Building an army of support for refugees: Hello Neighbor’s Sloane Davidson S02EP15

We Can Be - The Heinz Endowments · Oct 9, 2019 · 27m

As the national rhetoric about refugees skews toward outright xenophobia, Hello Neighbor Founder and CEO Sloane Davidson is “creating an army of support” that is changing their lives and strengthening the fabric of neighborhoods.

At a 2016 family Thanksgiving dinner with five Syrian refugees who had recently resettled in Pittsburgh, Sloane realized something powerful was happening. She knew if she could help replicate the good vibes of that fellowship with other refugees and neighbors, both would be stronger for it.

Sloane felt the immense power of that human-to-human interaction, and with…