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The Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative (CVIIC) is a Fresno-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that coordinates a regional network of nonprofit, public and private partners to empower immigrant families and strengthen immigrant-serving organizations across California’s eight-county San Joaquin Valley. Since 2014, CVIIC and its partners have organized more than 1,000 free immigration legal services workshops. Learn more at cviic.org.
The Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative (CVIIC) is a Fresno-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving the more than 900,000 immigrants who live in California’s San Joaquin Valley. CVIIC grew out of a 2013 regional convening and was launched on February 26, 2014, guided by a strategic plan developed with community partners and a research team led by Manuel Pastor.
CVIIC’s philosophy is regional coordination and collaboration. Working with nonprofit legal services providers, pro bono attorneys, schools, libraries, media, public agencies and law firms, CVIIC and its partners have organized more than 1,000 free immigration legal services workshops in rural and urban communities. Since 2020, its Immigrant Entrepreneurs Program has offered free Spanish-language entrepreneurship and digital literacy courses. CVIIC also builds regional capacity for the 2030 Census and convenes two regional conferences on immigrant integration each year. CVIIC holds a four-star rating from Charity Navigator. Learn more at cviic.org.
Jesus Martinez is Executive Director of the Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative (CVIIC), a Fresno County-based nonprofit organization created in 2014 to empower immigrant families and immigrant-serving organizations in the region. As a coordinator of regional efforts, CVIIC and its partner organizations serve immigrants in the region extending from Kern County in the south to San Joaquin County in the north. Before heading CVIIC, he was Coordinator of the Central Valley DACA Project for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (2012–2015) and, previously, worked as a consultant (2008–2013) on a variety of projects commissioned by nonprofit and federal government agencies. Martinez served in the Michoacán (Mexico) State Congress from 2005 to 2007 before being appointed Director General of the Institute for Michoacanos Abroad, the state immigration affairs agency. In the academic world, he taught Political Science at Santa Clara University (1991–1998), completed a postdoctoral stay at the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora in Mexico City (1998–2000) and taught Latin American and Chicano Studies at CSU Fresno (2000–2004), before joining the Michoacán State legislature. He obtained a B.S. in Political Science at Santa Clara University, as well as an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of expertise include international migration, U.S.-Mexican relations and public policy.
As Executive Director of CVIIC, he has developed projects dealing with immigration legal services and community education, health access, the 2020 Census and immigrant entrepreneurship, among others. An objective of CVIIC has been to promote regional coordination and collaboration on immigration and related topics. He has served as a member of the State of California Complete Count Committee (2018–2021) and the state’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Mobility Task Force (2022–2024).
Download headshot ↓Legal help in rural communities
Why access to immigration legal services is limited in the Valley, and how regional collaboration fills the gap.
Immigrant entrepreneurs
Small business development, digital literacy and economic mobility among Latino immigrants.
The 2030 Census
Undercount risks in immigrant communities and what Valley organizations are doing now.
Enforcement & due process
Rapid response networks and access to counsel for people in removal proceedings.
The regional model
How a decade of coordination among nonprofits, agencies and firms changed what’s possible in the Valley.
Valley immigration data
Population, demographics and research from CVIIC’s resource library.
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