The Receiving Communities Initiative

ABOUT

The Receiving Communities Initiative (RCI) is an effort to build a movement of individuals and organizations focused on engaging mainstream Americans in immigrant integration.

Ultimately,the initiative hopes to ease tensions and build greater understanding between long-time residents and new arrivals, particularly in communities that have seen recent immigrant population growth. Read a brief history and background on the Receiving Communities Movement.

 

Welcoming America is leading the Receiving Communities Initiative, which is also supported by the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning, the Center for American Progress, and the JM Kaplan Fund.

JOIN

All individuals and organizations working to engage immigrant receiving communities are encouraged to join this effort.   Join the RCI Community on Facebook, and stay updated by email by signing up in the form to the right.

 

LEARN 

 

About the Receiving Communities Movement

All Immigration Is Local: Receiving Communities and Their Role in Successful Immigrant Integration

Written by Michael Jones Correa, and produced by the Center for American Progress.

 

Stronger Together: Community Integration of Newcomers

A recorded panel about the RCI movement and report, hosted in 2011 by the Center for American Progress.

 

 

Tools and Practices for the Field

 

Receiving Communities Toolkit: A Guide for Engaging Mainstream America in Immigrant Integration

Written by Susan Downs-Karkos and produced by the Spring Institute and Welcoming America.

 

Strategies for Creating Welcoming Communities: Innovations from the Field, a collection of several compelling case studies of receiving communities work in the U.S..

Written by Kate Raum.

 

Click here to access many more tools from Welcoming America that can help you engage receiving communities!