FW: draft invite: Immigration/Refugee community

[Hreshchyshyn, Yuri]

Emil, we need Ukrainian immigrant perspective as this progresses. -yuri

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From: Deutschman, Marian [mailto:DEUT...@BuffaloState.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:39 AM
To: invitin...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: draft invite: Immigration/Refugee community

I think it's a good idea to do an OST session on this issue but I think
you need to address some of the issues that this immigrant/refugee
population faces such as education, housing, employment, and adjustment
to the cultural differences. Your focus seems to stress the cultural
benefits to the city and tourism almost to the exclusion of the real
problems.
Marian Deutschman
Interim Director
College and Community Partnerships
Cleveland Hall 211A
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222-1095
deut...@buffalostate.edu
716-878-4132
buffalostate.edu/partnerships
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From: Dave [mailto:dgran...@city-buffalo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:34 AM
To: Inviting Buffalo
Cc: bre...@city-buffalo.com; brianr...@gmail.com
Subject: draft invite: Immigration/Refugee community

Please review this invite and forward any comments:

You are invited to get involved in a unique outcome-oriented meeting to
refine plans for an initiative called

Buffalo Invites the World
What can Buffalo do to become one of America's most inviting cities for
immigrants and refugees? How can Buffalo become a center for cultural
tourism?

WHAT:

You are invited to join others in a series of working sessions to share
your existing efforts and potentially create new ones together to help
make Buffalo one of the country's friendliest places for immigrants and
refugees. Historically Buffalo is home to a broad array of ethnic,
cultural, and religious groups. The open arms that welcomed the Polish,
Irish, Italian, African Americans and many others are now attracting new
communities from places as faraway as Burma, Somalia, and Vietnam. These
emerging communities are helping reinvigorate the social and economic
life of Buffalo.

The series of working sessions will bring together in one place, for
probably the first time, dozens of the people and organizations whose
work touches upon the lives of Buffalo's emerging refugee and immigrant
populations. At its heart are community dialogues that will help
identify problems, propose collaborative solutions, and commit to your
choice of strategies to bring Buffalo to the forefront of welcoming
communities in America.

WHEN:

We hope you can come to all three sessions, but if not, try to come to
the first session on Wednesday, X/X/2009.

1. Date 6:30 - 9:00 PM
2. Date 6:30 - 9:00 PM
3. Date 6:30 - 9:00 PM

Light refreshments will be served.

WHERE:

Lafayette High School
370 Lafayette Avenue

WHAT:

How can we grow the local benefits of a resurgent immigrant and refugee
population?

What can Buffalo do now to better capitalize on its historic and growing
ethnic and cultural diversities?

How can we promote the role of cultural tourism in Buffalo's economy?

How can we collaborate to enhance the immigrant and refugee experience
in Buffalo?

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