COVID-19 UPDATE:

NICE is working to support immigrant workers and their families in some of the most devastated neighborhoods by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We need your support to continue to provide relief to our community through food distribution, cash assistance, and case management.

Please consider making a donation. Any amount helps: 

RECENT PRESS COVERAGE

• The New York Times: A Tragedy is Unfolding: Inside New York’s Virus Epicenter 
• The Gotham Gazette: City Budget Crisis Threatens Lifeline for Day Laborers and Immigrant Workers
• LaborPress: Unions Share Groceries With Non-Union Brothers & Sisters In Construction
• AP: Immigrants deliver food, 'hope' to workers hit by pandemic
• WVNews: Immigrants deliver food, 'hope' to workers hit by pandemic
• El Diario: Hambre en Queens: filas de hasta 8 cuadras para buscar comida gratis
• Foresthillstimes: NICE, unions deliver food to immigrant families
• Bronx Brigade Partners with NICE for Community Food Drive
• El Diario la Prensa: Jornaleros afectados por la COVID-19 y excluidos de ayuda estatal reciben víveres
• The New York Times: How to Save Black and Hispanic Lives in a Pandemic
• VICE News Tonight (starts at minute 6): NICE executive director recovers from COVID19 as pandemic ravages immigrant communities
• El Diario la Prensa: Protegiendo a los Trabajadores Inmigrantes Durante y Después de la Pandemia
• The Nation: Maybe if I Had Papers, It Would Have Been Different’: Undocumented During a Pandemic
• Noticias Telemundo: La realidad de la comunidad latina en Nueva York durante la pandemia de COVID-19
• City Limits: City’s Day Laborers Worry More About Collapsing Economy Than Coronavirus
• City Limits: Advocates Demand Protection for Immigrants at ‘Front Lines’ of Coronavirus Outbreak
• Gothamist: Coronavirus Outbreak Inflicting "Severe" Economic Damage On Immigrant Workers As NYC Scrambles To Slow Spread
• Documented: Immigrant Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Crisis
• Spectrum Noticias NY1: 'Tenebroso': descripción de un trabajador jornalero sobre el panorama creado por el coronavirus
• Univision: Filas de más de 20 cuadras para obtener comida: la realidad de miles en Queens en tiempos de coronavirus
• The City: Worried cleaners take front line positions in fight against virus
• The City: How coronavirus is upending new york city’s restaurant world
• Lightly News: A Tragedy Is Unfolding’: Inside New York’s Virus Epicenter
• Queens Daily Eagle: Workers’ rights coalition delivers food to families in Jackson Heights
• Processo: Indocumentados: Entre el contagio, el desempleo y la deportación
• Queens Ledger: NICE, unions deliver food to immigrant families
• Bklyner: Immigrant Workers and the Nonprofits That Serve Them Are in Overdrive
• QNS.com: Moya joins labor unions and immigrant advocates to deliver groceries to day laborers in Queens
• ABC7: Coronavirus News: Line at Queens food pantry stretches for 8 blocks
• Manhattan Times: Aid for All - Advocates demand crisis measures include immigrant communities
• NBC: Latino immigrant advocates bring crucial support to families during COVID-19 pandemic
• WNYC Studios "United States of Anxiety": Community is a Verb, and It's Hard
• The Guardian: Corona in Corona: deadly toll in a New York neighborhood tells a story of race, poverty and inequality

WHO WE ARE

New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable and precarious immigrant workers and their families, with a focus on day laborers, domestic workers, and newly arrived immigrants. 

Photos: (Left) NICE staff and member volunteers working to distribute groceries to immigrant households in most need; (Right) NICE members participate in an action to advocate for their rights as immigrant workers