Danielle Parker, an AmeriCorps member, shares her process of adapting Cultural Orientation for newly arrived refugees during a time of physical distancing restrictions due to COVID-19.

New Roots farmers work to grow fresh food in urban farms for the wider community, all the while fasting to observe Ramadan.

With Santa Clara County seeing a continued upward trend in daily positivity rates for COVID-19, IRC San Jose has remained in full-remote work since mid-March. As we delved deeper into the summer of 2020, this reality made us question the future of Vision 2.0: Summer Job Academy (hereinafter referred to as Vision). Vision is an immigrant-female empowerment workshop aimed at allowing participants to learn about different career paths, to reflect on their personal goals, and to work towards envisioning themselves achieving their goals. Read further to see how we navigated the barriers posed by COVID-19 to still offer this workshop this summer!

Meet Averil Loucks from the IRC in Denver. After working in the humanitarian sector across the globe, she's back home in Colorado, making a difference one day at a time.

At first glance, you might think Ming’s Water and Ice is just another business along the Camelback Light Rail Corridor, a major transit corridor in the heart of uptown Phoenix. However, a closer look at refugee owner Nick Ming's story shows an entrepreneurial spirit shared by many refugees. 

This briefing paper provides an overview of social accountability approaches and key factors to consider when designing a social accountability intervention.

Child Health at the International Rescue Committee