Advocate

• Contact your elected representatives and other officials and let them know that there is a constituency for refugees and other people fleeing persecution.  Support legislation to help the uprooted, and oppose efforts to treat refugees as terrorists
• Check out advocacy materials at partner sites such as the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Learn

• Stay informed by signing up for IRC’s free e-newsletter
• Educate yourself and others on the human rights situations that cause people to flee and learn about the IRC's critical assistance programs that sustain displaced populations and help them to rebuild their communities 
• Get an even broader perspective by visiting the websites of coalitions and campaigns in which IRC is active: Interaction; Refugee Council USA; US Global Leadership Campaign; and the ONE campaign

Donate

• Give to the International Rescue Committee and support its work to provide critical assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers overseas and in the U.S. 
• Contact one of the IRC refugee resettlement offices in 22 cities across the United States to make donations of cash or to offer help in the form of clothes, household goods, jobs, tutoring, or other assistance

Volunteer

• Volunteer at any one of IRC’s offices across the US. You will not only directly assist newly arrived refugees, but your efforts will count as an in-kind contribution, which will help the IRC meet the US government's matching funding requirements

Blog

• Communicate your views about conflicts and refugee situations online
• Call attention to humanitarian issues by linking to the IRC Web site and Blog

• Compose a letter to the editor of your local newspaper
• Write a short opinion piece – about 250 words – about a current refugee issue that affects your community
• Express your views in your local media about upcoming legislation or a bill that affects refugees