What’s the Update? : An Important Note About Our Action Fund Site

By Steve Ralls on 12/19/2011 @ 02:08 PM

Over the course of the past few weeks, you may have noticed that the Immigration Equality Action Fund site hasn’t been updated as frequently as in the past. And, if you’re especially attentive, you may have noticed some changes to the content on the site as well.

Let us explain.

We originally envisioned our Action Fund site as a clearinghouse for all things related to our legislative advocacy, such as our lobbying efforts on behalf of UAFA and other critical bills in Congress. The Action Fund site also includes tools that allow you to easily send a message to your Member of Congress and a calendar of upcoming events. Along the way, however, we also re-designed and re-launched our primary Immigration Equality site, too, at www.immigrationequality.org.

The result has, regrettably, meant some confusion about what information is where. So we wanted to take this opportunity to clarify where information is housed on our two sites.

Beginning today, Take Action campaigns (such as our current campaign on behalf of Frances & Takako) will be housed here at the Action Fund site. Future actions will also be here, and you’ll continue to visit this site to send messages to Congress, and receive the latest updates on legislation and our work on Capitol Hill. Beginning today, our “blog” here on the Action Fund site will become “Action Updates” . . . a clearing house and archive of all of our calls to action.

You will soon notice, however, that our press section will be disappearing. All press articles, and press releases, will be housed at www.immigrationequality.org. And, information regarding our free legal services, including LGBT asylum and legal advice for couples, will be on the primary site as well.

So, to clarify: Our Action Fund site will focus solely on taking action in support of legislation, and on our work in Washington, D.C.. All other information – including press, legal services and more – will be at www.immigrationequality.org.

For the latest, and breaking news, visit www.immigrationequality.org. There, you’ll find our blog (currently titled “Updates,” but soon to be renamed as, simply, the blog) and the latest news about our work.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and confusion, that has resulted as both sites have undergone (re)construction.

And thank you for remaining engaged in our work and in the fight to end discrimination against our families.

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