Helpful Orgs
A national network of community colleges dedicated to giving immigrants and refugees full access to higher education
What is CCCIE?
2,022,000
What is the national number for immigrants experiencing brain waste (under or unemployed)?
MPI
What is the Migration Policy Institute?
Last name x 2
What is Gebremedhin?
An Office of New Americans is no gamble here
What is Nevada?
Since its inception in 2001, it has served close to 15,000 participants from 167 countries.
What is the Welcome Back Initiative?
The underutilization of skills and education in the workplace despite high professional qualifications, resulting in unemployment and underemployment.
What is brain waste?
WIOA
What is the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?
No relation to Terry
Who is Jeff Gross?
Site of the COABE Outstanding Administrator of the Year
What is Texas (the TX Workforce Commission/Adult Education and Literacy)
Non-profit home of workforce development, entrepreneurship, and community engagement in Philadelphia.
What is WCNP (Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians)?
WES partner in the INTegration of IMmigrant PRofessionals
What is IMPRINT?
LMI
What is labor market information?
Named after a Catalan rock star; last name is not G
Who is Joan Iezin?
Boston and San Diego are both sites for this
What is a Welcome Back Center?
Founded in 2000 to help the nearly 2 million immigrants unemployed or working far below their skill level.
What is UpGlo (Upwardly Global)?
"Map the Impact" host site
What is New Americans Economy (NAE)?
SIIP
What is the Skilled Immigrant Integration Project?
WES Deputy Executive Director for Global Talent Policy and Programs
Who is Paul Feltman?
Cruising to skilled immigrant services in the Pacific Northwest
What is Alaska?
Founded in 1998 as The Workforce Alliance, this coalition is working toward a vision of an America that grows its economy by investing in its people.
What is NSC (National Skills Coalition)?
WES report "steps up" results of a groundbreaking study on the experiences of immigrant professionals
What is "Steps to Success"?
ONA
What is Office of New Americans?
WES leader since 2019
Who is Esther Benjamin?
3 mountain state cities that combined into 1 regional network
What are Boise (ID), Twin Falls (ID) and Salt Lake City (UT)?