$4000 for school tuition for two children, ages eight and 13, whose dad established an interfaith mosque to counteract society’s negative bias towards Muslims in the post-9/11 era. He faced harassment and detention by the FBI and local law enforcement and chose to leave the U.S. to end the persecution.

$7,700 for childcare, educational support and a CIF Award for the six children, ages four to 21, from four families whose parents were forced to flee their home countries after being harassed, assaulted, and jailed because of their pro-democracy efforts.