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Funded Projects Ford Foundation The overarching goals of this project are twofold. First, we seek to fill a major void in our knowledge about the development of migrant-run organizations in new U.S. destinations whose scope of action and impact may be increasingly transnational. Second, we seek to assist these organizations’ in addressing major public policy issues in conjunction with the sending, transit, and receiving communities that make up their transnational networks. The project focuses specifically on Nebraska and Iowa, two prototypical “new destination” heartland states. Innovative project methodologies and findings are expected to generate important insights and new questions that can inform similar efforts beyond the Great Plains region. We plan to work closely with selected Latino/Latin American migrant organizations and institutional partners, nationally and across borders, and during key phases of the project. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars The objectives of the project are to understand and investigate the role of Latin American immigrant integration into the United States through civic and political participation. This project consists of three main components: research and case studies of several mid-sized cities around the United States through interviews and focus groups. The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) will act as coordinator in Omaha, Nebraska. National research coordinators (Jonathan Fox, UC Santa Cruz & Xóchitl Bada, Notre Dame) have selected Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Albuquerque, NM; Fresno, CA; and Las Vegas, NV as additional research sites. W. K. Kellogg Foundation/subcontracted with Nebraska Appleseed The purpose of this grant is to organize and equip, in partnership with the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, a state-based network of scholars, community organizations and other stakeholders, for the purposes of engaging in educational , capacity-building and leadership programs aimed at improving the lives of rural communities and their residents. Our specific focus is on communities that have experienced significant demographic changes and on the new immigrant, especially Latino, population now residing and working in those communities. Both organizations (OLLAS & Nebraska Appleseed) participate in the Midwest/Great Plains regional network. |