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Billboards unveiled at press conference
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The billboards are here! People across N.C. are hearing our message of welcome. Read all about it on our blog.
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Uniting NC wins award from AARP
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Uniting NC, along with four other great organizations, recently accepted the AARP's new award for multicultural outreach. Our work is getting noticed!
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Help Us Grow in 2012
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Will you make a gift to ensure that immigrants are welcomed in NC? Your donation could be matched — and you could win prizes! Read more on our blog.
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North Carolina is Home
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At Uniting NC, our focus is on people and their stories. In fact, a big part of our work is finding creative ways to highlight stories from our communities.
Uniting NC works to make North Carolina a place that respects and values immigrants. We help people understand, on a human level, the cultural changes that are transforming our state. We believe that, when people of different backgrounds get to know one another, they realize that we are all people who want the same things: safety, happiness and opportunity. Only after we understand our common humanity can we work together to build stronger, safer, more productive communities.
We pursue our mission by hosting events that bring people of all backgrounds together for meals, films and conversation. We produce public service announcements, billboards and videos that reveal the humanity of immigrants. And we are building a state-wide corps of volunteers working to make their communities more welcoming.
This week, as you’ve probably heard, The Daily Beast ranked Durham the most “tolerant” city in the United States. Raleigh also made the top 20, coming in at number 18. Of course, this is great news. We want our state to have a reputation as a place where all people are welcome. We want to continue to be known as the most progressive place . . . → Read More: Are we living the dream?