Organizations Filed Purposes:
SAF brings students and farmworkers together to learn about each others lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.
Into the Fields Internship & Fellowship:Twenty Into the Fields students conducted outreach to nearly 700 farmworkers in labor camps and reached nearly 1000 farmworker families and other Latinx community members through distribution of food, PPE, and other supplies in rural areas of the Carolinas. The program had to adapt this year because of the pandemic, and most students worked remotely, providing teleservices. The students worked with legal, health, education, and organizing partners. They made nearly 700 masks, informed workers of their rights, taught ESL, mentored migrant students and out-of-school youth, and conducted COVID-19 outreach and support. They created videos, newsletters, and social media posts and shared their experiences with the larger public through blogs.
From the Ground Up:SAF staff, interns, and alumni conducted presentations on issues ranging from child labor to food security. The program adapted to the pandemic by having virtual events for National Farmworker Awareness Week, as well as for the NC & SC Farmworker Institutes. We supported alumni to continue in the farmworker movement through peer support and mentoring. We co-coordinated a number of community events, some in person and some virtual, including Día de los Muertos. SAF created a Farmworker Emergency Fund to support SAF participants and alumni from farmworker families that had an unmet need due to COVID. SAF worked with the Farmworker Advocacy Network to advocate for protections for farmworkers during the pandemic. Six Solidaridad interns supported this work by recruiting and interviewing student applicants, conducting workshops for churches, mentoring youth, creating communications materials, and conducting policy research.
Levante Leadership Institute:Ten youth from Eastern NC participated in the Levante Leadership Program, engaging in trainings, retreats, and events. The youth prepped for college by participating in workshops on writing college and scholarship applications, attending the Soy un Lider conference at Guilford College, and touring NC State University. They worked with the Wake Forest University Center for Worker Health on creating infographics to disseminate the results of the child labor research project. The youth benefitted from a new mentoring program with SAF alumni and continued to save for college through SAFs partnership with the Latino Community Credit Union. The program adapted to the pandemic by conducting virtual meetings in the spring of 2020.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Melinda Wiggins | Executive Director | 40 | $67,050 |
| Jessica Rodriquez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Christopher Paul | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Marian Fragola | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Yeimi Tomas | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Maria Perry | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Katie Villegas | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Jaslina Paintal | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Norma Garcia Ortiz | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Daisy Almonte | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Xaris Martnez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jose Ibarra | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tony Macias | Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Yessy Bustos | Director | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202120139349301002_public.xml