This chapter from GCIR’s Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration outlines the importance of intentional communitywide planning and focuses on promising practices around the nation.
GCIR partnered with the Endowment for Health in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and the Norwin S. and Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation to produce this publication. The 16-page collection of stories sheds light on the varied backgrounds of newcomers to the state, the challenges they faced in their homelands, and the talents and skills they bring to their new communities.
The Miami Workers Center is engaged at the grassroots level to empower low-income people of color and their communities to combat broader issues of racial and economic injustice. Through communitywide planning and cross-cultural organizing, the center creates and strengthens community relationships to focus on creating change.
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