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Global Refuge Ambassador Network
Global Refuge Ambassadors are the lead mobilizers. They stir the public into action by organizing, convening, representing, and advocating for the work of welcome in contexts across the country.
The Global Refuge Ambassador Network is a nationwide community, made up of passionate advocates, volunteers, and leaders from all walks of life. They are all united by their passion and commitment to stand in solidarity with Global Refuge and the newcomers we serve.
With active support and training from Global Refuge staff, Ambassadors carry out a wide variety of work on the ground in their communities. From organizing awareness campaigns and advocacy actions to hosting prayer vigils and social media takeovers or gathering supplies to aid local crisis response, it is the Ambassadors that embody Global Refugee’s local response in times and areas of need.
Together, Ambassadors carry out the work of welcome from their local context, and equip others to do the same.
Sound like you or someone you know? Apply or share with a world-changer you know today!
Applications to join the Ambassador Network are considered bi-annually, so don’t wait!
We’ll provide resources, tools, and ideas for potential actions associated with each role, but the sky is the limit! Ambassadors are encouraged to think creatively, mix and match, and discern how they can best use their gifts and show up in the world as an Global Refuge Ambassador.
Ambassadors will attend an Ambassador Orientation and decide which of the four core roles they will commit to. Ambassadors should plan to dedicate time and energy to integrating this work into their lives. While the Global Refuge Mobilization team will be there to provide resources, trainings, and support, it is the responsibility of the Ambassador to ensure they are working with their community and leveraging their strengths to support Global Refuge in welcoming immigrants and refugees. While this will look different depending on the person, their interests, and their community’s needs, Ambassadors should plan to dedicate time each week to the Network, whether posting on social media, staying abreast of immigration news and issues, attending a training, or meeting with their local community. Ambassadors will submit Quarterly Impact Reports and collaborate with other Ambassadors and Global Refuge staff to brainstorm ideas. To stay active in the program, Ambassadors must complete 3 action items per year.
Global Refuge volunteers show up and offer time to respond to an immediate local need. Ambassadors, on the other hand, do the pre-work to communicate that need and organize the response. For example, if there were a local need to provide food or perishable goods like sandwiches, the volunteers would show up to assemble and package the sandwiches. The Ambassadors would have bought the sandwich ingredients and reserved the space.
Both roles are essential to orchestrating local action, and both have their place regardless of the specific need. Even when the need is not as tangible as physical items like food or water, the two roles work in tandem in the same way. Ambassadors represent Global Refuge by communicating local needs and helping organize the public into action. The Volunteers sign up and show up, and act as the hands, feet, and voices that carry out the work of welcome.
Ambassadors are welcome to participate in any or all of our volunteer opportunities. However, they are first and foremost invited and encouraged to develop fluency in Global Refuge’s outreach efforts in order to become spokespeople and mobilizers within their communities. Ambassadors make a greater degree of commitment to use their gifts and passions to uniquely transform their respective spaces into havens of welcome and hubs of action as representatives, advocates, philanthropists, creators, or conveners.
Ambassadors are invited to use their unique interests and skills to make an impact through 4 core roles: Representative, Advocate, Philanthropist, and organizer.
Representative: Represent Global Refuge at meetings and events in your local community, including brief presentations about ways individuals and communities can get involved.
Advocate: Focus efforts on learning about and advancing for policies around just, humane immigration policies.
Philanthropist: Inspire transformative generosity in support of immigrants and refugees through the Global Refuge mission.
Organizer: Host events to engage new communities and individuals in Global Refuge annual programs and campaigns.
We’ll provide resources, tools, and ideas for potential actions associated with each role, but the sky is the limit! Ambassadors are encouraged to think creatively, mix and match, and discern how they can best use their gifts and show up in the world as a Global Refuge Ambassador.