Funding & Acknowledgments

Funding

Funding for A Place To Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life In America was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, as a follow-up to our groundbreaking 2002 study on this subject, "Now That I'm Here," also funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote “the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” For over 95 years the Corporation has carried out Carnegie’s vision of philanthropy by building on this two major concerns: international peace and advancing education and knowledge.

Founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Public Agenda works to help the nation’s leaders better understand the public’s point of view and to help average citizens better understand critical policy issues.

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Acknowledgments

The authors of A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life in America would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance during the preparation of this report:

• Our partners at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, especially Geri Mannion and Susan King, for providing us the opportunity to conduct this research and the freedom to explore the issues without constraint or bias;
• Jean Johnson, for her direction and assistance;
• Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett, of the Farkas Duffett Research Group, for their consultation and guidance at the beginning stages of this research;
• Samantha DuPont and Liz Swinehart, who also contributed to this effort;
• Shaheen Hasan and Melissa Feldsher, for bringing our work to the attention of a broad audience;
• Francie Grace, David White, Peiting Chen and Allison Rizzolo, of PublicAgenda.org, for producing a distinctive and highly informative online version of this report;
• And Public Agenda President Ruth A. Wooden, for her vision, insight and guidance.