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Over six weeks, from June to July, we partnered with over 15 organizations to serve more than 30 students as part of our 2024 Youth Futures Summer Camp. Each week featured exciting field trips, water balloon battles, resume workshops, and college visits.

A spotlight on two women, Celeste and Chelsea, making history by serving AmeriCorps.

On 4/23/24 the Sie FilmCenter in Denver played host to an impactful event: the official UN Refugee Film Screening to honor the 75th declaration of human rights, and the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in Denver joined the powerful celebration.

NY Annual Winter Coat Drive Update

Many newcomers arrive in the U.S. with a wealth of professional skills and experience, but starting one’s career over again in a new country can be an overwhelming process. Career Connect is a new ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ program helping refugees take steps toward re-entering professions they were forced to leave behind.

It was October 16, and there were over 280 people filling into SOMArts gallery in downtown San Francisco. This was GenR’s Force for Change event, where there was an outdoor bar with a DJ, and a huge gallery space full of tables of cookies and kabobs from Afghanistan, salads from Burma, and sweets from Syria. In a black box room off to the side of the gallery, there were huge photographs, propped up on easels, of refugees girls ages 8 through 11 embodying what they want to be when they grow up. The girls, who live all around the Bay Area, were posing as doctors, lawyers, and rock stars, in culmination of an empowerment workshop called The Vision Project, which was formed in collaboration with ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. Guests milled around, observing, eating, enjoying themselves, and then they were gathered around a stage in the main gallery.  This was where the speech was going to take place.