From La Noticia: 

"Estamos profundamente agradecidos con todo nuestro personal extraordinario, voluntarios, socios de la comunidad, donantes y participantes que han creído y contribuido al programa FaithAction ID a lo largo de los años. Es sorprendente ver cómo este pequeño proyecto piloto que comenzó en Greensboro ahora resuena como una solución innovadora para servir, amar y proteger mejor a las personas en movimiento en todo el mundo", agregó Fraccaro.

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From The Guardian: 

"Where was the Upside?
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At the BridgeBuilder Awards, which doled out $1m in seed funding for ideas to help refugees and displaced people." 

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From News & Record: 

​"FaithAction International House has won a share of a $1 million prize for its innovative and thoughtful approach for getting immigrants, the homeless and others a form of identification that's recognized by agencies — populations that typically don't have the necessary documents needed to get traditional forms of ID.

​The international BridgeBuilder 2019 Top Ideas competition sought out new approaches to some of the world's most urgent needs involving migrants and refugees."

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GHR envisions a world in which all children—especially those without, or at risk of losing, parental care—are living in a stable, positive, long-term family. Global research demonstrates that children raised in families have better cognitive, emotional and social outcomes than those living outside family care.

Recognizing that advancing this vision required learning from those already in the field, GHR partnered with Alia Innovations, a Saint Paul-based organization driving transformative change for the people and systems entrusted with the welfare and care of children.

Collaboration with Alia illuminated a clear need in the care sector for an accessible, easily applicable, universal messaging system around the long-term benefits of family care for children. Turning to the Frameworks Institute in Washington, D.C, GHR and Alia worked to develop simple, compelling, and far-reaching messaging strategies to advance their common efforts to preserve family connections around the globe, while simultaneously spreading this call to action to partners worldwide.

GHR hosted a webinar in May 2019, led by the Frameworks Institute, to share with partners in the space the initial messages and framing strategies -- interrogating the ideas behind them, and generating critical discussion and feedback. Language was added around attachment and love as an angle of the brain architecture, a message that FrameWorks found to be effective among broader audiences. 
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Based on these resultant recommendations, Frameworks then crafted a day-long workshop for advocates in the care sector, covering framing techniques aimed at ensuring that specific, clear messaging was communicated to relevant audiences in a manner that was persuasive and easily applicable. Held a few days prior to the Elevate Children Funder’s Group Annual General Meeting, several members of ECFG were in attendance, creating a space where advocates could share their personal experiences and learnings.

The next steps in this process include using these framing recommendations for future communications around family strengthening and care for children, and supporting initiatives doing the same.  

From Thomas Reuters Foundation News:

"Syrian businesswoman Souad Nanaa, a refugee who co-founded SAMA for All, said she wanted to promote cultural exchange.

"In the minds of the people, culture is for the elite – it's not for all," she said by phone from Paris.

"I decided to take on this challenge because of my belief that these people have their own culture, and exchange of culture among people is very good."
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GHR Foundation today announces the winners of its BridgeBuilder global innovation challenge, awarding $1 million to the best ideas that address urgent global issues relating to ‘People on the Move’.

There are currently more than 70.8 million men, women and children who are forcibly displaced worldwide – more than at any time in the past 70 years – and there is an urgent need for radical, innovative solutions.

This year’s BridgeBuilder Challenge saw social innovators, including currently or previously displaced persons, design approaches that will improve conditions for those displaced or better support host communities.

The top five Ideas have been selected for their promise to promote meaningful engagement, greater social cohesion and sustainable, community-led change. They will each receive a share of $1 million in seed funding from GHR Foundation and will join a cohort of innovative organisations working to address urgent needs.

The BridgeBuilder 2019 Top Ideas are as follows:

• Top Manta (Barcelona, Spain) – Activating a migrant-led streetwear movement for opportunity and solidarity

• Five One Labs (Kurdistan Region, Iraq) – Incubating the post-conflict potential of youth- and women-founded start-ups

• SAMA for All (Paris, France) – Transforming cultural exchanges by training newcomers as art interpreters

• FaithAction (United States) – Reimagining the i.d. card to foster trust and safety among newneighbors

​ • Talent Beyond Boundaries (MENA, Australia & Canada) – Unlocking global pathways to international employment and safety for refugees

Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation runs the annual Challenge in collaboration with OpenIDEO, the open innovation practice from global design firm IDEO. In its third year, BridgeBuilder gathered over 450 ideas from 30,000 participants in 165 countries. Materials were translated into 11 languages resulting in 71 ideas submitted by people who are currently or have previously experienced displacement.

Submissions were collaborative, principles-based, community-rooted and people-centered – all building bridges in unique, innovative ways.

Amy Goldman, chief executive officer and chair of GHR Foundation, said:
“For our third BridgeBuilder, People on the Move was a natural focus. We wanted to spotlight and support ideas that are desperately needed to improve the lives of migrants and refugees. More than that, though, we wanted to help change the narrative – to elevate the status of those who have experienced displacement as skilled and creative innovators themselves.”
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Jason Rissman, managing director of OpenIDEO, added:
"We’ve been so inspired by the global response to BridgeBuilder this year. Yet again, all of the ideas submitted were bold, creative and full of potential. We are especially delighted to count people with firsthand experience amongst our winners – and we’re confident that this cohort will continue to build on their successes to date, creating genuine impact for this often underserved and overlooked community."

Watch the video to learn more about this year's BridgeBuilders.