Voz Workers' Rights Education Project

Mission

Voz is a worker-led organization that empowers diverse day laborers (including domestic workers) and immigrants to improve their working conditions and protect civil rights through leadership development, organizing, education and economic opportunity.

Bottom Line

✨ More than a worker center, Voz is a home for economic opportunity, community, and collective power. As Oregon's only nonprofit dedicated to organizing alongside day laborers, we connect immigrant workers with fair-wage jobs, fight wage theft, and provide workforce development and skills training that open doors to long-term economic stability.

🌱 We're growing more than opportunities. We're growing community. Through our worker-led community garden, environmental justice initiatives, and green workforce development programs, workers are cultivating food, reconnecting with the land, building new skills, and creating pathways toward a more sustainable and just future.

📣 When immigrant workers are under attack, we fight back. Through initiatives like Adopt a Corner PDX, worker-led protests at Mall 205, and grassroots advocacy, we're defending the right to seek work without fear of harassment, discrimination, detention, or deportation. We organize alongside workers, mobilize our community, and demand accountability from those in power.

💛 Founded by workers, led by workers, and fighting for workers. From the garden to the streets, Voz is building a movement rooted in dignity, solidarity, and self-determination. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.

Quote

🌿 “What I love about this project is how many people came together to learn how to plant and grow food. We’re growing something that will benefit us for years to come. Not only will we be able to harvest our own food, but we’re also learning valuable skills that we can take with us to work. When someone comes to hire us, we already have the knowledge and experience to do the job.”

— Roberto, Voz day laborer, reflecting on his experience helping build Voz’s worker-led community garden

✊🏽 “It hasn't always been easy. We've been through difficult times, lost members of our community to immigration detention and deportation, and faced a lot of fear and uncertainty. But through it all, we've continued to come together and support one another. I remember going to my first protest with Voz. I always thought, ‘That's not for me.’ But when I got there, surrounded by people who looked like me and understood what we were going through, I felt like I belonged. I felt welcome. I didn't feel judged. It reminded me that we're not alone, and that even through the hardest times, we have each other.”

— Jossue, Voz member since 2011, reflecting on solidarity and finding his voice through community organizing

Incentives

👕 Show your Voz pride! The first 10 donors to give $50 or more during our Give!Guide campaign will receive a limited-edition Voz T-shirt. Give back, stand with workers, and rock your solidarity in style!

🧢 Celebrate International Migrants Day with Voz! On December 18, the first 5 donors to give $25 or more will receive an exclusive Voz Adopt a Corner hat!

Partner(s)

Johnson Creek Watershed Council promotes restoration and stewardship of a healthy Johnson Creek watershed through sound science and community engagement.

Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition's mission is to bring an end to all unjust detentions and deportations of our immigrant community members in Oregon.
Ground Score is collectively-organized and radically inclusive, prioritizing work opportunities for those facing work and housing insecurity.