New Americans Initiative Inc

Mission statement: 

We work to educate, engage, and empower Kentucky’s immigrant and refugee communities by supporting pathways to citizenship, providing voter education, registering voters, and encouraging active participation in civic life.

Vision:

The vision of New Americans Initiative is for foreign-born Kentuckians to be educated, engaged, and empowered in civic engagement through voting and active political participation. Its mission to achieve this is by ensuring that all eligible immigrants and refugees become naturalized citizens and engaged voters in the Commonwealth.

In order to fully engage naturalized citizens in the system of representative democracy, New Americans Initiative seeks to establish an infrastructure and a pipeline to ensure that people find pathways to citizenship through legal representation. It also works to reduce or eliminate barriers to becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. Lastly, it focuses on consistent voter registration, voter engagement, and greater civic participation in immigrant and refugee communities throughout Kentucky. The goal is to amplify the electoral power of new American voters in the Commonwealth.

Programs:

a) Civic education, voter empowerment, and voter registration

b) Limited representation legal workshops to assist eligible new Americans with citizenship and green card applications

c) Community organizing