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36About UsWE GLOBAL NETWORKThe WE Global Network is a regional Network ofimmigrant economic development organizations workingin cities and regions across the Midwest. The Network isdesigned to strengthen the work, maximize the impact,and sustain the efforts of individual local initiativesacross the region that welcome, retain, and empowerimmigrant communities as valued contributors to localeconomies. The Network, a project of WelcomingAmerica in partnership with Global Detroit, is comprisedof over a dozen regional economic developmentinitiatives from across the Midwest working to tap intothe economic development opportunities createdby immigrants.The mission of the WE Global Network is to strengthenthe work, maximize the impact, and sustain the efforts oflocal economic and community development initiativesacross the region that welcome, retain, and empowerimmigrant communities as valued contributors to theregion’s shared prosperity.WE Global Network, aproject of WelcomingAmerica in partnership withGlobal Detroit, is comprisedof over a dozen regionaleconomic developmentinitiatives from across theMidwest working to tap intothe economic developmentopportunities createdby immigrants.The Network is made up of local organizations thatoperate in a 10-state region including: Illinois, Indiana,Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio,Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.Local organizations participating in the Network benefitfrom peer-to-peer learning exchanges, increasedpublicity, policy and research tools developed forimmigrant economic development organizations, accessto technical assistance, and other capacitybuildingresources.weglobalnetwork.orgA DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEUR
WE GLOBAL NETWORK 37NEW AMERICA MEDIANew America Media (NAM) is the country’s first andlargest national collaboration and advocate of more than3,000 ethnic news organizations. Over 57 million ethnicadults connect to each other, to home countries and toAmerica through 3,000+ ethnic media outlets, the fastestgrowing sector of American journalism.Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996,NAM is headquartered in California with offices inNew York and Washington D.C., and partnerships withjournalism schools to grow local associations ofethnic media.NAM is dedicated to bringing the voices of themarginalized - ethnic minorities, immigrants, youngpeople, members of LGBT communities, and elderlypeople - into the national discourse. The communitiesof the New America will then be better informed,better connected to one another, and better able toinfluence policy-makers. NAM produces, aggregatesand disseminates multimedia content and services forand from the youth and ethnic media sectors. NAM hasdeveloped these pathways to achieve our goals: Grow a collective presence for the more than 3,000ethnic news outlets nationwide and professionalizethe sector through jawards and expos, journalismschool partnerships, press briefings, seminarsand workshops for professional developmentand newsletters. Bring the voices of otherwise invisible communitiesinto national and regional focus through multi-lingualand cell phone polls. Enhance youth development programs that producepeer-to-peer youth media and inter-generationaldialogue through ethnic and mainstream media. Develop and promote social marketing and corporatemessaging campaigns that expand the sector’s accessto advertising.newamericamedia.orgSTORIES FROM AMERICA’S RUST BELT
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