Some Community based organizations serving African Immigrants in Minnesota

1. African Aid — primarily a mental health planning organization
2. Access 2020 — Provide English for Somali native speaker - Serving the metro area
3. Africa Center for Peace and Democracy — Citizen engagement, St. Paul
4. Africa Network for Development — Policy analysis and democracy education, Metro area
5. African American Friendship Association for Cooperation and Development, Employment and disability service, St. Paul - Serving Metro area
6. African American Relief and development initiative, Minneapolis — providing refugee services
7. African Relief Agency for the horn of Africa — Refugee resettlement services, Minneapolis - Serving twin cities area
8. African Assistance Program — primarily multi-service Liberian - Serving organization in West Metro area
9. African Community Services — primarily employment services to Somali community in Minneapolis
10. African Development Center — Minneapolis-based business development agency
11. African Services CAC — Dakota County, shelter and domestic abuse cases - Serving Africans in Dakota county
12. African Refugee Support Services, Inc. — St. Paul-based social service and community development services
13. Africa Solutions — Minneapolis-based multi-service organization
14. African Women's Resource Center — domestic abuse services for African women
15. American Oromo Community of MN — St. Paul-based Oromo multi-service organization
16. Bong Kwatehkeh Association — Culture focus, Champlin, MN - Serving the Metro area
17. Buunsa Gonofa International — educational services to East African Muslim youth
18. Center for Families — Employment training, financial education and housing - Serving the metro Area
19. Confederation of the Somali Community of MN — multi-service Somali organization
20. Eftin — primarily youth services in the Burnsville and Apple Valley area
21. Ghanaian Association of Minnesota — Culture and community education - Metro Area
22. Good Image Family Services — youth and HIV services
23. Haboon Magazine — Somali specific articles
24. Health Education and Development — Somali health education services
25. Hope International — St. Paul based healthcare access
26. Immigrant Credit Education and Financial Counseling — Minneapolis-based
27. International Self-Reliance Agency for Women — Minneapolis-based advocacy services for African women
28. LEAD Group — primarily training, technical assistance and training to African-led groups/organizations
29. Kenya American Association — Serving new immigrants from Kenya, Crystal - Metro area
30. Liberian Women's Initiatives of MN — serving Liberian women and girls in Brooklyn Center
31. Midwest Learning Center — educational services to Somali youth
32. Minnesota African Refugees and Immigrant Initiatives — Crystal-based mentoring program
33. Minnesota African Women's Association — multiple services to Pan-African women and girls
34. New Sudan-America Hope, Rochester — Serving newly arrived immigrants from Sudan - Metro neighboring cities
35. Center for Families — Minneapolis - providing office location and site for community meetings with related services - Serves the metro area
36. Oromo Community Inc — multi-service Oromo organization in Minneapolis
37. Relief Association for Southern Sudan in MN — Minneapolis-based advocacy and community-building
38. Sub-Sahara Youth & Family Services — Health/HIV services to East Africans
39. Sierra Leone Union — one of several fledgling Sierra Leone unincorporated groups
40. Somali Action Alliance — primarily community organizing
41. Somali American Friendship Association — Minneapolis-based social service/integration services
42. Somali Benadiri Community of MN — serving the Somali Benadiri community
43. Somali Education Center — Minneapolis-based supplemental education services
44. Somali Children Association of Minnesota — Minneapolis-based child abuse prevention services
45. Somali Health Project — Minneapolis-based HIV/AIDS services
46. Somali International Minorities of America — Minneapolis-based Pillsbury United is fiscal agent
47. Somali Justice Advocacy Center — primarily community advocacy
48. Somali Mai Community of MN — serving the Mai community, based in Minneapolis
49. Somali Parent Teacher Association — Minneapolis-based parental involvement
50. Somali Success School — Minneapolis-based spin off from Summit Academy
51. Somali Women in Minnesota (SWIM) — Somali women's advocacy as part of larger organization (SWIM) Some serve . Minneapolis-based literacy programming within the Somali community
52. Tawfiq Islamic Center — a North Minneapolis Mosque for Oromo Muslims
53. Tegloma Federation — Serving Serria Leonian community - Metro Area
54. Umunne Cultural Association — Cultural education and community build among Igbo speaking Nigerians - State wide
55. Umoja Society — community-building within the Tanzanian and Swahili-speaking community
56. Women's Initiatives for Self Empowerment (WISE) — multi-cultural, multi-services for women and girls