Hi Reader,
As we ring in the New Year with plans for 2025, we wanted to share a roundup of things that are happening in the first part of the year!
First, you’ve met Cruz Cabrera, our Interpretation & Linguistic Manager, who joined us in the middle of last year. In 2025, Cruz will be World Speaks’ fourth full-time employee! Cruz has done an incredible job so far at World Speaks, and we are so excited that she is joining us full-time.
Spring Classes will open in early March, bringing our community more opportunities to learn Spanish, American Sign Language and English in the new year. If you are new to the World Speaks family, classes are FREE thanks to a grant from the Weitz Family Foundation and only require a $15 registration fee. If you want to register early and secure a spot – you are in the right place! All newsletter subscribers get a head start on registering. Check your email in the first week of March for our first registration email of the year!
Language Access Week, our weeklong celebration of language access & language justice in Nebraska, is back for its second year! Mark your calendars for June 9-13, 2025, for a weeklong celebration of those working towards language access in our communities! We’re planning Language Access Week now, and we’ll share more later this spring!
And as for Open Doors, the program we launched last January, it is still going strong! Since our launch, we’ve established a reliable network with partners like the CIRA (Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement) and Restoring Dignity. We’ve conducted translation and interpretation for organizations involved in housing justice and we hope 2025 will allow Open Doors to remain a pivotal tool for promoting equity and celebrating linguistic diversity!
All of this happens thanks to the generosity of our supporters! While we didn’t reach our end of year giving goal of $2,000, you helped us raise $1,533 at the end of 2024! The money donated will help us with our educational efforts, provide support for our work with Open Doors, and help us with class materials, facilities and more for our community classes!
We know that language access will be more important in 2025 than ever – and if you want to be more involved, scroll to the end of this email to see how you can help World Speaks in 2025!
