News & Views

HIAS PA’s 2023 Golden Door Awards

Honoree Spotlight: Nelofar Asadi Nelofar Asadi fled to the United States as an unaccompanied minor during the US withdrawal from… MORE

HIAS PA’s Executive Director, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, and Board member, Sara Jacobson, named to City and State PA’s 2022 Pennsylvania Nonprofit Power 100 list

HIAS PA’s Executive Director, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, and Board member, Sara Jacobson, have been recognized on City and State PA‘s 2022… MORE

The U.S. marks World Refugee Day, even as it accepts fewer refugees

“Our immigration system does this over and over again,” said Cathryn Miller-Wilson, executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania, one of Philadelphia’s… MORE

HIAS Pennsylvania’s 2022 Golden Door Awards: We Are America

Thank you for joining us! Watch the 2022 Golden Door Awards again here: HIAS PA – May 24, 2022 from… MORE

How You’ve Helped

Dear HIAS PA Supporter, On Monday, HIAS PA held our 3rd annual day of advocacy in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin… MORE

Pennsylvania advocates push to extend program for Liberians

HIAS Pennsylvania is among other Pennsylvania advocates that have been working to make sure Liberian Refugees apply for Liberian Refugee… MORE

HIAS PA Closes for Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah – 2021

HIAS Pennsylvania will be closed on Monday, September 6th, 2021, for Labor Day, and on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7th… MORE

Money Moves: More than $13M has been awarded to local nonprofits in the past few months

Money moves: More than $13M has been awarded to local nonprofits in the past few months

Top Ten Ways to Support Immigrants and Refugees 

Volunteer to support our social services, from setting up a newly arrived refugee family’s apartment to accompanying immigrants to their… MORE

An Open Letter to the HIAS Pennsylvania Community

I write today to inform the public that HIAS Pennsylvania is requiring all of its staff and interns to be… MORE

TONIGHT (4/20) - Join us ONLINE at the 2023 Golden Door Awards!

Join us ONLINE at 6:45PM TONIGHT, Thursday, April 20th, for HIAS PA's 2023 Golden Door Awards: United for Immigrants!

Happy Passover from HIAS Pennsylvania!HIAS PA is closed in observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover

HIAS Pennsylvania will be closed in observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover from 1PM on Wednesday, April 5th through Friday, April 7th, and on Wednesday, April 12th and Thursday, April 13th.

Join us at the 2023 Golden Door Awards!United for Immigrants

The Golden Door Awards is HIAS Pennsylvania's annual fundraiser. Your generous support helps us serve low-income immigrants from all over the world as they build new lives in our community.

Building closed until further noticeHIAS PA remains open!

HIAS PA’s physical offices at 600 Chestnut Street are CLOSED until further notice due to a burst pipe in the building.

Our organization remains open, and HIAS PA staff continue to work remotely at this time.

Please call (215) 832-0900 with any questions.

Building closed until further noticeHIAS PA remains open!

HIAS PA’s physical offices at 600 Chestnut Street are CLOSED until further notice due to a burst pipe in the building.

Our organization remains open, and HIAS PA staff continue to work remotely at this time.

Please call (215) 832-0900 with any questions.

TONIGHT: Join us at the table!Join us for Thankful Together!

Thankful Together, formerly known as Refugee Thanksgiving, is happening TONIGHT at 6PM!

Register here to join us tonight: https://hiaspa1.wpengine.com/event/thankful-together-2021/

Celebrate our volunteers who make this all possible!Click here at 11:45AM to join our Annual Meeting!

Click here to join our virtual Annual Meeting!

The Annual Meeting starts at noon, but join us at 11:45AM for an informal chat before the event!

POSTPONED! Speed Advocacy: Afghanistan

Today's Speed Advocacy: Afghanistan Facebook Live event has been postponed due to a worldwide Facebook outage. We will update you as soon as possible about rescheduling the event.