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Download UNEVEN PROGRESS: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States, a publication of the Migration Policy Institute, below.

Download the evaluation of the ORR IDA Program below (or click the above image).

https://farmerclaims.gov/FarmerClaims/farmer.do

Download a copy of the Power Point presentation given by Dr. James Barham of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service at the recent RAPP Workshop below.

Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose W. Fernandez will address the press corps about his just-completed trip to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco. This on-camera briefing will take place at noon on December 9 in the Department of State’s press briefing room (Room 2209).

Read ORR’s 2010 Year in Review where Microenterprise, IDA, and RAPP are all highlighted along with a new project focusing on the provision of technical assistance and training in health and mental health. Clearly ORR Director, Eskinder Negash, is acting on needs identified by refugees and refugee service agencies. A stronger coordination of all federal agencies in support of refugee resettlement and protection is also well under way.

At the U.S. – Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference in Algeria, ISED Solutions is represented by Chema Gargouri, ROCCD Project Manager. Ms. Gargouri is serving as a member on “Launching a Social Network Linking American and Maghreb Entrepreneurs.” Discussions are on existing networking groups and ideas for facilitating increased cross-border links among young and emerging entrepreneurs in the Maghreb Region and between the Maghreb and the United States through the development of a unique social networking platform.

The E Pluribus Unum Prizes national awards program provides four $50,000 prizes annually
to exceptionally successful immigrant integration initiatives. The program highlights and
rewards outstanding efforts that help immigrants and their children join the mainstream of US
society or that bring immigrants and the native born together to build stronger, more cohesive
communities. Winners are recognized at event in Washington, DC each May. The E Pluribus
Unum Prizes are coordinated by MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.

A Meeting for RAPP Grantees and Others Working with Refugees and Immigrants on Urban Agriculture and Beginning Farming

Dates: Monday, Jan. 10th - Wednesday noon, Jan. 12th, 2011

Location: ONE WASHINGTON CIRCLE HOTEL
One Washington Circle, NW

Washington, DC 20037
Front Desk 202-872-1680
Located one block from the Foggy Bottom / George Washington University Metrorail station and 3 blocks from The Kennedy Center and Georgetown.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) honored Office of Refugee Resettlement Director Eskinder Negash at its annual Freedom Award dinner, held in New York on November 10, 2010.