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Building a Community Together

Watch the story of how diverse community members come together through a shared taste for Cocoberry Pops, which has become a landmark in the Beechmont

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Finding Common Ground in a Garden

This video shares how refugee and long-term community members can come together to exchange information and grow vegetables at Common Earth Gardens, a program at

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Welcoming Standard

Strong communities intentionally connect and actively include people of all backgrounds. Only through these conditions do local communities meet their highest civic and economic potential,

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Innovations in Building Meaningful Contact Across Difference

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This is the second in a four-part series of guides on engaging receiving communities in order to advance immigrant inclusion and build stronger, more cohesive communities. It showcases innovative models that are bringing people together across difference. It also provides recommendations for making contact building more effective and expansive.  Other guides in this series include […]

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Building Cohesive Communities in an Era of Migration and Change

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This is the first in a four-part series of guides on engaging receiving communities in order to advance immigrant inclusion and build stronger, more cohesive communities. It provides information on defining the receiving community, defining social cohesion, understanding today’s community cohesion challenges, adopting strategies to address divides, and other recommendations. Other guides in this series […]

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Community Engagement, Organizational Development

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Volunteer Management

Harnessing Volunteer Energy to Support and Welcome Refugees in Your Community

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Download this resource for guidance on engaging, supporting, and managing volunteers to help welcome refugees in your community. It includes tips on volunteer outreach, designing options for volunteer engagement, volunteer onboarding, and keeping volunteers energized. This toolkit also shares field spotlights from a number of refugee-serving organizations that are successfully utilizing volunteers in new and […]

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Building Meaningful Contact: A How To Guide

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This how-to guide explores lessons learned from promising models for contact building from across the United States, and delves deeper into a series of activities that the nonprofit Welcoming Michigan conducted in Macomb County, Michigan. By focusing on one example in particular, readers are able to learn step-by-step how to plan, implement, and follow-up on […]

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Community Engagement, Employment

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Building a Community Together

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Watch the story of how diverse community members come together through a shared taste for Cocoberry Pops, which has become a landmark in the Beechmont neighborhood of Louisville.

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Building Community Through Music

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This video shares the story of Osmany Chauvin Elias, a client of Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM), and his friendship with prominent jazz pianist and KRM volunteer Harry Pickens, who has mentored Elias as he develops as a professional musician.

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Finding Common Ground in a Garden

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This video shares how refugee and long-term community members can come together to exchange information and grow vegetables at Common Earth Gardens, a program at Catholic Charities of Louisville.

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Welcoming Standard

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Strong communities intentionally connect and actively include people of all backgrounds. Only through these conditions do local communities meet their highest civic and economic potential, unleashing the power of all contributions and assets. As places look to harness the wealth and vibrancy that comes from diverse talents and a more global workforce, places that are […]

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Community Engagement, Organizational Development

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Partnerships, Welcoming Communities

Building and Sustaining Community Collaborations for Refugee Welcome

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This Community Engagement Toolkit was created to help organizations and community groups identify their current strengths and consider specific new strategies and tactics for expanding and deepening their collaborations in order to promote welcoming communities. The get-started guide provides quick tips and strategies for taking the first steps.

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Community Engagement

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Welcoming Communities

Finding Common Ground: Stay-at-home Mom and Sudanese Refugee Share Culture and Welcome

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This video shares the story of stay-at-home mom Becca Clary who found common ground with Sudanese refugee Fatima Bakhit through a cultural exchange program at Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

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