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Welcoming America Honored with Worldwide Intercultural Innovation Award
The Intercultural Innovation Award is given to the most innovative projects around the world that are working to build intercultural cooperation and dialogue, and Welcoming America was selected from a pool of more than 600 applicants from over 100 countries. Awardees were honored at a ceremony today in Bali, Indonesia, where Executive Director David Lubell had the honor of shaking the hand of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who participated in the awards ceremony. As an awardee, Welcoming America will receive a year of support and training from UNAOC and BMW Group – crucial and timely expertise!
Welcoming America ranked fourth out of the eleven recipients overall – the highest ranking of any U.S.-based organization in the award’s history – and we are only the fifth U.S.-based organization to ever receive the award.
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