Unite in Care:
Help Us Sustain Critical Support for Refugees & Vulnerable Immigrants
The past year and a half have been very difficult for immigrants and refugee families due to harmful rhetoric, hyperaggressive enforcement actions, sudden policy shifts, and staggering reduction of legal immigration pipelines. Despite adverse conditions, World Relief Sacramento supports refugees that are able to come legally, and offers robust program-based support for families that are already lawfully present in the Greater Sacramento Region—home to an estimated 40,000 Afghans (CapRadio, 2026) and 20,000 Ukrainians (PPIC), among thousands of others. Among these populations are numerous families who rely on World Relief Sacramento for integration services- even years after their initial arrival.
Loss of federal funding makes your individual support critical. It sustains services like employment assistance, housing, health navigation, wellness, casework, and immigration legal aid, while enabling us to meet emerging needs such as food assistance.
Recent policy changes bar many immigrant families from SNAP benefits until they obtain green cards—a process that can take years—leaving them vulnerable during early integration. World Relief steps in to fill this gap, ensuring families have food and dignity.
Helping these families is not a faraway issue, it is helping your own community. These families work in industries and businesses you rely on, their kids go to school with your kids, and they help contribute in countless ways to the diverse social fabric of Sacramento. Join us in Uniting in Care for our immigrant neighbors.
💛POLICIES MAY CHANGE, BUT COMPASSION DOESN'T HAVE TO💛
Your support on BIG DAY OF GIVING will help sustain vital services for refugees and immigrants—such as housing assistance, job support, English classes, and legal aid—that build pathways to stability and belonging. By UNITING IN CARE, you ensure families continue to receive the care and support they need to thrive.
Why World Relief Sacramento?
For 37 years, World Relief Sacramento has been a trusted partner in welcoming refugees, asylees, and vulnerable immigrants in the Greater Sacramento region. With deep cultural competency and extensive experience, our diverse team has empowered more than 40,000 refugees and immigrants to rebuild their lives through comprehensive support services—including English language education, housing assistance, career development, case management, and legal aid.
In FY2025, we served over 1,200 refugees and immigrants. Beyond the individual impact of our services, our work extends to the home, providing safety, stability, and restoration for entire families, including vulnerable children. At World Relief Sacramento, we walk alongside these families in partnership with the Church and our community, helping them secure and sustain housing, access healthcare, enroll in school, learn English, and find jobs—empowering them to become self-sufficient and thrive in the Greater Sacramento Region.
Although the arrival of new refugees has been impacted due to recent federal changes, thousands of refugees are already living in our local neighborhoods—from Arden-Arcade to Elk Grove, Citrus Heights to West Sacramento. These families will continue to need support in the months and years ahead as they work toward full integration and independence in their new home.
Who is a Refugee? A refugee is any person outside their country of nationality, unable to return due to persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based on factors like race, religion, or political opinion.
💛Measure Your Impact💛
Below are examples of how your giving can help a refugee or immigrant family. Please consider giving a DONATION in one of the following amounts:
🥘 FOOD
💛 $200 – Covers a week of groceries for a family of four
🏠 HOUSING
💛 $350 – Provides a full-size mattress and bedframe for a refugee family
💛 $2,000 – Provides housing assistance to cover rent ($500/month for 4 months)
🚗 TRANSPORTATION
💛 $50 – Provides a rideshare gift card to attend a job interview
💛 $350 – Provides a bike, helmet, lights, and lock for commuting to work
💛 $600 – Offers behind-the-wheel driving instruction for one refugee
📘 EDUCATION
💛 $25 – Provides English learning materials and workbooks for one refugee
💛 $1,000 – Supplies laptops for four refugees for education and job training
Other Ways to Unite in Care:
We would be happy to meet with you to discuss the many ways you can support our mission. Here are a few examples:
Volunteer your time and skills
Connect us with employers, event sponsors, churches and community orgs, and other service providers
Donate in-kind goods like food, bikes, and used vehicles
Explore Monthly Giving, Employer Matching, and Asset Giving (Stocks, IRA deductions, etc.)
Spread the Word: Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to stay updated and help share our impact
Global Mission: World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that boldly engages the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the local church.
Local Mission (Sacramento): To provide extended case management and vital support services to refugees and vulnerable immigrants as they rebuild their lives in our community.
Sweeping and severe federal policy shifts have left many refugees without support and funding for refugee services decimated. Despite reduced arrivals, the Greater Sacramento Region has tens of thousands of refugees and immigrants already living here. Many of these individuals and families are not only eligible for our services but heavily rely on them throughout their long-term integration journeys.
Our staff expertise, cultural competence, and 37 years of building trusted relationships within the refugee community make us uniquely positioned to respond to this critical moment.
We need your help to sustain this essential and life-changing work. By Uniting in Care through your donations and support, you are helping us retain staff, mobilize volunteers, provide core services, and guide refugees on a path to integration and self-sufficiency.
Policies may change, but compassion doesn’t have to. Join World Relief Sacramento's work as we help unify the community, challenge divisive and false narratives about immigrants, love our neighbors as ourselves, and demonstrate that we are a community that refugees and immigrants can turn to in their time of need.
The Example of Jesus - As we serve those who are suffering from poverty and injustice, regardless of color, belief or gender, as part of God’s plan to redeem, reconcile and restore the world. We seek to follow Jesus by living holy, humble and honest lives individually and corporately.
The Local Church - As a primary agent of bringing peace, justice and love to a broken world. The integrated “word” and “deed” dimensions of God’s mandate, as evidenced through the church’s integral, or transformational, mission is necessary to bringing reconciliation and restoration to God, others and the environment.
People - Whether staff, volunteers, clients, program participants, donors and partners - as important actors in bringing peace, love and justice. We recognize and affirm World Relief as a multicultural organization and seek to understand and respect the multiplicity of cultures among us. As we seek change in the world, we recognize that we, too, are changed by those we serve.
Excellence/Continuous Improvement - In all our program initiatives and support services, following best practices and standards in a manner that is sustainable to the community from a spiritual, social and economic perspective. We also seek to apply our human and financial resources in such ways that maximize impact and sustain benefits to the greatest number of people.
Empowerment - By prioritizing the leadership and participation of those we serve - whether people, churches or local institutions - as critical to creating and sustaining change. We seek to catalyze a movement of worldwide volunteers to multiply impact, and we value capacity-building as a means towards that end.
Partnership - By seeking, facilitating and promoting collaboration among all stakeholders, including local governments, the worldwide church, mission agencies, other NGOs and the business community, recognizing partnership as essential to serving the most vulnerable. We believe each expression of the worldwide church has a unique and interdependent role in bringing peace and justice to the world.
Prayer - As the priority and foundation to accomplishing our mission.
Organization name
World Relief Sacramento
other names
World Relief
1989
Mission Category
Human Services
Operating Budget
$5,000,001-$10 million
Organization Need
Funding: Program, Funding: Unrestricted, Volunteers, In-Kind Donations, Furniture, Board Members
Demographics Served
Immigrants & refugees, Low-income individuals/families
Local Counties Served
Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo
Address
2233 Watt Ave, Suite 360Sacramento, CA, US