Partnering with us

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We mobilize trained, trauma-informed language practitioners to provide direct language support in 180+ languages for 600+ organizations working on the frontlines of the climate and refugee crises. Our partners range from grassroots activist collectives to international NGOs and law firms and are based in more than 90 countries.

By partnering with Respond, you are supporting our mission of providing training, job development and career support to linguists who are asylees, deportees, refugees, or living in active war zones or situations of economic and political collapse.

To ensure that our work together is ethical and sustainable, we ask that you connect with our partners team so that we can best understand your team’s ongoing language access needs and plug in to support.

Our services

  • Translation

  • Interpretation (Consecutive and Simultaneous)

  • Proof-reading and Editing

  • Audiovisual: Transcription, Subtitling, Voice recording

  • Language Rights Court Observer

  • Custom Language Access Training and Consulting

Across-systems expertise

Our work spans:

  • Asylum, Detention and Immigration

  • Crisis Response

  • Healthcare 

  • Psychological and Emotional Support

  • Employment and Job Support

  • Gender-Based Violence

  • Human Trafficking

  • LGBTQIA+ Rights

  • Climate Justice

  • Housing and Resettlement

  • Research & Policy

Our Rates

We work on a sliding scale of fair below-to-low market rates. These rates depend on your organization’s budget and ability to pay, and will be agreed upon in conversation with your team.

Our Approach

Respond Crisis Translation forms partnerships with organizations and collectives:

  • With aligned goals and values

  • Based on mutual respect, good faith, integrity and transparency

  • Which provide dignified income and work opportunities for linguists in our network who are directly crisis-impacted

Read more about our guidelines and expectations for Ethical Partnerships.