Welcoming America, an organization that works to create more inclusive communities, and ArtPlace America, a collaboration of foundations, federal agencies and financial institutions working to position arts and culture as a core sector of community planning and development, are pleased to announce a new partnership that will identity and foster innovative models of collaboration between the ...
We grieve with the families who lost loved ones in #Pittsburgh & #Louisville. These shootings targeted not only Jews, refugees, and African Americans, but the very idea of being a pluralistic, multiethnic democracy. We stand with our partners in Pittsburgh and Louisville, and our friends at HIAS, whose crucial work building a bridge between Jews and refugees of ...
| October 4, 2018
A primary goal of Welcoming America is to support the many diverse communities and partners who are leading efforts to make their communities more vibrant places for all. This post originally appeared at National Skills Coalition, authored by Amanda Bergson-Shilocock As Welcoming Week (September 14-23) prepares to kick off, with hundreds of events scheduled around the ...
*Original publication in the September 2018 edition of SLOGOPIS As global migration continues to rise and migration policies become more restrictive, an unprecedented number of ordinary heroes have started supporting migrants in communities around the world. In 2017, Church World Service, a refugee resettlement organization, reported that its volunteer base had quadrupled. Welcoming communities around the world have seen a similar ...
