The NoCo Emergency Immigration Fund (EIF) was ISAAC’s original accompaniment fund. The EIF was established in 2017 under fiscal sponsorship from Foothills Unitarian Church. As ISAAC has grown and become an independent nonprofit, the fund has also grown and become a core project of ISAAC’s Accompaniment programming.

Now called the Accompaniment Fund, this project houses a number of separate initiatives to meet the emerging needs experienced within Larimer County:

• Family Crisis Fund - cash assistance to people experiencing a crisis who are locked out of more traditional forms of credit and support due to barriers such as legal status, identification requirements, and language and literacy barriers. During the COVID crisis, this fund gave repeat support to over 1500 vulnerable households in the county. We continue to support households with the death of a loved one, a cancer diagnosis, and many other scenarios.

• Legal Fund - legal scholarship funds for immigrants, migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees to working on their immigration legal process, prioritizing unaccompanied youth, DACA recipients, migrant workers, victims of violence, and families with young children. In 2024 alone we have supported well over 100 cases/families with scholarships on complex legal cases pending before the immigration court. We work with a network of highly experienced service-oriented attorneys throughout Northern Colorado.

• Adelante and Cultivamos Funds - need-based support for upskilling, licensing, LLC creation, leadership training, capacity building and professional development for youth and adults. We are commited to incubating the community-facing events and projects of local, directly impacted community members as a strategy to dismantle the gatekeeping of nonprofit work by people removed from the realities they seek to address. Read more about our Adelante and Cultivamos programs!

The Edgar Chocoy Initiative

ISAAC’s Accompaniment Fund