Immigrants Are Essential.

New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) creates pathways to success and empowerment for essential immigrant workers.

Why NICE?

Despite their essential role as front-line workers, immigrants suffer from some of the highest rates of workplace violations, injury, and death. NICE provides critical services and resources to prevent worker exploitation and ensure workers' safety and rights are respected. Most importantly, we empower workers to organize around key issues that impact our community to change the systemic injustices we face.

Our Programs

  • We offer FREE, culturally competent health & safety certifications to ensure our members learn life-saving safety skills and to open pathways to dignified jobs with certification requirements.

  • We offer FREE skills training workshops in Electricity, Framing, Demolition, and other key soft skills (English, Technology) to improve our members' employability and support women in entering a male-dominated industry.

  • We support our members in fighting cases of workers exploitation such as wage theft, discrimination, workers' compensation, sexual harassment, etc, by organizing individual and group cases against corrupt employers in coalition with labor unions, legal partners, and the Department of Labor.

  • Our Workforce Development Program connects immigrants to dignified jobs and employers to skilled workers via collective employer outreach. We're also a community space where workers gather to build community and organize.

“NICE helps every single person that walks through those doors, no matter their circumstance. From providing critical services to immigrant communities to advocating for immigrant rights in across the country, I identify personally with the work and mission of the organization. This is why I volunteer for the organization any time that I can.”

— Janeth, NICE Member