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We celebrate our shared values and great contributions new families bring to our communities.

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It’s #WelcomingWeek2024 and beyond! Join us for events in communities across Nebraska! Can you believe there are more than 50 EVENTS STATEWIDE?! 📷
Check out this list of statewide events:
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Meet Eric Garcia-Mendez, our new Welcoming Coordinator!

Learn more about Eric on our blog – and help us welcome him to Nebraska Is Home! https://t.co/TedFfQqm7d

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Representing Nebraska learning, sharing and working together as we celebrate 15 years of Welcoming! 🎉🥳#Interactive2024

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Over 20 Nebraskans at the #Interactive2024 national welcoming conference sharing insights and strategies for inclusive communities! 🎉Crete 🎉Columbus 🎉Grand Island 🎉Lincoln 🎉North Platte 🎉Scottsbluff 🎉South Sioux City 🎉Schuyler 🎉and more!
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The State of Welcoming 2024 is released today on the 15th anniversary of Welcoming America highlighting why Welcoming matters to enable all residents to live, thrive, and contribute fully to their communities.
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“The next time you sit down for your Thanksgiving feast, consider saying a word of thanks to the original people of the lands you now call home for allowing you to live, work, and raise your children on their homelands.”
Read these words – and more here: https://t.co/FiSHjp3r0M

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Beyond Welcoming Week!

Today! UNL E.N. Thompson Forum: A World On The Move: The Forces That Uproot Us. As climate changes, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, Dr. Parag Khanna forecasts a new age of mass migrations.
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Grand Island! Omaha! Scottsbluff! North Platte! Lincoln! South Sioux City! Lexington! Columbus!

There are many more Welcoming Week events to come! Plan your weekend and find an event near you! #WelcomingWeek2023

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“We have a stronger fabric because we have so many people here,” said Sandra Washington, Lincoln City Council. “Different widths and lengths of thread woven together to make Lincoln strong.” #WelcomingWeek2023

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Welcomers from across Nebraska came together to kick off #WelcomingWeek2023 to share and learn from one another! #FosteringInclusion&Belonging

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It's Here! #WelcomingWeek2023 🎉🙌 We launched Welcoming Week by sharing stories with community members from all over #Nebraska to strengthen connections and build empathy! Check out the events happening across the state ➡️ https://t.co/OsaQW8Qy82

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We're getting excited for #welcomingweek2023 and the great events happening across Nebraska to celebrate diversity, community and all the wonderful people who call Nebraska home!📷📷Check out what's going on near you and join in the fun! https://t.co/ri8gSYkAWa #WelcomingWeek

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As Black History Month concludes this Nebraska author draws from personal experience reminding us opportunities to reflect and to learn must go on everyday.

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This month and every month it is a opportunity to remember important people and events in the history of African diaspora.

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Our resistance is in our activism.

Join us to explore the power of Black resistance: from activism, education, faith, press and #BlackJoy, with this year’s official @ASALH theme: https://t.co/amoH7VgoTg

#BlackHistoryMonth #APeoplesJourney

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We join our friends and partners at NAKASEC, others around the country, and the families in Monterrey Park, CA, in grieving the 11 lives that were lost to unnecessary violence. Our hearts are with the families and community members mourning this tragedy.

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Nebraskans at #NIIC2022

Learning and sharing!

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We are learning from the @NIICImmigrant @npnewamericans National Immigrant Inclusion Conference this week, a diverse gathering of those working on behalf of our country’s immigrants and refugees.

“Unity is not uniformity” @lsarsour #niic2022

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You can follow this livestream of today's plenary at the National Immigrant Inclusion Conference including Jose Antonio Vargas, Linda Sarsour, Charles Kamasaki and Eric Ward. #NIIC2022

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Land is sacred to us all, whether we consciously appreciate it or not - it's the space upon which we play, live, eat, find love, and experience life. During Native American Heritage Month, learn more about the people who first lived on the land you are on

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