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Title: Community-Based Organizations and Immigrant Integration in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Immigrant-serving organizations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area help immigrants find their way by encouraging them to participate civically and politically.These organizations are growing in number and changing with the regions demographic profile.Key findings:- Some 533 immigrant-serving nonprofits dispersed throughout the region provide a wide range of programs and services to foreign-born communities.- These organizations are concentrated in Washington, D.C., and the inner suburbs of Maryland and Virginia while immigrant populations are growing steadily in the outersuburbs.- The number of community-based organizations (CBOs) has greatly increased in the past two decades.- Immigrant communities provide leaders who create nonprofits; staff, volunteers, and board members who run these organizations; and funding and other support.c Immigrant integration through culturally sensitive services promotes newcomers social and political mobility.- These nonprofits advocate for their communities and encourage constituents to voice their own concerns and issues.- Each jurisdictions unique structures and policies affect these nonprofits service portfolios, funding, and political negotiating environments.- CBOs are constantly up against fragmented public policies and a knowledge gap about foreign-born populations and the organizations that serve them.

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Authors: Boris, Elizabeth T.; Maronick, Matthew; de Leon, Erwin; De Vita, Carol J.

Publisher: Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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