Reform the Industry!

 

Accreditation

Since TIGRA announced its campaign on Western Union in September 2007, close to 40 other companies have made overtures seeking our support. The vast majority disappeared after learning of our values and standards;some forward-looking companies persevered and underwent a thorough vetting processparticipated by TIGRA stakeholders in concert with bankers and researchers. We’re proud to announce the following companies have been accredited by TIGRA thus far, with a few more in the process. Read more

Advocacy

By working with organizations, networks, and key allies around the world, TIGRA combines grassroots financial education, policy advocacy, and consumer action to change the course of the system of remittances. TIGRA believes that the aspirations and perspectives of migrant communities have long been ignored (or best tokenized) by governments and multilateral institutions that see remittances as a “flow of money” rather than as an indictment of failed economic and social policies. Read more

La Liga Global

TIGRA has laid the groundwork for a global association of remitters and their families through the formation of La Liga de Sustentadores de la Comunidad Mundial (or the Global Association of Community Sustainers) which first convened in May 2008. Since then, it has been working to expand the network, building partnerships in Bangladesh working with the WARBE Development Foundation and the Ovibashi Unnayan Worker Program, who together represent more than 50,000 migrant workers.

People across the country are building La Liga Global in the following United States cities:

Oakland, CA
San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Maywood, CA
Porterville, CA
San Fernando Valley, CA
Seattle, WA

Denver, CO
Chicago, IL
Minneapolis, MN
Fargo, ND
Wilmington, NC
Asheville, NC
Charlotte, NC

New Brunswick, NJ
Newark, NJ
New York, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Queens, NY
Providence, RI

As a movement center for transnational organizing that promotes financial justice through the economic power of (im)migrants, TIGRA considers the system of remittances as the next frontier of economic justice that links domestic and global issues.

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