Organizations Filed Purposes:
To provide relationship-based support, opportunity development, and cultural stewardship to enable and sustain the healthy integration of forcibly displaced communities.
Bridge Builders Program - Through one-on-one, relationship-based support, over 430 refugee individuals worked with 220+ volunteers to achieve their social mobility goals. Over the year, Members submitted 82+ job applications, secured over 52 new jobs, and reduced household expenses by utilizing over 146 qualifying subsidies or benefits. Members were accompanied by bilingual navigators to 447+ critical appointments like social services appointments, driver's license tests, and domestic violence prevention appointments. 68 members facing potential loss of their homes retained their housing by resolving communications with housing management, reconciling penalties, and renewing contracts. Over 185 youth between the ages of 5 and 17 received free weekly in-home reading, tutoring, and homework help, and their parents received personalized support in making important school-related decisions.
Youth Community Advocates - Youth Community Advocates was a piloted Summer 2018 program to cultivate leadership skill-building opportunities for refugee youth. Resettled to the US to a complex social landscape of language and cultural barriers, and persistent social exclusion, refugee youth face continuous barriers to participating in extracurricular and summer activities that affirm, uplift, or catalyze their natural leadership abilities. A small cohort of youth held summer placements, for a small stipend, at RCP to assist with programmatic activities, and to practice the skills of serving as bilingual accompaniment partners for their own neighbors. In addition to this cohort of four youth, 32 other young refugee students participated in trainings on cultural resiliency, community organizing, and self-inquiry throughout the summer. Feedback surveys demonstrated that this was the only refugee-specific leadership opportunity for young people, and was a space that they felt comfortable and safe in being amongst so many other young people that share similar experiences and social identities.
Traditional Kitchens - Piloted in 2018, Traditional Kitchens is an initiative born out of RCP's mission to cultivate opportunities for refugee residents and cultural stewardship within the broader community. When refugee women seek employment in the US, language barriers often exclude them from opportunities. Moreover, because many women in certain countries cannot participate in their culture's workforce, US-based employers perceive them as having few to no transferable work skills. Un- and under-employment of refugee women in the Triangle is high; yet, as their culture's keepers of food traditions, they hold mastered skills in traditional cuisine and cooking. Through collaborations with community partners, Traditional Kitchens offers a name under which refugee women can prepare their culture's traditional foods and share them with the broader community. Traditional Kitchens seeks to connect refugee food makers with the broader community through the sharing of home-cooked meals. In 2018, 3 refugee women prepared 8 different meals for local community events, serving over 600 community members.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Madison Hayes | Executive Director | 40 | $61,500 |
| Daniel Pomp | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Patrick Mateer | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Jamie Rohe | Vice-Chair | 2 | $0 |
| Zuzana Fedorkova Love | Chair | 3 | $0 |
| Dilshad Jaff | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Asif Khan | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Twing | Director | 1 | $0 |
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