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Marketplace of Good Ideas, Seattle, US

You’ve heard about the Cities of Migration Marketplace of Good Ideas, but do you know what it really is? Watch our latest video that recounts our October travels to the 4th annual National Immigrant Integration Conference in Seattle. It’s a live showcase of ten of the international practices that we have profiled at Cities of Migration.

Participants had the opportunity to learn from a series of 30-minute sessions where two presenters (US and international) spoke and answered questions about their practices. The workshop format offers the audience up to four pairs of presentations – a true whirlwind trip with US E Pluribus Unum Prize winners and international practices from Toronto, London, Barcelona, Kerpen, and Auckland. The marketplace, co-presented with the J.M. Kaplan Fund, demonstrates the power of local initiatives to make immigrant integration a success.

Read the Good Ideas (or view the entire Marketplace workbook – pdf):

• Kerpen, Germany: Integration Workshops for Inclusive Cities
  Developing integration strategies with migrants, not for migrants
  

• Auckland, New Zealand – From Alpha to Omega: Innovating in the Workplace
  Importing a successful labour force integration model saves time and money

• Toronto, Canada – Changing the Face of Leadership: DiverseCity onBoard
  Promoting urban prosperity by diversifying leadership

• London, United Kingdom – Banking on Affordable Credit
  Fair finance means affordable credit for everyone, whatever your gender, race or postcode

• Barcelona, Spain – Reaching for the Stars: VIPs go to School
  Local heroes reward students for good ideas about immigrant integration in schools

• Durham, United States – Financing Immigrant Futures: The Latino Community Credit Union
  Help new immigrants access formal banking infrastructure

• Chicago, United States – Interviewing the Up and Coming at Upwardly Global
  Diversity training is a two-way street

• San Francisco, United States – Welcome Back to a Healthier Community
  Training and support to link culturally diverse health care professionals to employment and healthier communities

• New York City, United States – Language-Wise in the Global Classroom
  An innovative urban high school invites immigrant youth back to the classroom to learn from one another

• Nashville, United States – Shelbyville’s Ambassadors of Welcome
  Community ambassadors use traditional American values of hospitality to improve perceptions of immigration

To learn more about the E Pluribus Unum Prizes, read the Cities of Migration interview with Margie McHugh, the Co-Director of the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, which coordinates the prizes.