Overview

OneJustice’s Maximizing Immigration Impact Project is a free 6-month training program dedicated to providing space for leaders of immigration legal services organizations throughout California to explore how to most strategically deploy their limited resources while balancing sustainability and impact. With a focus on peer learning and discussion, participants will receive support in implementing effective practices and tailoring their services to meet community and staffing needs.

Training Focus Areas:

Theories of Change: What are we trying to do and how do we hope to achieve our goals?
Data-Driven Planning: How will we know if we are accomplishing our objectives and maximizing our impact?
Navigating Financial Considerations: How do we make sure we can afford and sustain what we want to do?
Strategic Planning: How can we maximize our impact for the long-term?
Change Management: How do we manage staff expectations when change occurs?
Staff and Volunteer Resource Allocation: How do we best utilize our resources to accomplish our objectives?

In addition, participants will work on a “Capstone Project” — a culminating project that provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills gained in the program to a current challenge or opportunity within your organization. While your focus will be your own organization, it is likely that other participants may be working on similar projects, so there will be many opportunities to share ideas and learn from others. Participants should allocate roughly 2 hours per month outside of scheduled sessions to work on their capstone project. Participants will share an oral presentation of their projects during the final sessions. You will also have the opportunity to receive 1:1 individualized coaching and consulting to support with implementation of your organization’s capstone projects.

Apply for the Program

The application launch for the 2025-2026 year is coming soon. Please follow us for updates on the upcoming application cycle.

Admission

Enrollment is open to individuals who have decision-making authority at immigration legal services organizations. This can include program directors, legal directors, executive directors, and others with decision-making authority at immigration legal services organizations. We strongly encourage (but do not require) that you form a team of two to three people for the course. The additional team-members do not need to have decision-making authority at their organizations. All team members MUST commit to participating in all the sessions.

Please note: this program is different from OneJustice’s other programming, including the Executive Fellowship Program, and is open to individuals who have previously participated in the Executive Fellows program, as well as individuals who have not participated in that program.

Contact

Please contact us with any questions at maximizingimpact@one-justice.org.

Session Schedule

Workshops will typically take place on the second Tuesday of every month from October through March (exceptions being the third Tuesday in November and the second and third Tuesdays in March). All sessions will be conducted from 9am-12:30pm via Zoom. Because there are a limited number of spaces in the program, the expectation is that all of the participants will attend every session.*

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (Capstone Presentations)
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 (Capstone Presentations)

*If there is a calendar conflict for one of the scheduled sessions, we may be able to accommodate this, if only one session will be missed. Please note this conflict in the application.

Individualized Capstone Coaching

OneJustice offers individualized one-on-one coaching assistance throughout the Maximizing Immigration Impact Program.

OneJustice is committed to helping our cohort members amplify the work of their capstone projects into real life nonprofit application.

Learn More – Maximizing Impact: Immigration

Overview

Session Schedule

Individualized Capstone Coaching