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Sep 11

Molina Healthcare Donates Bookbags, School Supplies to Help New American Students!

By Jeff Mayne Donations

From L to R: IIB’s Summer Cerbone, Molina’s Said Ahmed (a former IIB client), and Molina’s Kathrine Dukes-Weber. A special thank you to our friends at Molina Healthcare, who stopped by to donate backpacks filled with notebooks, folders, pens, pencils, water bottles, crayons, and other school supplies to help the New American students we serve. The backpacks also included various…

Sep 09

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Recruting: In-Person Interpreters and Document Translators

By Jeff Mayne News

Are you interested in helping immigrants and refugees converse in their native language? The International Institute of Buffalo is looking for interpreters and translators with excellent written and verbal foreign language skills to provide meaningful and necessary support to our new community members. Our interpreters and translators play an essential role in assisting our newly arrived American clients navigate…

Sep 06

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IIB Virtual Linguist Training: Intro to Legal Document Translation

By Jeff Mayne Events, I/T Service Update

Intro to Legal Document Translation Click here to register Dates: Monday, September 30 Time: two-hour virtual workshop 4:00-6:00 p.m. General admission with certificate: $35 General Admission without certificate: $25 If you are able, please offer a donation of any amount you'd like to help cover the operating costs of our diverse departmental offerings, or even perhaps for an interpreter who…

Sep 05

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Donations Urgently Needed: New Refugee Families Arriving in September

By Jeff Mayne Donations

Update: We are no longer holding open donation hours on site. To coordinate your drop offs please contact our donations team at: donations@iibuff.org In September, we expect to resettle multiple refugee families, as well as several smaller cases. Many of our refugee clients have spent years, if not decades in United Nations refugee camps abroad, waiting for a place to…

Sep 04

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IIB Welcomes 39 New Americans from 18 Countries!

By Jeff Mayne In the Community, News

We were honored to welcome 39 New Americans from 18 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Somalia, United Kingdom, and Yemen.…

Aug 15

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Spotlighting the People Who Make Us Great!

By Gabe DiMaio News, Newsletter

IIB would not be able to make WNY a better place for, and because of, immigrants and refugees were it not for the great people on our team and in the community.

Aug 14

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UB's Social Impact Fellowship students that were hosted here at the IIB

UB Students Spend the Summer With IIB To Find Solutions

By Jeff Mayne News

From left: Ajit Pawar, Nicholas Bush, and Abbey Szarowicz (Photo Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki) by Claire Hackbush This summer, the University at Buffalo's Social Impact Fellows program selected the International Institute of Buffalo as one of just eleven regional non-profit organizations to host students so they could use their multidisciplinary backgrounds to address pressing social issues in the community. For…

Aug 13

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Fig Tree Pâtisserie Sweetens Your Donations to IIB Through August

By Jeff Mayne Donations, News

Fig Tree Pâtisserie wants to help our newest neighbors settle in Western New York. The custom bakery, known for specialty bakery items, is sweetening the deal! As an incentive through the month of August, Fig Tree is offering up to $5 worth of sweet treats to folks who donate basic household items. These donations will go a long way toward…

Aug 13

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IIB Virtual Training: Intro to Community Interpreting

By Jeff Mayne I/T Service Update

Intro to Community Interpreting Join us for a virtual 8-hour course covering the most basic foundational principles of community interpreting. Open to interpreters of all levels, Introduction to Community Interpreting is a training session meant for beginners in the field of interpreting but also serves as a great refresher course for already seasoned professionals who like to keep their foundational…

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Molina Healthcare Donates Bookbags, School Supplies to Help New American Students!

Recruting: In-Person Interpreters and Document Translators

IIB Virtual Linguist Training: Intro to Legal Document Translation

Donations Urgently Needed: New Refugee Families Arriving in September

IIB Welcomes 39 New Americans from 18 Countries!

UB Students Spend the Summer With IIB To Find Solutions

Fig Tree Pâtisserie Sweetens Your Donations to IIB Through August

IIB Virtual Training: Intro to Community Interpreting

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