Welcoming Week is Underway: Local Events inside!
Happy Welcoming Week! Nebraskans across the state are celebrating what makes Nebraska communities vibrant and strong.
Welcoming Week is Underway: Local Events inside! Read More »
Welcoming Week events across Nebraska! Sept. 9-18
This year’s Welcoming Week theme “Where We Belong” aims to go deeper and spark individual reflection on how and why belonging occurs, and ways we can break barriers to foster belonging for all, including immigrants and refugees.
Welcoming Week events across Nebraska! Sept. 9-18 Read More »
Let’s launch Welcoming Week together!
Join us for the final session of the Nebraska is Home virtual summer series Practicing Community Tools for Race Equity and Belonging, as we launch Welcoming Week together! Friday, September 9th at 10:00 AM-11:30 AM (CT) / 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (MT) Inclusion Practices Everywhere in Community Work Our final session falls on the first day
Let’s launch Welcoming Week together! Read More »
Tea Time: Gear up for Welcoming Week!
Updates & Opportunities for Inclusive Communities I’m happy you are here. This is my favorite time of year, when the days are sunny and breezy, music and cultural festivals are in full swing, and Welcoming Week is just around the corner! Welcoming Week: “Where We Belong” Sept. 9-18 Welcoming Week is a national initiative that
Tea Time: Gear up for Welcoming Week! Read More »
Get ready for Welcoming Week!
This year, Welcoming Week celebrates its 10th anniversary with the theme “Where We Belong.” Since 2012, thousands of Nebraskans have participated through the arts, music, community meals, recipe exchanges, voter registration, and more —growing to more than 30 events in at least 8 communities and signaling broad commitment to welcoming values across our state. Join
Get ready for Welcoming Week! Read More »
Our past, our present and our future! Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
June is Immigrant Heritage Month. This is an opportunity to reflect on our past, take hold of our present, and imagine our future. Immigrant Nebraskans shaped the state we live in today, building our agricultural economy, as entrepreneurs, educators, inventors, laborers and community leaders. Today, immigrant neighbors continue in those same roles adding to the
Our past, our present and our future! Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month Read More »
Hate
The three separate acts of violence over the past weekend are symptomatic of larger and deeper issues of anti-Blackness and anti-Asian sentiments in the United States. Harmful conspiracy theories have steadily gained visibility in mainstream rhetoric, media, and politics feeding hatred and promoting White Nationalism. While we mourn the loss of life and pain inflicted
Tea Time: Upcoming inclusion events you won’t want to miss!
How are we in May already? But here we all are, and as the May flowers blossom in all their colorful glory, there are many emerging opportunities around cultivating communities where everyone feels that they belong. Belonging Begins With Us Together, we can create communities where everyone feels they belong. Together with Welcoming America’s Belonging
Tea Time: Upcoming inclusion events you won’t want to miss! Read More »
Tea Time: Statewide Book Club + See you next year!
Tea Time with Khenda The quarterly newsletter where we share Updates & Opportunities for Inclusive Communities This year has been full of wonderful opportunities and challenges, and I could not be happier to have shared the journey with all of you Welcoming leaders of Nebraska. You’re invited: Statewide book club! As you may have heard,
Tea Time: Statewide Book Club + See you next year! Read More »
Honor Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month and it’s a time to celebrate the cultures, accomplishments, and contributions of Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Telling stories and sharing culture through dance, family traditions, art, and music, we can learn contemporary diversity and the long history of Indigenous peoples across the land we now call the United
Honor Native American Heritage Month Read More »