Skip Navigation
 
ACF
          
ACF Home   |   Services   |   Working with ACF   |   Policy/Planning   |   About ACF   |   ACF News   |   HHS Home

  Questions?  |  Privacy  |  Site Index  |  Contact Us  |  Download Reader™  |  Print      

 

Office of Refugee Resettlement   Advanced
Search


Ethnic Community Self-Help

Program Goal

The objective of this program is to support ethnic community based organizations in providing refugee populations with critical services to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society.

General Background

Throughout the history of the United States the involvement of refugees and refugee community based organizations in refugee resettlement has been critical to refugee integration. Today, these organizations continue to enhance the provision and effectiveness of services available to refugees. They allow the refugee experience to flow into refugee resettlement plans and decisions. For refugees, their active participation in resettlement is generally empowering and plays an important role in the integration of the entire refugee community.

Program Description

This program provides assistance to refugee community based organizations and other groups that address community building, facilitate cultural adjustment and integration of refugees, and deliver mutually supportive functions such as information exchange, civic participation, resource enhancement, orientation and support to newly arriving refugees (and other refugees that maybe in need of such assistance regardless of their resettlement date) and public education to the larger community on the background, needs and potential of refugees. In short, the purpose is to promote community organizing that builds bridges between newcomer refugee communities and community resources.

Eligible Applicants

All U.S. based governmental and certified non-profit organizations

Target Population

All ORR eligible populations

Current Grantees

Active Grantees (12/01/2008)

  1. Somali Bantu Association of Tucson, Arizona, Inc., Arizona, $193,814
  2. African Community Resource Center , California , $136,046
  3. East African Community of Orange County, California, $196,859
  4. East Bay Agency for Children, California, $200,000
  5. Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc., California, $200,000
  6. Merced Lao Family Community, Inc., California, $180,891
  7. Merced Lao Family Community, Inc., California, $183,831
  8. Colorado Department of Human Services, Colorado, $165,000
  9. ISED Solutions, Washington, D.C., $121,764
  10. Southeast Asia Resource Action Center , Washington , D. C., $180,000
  11. Refugee Women’s Network, Georgia, $190,410
  12. Refugee Family Services, Georgia, $154,430
  13. Pan-African Association, Illinois, $200,000
  14. State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Maine, $168,059
  15. National Alliance of Vietnamese-American Service Agency, Maryland, $219,093
  16. Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Massachusetts, $149,258
  17. One Lowell Inc., Massachusetts, $153,050
  18. Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, Massachusetts, $200,000
  19. The Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women, Minnesota, $200,000
  20. Confederation of Somali Communities in Minnesota, $106,971
  21. East Side Neighborhood Services, Inc., Minnesota, $96,085
  22. Hmong American Family, Inc., Minnesota, $162,942
  23. Hmong Youth Education Services, Inc., Minnesota, $166,619
  24. Minnesota African Women’s Association, Inc., Minnesota, $100,000
  25. Minnesota African Women’s Association, Inc., Minnesota, $136,044
  26. Somali International Minorities of America, Minnesota, $50,000
  27. Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment, Inc., Minnesota, $168,370
  28. Asian Community and Cultural Center, Nebraska, $117,580
  29. Sauti Yetu Center for African Women, Inc., New York, $107, 590
  30. The Montagnards Human Rights Organization, North Carolina, $181,391
  31. US Together, Inc., Ohio $141,572
  32. Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, Oregon, $200,000
  33. Lutheran Community Services Northwest, Oregon, $200,000
  34. Portland State University – Somali Bantu Project, Oregon, $250,000
  35. Nationalities Service Center , Pennsylvania , $78,200
  36. Somali Community Center of Nashville, Tennessee, $150,000
  37. Somali Bantu Community of Greater Houston, Texas$125,695
  38. Somali Bantu Association of San Antonio, Texas, $171,345
  39. Association of Africans Living in Vermont, Inc., Vermont, $148,962
  40. Boat People S.O.S.- Kentucky, Virginia , $175,332
  41. Ethiopian Community Development Council, Virginia, $200,000
  42. Somali Family Care Network, Virginia, $199,130
  43. Ukrainian Community Center of Washington, Washington, $129,960
  44. Pan-African Community Association, Wisconsin, $151,919
  45. Wisconsin, United Coalition of Mutual Assistance Associations, Wisconsin, $195,688

KEY:
Ethnic Community Based Organization
Ethnic National Organization
Provider of Training, Technical Assistance, Mentorship

Resources

Technical Assistance Providers
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resources/tech_asst_providers.htm

Managing Federal Grants
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/funding/mfgrants.htm

Funding Opportunities

Standing Announcement for Ethnic Community Self-Help
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-ORR-RE-0117.html

Contact Information

Mr. Thomas Giossi
Senior Program Analyst
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Administration for Children and Families
901 D Street, SW
Washington, DC 20447
Phone: 202.401.5720
Fax: 202.401.0981
Thomas.Giossi@acf.hhs.gov