers to do all the services we provide to immigrants in detention and upon their release, as well as volunteers helping in the office with tasks like depositing phone funds into detained immigrant accounts, organizating gear, and more.

In essence, AIDNW is a volunteer-run organization. Our board members are volunteers. Our committees are all-volunteer. All visits into detention are by volunteers. All pen-pals are volunteers, and all the books, puzzles and deportation bags are put together and delivered into detention by volunteers.

All the people staffing the AIDNW Welcome center who help immigrants as they walk out of the detention center are volunteers, and the people who drive immigrants to the bus, train, and airport all volunteer. It’s a wonderful community of people with hearts full of love for service to humanity.

Join us and make lifelong friends among immigrants and fellow volunteers!Start by completing a confidential application form via your choice of…

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

AIDNW trained volunteers greet released immigrants at the Welcome Center RV just outside the NWIPC release gate. Volunteers provide snacks, beverages, backpacks, and clothing as needed; they charge releasee’s phones to connect with their family or sponsors; then volunteers help arrange their travel by air or land, transporting them to the airport, bus or train stations. Nearby relatives can also arrive to pick them up.

Phones are available inside the NWIPC, but it costs money to make a call. Detained immigrants can call the AIDNW Hotline to request phone funds to contact family, friends, or legal help. AIDNW can provide phone cards in $20 denominations for up to one hundred detainees each month.

Yes, your donation to AIDNW is tax deductible as allowed by law. Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest is a nonprofit, tax exempt charitable organization (EIN # 27-1031009) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Yes, you can donate specific items of clothing, backpacks, shoes, and arts and crafts supplies via AIDNW’s Amazon Wish List. 

AIDNW serves people detained in the NW ICE Processing Center, and those who are newly released. AIDNW also provides temporary housing to immigrants without a sponsor or family in the area and connects them with other organizations for legal and resettlement services.

Yes, all AIDNW services are provided free of charge to people detained in and newly released from the NWIPC in Tacoma, WA.

AIDNW offers onsite training for new volunteers at the Welcome Center. We explain everything from set up to take down and various situations that occur in between. Volunteers receive informational materials and learn procedures. For volunteers visiting detained immigrants inside the NWIPC, we provide protocols for visiting immigrants, tips on conversations, and meet the new volunteer at the detention center for their first visit.

We offer flexible options to accommodate our volunteers. Some volunteers complete one shift per month at the Welcome Center while others choose to volunteer daily or every week. Shifts are from 2-6 p.m. or 3 p.m. to close at 7 p.m. Visitations inside the NWIPC are limited to one hour by ICE and we suggest a minimum of one visit or more every two weeks. Other volunteer hours, such as in the office or on a committee, will vary depending on the tasks offered by the volunteer.

An interest in helping immigrants new to our country will align with our mission. Fluency in a foreign language is often useful, but not necessary, since AIDNW has volunteer interpreters on call when required.

No, minors are not detained at the NWIPC.

Please submit a new question. We look forward to connecting with you!

    BETWEEN 2019-2023

    IN NOVEMBER 2024

    20,327

    Number of immigrant services provided

    6,021

    Number of immigrants welcomed

    291

    Volunteer Hours

    70

    Migrants served through our Welcome Center

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