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(The national perspective is excerpted from Out of Many, One - A History of the Immigration and Refugee Services of America * Network, 1998, IRSA, by Margi Dunlap and Nicholas Montalto)
By the end of its first 20 years, the International Institute movement had formed an identity of its own: the movement was multiethnic, power was shared, and the richness of diverse culture and identities was valued. It was committed to empowering immigrant community leaders with training and authority within the organization. The movement was non-sectarian, open to a wide array of religious and philosophical belief systems brought from all over the world.
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