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IU International Resource Center awarded grant to create Indiana Immigration Network
Nov. 28, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University International Resource Center has been awarded a Cinergy Workforce Partnership Grant of $7,180 to create the Indiana Immigration Network, an online resource for new Americans who have chosen to make Indiana their home.
Working in collaboration with the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, the Indiana Economic Development Council and the South Central Indiana Human Resources Association, IUIRC will develop a Web site to profile key resources, programs and organizations throughout Indiana that are addressing the needs of Indiana's growing immigrant population.
"Community efforts to aid this new population are cropping up in isolation throughout the state," said Charles Bankart, IUIRC program manager. "This Web site provides an opportunity to centralize information about these efforts and make them more widely available."
The Web site will serve as a searchable database of key community stakeholders including businesses, social service providers, government offices, schools, cultural organizations, churches and other groups actively involved with immigrant issues in their communities. Brief descriptions as well as contact information for these organizations will be listed in an easily searchable format.
"Our hope for this project is to create an online resource that will encourage dialogue among service providers throughout the state who are actively working to make their communities more responsive to the needs of Indiana's new Hoosiers," Bankart said.
Bankart can be reached at 812-856-5523 or cbankart@indiana.edu
(Kevin Gray, 812-856-5682, keagray@indiana.edu)