The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc throughout the U.S. and the world. Crucial professions, including health care workers, public employees, and teachers, are stretched thin and in harm’s way. You can help support these professionals by adding to their numbers. Refugees, asylum seekers, and others in need have the desire and skills to help their communities now. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has added to the already enormous hurdles they must navigate in order to pursue their chosen field in the U.S.
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) is committed to assisting as many people as we can through the ECE® Aid initiative. But we need your help! Amid COVID-19, U.S. immigration and higher education policies pose even more challenges to global citizens who wish to contribute to society. You can help give a hand up now. With your contribution, you can help assist someone seeking to demonstrate the education or licensing necessary to work within the very fields we most desperately need during this crisis.
A donation of $200 covers an entire evaluation, yet even smaller donations of $10 or $5 to ECE® Aid can have a meaningful impact for vulnerable populations most in need. And rest assured, 100% of your donation goes towards providing free credential evaluations through ECE® Aid.
While the ECE® Aid program initially launched in August 2016 with the intention of opening the door to education for refugees and asylum seekers, the scope has expanded to include those with temporary protected status, special immigrant status, and those affected by natural disasters or extreme hardship.
Read about some of the people ECE® Aid has helped.
A donation to ECE will transform a person in fragile circumstances into an integrated and productive member of society.
ECE selects experienced, trusted agencies and institutions to distribute fee waiver vouchers to qualifying immigrants. ECE does not provide free reports directly to individuals.
Learn more about our participating institutions and organizations.
All monies received will be allocated specifically to reports for the underserved. No donations received will be directed to the general operating fund.
Learn about some of the individuals who have been impacted by ECE® Aid gifts.
Determined to provide for his small family, Tarig contacted Upwardly Global, a trusted participating organization of ECE®Aid. They awarded Tarig with an ECE Aid fee waiver, and he has just begun using his ECE evaluation to look for jobs in his profession.
–Tarig O.
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ECE helped Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains assist refugees, asylees, and victims of trafficking obtain employment in the United States. With ECE Aid's help, refugees with master's degrees in Teaching, PhDs in Civil Engineering, degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences, and degrees in Industrial Design have been able to plan for their futures again.
- Katy, Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountians
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Rehab was awarded a fee waiver through Upwardly Global and received her completed credential evaluation soon after sending her educational documents to ECE. While she job hunts, Rehab has decided to utilize volunteering as her way to master the English language.
- Rehab
Nidal is an agricultural engineer from Syria, who hopes to use our evaluation report to pursue organic farming at Michigan State University.
- Nidal
As part of a minority group, Yasmeen along with her husband and two daughters decided they needed to leave Pakistan due to threats against them and safety concerns for their children. After arriving in America, she used ECE to improve her study and work toward become a teacher in America.
-Yasmeen