BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY IN THE NEWS
WAVE OF APPRECIATION – Awards honor those who serve immigrants
Stamford Advocate By Martin B. Cassidy STAMFORD — …Catalina Horak, executive director of Building One Community, nominated the Koes because of their leadership and organizing efforts to help open the Building…
Read More Deportation threat looms in schools
Stamford Advocate – EDITORIAL June 18, 2017 Maybe you believe the immigration debate has no impact on your life. Perhaps your own family’s arrival in the United States is so many generations…
Read More Building One Community/NCC graduate home health aides
Stamford Advocate June 19, 2017 By Liz Skalka STAMFORD — Twenty-three people representing 11 countries graduated this month from a home health aide training program offered through Building One Community…
Read More Stamford superintendent calms fears of immigration agents in schools
Stamford Advocate June 13, 2017 By Nora Naughton STAMFORD – Gricelda Mendez is concerned her two children might be targets of federal immigration agents while they’re in school. Mendez, a Guatemalan immigrant,…
Read More Perspectives: On the importance of aiding immigrants
New Canaan News Online May 26, 2017 By Rev. Drew Williams As I write, I have just returned from the Fifth Annual Spring Benefit Breakfast for Building One Community (formerly…
Read More Wilton High student named Outstanding Youth Volunteer
The Hour February 23, 2017 By Stephanie Kim WILTON — Victoria Koenigsberger believes there are misconceptions about immigrants and feels their efforts often go unnoticed. In the three years…
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