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E Pluribus Unum Prizes

Celebrating exceptional U.S. immigrant integration initiatives.
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E Pluribus Unum Prize Award trophies

The E Pluribus Unum Prizes recognized outstanding immigrant integration initiatives of all types in the United States, whether led by nonprofit or community organizations, businesses, public agencies, religious groups, or individuals. 

The awards program, which was launched in 2009 and run through 2013, was coordinated by MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. The J.M. Kaplan Fund generously provided support for these awards to focus attention on successful integration initiatives and to inspire and provide program models to others around the United States who might also undertake such efforts.

2012 Winners

  • ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services)
    Hassan Jaber, Executive Director

  • Building Skills Partnership
    Aida Cardenas, Executive Director

  • Californians Together
    Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, Executive Director

2012 Corporate Leadership Award: Citi, Robert Annibale, Global Director of Community Development and Microfinance
 

2011 Winners

  • Hispanic Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City
    Bernardo Ramirez, Executive Director

  • International Rescue Committee in San Diego
    Bob Montgomery, Executive Director

  • Temple University Project SHINE
    Patience Lehrman, Director

  • Welcome Back Initiative
    José Ramón Fernández-Peña

2011 Corporate Leadership Award: Marriott International Global Language Learning Initiative, M. Andy Chaves, Corporate Senior Manager
 

2010 Winners

  • Illinois New Americans Integration Initiative
    Grace Hou, Assistant Secretary of Programs , DHS; and Joshua Hoyt, Executive Director, ICIRR

  • Latino Community Credit Union
    Luis Pastor, Chief Executive Officer

  • Tacoma Community House
    Liz Dunbar, Executive Director

  • Upwardly Global
    Nicole Cicerani, Executive Director

Honorable Mention: McDonald's Corporation, English Under the Arches, Betsy McKay, Director of Bilingual Leadership

2009 Winners

  • AVANCE - El Paso, Texas
    Sanjay Mathur, Executive Director

  • City of Littleton - Colorado
    Alejandra Harguth, Program Coordinator

  • Internationals Network for Public Schools - New York & California
    Claire Sylvan, Executive Director

  • Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition - Nashville
    Stephen Fotopulos, Executive Director

Finalists: 
Latino Community Credit Union - Durham, North Carolina, Luis Pastor, CEO

Queens Library - Jamaica, New York; Fred Gitner, New Americans Program Coordinator

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MPI Honors Exceptional Immigrant Integration Initiatives with New Prizes Designed to Inspire & Reward Efforts in Overlooked Policy Area

WASHINGTON — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) on Wednesday announced the four winners of its inaugural E Pluribus Unum Prizes for exceptional immigrant integration initiatives. The Prizes seek to reward exceptional efforts that uphold and update the ideal of "out of many, one" and inspire others to take on this important work.The winners, each given a $50,000 award, are reflective of the diversity of government and non-government organizations involved in immigrant integration efforts at the state and local levels. The award winners, from Texas, New York, Colorado and Tennessee, operate programs that improve academic outcomes and build stronger families through early childhood and parenting education; improve educational outcomes for late-entry immigrant students with limited English proficiency; organize a city's government and civic leaders to welcome new residents and create a stronger, more integrated community; and create new avenues for constructive public dialogue on immigration and its impacts.