Welcoming America

09/17/2026

🎨 This year's Welcoming Week artwork comes from contempoafricano, a mixed media artist known for blending her Nigerian heritage, fashion, and contemporary storytelling. Her piece brings this year's theme, The Courage to Connect, to life.

Working in paper, fabric, paint, and collage, Lola's art has been shown everywhere from London to Miami to celebrate identity, culture, and connection.

Find it on merch in our store. 👉 https://store.welcomingamerica.org/collections/the-courage-to-connect-collection-by-lola-okunola

Supported by Brave of Us

09/17/2026

Throwback to last week's Welcoming Week kickoff in Denver. 🙌

Thank you to The Alliance for Collective Action, Convivio Café CO, and our amazing partners for bringing together neighbors, organizers, and community leaders to kick off . This is what welcoming looks like in practice.


One Percent for America, Intercambio Uniting Communities, Re-imagining Migration, ITC Holdings Corp., LanguageLine Solutions, City and County of Denver Government

09/17/2026

🗳 Today is Citizenship Day in the U.S. — a day to honor the millions of people who have chosen to make America home, and the communities that showed up for them along the way.

Welcoming Week is built on that choice.

09/17/2026

Welcoming means meeting people where you once were, and helping them take the next step.

This Welcoming Week, Denver Public Library is proud to be a founding partner of Patchwork of Us—a collective digital quilt celebrating what welcoming looks like across Colorado.

09/16/2026

St. Louis, Missouri is now a 2-star Certified Welcoming community. Congratulations to Mayor Cara Spencer, the Office of New Americans, and community partners across the city.
Read more: https://welcomingamerica.org/news/st-louis-becomes-a-certified-welcoming-community/

09/16/2026

America's story is still being written.

This , we're adding another chapter: the story of communities choosing to welcome others, one neighbor at a time. Because the American story doesn't end at 250. It starts with us, right now. 🏠

Add your story 👉 https://welcomingweek.org/stories

09/16/2026

In 2018, Tulsa invited 2,000+ residents from 30 neighborhoods to help shape the city's future. Local governments are on the front lines of welcoming — this is what that looks like. Today's theme is Government and Community Leadership.

09/15/2026

09/15/2026

We Are Called to Rise: The Power of Refugee Women is out today. We're glad to see Certified Welcoming highlighted in its pages.

Find out more here 👉 https://www.momentoflift.com/we-are-called-to-rise

09/15/2026

25 million people now live in a Certified Welcoming community — and communities like Crete, Nebraska and Wabash County, Indiana helped get us here.

Discover all Certified Welcoming communities here 👉 https://certifiedwelcoming.org/