Welcoming Week

Through Welcoming Week, organizations and communities bring together neighbors of all backgrounds to build strong connections and affirm the importance of welcoming and inclusive places in achieving collective prosperity.*

logos of Welcoming America and Welcoming Week

Welcoming Week is an annual campaign that celebrates the work in communities to become welcoming places for all, including immigrants. Launched in 2012 by Welcoming America and its members, Welcoming Week provides individuals and organizations the opportunity to showcase their values through events and initiatives that foster connections and collaboration between immigrants and non-immigrants, as well as belonging for all. [source]

The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs holds and invites your library to hold a Welcoming Week event, and join communities across the globe that recognize that welcoming each and everyone of us makes our communities stronger economically, socially, and culturally.

Get ready!  Plan a library Welcoming Week activity.

ADD your welcoming activity to the Libraries for Peace map, and share your celebration event worldwide.

Our Welcoming Week celebrations

The Mortenson Center, in collaboration with the New American Welcome Center,  and Illinois International- Global Relations will have a Human Library Event as part of the events featured during 2025 National Welcoming week. The event will feature immigrants and international students living in Champaign-Urbana as human books. Each human “book” will be available during the event to interact with “readers” and talk to them about their native country. Topics covered in the conversations include among others geographic location, cuisine, languages spoken and culture. Snacks, arts & crafts will be offered as part of the event. Open to all ages!

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