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Economic Self-sufficiency Program
Community
Organizing Program
Better Health Alertness Program
Youth Enrichment Program
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Community Organizing Program (COP)
Community Organizing Project (COP), formerly
the African Workers Center (AWC) was designed to build capacity
within the African community to understand basic workers rights;
understand the role of workers in the local and global
economies; identify and eliminate racism and racist behaviors in
the community; advocate for safe and just work environments; and
support the community in participating fully as a vibrant and
necessary component of the local workforce. The COP works for a
kind of system change that reduces or eliminates racism,
promotes diversity and participation, and generates the hope,
courage, confidence and understanding Africans need to fulfill
their economic potential as new Americans. It serves the African
community in Minnesota by raising awareness about systemic
abuses against Africans immigrants and refugees, and provides
means to address these abuses through education, advocacy, and
community empowerment activities.
Since its inception, the Community Organizing
Program has been creating awareness about systemic issues in the
African community, building leadership and providing training to
sustain “Act our way into a new way of thinking”, an AAP’s
organizing theme created through a training led by Organizing
Apprenticeship Project (OAP). Since 2000 collaboration with OAP
and other organizers in the Twins Cities we have conducted 17
Community organizing training with over 300 participants.
For more information please contact
John Tarley at 763-560-8995 or
Andrew Suah at 763-560-9643
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