Envisioning Vital Rural Communities

Full of Hope, Compassion, and Opportunity for all

CATCH prepares rural communities to welcome foreign born families as permanent residents.

While it’s easy to take a safe, supportive community for granted, this is a rare reality in many countries. By sponsoring legal immigrants, you can help them thrive and make a meaningful impact on our rural community.

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The CATCH Mission

CATCH prepares rural communities to welcome foreign born families as permanent residents.

CATCH aims to revitalize rural North Dakota by promoting legal immigration through private sponsorships, attracting foreign-born families as permanent residents to stimulate economic growth, echoing the success of the early 20th century.

 

Our Core Values

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Honesty

Accurately assess reality, telling the truth as best we know it,        at all times.

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Hope

Build real opportunity for a positive future for those who desire their rural communities to grow and thrive and for those seeking a safe place to raise a family.

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Empowerment

Enable rural places to take proactive steps in welcoming and integrating immigrants.

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Community

Create a welcoming environment that nurtures a sense of belonging and support for both existing residents and newcomers.

Immigration in North Dakota

As residents of North Dakota, we know the importance of hard work in our rural communities.

That’s why CATCH wants to spur a new wave of legal immigration to North Dakota as a means of expanding the workforce, population, and culture, as occurred during the turn of the 20th Century.

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What We Do

CATCH helps rural North Dakota communities work together in creating programs and strategies that bring foreign born families to rural places as permanent residents.

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Create Welcoming Environments

CATCH helps creates welcoming environments where refugees and immigrants can find safety and opportunity while helping rural communities grow and prosper.

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Partner with Local Organizations

CATCH empowers communities to embrace legal immigration, ensuring both new arrivals and rural residents benefit from this mutually supportive relationship through partnerships with local businesses, churches and nonprofits, government, and other organizations.

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Foster Economic Development

CATCH aims to reverse outmigration trends and bring economic vitality to North Dakota’s rural towns.

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Private Sponsorship

As a Private Sponsorship Organization of the Welcome Corps, CATCH empowers North Dakotans to make a difference by helping refugees resettle in rural communities.

The Benefits of Legal Immigration

At CATCH, being a resource for communities welcoming legal immigrants and giving them a safe place to work and call home is what we do.

CATCH supports the desire of refugees, asylees, and immigrants to establish roots in a new place.

We believe that they need us, and we need them.

Legal immigration in rural North Dakota provides many benefits to welcoming communities:

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Economic Growth

Legal immigrants can add to rural North Dakota’s growth by stimulating the economy.

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Workplace Support

Legal immigrants can fill labor gaps, especially in agriculture, healthcare, and manufacturing.

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Population Stabilization

Legal immigration can help stabilize or grow rural populations by attracting new families and workers.

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Cultural Enrichment

Legal immigrants bring diverse cultural perspectives, traditions, and practices that enrich the social fabric of rural communities.