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Barrie Landry Will Sell Private Collection of Hudson River School Paintings to Benefit Refugee Organizations
Barrie Landry and the Landry Family, longtime generous supporters and champions of RefugePoint, will sell a private collection of Hudson River School paintings to benefit philanthropies that support the global refugee crisis, including UNICEF, RefugePoint, and The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. The paintings, from the Collection of Kevin and Barrie Landry, will be…
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$1 Million Emergency Campaign Goal Achieved with Focusing Philanthropy
On November 6, RefugePoint succeeded in securing $1 million to support an emergency campaign with Focusing Philanthropy. We closed the campaign with a gift of $25,000 from a long-time RefugePoint supporter, Lekha Singh. These campaign funds support the evacuation of unaccompanied refugee children and others at great risk from Libya and the region and their…
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How Frank Giustra is Turning Business Savvy Into Private Sector Support for Refugees
Earlier this month, Barrie Landry, Ed Shapiro, and Sasha Chanoff hosted a dinner for Frank Giustra, philanthropist and founder of Lionsgate Entertainment, to introduce the Ascend Venture Fund (AVF) to some of Boston’s thought leaders, philanthropists, and investors, including members of New England International Donors. Ascend Venture Fund and Impact Investing in the Refugee…
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Bring more refugees to America. They’ll fill vacant jobs and boost our economy.
Our Executive Director, Sasha Chanoff, recently authored this op-ed in USA Today – check it out! Refugee resettlement helps companies find loyal employees to fill vacant jobs in a hot economy. Why is Donald Trump trying to wipe out this program?
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RefugePoint Partners with Focusing Philanthropy in $1,000,000 Emergency Campaign: Campaign Launches at Charles and Rita Bronfman’s home
[Cambridge, MA, June 13, 2018—] On May 10th, Charles and Rita Bronfman hosted an event at their home in New York to announce a campaign to raise $1,000,000 for RefugePoint in partnership with Focusing Philanthropy to help evacuate unaccompanied refugee children and others at great risk from Libya and the region and resettle them to European Union countries,…
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Self-Reliance as a New Response to the Changing Needs of Refugees
Boston, MA, April 3, 2018 RefugePoint was pleased to co-host the panel, Systems Thinking as a Response to the Global Refugee Crisis, with New England International Donors, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Imago Dei Fund, Fidelity Charitable, and The Boston Foundation on Thursday March 29, 2018. The discussion was moderated by David Gergen (Senior Political Analyst, CNN), and speakers included Sasha Chanoff (Executive Director, RefugePoint), Dale Buscher (Senior Director for Programs, Women’s…
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RefugePoint Geneva Representative attends Resettlement Working Group in Berlin, Germany
RefugePoint’s Director of International Programs/Geneva Representative will attend the Resettlement Working Group in Berlin, Germany from February 21-23, 2018. The event includes sessions on complementary pathways, with a focus on opportunities in Canada, which intersects with RefugePoint’s current interests in exploring how to identify refugees in Kenya for labour visas to Canada. The event includes a session about…
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RefugePoint, NEID, and The Aurora Humanitarian Prize and Initiative host Recognizing Humanitarian and Human Rights Visionaries
Leading philanthropists and social innovators gather to discuss new approaches to the humanitarian crises On the evening of January 29, 2018, RefugePoint headquarters in Cambridge had the honor of hosting Recognizing Humanitarian and Human Rights Visionaries, sponsored by New England International Donors (NEID) and The Aurora Humanitarian Prize and Humanitarian Initiative. With an unprecedented 65 million people…
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RefugePoint and Partners Pilot New Self-Reliance Measurement Tool with Refugees in Jordan and Kenya
RefugePoint, in partnership with the Women’s Refugee Commission and 15 other agencies, has created and this month will begin testing a new tool for measuring the quality of life and self-reliance of refugee households. The Self-Reliance Index is expected to help shape how refugee assistance is delivered to lead to better, more sustainable outcomes for…
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RefugePoint, Women’s Refugee Commission, the IKEA Foundation and 12 other partner agencies developing a tool to measure and facilitate refugee self-reliance
How do we measure refugee self-reliance? Amy Slaughter and Kellie Leeson Although self-reliance has been promoted as a major assistance strategy for refugees in recent years, there have been limited attempts to rigorously measure it. This has practical and academic implications, as studies on refugee self-reliance use varying and often imprecise indicators, meaning it is…