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A Reflection on English Language and Digital Literacy

March 21, 2022 By The Welcoming Center In Digital Literacy, Staff Voices, Workforce Development No Comments

by Jill Jacobs Cohen In the winter of 2020, I had just completed teaching the FOCUS course at The Welcoming Center with a wonderful group of participants. Three mornings a week, they traveled to and from class to learn with others from all over the world about how to navigate the new language and [...]

2022 Message From Our President and CEO

January 25, 2022 By The Welcoming Center In News, Staff Voices No Comments

Dear Friend, Many of you who are reading this are immigrants who have discovered The Welcoming Center somewhere along your journey. You have told us that when you found TWC it was the first time you realized you were not alone as you got established here. Many have shared how you wished your parents had [...]

My Second Home in Philadelphia

November 22, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Donor Voices, Participant Voices, Staff Voices No Comments

Dear Friend, I am a Kenyan immigrant who has been living in Philadelphia for the past six years. Arriving in Philadelphia as an immigrant in July 2015 was both exciting and scary. Exciting because I was coming home to my husband but scary because I had to learn to live in a new culture. Within a [...]

Let’s remember immigrants when talking about diversity

September 24, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Staff Voices No Comments

by Ben Goebel The United States is having a reckoning about its diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) whether in society or in the professional world. This is fantastic and a long time coming. Many populations have been treated unfairly for generations in this country and it is important to see things moving in the right direction. Immigrants are one of the marginalized groups that should benefit [...]

Meet Nicole Marcote, Program Manager for TWC’s Entrepreneurship Programs

May 26, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Entrepreneurship, Staff Voices No Comments

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Nicole to learn more about her and the work she is doing to support immigrant-owned restaurants and small businesses in South Philadelphia’s 9th Street corridor. Nicole is a Philadelphia native who moved to Spain as a small child, spending most of her youth in the Basque [...]

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