Community Building
6. Community Building Call them newcomers, not refugees. (more)
Building strong ethnic communities is consistent with building a creative class. (more)
• How Ethnic Community Based Organizations can make stronger communities. See BRIEFS
• White paper to the Bryan Foundation
• Recommended changes to assisting refugees
• Why Culture Matters to a Newcomers’ Welcome Center
• World Food in the Piedmont, a panel discussion on food and population diversity
• MashUp, a cooking project Chefs team with Iraqi, Ethiopian, Nepali, Montagnard cooks
• Where's a Good Montagnard Restaurant? a PKN presentation
• Weatherspoon Dega, Dega Weatherspoon art show
• 2010 World Refugee Day at Festival Park
• Urban Harvest and refugees
• Conflict resolution and community building between Nepalis and Bhutanese
• A Spring 2011 project with UNC School of the Arts digital media classes
Effective writing, advertising and marketing reflects cultural values and technology.
• MDA tee-shirt
• Let's Count All Montagnards
• Cooking collaboration
The largest Montagnard food store's opening brought out hundreds from the working class neighborhood and Representative Earl Jones.
• Photo documentation
• Press release and poster
• Read the newspaper story
