Impact Stories

We were so excited to share our vision with y’all last week for this next chapter in Canopy’s story: To see refugees and our community thrive together. That’s what’s next for us on our ambitious mission. We don’t want to merely get our refugee families on their feet here —we want them to thrive here,…

What does it look like for our community in Northwest Arkansas to extend a Long Welcome to refugees? We’ve spent over four months hearing from our refugee families and volunteers, researching best practices from around the country and strategizing with our community partners, seeking to answer that exact question. And we’re excited to say we…

Community. This word just keeps coming up again and again. As many of y’all know, we’ve been going through a strategic planning process over the last four months, mapping out our Long Welcome Plan for refugees.  We’ve conducted hours of interviews and focus groups, researched best practices from across the country, and worked with consultants…

When we started the grueling groundwork of launching a resettlement site here in Northwest Arkansas three years ago, we did so because we believed we had something special to offer refugees in our community. What we didn’t yet know was just how much they had to offer us. Today, here is what we see: Northwest…

Friends, we’re hiring and want YOU to apply. We’re looking for a part-time Volunteer Coordinator and a full-time Employment Specialist to join our team starting in March. Sound like you?  We’re looking for people who are: We strongly encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds, especially members of our refugee and immigrant communities and those who have…

Just like that, it’s February and 2019 is officially underway! We’ve got lots of exciting things planned for this year: a trip to Washington DC to meet with our elected officials, a series of health and nutrition classes in partnership with Brightwater, a series of community orientation workshops in partnership with Tyson Foods— not to…

Happy New Year, everyone! We have so much to look forward to in 2019 as a Canopy community: ·  As many as 56 new refugees will be joining us this year, from all over the world, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and others. · As of this month, we are now certified to…

Dear friends, Thank you. We are flabbergasted, overwhelmed, and completely and utterly delighted to let you know that together, we obliterated our end-of-year fundraising goal of $15,000. Together, we raised nearly $29,000 in the month of December. That’s almost a third of our entire annual fundraising goal. In one month. Thank you. Together, as a community,…

Jeremiah stood in front of the door, looking down at the keys in his hand. “Go on in. This is your home now.” My home. It was almost too much for Jeremiah to take in. It had been 23 years since he had had a home. Twenty-three years since his family had slept in an…

 When refugees find out they are going to be resettled in America, they start to dream—and they dream big. They know of America as the land of opportunity, where anything is possible anyone can have the chance to make something of themselves. So they dream big. And to us, that’s what refugee resettlement is all…