DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving) is a multigenerational, membership-led grassroots nonprofit founded in 2000 in Queens, New York. It organizes low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrant workers, youth, and families to build community power and win immigrant, economic, racial, gender, educational and legal justice through base-building, leadership development, policy campaigns and community defense.
Immigrant and racial justice (community defense, anti-deportation, access to public benefits and driver’s licenses), workers' and economic justice (wage-theft, excluded workers, worker organizing), criminal justice and policing accountability, tenant and housing justice, education access and youth leadership development, and allied progressive local/state policy campaigns.
Primarily philanthropic support (foundation grants and individual donations), membership support and program funding; also occasional public grants and grassroots fundraising.
Works in coalition with local immigrant-rights and labor coalitions, community legal service providers, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean community organizations, youth leadership groups and allied progressive civic organizations.
Non-profit organization (membership-led grassroots nonprofit)
