20 GRANTMAKING, PHILANTHROPY, CIVIC LEADERSHIP Immigration as a humanitarian crisis: CCF takes action This year, changes in immigration policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric fueled a humanitarian crisis for immigrant families in our communities and beyond. In response, CCF mobilized the community through philanthropy, grantmaking, and civic leadership to help immigrant families in need. Our efforts focused on raising funds so that people facing detention or deportation could stay in the community they call home. “Every city in this country should be doing what you are doing. I’m so proud of the hard work you are doing in helping those that need our help now more than ever.” Elizabeth Durbin Carpenter, one of 280 donors to the fund Cambridge Legal Defense Fund for Immigrants launched with Mayor Marc McGovern CCF Board Member Lori Lander hosts a breakfast gathering on the immigration crisis March 5, 2018 May 3, 2018 CAMBRIDGE STANDS WITH IMMIGRANTS Cambridge celebrates Immigrant Heritage Month June 2018 27% of the Cambridge population is foreign born Over 180,000 unauthorized immigrants, out of 210,000 in Massachusetts, live in the Boston-Cambridge- Newton, MA-NH MSA Sources: (2014 data) Pew Research Center, MSA stands for Metropolitan Statistical Area; 2012-2016 U.S. Census.