Ben Llados
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CHIRLA

Fundraising materials and donor research for one of California’s largest immigrant-rights organizations.

Role
Project Manager
Team
Five consultants, 180 Degrees Consulting
Client
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
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A community mural of immigrant-rights history: day laborers, protest signs reading “Somos humanos” and “No a la Prop. 187”, graduates in caps and gowns, and a family holding a residency card

The brief

CHIRLA provides legal services, community education, and workers’ rights support to immigrant families across California. It asked us to help it reach more political and philanthropic funders, with materials it could adapt to each one.

I’m the son of immigrants, which is a large part of why this engagement mattered to me. I was the project manager for a team of five, running the work across research, analysis, and deck design.

What we delivered

  • Modular impact decks

    A fundraising deck template with program modules (legal services, community education, and more) that swap in to match a funder’s priorities, plus a checklist of the goals, figures, and funding needs CHIRLA would fill in.

  • Donor-mapping database

    Foundations and political donors aligned with immigrant rights, screened through Form 990s, grantee lists, and public materials, and matched to the CHIRLA programs their giving history fits.

  • Data recommendations

    Standardized intake forms and shared case IDs across consultations, hotline calls, and workshops, so CHIRLA can follow referrals between programs and report cross-program results to funders.

Four pages of the CHIRLA impact-deck template: a cover reading “CHIRLA Impact Deck Template” over a community mural, an agenda of mission, programs and services, future goals, and funding needs, a current-context page, and a “Proven impact through community voices” page with quote boxes.
Pages from the impact-deck template we built for CHIRLA.View full size (opens in a new tab)