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Community Credit Lab Receives First Recoverable Grant from the Fund to Pilot New Financial Lending Programs
The WES Mariam Assefa Fund is excited to announce its partnership with Community Credit Lab (CCL). With a $100,000 recoverable grant from the Fund, CCL will pilot and test new financial lending programs with input and direction from local lending partners and communities that know the needs of their communities best. A recoverable grant is […]
Newcomers from the Peel Region are Tackling Systemic Challenges Through Participatory Grantmaking
Originally published on the Future of Good website, this post was written by Neha Chollangi. The WES Mariam Assefa Fund is partnering with Future of Good on a series of digital stories to highlight the Fund’s first ever participatory grantmaking project. Developed in the Peel region of Ontario, the project is facilitated by the Tamarack […]
Immigrant Success Stories: Mohammad and Bayan
Wilma Lee |
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to share with other newcomers. In this new blog series, we are now […]
Immigrant Success Stories: Hannah Chung
Wilma Lee |
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to share with other newcomers. In this new blog series, we are now […]
Immigrant Success Stories: Srdjan “Serge” Simic
Wilma Lee |
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to share with other newcomers. In this new blog series, we are now […]
WES Mariam Assefa Fund Partners with Echoing Green to Invest $1.5M in Social Innovators of Color Addressing Racial Equity and Immigrant Justice
The World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund today announced a new $1.5 million partnership with Echoing Green to launch a fellowship that supports immigrants and refugees of color in the United States and Canada. Through Echoing Green’s fellowship program, the Racial Equity and Immigrant Justice initiative will support up to 19 leaders, including six […]
Meet the First Graduates of the Migrant Systems Change Leadership Program
At the end of last year, 22 inaugural graduates completed the Migrant Systems Change Leadership program, created for inspiring individuals with lived immigrant and refugee experience who are passionate about working with and supporting their communities. This first-of-its-kind program was launched in 2021 by the RADIUS Refugee Livelihood Lab at Simon Fraser University, a grantee […]
Why Is My Employer Asking for a Credential Evaluation?
Kaitlin Ramby |
If you’re seeking a job in the United States or Canada, but earned your degree in another country, there is a good chance that you will need a credential evaluation. That’s because employers might find it difficult to validate your academic documents (which is important for them to mitigate risk). And they might not understand […]
How WES Is Helping a Team of Immigrant Youth Launch Their Careers
WES Global Talent Bridge |
A new cohort of youth has entered the workforce since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduating into a turbulent and uncertain labour market rocked by large-scale layoffs, this cohort includes immigrant youth—immigrants, refugees, and international students—in significant numbers. Immigrant youth face compounded challenges: the current economic climate as well as their backgrounds and cultures […]
How Workers Action Centre is Advocating for Frontline Workers in Ontario
“The COVID-19 pandemic is getting worse, not better, for marginalized workers,” said Deena Ladd, executive director of Workers Action Centre (WAC) in Ontario, at a recent emergency town hall. WAC, a grantee partner of the WES Mariam Assefa Fund, is addressing many of the challenges immigrant workers face on the front lines of COVID-19 and […]
Immigrant Success Stories: Maria Fontanal
Wilma Lee |
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to share with other newcomers. In this new blog series, we are now […]
Advancing an Inclusive Economic Recovery: Top Five Policy Priorities for 2022
Sara McElmurry and Fatima Sanz |
The year 2022 brings a renewed call for policy reforms that ensure an inclusive workforce and equal opportunity for all so that immigrants, refugees, and international students no longer face barriers to advancing in their careers in the United States. Immigrants and refugees make up 17 percent of the U.S. labor force, and nearly half […]