A.A.F.A.C.D.’S PARTNERS:

• Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE)
• Collaborate in partnership with WISE led to financial and technical support to develop in the Financial Literacy initiative for the following programs:
• Immigrants/Refugees (FLIIR)
• Empowering New Americans with Disabilities to Lead (ENADL)
• Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership (GGAL)
• Empowering Foreign Trained Health Care Professionals for Women

• High Ground Academy and Arlington High (St Paul based schools)
• Coordinate the GGAL initiative that focuses on art self identity, career exploration and higher education.

• Straitgate Church and Hope for the City
• Partner with to use food and miscellaneous supplies distribution as a means to organize and mobilize immigrants to share ideas, express concerns, make activity follow-up and strategies on solutions to common problems. 

• Midway WorkForce Center (MWFC)
• Mutual referrals, training and services to clientele, technical support from the MWFC staff established a “mini workforce training center” at AAFACD office
• The WFC continues to provide skills training, job search, resume workshops, unpaid internship for AAFACD clients, digitalized case management and database development.

• New American Collaborative partners
• Work with to bring together grassroots non-profit organizations with ethnic leadership.  Coordinate networking and leadership development programs for Asian, African and Latino communities.

• Mperial Health
• Collaborate with for international staffing and assistance on the empowerment of health, and its determents.