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Guide

A Guide Through Sponsorship

This guide provides an overview of sponsorship through Welcome Connect and insights on how to effectively engage your community to join you. This guide includes: Tips

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September 18, 2023 No Comments
Guide

Guidance for Supporting Newcomers

This resource, designed for community sponsors and supporters, offers best practices for welcoming newcomers. Additional resources, such as checklists and templates, are linked within the

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December 20, 2022 No Comments
Tool or Template

Initial Sponsor Service Checklist

This resource, designed for community sponsors and supporters, reviews services that newcomers typically need in resettlement. Sponsors can use this checklist to develop plans and

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December 19, 2022 No Comments
Guide

Conversation Guide for Sponsors

This guide, developed by Welcome.US and Community Sponsorship Hub, provides sponsors with conversation starters and questions that they can ask beneficiaries when they talk through

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December 18, 2022 No Comments
Tip Sheet

Sample Group Structures & Roles

This resource is designed for groups that are sponsoring newcomers. It provides a sample sponsor group structure and describes the roles and responsibilities of each

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October 27, 2022 No Comments
Tip Sheet

Sample Home Supply Checklist

This resource for community sponsors provides a checklist of recommended furniture items and supplies for preparing a home for newcomers, both upon their arrival and

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October 27, 2022 No Comments

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guide through sponsorship

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

A Guide Through Sponsorship

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This guide provides an overview of sponsorship through Welcome Connect and insights on how to effectively engage your community to join you. This guide includes: Tips on how to share sponsorship with friends, family, and your community Sponsorship 101 Flyer Sample Social Media Posts and Graphics Email templates you can use to invite others to join […]

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training pt 1

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Getting Started as a Sponsor & Sponsoring Newcomers

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The goal of part 1 of this training is to inform potential sponsors about ways to support and welcome newcomers. “Getting Started as a Sponsor,” the first part of sponsor training, provides enough information to help you determine if sponsorship is right for you. The second part is designed to set you up for success […]

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Guide-to-Navigating-the-Humanitarian-Parole

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Immigration Legal Needs

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Humanitarian Parole

Guide to Navigating the Humanitarian Parole I-134A Application for USCIS sponsorship for Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans

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This resource guides prospective sponsors through the humanitarian parole I-134A application process, which is used for programs such as Uniting for Ukraine or Process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

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Guidance-for-connecting-to-local-services

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Guidance for Connecting to Local and State Services

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This resource is designed to help sponsors of individuals from Ukraine, Cuba, and Haiti under USCIS sponsorship programs find local and state services and support.

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Guidance-for-supporting-newcomers

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Guidance for Supporting Newcomers

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This resource, designed for community sponsors and supporters, offers best practices for welcoming newcomers. Additional resources, such as checklists and templates, are linked within the document.

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Initial-Sponsor-Service-Checklist

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Initial Sponsor Service Checklist

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This resource, designed for community sponsors and supporters, reviews services that newcomers typically need in resettlement. Sponsors can use this checklist to develop plans and track resettlement activities.

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conversation guide

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Conversation Guide for Sponsors

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This guide, developed by Welcome.US and Community Sponsorship Hub, provides sponsors with conversation starters and questions that they can ask beneficiaries when they talk through Welcome Connect. The questions—provided in multiple languages—are designed to help sponsors and beneficiaries get to know each other and decide if sponsorship is a good mutual fit for them.

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Sample-Group-Structure-and-Roles

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Sample Group Structures & Roles

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This resource is designed for groups that are sponsoring newcomers. It provides a sample sponsor group structure and describes the roles and responsibilities of each team within the sponsor group.

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Sample-Home-Supply-checklist

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Community Engagement, Housing

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Welcoming Communities

Sample Home Supply Checklist

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This resource for community sponsors provides a checklist of recommended furniture items and supplies for preparing a home for newcomers, both upon their arrival and when transitioning to permanent housing.

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Sponsor-Fundraising-Tips-and-Tools

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Community Engagement, Organizational Development

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Fundraising, Welcoming Communities

Sponsor Fundraising Tips & Tools

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This resource shares fundraising considerations, tips, and tools for sponsors who are preparing to welcome and support newcomers.

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