Collection Contents
Series 1. Administration 1984-1996
Scope and Content Note
Associate Administrator position 1985 1992
Bibliographies of Sanctuary 1982-86
Bills and Receipts (Sampling) 1995
NSDF Board Meetings, Minutes and Materials 1984-96
Brochures: including NSDF SHARE, the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Services no date
Budgets 1987-96
By-Laws 1991
Computer instructions and information 1991-96
Correspondence, General 1993-95
Correspondence, Jim Corbett 1984-88
Correspondence, Right Wing or opposition opinions (some hate mail) 1985-86
Fax logs and billing 1990-93
Franciscan Friars of California correspondence and tax exempt information 1984-93
Insurance Health and Liability 1995-96
Leases for office space: 1610 Bush San Francisco 1985-86
942 Market, San Francisco 1986-90
University Lutheran Chapel, Berkeley 1992-93
995 Market, San Francisco 1993-95
Lobbying 1994-95
Media contacts, strategies etc. 1985-93
Morrison and Foerster, Attorneys at Law 1986-93
Notebook from a staff person (some personal notes and poems) No date
NSDF Office procedures and supplies circa 1995
Registry of Charitable Trusts 1992-93
NSDF Reports 1984-91
Political problems in the Sanctuary Movement 1985
Icon of Oscar Romero circa 1985
Resumes for Community Organizer Search for Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (sampling) 1995
Resumes for Executive Director Search (sampling) 1995
Staff Work Plans 1991-95
Subscriptions to newsletters and journals 1987-91
Survey to assess the Sanctuary Movement questionnaires and results 1987
Survey on the state of the Sanctuary Movement nationally, questionnaires and results 1991
Taxes I-9s and W-4s no date
Taxes payroll 1991-96
Tax Returns 1991-92
Tax Returns 1995
Taxes, San Francisco Assessor's Office 1988-91
Transition letter and plans (scaling back and moving offices) 12/1991
Unemployment Insurance 1994-95
Workers Compensation Insurance 1993
Visa application forms from El Salvador 1991
Volunteers 1985
Series 2. Financial Records 1985-1996
Scope and Content Note
Prop. 187/Interfaith Coalition income ledger 1994
Balance Sheets for Year-End from Accountant E. Glenn Ray 1985-95
Bank Statements Great Western Bank 1985-87
Bank Statements Bank of America 1991-95
Bills and deposits worksheets 1995 (sampling)
Check Book Registers 1985-95
Check Book Register Citicorp 1987-88
Check Book Register Concerts account 1989-90
Chart of accounts/Expense reports 1995
Statements/Account details 1995
Statements/Account details 1996
Stocks/Investments 1986-91
There are no file folders 3-4 no date
Working Assets Money Fund (investments) 1985-96
Working Assets Appeal Fund 1988-92
Series 3. Fundraising 1985-1993
Scope and Content Note
Art Exhibit and Sale, George Moore (Nicaragua Cultural Alliance) 1985-87
Art work (hand-drawn flowers) Gini Alvarez 1993
Avocado Productions (concert promotions) 1985-91
Fundraising brochure and orders 1985-86
Bulk-mailing permits 1985
Catholic Bishops solicitation and other materials re: Sanctuary 1985-86
Concerts Joan Baez and Bruce Cockburn 1986
Concerts Jackson Browne 1986-87
Concerts Bonnie Raitt Texas 1989
Grant Proposals to Foundations denied 1985-86
List of early contributors and solicitation letter 1985
Mazel Mailings (direct bulk mailings) 1985-86
House List Mailings (direct bulk mailings) 1985-95
Sonoma County CA Sanctuary contributor 1988
Thank You letters to Donors (sampling) 1986-97
Marc Van Der Hout contributor 1986
Wineries (for possible donations) 1988
Key Contact letter 12/1993
Marsha Lee Cutting contributor 1986-87
Direct Mail Registry 1992-93
Matching Gifts 1985-90
Series 4. Articles and News-Clippings 1982-1993
Application of Refugee Laws to Central Americans in the United States by Carmen Carrillo circa 1988
Border Issues 1988-94
Cross-Cultural Experience in the Sanctuary Movement by Javier Castro 1988
El Salvador circa 1986-89
El Salvador's Negotiated Revolution by Terry Lynn Karl circa 1992
Faith Community and Resistance in the Guatemalan Highlands undated
General Immigration Issues 1993
Guatemala circa 1987-90
Illegal/Undocumented Aliens by Joyce Vialet Congressional Research Service Library of Congress 6/27/1986
INS 1982-88
Massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador 1993
El Neoliberalismo: o el mecanismo para fabricar mas pobres entre los Pobres (Spanish) circa 1992
White House Digest: Persecution of Christian Groups in Nicaragua 2/29/1984
Sanctuary circa 1982-88
Sanctuary in the San Francisco Bay Area 1984-86
Gus Schultz: The Case of the Passionate Pastor 1989
Scriptural References applicable to the Immigration debate
Testimony of the Center for Constitutional Rights before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights 1987
Series 5. Court Cases/Trials 1982-1994
Scope and Content Note
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh (known as the ABC case) 1991; selected press clippings; and The ABC Settlement Agreement: A Guide for Advocates by Debbie Smith, 1995 1991, 1995
U.S.A. vs. Maria De Aguilar et al (known as the Arizona Trials of the Tucson Trials) The Sanctuary Trial chronology 1/14/85-3/20/86 Court transcripts Appeals1987-89 Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund 1985-87 News-clippings, 1985-87 1985-89
Iris Castillanos de Platero 1981
Jose L. Checo Ascona 1991
Hortensia deAllende et al v. James Baker et al 1989
Jack Elder 1984-85
Fenton Communications (publicity firm). Publicizing the Arizona Trial and verdict 1986-89
Flores v. Meese 1988
Dora Flores 1981
Alejandro Gomez 1986
INS v. Zacarias 1992
Humberto Laines 1984
Lazo-Majano v. INS 1987
Maldonado-Cruz v. INS 1989
Cesar Joya Martinez 1990
U.S.A. v. Stacey Merkt 1984-87
Moakley-DeConcici Bill HR 618 S 332: Voluntary departure status to Salvadorans and Nicaraguans 1985-89
Jose Moran-Marroquin 1982
Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese 1988-90
Pin Lin denial of asylum (known as the Golden Venture or Golden Vision case); Court transcripts updates events planning news-clippings photographs 1993-94
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) et al v. U.S.A. 1989
St. John's Lutheran Church v. City of Hoboken 1983
Santos-Gomez deportation proceedings 1990
America Sosa 1989
U.S.A. v. Glen Remer-Thamert Demetria Martinez and Luis Ventura-Rivas (known as the Albuquerque case) court transcripts and news-clippings 1987-90
St. Michaels Episcopal Church at Rutgers 1985-86
Series 6. Allocations 1984-1996
Scope and Content Note
Allocation Letters to Organizations 1991
Applications letters lists 1992
Application forms guidelines selection criteria undated
Application memo forms 1987-90
Annual totals reports 1985-92
Pending applications/requests 1991-93
ABC (American Baptist Churches) Implementation Project 91-1, 91-2, 91-3, 91-7, 92-3 1991-92
Albuquerque Border Cities Project, 89-22 1989
Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund, 89-6, 89-20 1989
Atanasio Tzul Guatemalan Education Center and Guatemalan support, Concordia KS87-22 (and un-numbered) 1987-93
Atlanta Sanctuary Committee 87-29 1987-88
Binational Human Rights Center/Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos, Tijuana, Mexico, 90-22, 91-4 1990-91
Call to Sanctuary, national meeting from the Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance, 87-33 1987-88
CARDF - Central American Refugee Defense Fund Boston, MA, 89-16, 90-10 1989-90
CARECEN - Central American Refugee Center Los Angeles INS Monitoring Project and Refugee Rights Promoters Program, 90-3, 90-6 1990
CARECEN - Washington, D.C. ,90-20 1990
Casa de Proyecto Libertad, Harlingen, TX , 90-1, 92-7 1990,1992
CHRCL - Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, 92-4, 93-1 1992-93
Center for Immigrant Rights New York, NY/CARECEN, 87-15 1987
Centro Presente Cambridge MA/CARECEN, 90-11 (and un-numbered) 1988-91
Chicago Area Sanctuary, 87-6 1987
Chicago Religious Task Force, 89-15 1989
Chinese Asylum Protection Program - the Golden Venture American Immigration Law Foundation, 94-3 1994
CRISPAZ - Cristianos por la Paz en El Salvador/Christians for Peace in El Salvador, 89-12 90-5 1989-90
D.C. Metro Sanctuary Committee/Defense Fund, 87-2, 87-35, 89-3, 89-5, 90-15 1987-90
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Berkeley, CA, 87-1, 89-11, 90-9, 90-13 1987-90
Ecumenical Immigration Services New Orleans, LA (un-numbered) 1988-92
El Centro Asylum Project of the San Diego Interfaith Task Force on Central America, 90-8 (and un-numbered) 1988-90
Esperanza Para los Ninos Proyecto San Pablo, Yuma, AZ, 92-5 1992
Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic Sanctuary New Orleans, LA 90-12 1990
Father Moriarty Central American Refugee Program, San Francisco, CA, 87-14 1987
Friends Meeting of Austin, TX, Political Asylum Project 89-18 89-21 1989
Guatemala Education Center Concordia, KS, 89-2 1989
Inter-faith Committee on Latin America, St. Louis, MO, 87-19 1987-90
Metroplex Sanctuary Committee, Dallas, TX, 89-23 1989
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Northern Kentucky Regional Sanctuary Defense Fund, 87-7 1987
Monterey County, CA, Sanctuary ,87-30 1987-88
National Coalition for Haitian Refugees (un-numbered) 1993
National Immigration Project National Lawyer's Guild, 95-1 1995
National Jewish Sanctuary Coalition Newsletter, San Francisco Jewish Sanctuary Coalition (un-numbered) 1987-90
New England Sanctuary Defense and Education Committee Central American Refugee Defense Fund Project (un-numbered) 1987
North Bay Sanctuary Defense Fund, Sonoma, CA, 90-2 1990
The People of the Golden Vision (Golden Venture), 94-1, 94-2 1994
Proyecto Adelante Metroplex Sanctuary Organizing Committee Dallas, TX, 89-8 (and un-numbered) 1988-89
Proyecto Hospitalidad, San Antonio, TX (Bonnie Raitt concerts), 89-24 1989
Refugee Aid Project, San Antonio, TX, 90-19 1990
Refugiados por la Paz/Refugees for Peace, Harlingen, TX, 90-21 1990
Rio Grande Border Witness Program, 95-2 1995
Rio Grande Defense Committee, San Benito, TX, (Border Witness Program Casa de Proyecto Libertad) 87-3, 90-4, 90-14, 90-16 1987, 1990
San Diego Interfaith Task Force on Central America; El Centro Asylum Project Central America Political Asylum Project PAP and Fieldworker Outreach Program, 87-12, 89-19, 90-18 1987-90
SCITCA - Southern California Interfaith Task Force on Central America; CARECEN and El Rescate, 87-8,87-25 1987
SHARE - Salvadoran Humanitarian Aid Research and Education and CORDES - Foundation for the Cooperation with Salvadoran Repopulators and Displaced El Salvador-Central America; EBSC - East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Berkeley, CA (un-numbered) 1988-89
South Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Palo Alto, CA, 87-16, 87-24, 89-4 1987-89
South-Side Sanctuary Coalition, Chicago, IL, 87-28 1987-88
Scott Stoll Legal Defense (un-numbered) 1988
TECLA - Tucson Ecumenical Council Legal Assistance; Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund, 87-17, 89-9, 89-10, 90-23, 92-6 1987-92
TECO Inter-American Education Center 90-17 (and un-numbered) 1987-90
Tutela Legal del Arzobis pado Comision Arquidiocesana de Justicia y Paz, San Salvador, El Salvador, 92-8, 92-9 1992
Valley Religious Task Force on Central America Legal Services and Florence Asylum Project, Phoenix, AZ, 89-13, 89-14, 90-7 1989-90
Washington Association of Churches Joint Legal Task Force Central American Asylum Project 91-5, 91-6, 91-8, 92-1, 92-2 (and un-numbered) 1988-92
Series 7. Organizations 1984-1996
Scope and Content Note
American Friends Service Committee 1985-94
Las Americas Refugee Asylum Project, El Paso, TX 1987-90
Americas Watch 1992
Asian Law Caucus 1994-95
Austin, TX, Religious Community for Central America 1985-89
Border Association for Refugees from Central America, Edinburg, TX 1992
Border Support Group Madison Sanctuary Committee, WI 1987-91
California Interfaith Coalition, Sacramento, CA circa 1994
CARE - Central American Refugee Project; Marin Interfaith Taskforce on Central America, Calif. 1987-90
CASA - Central American Sanctuary Alliance, Swarthmore, PA circa 1987-90
Casa de Proyecto, Libertad, TX 1987-94
Centro de Asuntos Migratorios, San Diego, CA 1992
Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos, Tijuana, Mexico 1988-92
CHRICA Committee for Health Rights in Central America, San Francisco 1993
Christian Committee for the Displaced of El Salvador (raid on offices and arrests in San Salvador) 1989
Christians for Peace in El Salvador - CHRISPAZ 1989-93
Christic Institute a Religious Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C. 1984-85
Co-madres - Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador Marin Interfaith Taskforce on Central America, Calif. 1987-91
Conversion for Reclaiming Earth in the Americas 1993
Committee for United States Action on Asylum Concerns - CUSAAC; and the IRCA - Immigration Reform and Control Act 1988-89
Data Center, Oakland, CA 1993
Denver Area Sanctuary Network 1985
Duluth Interfaith Sanctuary Committee 1987
EPICA - Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean 1992-94
Father Moriarty Central American Refugee Program, San Francisco 1986-87
Florence Asylum Project, AZ 1990
Global Exchange 1993
on Guatemala 1990-92
Guatemalan Education Center, Concordia, KS 1989-92
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (Border Patrol and INS raids) 1989-90
Immigrant/Refugee Children's Clearinghouse from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law 1991-93
Institute on Religion and Democracy 1984
Interfaith Office on Accompaniment, San Francisco 1986-89
Inter-government Committee for Migration 1986-89
Jewish Community information 1986-94
Los Angeles Sanctuary Defense Fund 1985-86
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America, Calif. 1986-93
Medical Aid to El Salvador 1987
Monterey County Calif. Sanctuary 1988-91
National Immigration and Citizenship Forum Washington D.C. 1991-95
National Sanctuary Communications Council 1985-87
NEST Foundation - New El Salvador Today 1987-91
New Mexico Sanctuary Defense Fund 1988
on Nicaragua 1992-93
Refugee Aid Project, San Antonio, TX 1987-90
Refugees for Peace/Refugiados por la Paz 1987-91
Refugio del Rio Grande, TX 1991
El Rescate 1986-91
Rio Grande Defense Committee and Border Witness, TX 1985-91
St. John of God Sanctuary Committee, San Francisco 1996
San Diego Interfaith Task Force on Central America 1988-92
Southern California Interfaith Task Force on Central America and the Southern California Ecumenical Council, Los Angeles 1985-90
Southwest Refugee Rights Project, Tucson, AZ 1992
Valley Religious Task Force on Central America, Phoenix, AZ 1989-92
Vive: an Organization for the World's Refugees, Buffalo, NY 1987-91
Wilde Ganzen/Wild Geese, Holland 1987
Series 8. Program 1984-1996
Scope and Content Note
Asylum and Safe Haven Conference Washington D.C. 1993
Break-ins the FBI and the Freedom of Information Act 1984-87
Call to Sanctuary National meeting in Chicago 7/1987
Canadian Immigration issues 1988
Cars confiscated by the government: trying to get them returned 1987-90
Central America Solidarity Roundtable Blue Mountain Lake NY 1992
Central American Peace Plan 1987
Chinese Asylum Resource Packet: For Presenting Coercive Population Control Cases 1994
Church-State conflict 1986
Information on Cuba 1992-93
Death threat incidents in Los Angeles CA 1987
Denominations Position Statements on Sanctuary and refugees 1981-88
Deposition made by Tom Ambrogi in San Francisco on the situation in El Salvador and experiences of refugees 1981
Information on El Salvador 1980-94
European Immigration and Refugee issues 1986-94
From Despair to Hope: Peacemaking in Isaiah a study series by Walter Brueggeman and Vera K. White; Presbyterian U.S.A. Church circa 1993
General information and handouts 1980s
Medardo Gomez Luthran Bishop of El Salvador 1987-92
Information on Guatemala 1987-93
Immigration Conferences March 1994
INS information and early Sanctuary information 1981-86
Interfaith Celebration of Human Rights: On the Occasion of the 50 Anniversary of the Signing of the Charter of the United Nations; Planning Program and Handouts San Francisco 6/25/1995
Interfaith Coalition of Immigrant Rights 1995
Interfaith News Conference San Francisco: on the rights and dignity of refugees 9/28/1993
Interfaith Witness for Justice: A Call to Affirm the Rights and Dignity of Immigrants packet 2/23/1994
LA Eight: Deportation of Palestinians Committee for Justice to Stop the McCarran-Walter Act Deportations 1992-93
LA Riots response questionnaire 1992
Mesa Grande Refugee Camp and Repatriation and Going Home a the massacre El Salvador 1992
El Mozote Massacre: Report of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team undated
National Caravan for Peace in El Salvador 1993
Proposal for Peace with Justice/Paz con Justicia en El Salvador Cultural Festival 10/1987
Proposition 187 (California ballot initiative re: immigration services) Educational Packet California Council of Churches and information 1994
Sanctuary Celebration Washington D.C. 9/1986 project of SHARE 1987-88
El Mozote Massacre: events surrounding the revelation of
Sanctuary Information for Central Americans 1982-85
Sanctuary Information on and for Military Personnel during the Gulf War 1990
Sanctuary Information on and for Military Personnel during the Vietnam War 1971-72
Shadows of Justice in El Salvador: A Report on the Judicial System in El Salvador by a Delegation to El Salvador National Lawyer's Guild Albany CA and CARECEN - Central American Refugee Center San Francisco 10/1992
Song Festival; Canto por la Paz/Song of Peace El Salvador 4/1987
South Texas Issues Border Issues 1988-89
Speeches on Sanctuary circa 1986
Pete Stark Congressman 1987
Suggested Reading List 1/1987
U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights undated
Unaccompanied Minors in detention 1990-91
U.K. Sanctuary Information and immigrant rights 1988-90
Washington Association of Churches Seattle Conference Call Grant Proposal Mailing INS Raid on offices Defense Fund Support for Fund 1990-92
WCC Proclaiming Immigrant Rights: The New International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. World Council of Churches commentary on the U.N. Convention 1990-92
Series 9. Haiti 1993-1995
Scope and Content Note
Haiti Action Coalition 1993
Calls for Action including information and events undated
Haiti Activists lists undated
American Friends Service Committee, Haiti School Supplies Campaign 1995
Rev. Riche Andris 1994
Jean-Bertrand Aristide visit. Photographs: Aristide, Gus Schultz 1994
Democracy in Haiti Solution to the Refugee Crisis Conference, Miami 1994
Democracy Intervention in Haiti: The USAID Democracy Enhancement Project from the Washington Office on Haiti 1994 March
Education Packet 1994
Haiti Events, Correspondence undated
Local Events undated
Events, Mailing Lists and some enclosures undated
Events, Religious Groups 1993-95
Paul Farmer event, The Uses of Haiti 1994 November 10
Global Exchange, Fact Finding Delegation to Haiti 1994
Global Exchange 1995
Haiti Conference of Religious People 7/1994
Haiti National Network including the Washington Office on Haiti 1993
Haiti Packet originals 1994
Haitian Refugees 1992-93
Haitian Refugee Center 1992-93
Haiti Solidarity Week organizing packet 1993 February 7-13
Haiti Solidarity Week organizing packet 1994 February 6-13
Haiti film project Harvest of Hope proposal 1994
Haiti information 1991-95
Interfaith Delegation to Haiti 1995
Interfaith Witness for Justice: Affirming the Dignity and Defending the Rights of Immigrants 1994 February 24
Yolanda Jean 1993
Journal articles 1994-95
Media Haiti undated
NSDF - National Sanctuary Defense Fund Work 1994
National Coalition for Haitian Refugees 1993
National Day of Action 1995 August 7
National Student Campaign for Haiti circa 1993
News-clippings 1991-94
Occupation Coverage: Haiti Info, Vol. 3, nos. 1-2 1994 October
Poem, May the Tears Keep on Coming 1994 May 5
Roots, Vol. 1 no. 2 ,Winter 1995, Special Report Haiti Where Do We Go from Here? 1995
Haiti and Sanctuary 1994
Statements to the Press 1994
Tet Ansanm (Heads Together or All Together): Students from California spent 5 weeks in Haiti working with grassroots organizations. Planning delegates, budgeting, orientation, media. undated
Updates on Haiti 1993-94
Voices for Haiti 1994
Washington, D.C. trip 1994 June
Washington Office on Haiti including Haiti National Network 1992-94
Why We Oppose U.S./U.N. Intervention in Haiti undated
Folio 1. Justice for Refugees Day in San Francisco, 1/31/1991,Proclamation from the City and County of San Francisco in celebration of the legal settlement victory in the case of American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh, 1990 December. 1991 January 31
Folio 2. Certificate of Honor to the National Sanctuary Defense Fund which furthered the humanitarian goals of sanctuary through its work in American Baptist Church v. Thornburgh, from the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco 1991 January 31