Build Common Ground in Your Community by Hosting a Welcoming Week Event.
True welcoming starts with one person: you. By getting involved in welcoming in your community in Minnesota, you’ll be joining a movement of people and places across the U.S. and the world who recognize that immigrants and refugees make our communities stronger. Let’s work together to make America the welcoming place we know it can be. Let’s roll up our sleeves and all become champions of welcoming. Now is the time!
- David Lubell, founder and executive director of Welcoming America
The Idea
Welcoming America is a national network that connects community, government, and nonprofit leaders to help them make their communities more inclusive places.
Welcoming Week is an annual initiative of Welcoming America that this year will see hundreds of events happen between September 14th and 28th, 2018. Communities bring together immigrants, refugees, a...
From the moment Mayor Peduto declared it a priority to build a more welcoming experience for our growing immigrant community, Welcoming America has proven to be an incredible thought-partner. Through the Welcoming America network, we have received an abundance of resources, helping the City of Pittsburgh develop a welcoming strategy that makes sense for our city.
- Betty Cruz, Manager, Special Initiatives, Office of Mayor Peduto, City of Pittsburgh
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