New fellowship to advance racial equity and immigrant inclusion in eight US communities
Contact: Deborah Hakes, [email protected] ATLANTA – Welcoming America announced today eight recipients of the 2016 SPARK Fellowships to advance racial equity. Selected from a pool of highly competitive applicants of Welcoming America member municipalities and nonprofits, the first class of fellows will participate in a two-year, intensive program on race in their communities to raise…
Read MorePursuing Health Equity through Welcoming Work
In 2016, Welcoming America hosted its inaugural Welcoming Interactive annual conference that included a panel discussion on “Integrating a Health Equity Framework into Welcoming Work”. It focused on how states and communities could bridge the gap between health equity work and immigrant inclusion. This paper expands on key points addressed during this session, exploring themes…
Read MoreAchieving health equity as part of local welcoming efforts
Creating a welcoming community for immigrants can help to create a more healthy community for everyone, and such efforts to create health equity ensure that immigrants and refugees can participate fully and belong. A new paper released today by Welcoming America provides recommendations to help communities pursue a combined health equity and immigrant inclusion agenda.…
Read MoreQ&A with Detroit about new Municipal ID program
Municipal ID programs are a great way for cities to break down barriers for residents and impact marginalized communities immediately in a meaningful way, while also creating lasting, positive effects for everyone. Creating a welcoming community is about more than getting to know your new American neighbors, it’s also about establishing tangible policies and…
Read MoreAmerica Needs All of Us
This toolkit was created to be a communications resource for those working in the field of immigration and immigrant integration. It provides practical messaging tools and strategies that address people’s fears, anxieties, and prejudices head on. In that way, the messages in the toolkit are particularly designed to talk to those whose minds are not yet made up about…
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