Tacoma Community House is one of four winners of The Migration Policy Institute's second annual E Pluribus Unum awards for exceptional immigrant integration initiatives.

The program encourages the adoption of effective integration practices and includes a $50,000 prize.

Tacoma Community House was founded a century ago to help 4,000 Italian immigrants and their children settle in Tacoma. Today, it works with immigrants and refugees from more than 80 countries, helping them learn English, become U.S. citizens and contribute to the economic, cultural and civic life of Washington.

TCH also operates the statewide Literacy NOW Program, which has trained more than 35,000 volunteers who have assisted an estimated 115,000 immigrants at local literacy organizations.

The other E Pluribus Unum national award winners are the Latino Community Credit Union, Durham, N.C.; the New Americans Integration Initiative, a joint project of the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; and Upwardly Global, San Francisco, Calif.