Non-Profit to Host 'Welcoming Week' Celebrating Immigrants
Non-Profit to Host 'Welcoming Week' Celebrating Immigrants
-By RYAN SCHMELZ, Spectrum News 1
Published on 08-19-2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio—Global Cleveland wants to highlight and celebrate the impacts immigrants have on Cleveland.
- Global Cleveland is planning a Welcoming Week to celebrate local immigrant communities
- Global Cleveland is a non-profit that connects immigrants in Cleveland with local economic opportunities
- Welcoming Week will take place September 13– September 22
Cleveland To Host First Welcoming Week to Celebrate Immigrants
Cleveland To Host First Welcoming Week to Celebrate Immigrants
-By ELLA ABBOTT, WKSU
Published on 08-16-2019
Cleveland will be hosting its first Welcome Week next month. The event is intended to celebrate immigrants in the community. Global Cleveland is organizing the event which will be the first of its kind in Northeast Ohio...
Global Cleveland plans Welcoming Week in September to celebrate immigrants
Global Cleveland plans Welcoming Week in September to celebrate immigrants
-By Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com
Published on 08-16-2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Global Cleveland, a non-profit that works to connect immigrants in Cleveland with economic opportunity, plans to host a week-long celebration of immigrants’ contributions to Cleveland in September...
Welcoming Week casts Cleveland as a Global City
Welcoming Week casts Cleveland as a global city
-By Crain's Cleveland
Published on 08-11-2019
In an effort to highlight Cleveland as an international, globally connected city, Global Cleveland is hosting this year's Welcoming Week, a series of events to celebrate unity and the work of immigrants in the city.
DESCENDANTS OF DISPLACED PERSONS OFFERED NEW GLIMPSE INTO THEIR IMMIGRANT ROOTS
The U.S. Holocaust Museum and Cleveland’s Ukrainian Museum Archives partnered to create a searchable database of Displaced Persons camps. It will be presented October 24 at the Slovenian National Home.
Cleveland, Ohio, October 10, 2017 – If your family emigrated to Greater Cleveland from Europe after World War II, chances are they came from a Displaced Persons Camp. These were temporary settlements that housed millions of people uprooted by the war, including former POWs, Holocaust survivors and people forced to work as slave laborers in the Nazi Germany economy.
The camp experience became a big part of the immigrant odyssey for the “DPs”, as camp residents became known, yet it’s a story that has been largely hidden from their descendants. There was no easy way to trace people back to life in the DP camps--until now.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has created a searchable database of information on the Displaced Persons Camps and the people who passed through them. Earlier this year, the Holocaust Museum partnered with the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland to digitize the UMA’s extensive collection of DP Camp periodicals produced by Ukrainian refugees from 1945-51. Working with Kyiv-based Archival Data Systems, researchers have scanned more than 75,000 documents archived at the Tremont museum, creating a resource that scholars and others will now be able to access.
Officials from the Holocaust Museum will unveil the new resource and its search tools at a special presentation in Cleveland, a city that resettled thousands of displaced persons. “Solving the Mystery: Tracing Your Family’s Path from a Displaced Persons Camp,” starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 24 at the Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Avenue.
The event is co-sponsored by Global Cleveland and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.
Andrew Fedynsky, the director of the Ukrainian Museum Archives, promises an evening that could help complete many a family tree in Northeast Ohio.
Please RSVP to the Ukrainian Museum Archives by calling 216 781-4329 or via e-mail [email protected].
Cleveland community leaders call for rapid help, and a warm welcome, for Puerto Ricans in crisis
Cleveland, Ohio, October 9, 2017--The devastation and suffering in Puerto Rico breaks our hearts. Cleveland shares a long and special kinship with the commonwealth. Puerto Ricans are by far our largest Hispanic community. Many of us have friends and family in Puerto Rico, parents and sisters and brothers whom we know are in pain and maybe in peril.
Now is the time to put Cleveland’s welcoming tradition and policies into action. Puerto Rico needs help now. People need food and water and electricity. A shattered infrastructure must be rebuilt. We encourage three simultaneous approaches.
- Help personally and immediately.
The Cleveland Foundation, in cooperation with Puerto Rican community groups, has set up a fund that will get aid to the right places as quickly as possible. Between now and Nov. 30, Greater Clevelanders can visit www.clevelandfoundation.org/puertorico to give online. All donations are to be transferred directly to the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico) and specifically designated for hurricane relief efforts in the hardest hit areas throughout Puerto Rico.
- Push the federal government to respond more vigorously.
Let us encourage our national leaders and representatives to expend all available resources to help fellow Americans in distress.
- Embrace the unique role Cleveland can play.
Many Puerto Ricans will be looking to move to the mainland, for their own safety and for the health and wellbeing of their children. Hopefully, we can make Cleveland their first choice. Let’s put out the word that they are welcome here: that they will find familiar churches and shops and often relatives, certainly friends.
The economic implications for our region are significant as the city embraces our new arrivals. Housing, medical care, access to our already proven and strong human service network, and the leadership of agencies like the Spanish American Committee, would all serve to mitigate the emotional trauma and physical pain. Global Cleveland will put its Professional Connections services to work to seek job opportunities for the newcomers, many of whom will have bilingual skills.
For more than 60 years, our foundations have worked with the Puerto Rican community to create a foundation of strength and Boricua pride. In addition, Mayor Frank Jackson has declared Cleveland to be open to immigrants and refugees from everywhere. County Executive Armond Budish has made international outreach a key plank in the county’s economic development plan. Our Governor, John Kasich, speaks eloquently of the contributions of immigrants and the need to more assertively welcome newcomers to Ohio.
Let’s start with our brothers and sisters suddenly in need. Let’s help Puerto Rico heal. But let’s not be afraid to say “Bienvenidos de Cleveland,” and welcome new neighbors.
Puerto Rico is the United States. It is all of our obligation as residents of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and Northeast Ohio to act in a manner aligned with our shared values and love of our families.
Sincerely,
Joe Cimperman
President, Global Cleveland
Armond Budish
Cuyahoga County Executive
Jose Feliciano Sr.,
President, The Hispanic Roundtable
