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For more than a century, NSC has worked tirelessly to serve immigrants and refugees in Philadelphia. Our work is frequently covered by the media.

Nationalities Service Center was originally founded in 1921 as the International Institute of Philadelphia under the umbrella of the YWCA. By 1934...
The Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience (PPR) was recently featured in Philadelphia Neighborhoods. Through the PPR program, clients who have...
In commemoration of World TB Day, the Philadelphia Department of Health, the Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers, and the Drexel University...
Staff from NSC's Health and Wellness department have been selected to present an hour long workshop at the upcoming North American Refugee Health...
National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP) is a U.S. based network of programs which exists to advance the knowledge, technical...

The Impact of 100 Women

"Elizabeth Zack, a humble woman with a "why not?" attitude, calls it "just a nugget of an idea." Yet she and the growing group she founded last summer...
Register now for Stolen Dollars and Sense: Breaking the Silence of Labor Trafficking at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, March 25th. The...
NSC staff and clients were featured recently as part of a story on refugee self-sufficiency at ShareAmerica.gov. NSC is grateful to the support Iovine...
In 1962, NSC began resettling Cuban refugees in cooperation with other resettlement agencies, including Church World Service and International Rescue...
"Last February, twelve women walked into the kitchen on the fourth floor of the central branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. They came from...