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The Rural Welcoming Initiative – A Call for Applications!
The Rural Welcoming Initiative
A Call for Applications!
| Welcoming America is pleased to offer a new opportunity for rural communities to engage more deeply in welcoming and inclusion work. Through a new Rural Welcoming Initiative, selected nonprofit organizations and local governments will have the chance to receive technical assistance and coaching, draw on the tools and resources available to Welcoming Network members, and act as peer leaders by sharing good ideas and receiving national recognition for their welcoming efforts. Members of this cohort will also have the opportunity to connect with and learn from each other both virtually and in-person at Welcoming America’s national conference, the Welcoming Interactive, that will be held in Charlotte, NC June 3-5, 2020. To learn more, please visit the full announcement here. Applications are due Friday, November 29th. The application form can be found here. |
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Diversity in the 603 – An Inside Out Photo Project in Concord, NH
“Somayeh Kashi, an art teacher at Rundlett Middle School, worked on her photo project, “Diversity in the 603” with a group of Concord High School students this past summer. The students walked around during Concord’s Market Days festival in June and took photos of more than 100 people. The portraits are now posted in storefronts along Main Street, and are plastered on walls of a few buildings.”
“The project was inspired by “Inside Out” a photo project involving black and white portraits posted in cities around the world by a French artist. More than 260,000 people have participated in 129 countries.” – Leah Willingham, Concord Monitor
Read the full Concord Monitor article here: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Concord-multicultural-festival-preview-28423319
View Somayeh Kashi’s “Diversity in the 603” gallery here: http://www.somayehkashi.com/diversity-in-the-603
“INSIDE OUT gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they stand for. It is a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.” – http://www.insideoutproject.net
Suitcase Stories in Nashua, NH on Sept. 29
Suitcase Stories in Nashua, NH
September 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
$20
“Suitcase Stories® is a signature program of the International Institute of New England. It raises the profile of refugees and immigrants while strengthening community through the art of storytelling.” – www.iine.org
Apply Now for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s Youth Awards!
The Youth Awards honors and funds “Latino high school seniors who excel in the classroom and community and for their excellence in various categories including: Business & Entrepreneurship, Community Service, Education, Healthcare & Science, Media & Entertainment, and Technology & Engineering.”
Apply Now! Deadline is October 15.
Visit:https://hhfawards.hispanicheritage.org/20…/forms/welcome.php
For New Americans, Getting a Driver’s License is a Big Step
Excerpt from the Concord Monitor article For New Americans, Getting a Driver’s License is a Big Step, written by Leah Willingham:
Twenty-eight-year-old Geetha Menni has made Concord her home since she moved from India to New Hampshire nine months ago. She found a comfortable place to live with her husband and secured a job at Lincoln Financial.
Menni said she has big dreams of pursuing a master’s degree in the United States – but she says there is still one big obstacle standing in her way of achieving that goal.
“I am depending on my husband for everything, for rides to my job. I can’t even get to the supermarket without help,” she said, sitting at a desk in front of a whiteboard in an air-conditioned classroom on Knight Street in Concord, where her driving school class was about to start. Her hands were folded over a New Hampshire driver’s manual.
“It’s very much important for me to learn driving, otherwise, I could not survive, have a life here,” she said.
The New American Driving School, at Second Start headquarters in Concord, has been operating for about a year to help new arrivals transition to living and getting around in the U.S. Concord has taken in more refugees per capita than any other New Hampshire city, according to state records.
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