US refugee resettlement contractors surviving for now on “leftover” federal dollars

We reported recently that the nine federally-funded non-profit groups that have monopolized all resettlement in the US for the last decade (some of them for three decades) will see their numbers diminished as the President continues reducing refugee resettlement. By becoming almost completely dependent on federal dollars, they built a house of cards. In this … Continue reading US refugee resettlement contractors surviving for now on “leftover” federal dollars

Episcopal Migration Ministries might be dropped from federal refugee program

But so might seven other refugee contractors? Before you get too excited…. …..there must be an error in this report, but I am posting it just to see if we can get the truth shaken loose. When I first started writing this blog in 2007 there were ten federal resettlement contractors that monopolized all refugee … Continue reading Episcopal Migration Ministries might be dropped from federal refugee program

Twin Falls, Idaho welcomed nearly 3,000 refugees in ten years

I was very interested to see the list of top cities in the US that ‘welcome’ refugees when I  published The Tent Foundation/Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Refugee Hiring Guide the other day. Where is Twin Falls? Today I had a chance to look at the list more carefully and I’ll be darned, I don’t … Continue reading Twin Falls, Idaho welcomed nearly 3,000 refugees in ten years

Tent Foundation makes refugee hiring guide available to corporations

In November of last year, information came to us from a confidential source about Chobani Yogurt CEO Hamdi Ulukaya’s personal foundation, The Tent Foundation, contracting with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (one of nine federally funded resettlement agencies) to produce a guide for businesses to help them find refugee labor. Here is just a bit … Continue reading Tent Foundation makes refugee hiring guide available to corporations