Brazilian Worker Center Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

The brazilian worker center is a non-profit organization that capacitates immigrant workers to learn about workplace rights, immigration, and health equity. The organization empowers immigrants with knowledge and skills to promote economic, social, political, and racial justice for all. The bwc has established itself as a reputable, engaged, grassroots organization that represents, supports, and organizes the brazilian and wider immigrant community to take leadership in defending and advocating for their rights, as workers and immigrant residents of the state and nation. It is a strong women-led organization that serves immigrant communities with a concern for fairness and justice, civic engagement, cultural competence, and compassion. Bwc's service categories include: 1) know your rights workshops, 2) health and wellness initiatives, 3) coalition building and campaign organizing, 4) building justice, 5) leadership development, and 6) community support services. Know your rights: the brazilian worker center offers in person and virtual workshops for workers and domestic workers on workers' rights and labor laws twice monthly at our office located at 14 harvard ave, 2nd floor, allston. Our workers' rights project is our core program and is the foundation for all the initiatives, activities, educational sessions, and training that take place at bwc. In we can assist immigrants with making phone calls with employers in response to wage theft cases and other types of injustice towards employees, as well as with referring immigrants to local private attorney partners and other organizations and agencies that can provide consultations and mediations, when needed. In the last four years we have recouped approximately $800,000 in restitution for workers, by direct mediation, through complaint referrals to state and federal labor authorities, or in small claims courts. Building justice: building justice is an innovative worker committee, funded by the brazilian worker center in partnership with justice at work (j@w), responsible for monitoring and taking action on wage theft cases in the community. Health and wellness initiatives: bwc offers weekly office hours and monthly outreach events to assist individuals apply or requalify for health insurance benefits with mass health or the health connector. We participate in research on cancer equity with dana-farber cancer center, and host periodic community meetings and events to further awareness on health topics. Immigration: at bwc, we assist immigrants with general information about the us legal system and differences between federal agencies. We assist individuals with understanding and translating documents, and performing administrative tasks related to their immigration processing. Additionally, the organization can support recently arrived families with check-in and communication via phone and emails with federal agencies, when needed; support families of detainees who need assistance with registering a commissary account at detention centers. We host monthly legal consultations with an immigration attorney, and provide referrals to qualified professionals as needed. Leadership development: we offer multiple programs to contribute to capacity building in the brazilian community. Among programs offered are: osha programs - the brazilian worker center has considerable experience delivering occupational safety and health training to workers in several industries common among immigrant workers in our community. Under the multi-year support of the susan harwood targeted training and capacity building program, we have given portuguese- and spanish-language fall prevention training for residential construction for more than a decade. Empowerment program for immigrant youth - the dreamers project aims to capacitate immigrant youth, particularly spanish- and portuguese-speaking latinos, with the knowledge and skills necessary to become empowered and productive citizens in the greater boston

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
• Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: $83.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 98%; rating input score 98; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 22.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings