Resources

Here is a list of resources
recommended by New Routes staff
and project partners
to help build community,
develop fruitful partnerships
and produce good media.
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• By Alphabet.
• By Topic:
- Arts
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- Building Community
- Business
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- Citizenship
- Civic Life
- Community Health
- Community Media
- Cultural Competence
- Economics
- Education
- Ending Domestic Violence
- Ending Homophobia
- Ending Racism
- Ending Sexism
- English Language Learning-ELL
- Ethnic Media
- Evaluation
- Events
- Faith
- Family
- Founding American Values
- Funding
- Health Care
- Health Care Access
- History
- ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
- Immigrant Integration
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Journalism
- Language
- Leadership
- Legislation
- Media distribution
- Media production
- Mental health
- News
- Non-profit
- Organization
- Outreach
- Partnerships
- Policy
- Politics
- Project management
- Promotion
- Public Health
- Receiving Communities
- Refugees
- Religion
- Social marketing
- Social networking
- Storytelling
- Technology
- Training
- Translation
- Web 2.0
- Work
- Youth
• By Immigrant Population:
- African
- Asian
- Cambodian
- Caribbean
- Chinese
- East African
- Ethiopian
- European
- Filipinos
- Haitian
- Hmong
- Indian
- Khmer
- Koreans
- Laotian
- Latinos
- Liberians
- Mexican
- Middle Eastern
- Mixtec
- Multiple Immigrant Groups
- Muslim
- Russian
- Somali
- South Asian
- Southeast Asian
- Vietnamese
• By Tag:
- public media
- immigrant detention
- English as a second language
- social characteristics
- ethnic discrimination
- building human capital
- training
- music
- New Routes to Community Health
- ethnic media
- advocacy media
- NIH
- interviews
- Public Agenda
- art
- English language learners
- OneWorld.net
- narrative
- emigration
- Community Spark
- research
- Central American immigrants
- video
- conference
- legal issues
- ESL
- mental illness
- development
- certification
- Moyers
- litigation
- skype
- flu
- culture
- blog
- community
- la colectiva
- Population Reference Bureau
- video
- membership organization
- ethnic media
- YouTube
- social policy
- Chinese Immigrants
- Best practices
- how-to
- conference
- RWJF
- Kaiser
- culture
- pegtv
- Massachusetts
- curriculum
- video
- legal advocacy
- marketing
- interpretation
- expert advice
- media reform
- social media
- data
- Anuak
- resources survey research
- health equity
- immigrant media
- Progressive Online Community
- prx.org
- translation
- AMA
- citizen media
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- migration
- Call for Proposals
- music
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- public television
- Immigration Policy Center
- schools
- smoking
- photography
- farm workers
- patients
- media reform
- publication
- H1N1
- This I believe
- community organizing
- domestic workers
- wiki
- Kartemquin Films
- community access
- news service
- president's speech on immigration reform
- breast cancer
- civil liberties
- wages
- Islam
- guidebook
- caregivers
- internship
Because we have so many tags, only a random sampling are included above, view the full list.
A new Spanish-language radio drama will address health issues. These episodes of real-life drama will portray characters struggling with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, smoking... Visit website
Cities of Migration website showcases good practice in the
integration of urban migrants and promotes innovative ideas that create
equity, social cohesion and urban prosperity. Visit website
The 2.9 million Central American immigrants living in the United States were more likely than both the native born and the foreign-born population overall to... Visit website
Who is eligible? Anyone who, in a volunteer capacity, has overcome significant fear and/or risk to confront injustice on behalf of immigrants and/or refugees in... Visit website
Welcome to the California campaign to protect workers from heat illness.Heat illness can be deadly – but by making heat safety
part of the job,... Visit website
Every day Maria De Lourdes Gonzalez jumps on a bus on the way to
work. She cleans houses for a living, but the rest of... Visit website
"Profiles in Strength & Dignity" showcases the
extraordinary women of La Colectiva. In striking photographs and moving
narratives, the exhibit offers a glimpse into these... Visit website
Breakthrough is an innovative, international human rights organization
using the power of popular culture, media, and community mobilization
to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and
dignity... Visit website
La Posada—the Mexican Christmas procession recreating the Holy
Family’s attempt to find shelter before Jesus was born—is a cherished
tradition for many Latino families. It... Visit website
The mission of the Center for Immigrant Health (CIH) at New
York University School of Medicine is... Visit website
MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy has created the
English Language Learner (ELL) Information Center, to provide
informative fact sheets, maps, and state-level data resources that
chronicle... Visit website
Around the country, community media centers are launching exciting new
collaborations with local organizations, neighborhood activists,
schools, and media outlets to create online, hyperlocal citizen... Visit website
Writer, photographer and educator David Weintraub offers a nice list of storytelling basics for video and multimedia makers. He points to BAVC's video curriculum as... Visit website
What’s Your Calling? explores notions of “calling” from both religious and secular perspectives.
Through a growing series of interviews, videos and articles, What's... Visit website
Whenever restrictionist groups calculate the cost of an immigrant, they
inevitably overlook the contributions of immigrant veterans who fight
and die on behalf of Americans... Visit website
10.8 million people with no legal status. Families torn apart. Communities living in fear.
The U.S. immigration system is broken. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services... Visit website
This I Believe, Inc., was founded in 2004 as a not-for-profit
organization that engages youth and adults from all walks of life in
writing, sharing,... Visit website
Community news sites should engage, not just inform, their users;
ramp up quickly with social media tools; tease out contributors rather
than train a corps... Visit website
In Patient Voices, The New York Times features digital first person stories of the challenges patients face as they cope with various health issues, including... Visit website
The Applied Research and the Behavioral Research Programs of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National... Visit website
'Speaking American' is a specific Metaphor Project technique for
framing liberal and progressive messages in a broadly accessible way at
the values, 'big idea' level.... Visit website
Getting to—and staying in—America. A curated playlist from the editors of PRX. Featured stories include:
American Dreamer from Long Haul Productions and Latino USA follows... Visit website
Today the trend is toward multiculturalism, not assimilation. The old "melting pot" metaphor is giving way to new metaphors such as "salad bowl" and "mosaic,"mixtures of... Visit website
Over the course of four years, the RWJF Vulnerable Populations Portfolio
undertook an iterative research and message development process that
benefited from both traditional and... Visit website
People can't face facts if they're looking the wrong way. So first tell them a story that can change their point of view.Read more of... Visit website
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New Research & Recommendations
This report (PDF 3.8MB) offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community health improvement. Spanish-language version is now available. Una versión en español de este informe esta en la web.




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