In the hardest days and the happiest ones, you are not alone.
Together and Stronger Foundation stands beside everyone with a foreign-born story — people born abroad, whatever their status, US citizens born abroad, the US-born children of foreign-born parents, and their families, relatives and friends. A birth, a graduation, a wedding, a lost job, a hospital bill, a death far from home: funded by donations, delivered by real people, in English, Spanish and French.
Our help is free and confidential, open to everyone in need, and we never ask for, store or share immigration status. No membership, no fee — ever.
Practical help for the moments that can break a household.
A lost job, an unpaid wage, an eviction notice, a medical bill, a death in the family far from home. Together and Stronger Foundation exists for exactly those moments.
We are the charitable arm of the Together and Stronger family. Where the membership association negotiates savings and Together and Stronger Member Services runs the business side, the Foundation does one thing: it helps people who are struggling, with dignity and without judgment — free, and open to everyone in need.
Every request is handled by a real person, in your language. We connect you to the right program, walk with you through the steps, and follow up until the problem is solved or the right partner has taken over. Read how we work.
A welcome to the Foundation
A welcome from Kyle, on behalf of the Foundation: who we are, what we do and how to ask for help, in under two minutes. Narrated in English.
A welcome for the leaders of our communities
Presidents of associations and community organisers: watch the welcome from the Together and Stronger family and see how the Foundation supports the families you serve.
Help for the hard days. A hand for the happy ones.
Donations to the Foundation support the families of our communities in every situation life brings — the painful and the joyful. Each case below shows what we do and how to ask.
A child is born
Welcome kits, hospital paperwork, birth registration and consular birth reporting, and a first-months check-in with the family.
How we help →
Weddings & celebrations
Milestone support and community help when a family cannot afford the day they have waited for — organised with the association.
How we help →
Graduations & first jobs
Milestone recognition, résumé and interview help, first-job paperwork and know-your-rights briefing.
How we help →
Illness & hospital bills
Community clinics, sliding-scale fees, medical bill review, charity care, payment plans and prescription savings.
How we help →
Job loss & unpaid wages
Hardship relief within 48 hours, know your rights, wage claims and unsafe-conditions reports — for every worker, whatever their status.
How we help →
Housing & food
Eviction notices, utility shut-offs, rental and food assistance applications, and your rights as a tenant.
How we help →
A death far from home
The first 72 hours, repatriation or local burial, funeral costs, consular contacts and the Mutual Aid network.
How we help →
Scams & online safety
Stop the money, protect accounts, report it — and free checks on any suspicious message, in the first 24 hours.
How we help →
Elders & caregivers
Benefits navigation, caregiver relief, companionship visits and translation at appointments.
How we help →
When a family loses someone far from home, the first seventy-two hours decide everything.
Where the body goes, whether the family chooses repatriation, local burial or cremation, what it costs and who pays — decided fast, in a second language, under pressure. The Foundation slows that moment down, explains every option in your language and stands beside the family until the loved one is home.
- A person the same day
- Emergencies are handled first: a team member answers a death or a crisis the same day, in English, Spanish or French.
- Repatriation or local burial, explained
- Itemised prices from two funeral homes, your rights under the Funeral Rule, the documents and the consular mortuary certificate — step by step.
- The Mutual Aid Compact
- When a family had no insurance, the associations of Together and Stronger stand together for the burial or the repatriation; the Foundation coordinates the appeal and the funds.
- A financial bridge and follow-up
- The Hardship Fund covers a deposit, a document fee or a fare that unblocks the process, and we stay with the family in the weeks after.
Seven program areas. One door.
You do not need to know which program fits. Tell us what is happening and we route it for you.
Hardship Relief
Short-term help when an emergency hits: a sudden job loss, an unexpected bill, a family crisis. Assessment within 48 hours, direct relief when funds allow, referral to vetted partners for larger needs.
How it works
Fair Work Initiative
Our labor-exploitation mitigation program. Know your rights, document what is happening, file a wage claim, report unsafe conditions — with confidential first-line help and referral to the agencies and attorneys who enforce the law.
Fair Work hub
Housing & Food Stability
Eviction notices, utility shut-offs and empty cupboards do not wait. We help you find and apply for the rental, utility and food assistance that exists where you live, and explain your rights as a tenant.
How it works
Health Navigation
Getting care should not depend on knowing the system. Community clinics, sliding-scale fees, medical bill review, charity care, payment plans and prescription savings — explained and applied for with you.
How it worksFamily Emergencies Far From Home
When a loved one dies, or a crisis happens back home, we help families organize the first days, understand repatriation, deal with funeral costs and reach the Mutual Aid network and consular contacts.
How it worksOnline Safety & Scam Protection
Households with a foreign-born story are targeted by impostor, immigration and 'fee' scams every day. Learn the patterns, verify who you are dealing with, and get help in the first 24 hours after something goes wrong.
Your safety online
Life Milestones
Births, graduations, weddings and elder celebrations. Modest, dignified support so that no family in our communities faces a milestone alone — organised with the association that knows them.
How it worksEvery donation is applied to the people we serve.
The Foundation runs lean on purpose. Gifts fund direct relief, milestone support, and the programs and people who deliver them — and every year we report where they went.
You give
One-time or monthly. Choose a fund or let us apply it where it is needed most.
A request arrives
A family writes in its own words, in its own language. No paperwork to start.
A person answers
Assessment within 48 hours by a real team member, with the questions that matter.
Help is delivered
Direct relief, milestone support or a vetted partner — and we follow up until it is solved.
An international foundation, region by region.
Help is open today in every region. Each continent has its own Together and Stronger house, and the Foundation stands behind all of them. Consular guidance after a death applies to every country. Hover or tap a continent.
- AmericasOpen — United States, Canada and Latin AmericaRequest help
- EuropeOpen — Together and Stronger EuropeTogether and Stronger Europe
- AsiaOpen — India, China, East Asia, West Asia and Central AsiaTogether and Stronger Asia houses
- AfricaOpen — Together and Stronger AfricaTogether and Stronger Africa
- OceaniaOpen — Together and Stronger OceaniaTogether and Stronger Oceania
Regional houses: Americas · Latin America · Canada · Europe · Africa · West Asia · India · China · East Asia · Central Asia · Oceania · World
Three steps. No paperwork to start.
Tell us what is happening in your own words. We take it from there.
Tell us what is happening
Use the short request form, or email help@tas-foundation.org. Write in English, Spanish or French. Say what you need and how to reach you.
A real person calls or writes back
Within two business days a Foundation team member reviews your request, asks the questions that matter, and explains your options plainly.
We walk with you until it is solved
We connect you to the right program or partner, help with the steps, and follow up. If we cannot solve it, we tell you who can.
Plain-language guides for the hard days.
Step-by-step, written for people who have never had to do this before. Print them, share them, keep them on your phone.
After a death far from home
The first 72 hours, who to call, repatriation or local burial, what funerals really cost and how the Mutual Aid Compact helps.
Read the guideThe first 24 hours after a scam
Stop the money, protect your accounts, report it, and what to expect next — hour by hour.
Read the guideEviction notice: next steps
What each kind of notice means, the deadlines that matter in California, and the help that exists before it reaches court.
Read the guideThree organizations, one purpose.
The three organizations work as one family, each with its own role.
Together and Stronger
The membership association. One card, ninety-nine negotiated benefits, and a network of associations that stand together.
togetherandstronger.orgTogether and Stronger Member Services
The business arm. It negotiates and manages the partner programs — discounts, insurance, travel and everyday savings — available to members of the association.
tasmemberservices.orgTogether and Stronger Foundation
The charitable arm. Free, compassionate help for everyone in need: hardship relief, the Fair Work Initiative, online safety, family emergencies and life milestones. This site.
About the FoundationFive ways to stand with a family you may never meet.
Every gift becomes direct help. Choose how you take part.
Donate
One-time or monthly gifts fund hardship relief and milestone support, and keep the open door free for everyone. Choose where your gift goes.
How gifts are used →
Volunteer
Interpreters, navigators, wage-claim helpers, scam-awareness trainers, callers. Two hours a month makes a difference. Training provided; serve in your own language.
Volunteer roles →
Sponsor a milestone
Cover a welcome kit for a newborn, a graduation gift, an elder’s celebration — a named gift that reaches one family.
Sponsor →
Partner with us
Clinics, legal aid organizations, food banks, employers and associations: bring your program to the households we serve.
Partnership →Mutual aid
Associations helping each other when a family faces the worst — the network behind every emergency.
How it works →Free for everyone in need. Always.
The Together and Stronger Foundation was built as a foundation of true compassion for all in need. There is no membership, no card and no price: every person who asks receives a personal reply, and every program below is open to all. Direct financial relief is given as funds allow and prioritised by need.
The open door
- A personal reply to every request, in English, Spanish or French
- All our practical guides and know-your-rights information
- Free scam checks on any suspicious message
- Referral to public programs, clinics and legal aid
- Same-day routing to specialists when someone is in danger
When life gets hard, we walk with you
- Hardship Relief — help paid directly to the landlord, utility or pharmacy
- Family Emergency support, including a death far from home and the Mutual Aid Compact
- Life Milestones — births, weddings, graduations and elder celebrations
- Fair Work case support — from the wage claim to the hearing
- Health Navigation and Housing & Food case support, followed through to resolution
- A named team member who follows your household’s situation through
No payment of any kind is connected to the Foundation’s help. The Foundation never charges a fee for a service and never asks for gift cards, wire transfers, crypto or immigration status. In a crisis, write or call today — emergencies are handled first.
Twenty-one reasons to join the Foundation today.
Whether you come to ask for help, to give it, to volunteer or to bring your association, you join something that answers. Here is why people do.
A free first answer for everyone
A personal reply, our guides, scam checks and the full scope of our support are free for everyone in need — no membership, no card, no fee. Direct relief is given as funds allow.
A real person answers
Every request is read by a team member who speaks your language and replies within two business days — sooner in an emergency.
One door for every problem
You do not need to know which program fits. Tell us what is happening and we route it for you.
Three languages from day one
English, Spanish and French on every page, every form and every call — more languages as each community joins.
We never ask your status
Immigration status is never asked, stored or shared. Help is open to anyone with a foreign-born story.
Every gift becomes direct help
The Foundation runs lean on purpose: donations fund relief, milestone support and the people who deliver them, reported every year.
Choose where your gift goes
The Hardship Fund, the Fair Work Initiative, the Family Emergency Fund, the Life Milestones Fund — or where it is needed most.
Emergency relief within 48 hours
When something sudden hits and there is no cushion, the Hardship Fund assesses fast and pays the party that needs paying.
Wages that get paid
The Fair Work Initiative helps every worker document, file a wage claim and reach the agencies that enforce the law — whatever their status.
A roof and a full table
Eviction notices, utility shut-offs and empty cupboards do not wait; we find and apply for the help that exists where you live.
Care you can afford
Community clinics, sliding-scale fees, medical bill review, charity care and prescription savings — explained and applied for with you.
Nobody buries a loved one alone
After a death far from home, the first 72 hours, repatriation, funeral costs and consular contacts are handled with you, not left to you.
Protection from scams
Free checks on any suspicious message and a clear plan for the first 24 hours after something goes wrong.
The happy days count too
The Life Milestones program stands with families at a birth, a graduation, a wedding or an elder’s celebration.
Elders are not forgotten
Benefits navigation, caregiver relief, companionship visits and translation at appointments.
Guides you can hand to anyone
Plain-language guides for the hard days — print them, share them, keep them on your phone.
Two hours a month makes a difference
Interpreters, navigators, wage-claim helpers, scam-awareness trainers and callers, trained and serving in their own language.
Your association keeps its name
Partner associations bring their families in and keep their leadership, their funds and their independence.
An international foundation
Open across the Americas today; Europe, Asia and Africa open with each community that joins. Consular guidance applies to every country.
Part of a family of three
The membership association negotiates savings, Together and Stronger Member Services runs the partnerships, and the Foundation helps — freely, for everyone. One purpose, three doors.
Stronger communities
Every person helped and every gift given makes the next family’s help faster. That is the whole model: we are stronger together.
Need help today? Free, confidential, in your language.
Or fund the next family’s relief — or their celebration.