NASHUA
\CULTURAL
CONNECTIONS
COMMITTEE
August 30, 2016
Mayor Jim Donchess
Office of Mayor, City Hall
P.O. Box 2019
Nashua NH 03061
Dear Mayor Donchess,
It is with great enthusiasm to write this letter of endorsement on behalf of the Cultural Connections
Committee to support and encourage the City of Nashua to become a Welcoming City in the State of
New Hampshire.
The City of Nashua and the Mayor’s Office has already demonstrated a commitment to diversity by
instituting and supporting the Cultural Connections Committee and its mission to encourage
understanding and appreciation of ethnic diversity in the City of Nashua and to facilitate communication
between the ethnic community and city government. Becoming a Welcoming City through Welcoming
America will further this mission by providing educational opportunities and new tools to engage all
relevant sectors of the city to collaboratively commit to the creation of a welcoming climate and
sustaining a long term plan for integration. At this time, when Nashua has been named as one of the top
100 most diverse cities in the nation (Wallethub, 2016), the move to become a Welcoming City is both
timely and necessary in order to maintain a communal and municipal climate that builds a healthy and
prosperous City grown out of this diversity.
The members of the Cultural Connections Committee applaud and support, without reservation, the
immediate signing and return of the commitment form to Welcome America, declaring Nashua a
Welcoming City in the State of New Hampshire.
Signed on behalf of the esteemed members of the Cultural Connections Committee,
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Jean M. Adie, Co-Chair |
“Cultural Connections Committee
SEP 6 2016
