Grant Writer and Researcher

Both across the region and at home, WOLA has been tracking how a growing number of governments are using legislation to impede everyday nonprofit operations, including their ability to maintain legal status, access funding from domestic and international sources, and express themselves freely. 

In this context, WOLA’s advocacy, research, and storytelling efforts, which center the voices of those targeted, are more critical than ever—and they only happen because of supporters like you.  

So today, in honor of National Nonprofit Day, here are some of the tangible ways that your gift to WOLA translates into real impact. 

Advocacy Alongside Our Partners 

Since our founding, WOLA has served as a trusted connector between decision-makers in Washington and the communities most impacted by their policies in Latin America. Rather than speak on behalf of our partners, our role has always been to bring them physically, virtually, and/or through their own words into the halls of power designed to exclude them. 

Your gift enables delegations of human rights defenders and activists, including Indigenous and Afrodescendent leaders, to come speak directly with U.S. members of Congress and their staff. It fuels the meetings that our Program Directors hold to educate U.S.........

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