For Farm Workers and Immigrant communities

The UFW Foundation advocates for farm workers’ and immigrants’ rights across the United States. We work to ensure every farm worker and immigrant has the opportunity to live and work with dignity, safety and respect.

what we do

Founded in 2006, the UFW Foundation is a nonprofit organization 501(c)(3) 
whose core purpose is to empower communities to ensure human dignity. 
The UFW Foundation advocates for workers’ rights and protections for farm workers across the United States, and provides educational outreach and critical services such as immigration legal services to low-income rural communities.

The UFW Foundation mobilizes farm workers across the country to advocate for immigration reform, pesticide protections, heat standards, hazard pay, and other worker protections. It engages constituents in systemic change to break the cycle of poverty while also providing critical services in California, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Washington state.

Our Mission

empowering communities to ensure human dignity

• Sí Se Puede® Stories

“We can’t waste time on this. Field work is hard, but when you’re just starting in the States, we have no other choice.”

Alejandrina, Georgia

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Our Impact

The Foundation has also contributed to the passage of federal legislation that provided pandemic relief for farm workers, and distributed $23 million in direct emergency relief assistance payments to farm workers from 2020-2022.

The UFW Foundation is one of the largest federally accredited immigration legal service providers in rural California, and has successfully advocated for overtime pay, and helped strengthen the State’s heat protection laws.

In 2023, the UFW Foundation served at least 211,000 farm workers through immigration legal services, COVID-19 pandemic disaster relief, storm recovery services, and a call center in California for farm workers to call if their employers violated employment-related laws, among other services.

Core Values