Carnegie Corporation’s focus on strategic communications is designed to promote balanced and nuanced coverage of immigrants and immigration in the news media.  Like the other facets of the Corporation’s strategy in this area, strategic communications necessitates an integrated strategy focused on national, regional, and local messaging. 

The Corporation’s major grantee in this area, America’s Voice Education Fund strengthens the immigrant integration reform movement’s messaging, coordinates and trains groups and constituencies, and responds to anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media. A campaign-style communications and rapid-response media entity, America’s Voice Education Fund takes the communications lead in comprehensive immigration reform, while coordinating communications efforts among local and national allies.  

Priorities for the coming year include:  

• Increase in balanced and nuanced coverage of immigrants and immigration in the news media, with increased pro-integration messaging and reduced anti-immigrant rhetoric

• Quantifiable increase and improvement in new alliances that will create the political conditions for developing and passing sound policy

• Demonstrated growth in communications skills of field allies