Minneapolis/St. Paul Human Services Organizations

Centro

Centro is a place where we offer respite from troubles, understanding to solve crises, education and encouragement to make change, nurturing and healing to strengthen families, art and culture to reaffirm our identity and value, and resources to build a better future.
Minneapolis, MN
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Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES)

Provider of behavioral health and human services to Latino community
St. Paul, MN
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Hamm Clinic

Mental Health Services
St. Paul, MN
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La Escuelita

Achieving educational equity in Minnesota through academic support and advocacy that empowers Latino youth and their families.
Minneapolis, MN
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Economic Development Organizations

Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC)

Creating economic development opportunities for Latinos
Minneapolis, MN
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Organizing & Advocacy Organizations

Jane Addams School for Democracy

The Jane Addams School for Democracy is a community-based civic engagement and democratic initiative. It is inspired by the vision of democracy, productive citizenship, and popular education held by settlement house pioneers like Jane Addams, who created Hull House in Chicago in 1889.
West St. Paul, MN
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Minnesota Free Trade Coalition

Oppose Korea Free Trade Agreement
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Hands Off Honduras

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Minnesota Cuba Committee

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Main Street Project

Works to document the strengths and challenges facing people in increasingly diverse rural communities, give voice to their hopes and aspirations, and provide creative and practical tools to turn possibilities into realities. Through programs focused on the need for media justice, economic development opportunities and broader civic participation, our commitment is to strengthen local capacity for problem solving - so that answers to challenges come directly from the community.
Minneapolis, MN
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Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network

Youth leadership development, civic engagement, and media justice.
St. Paul, MN
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Centro Campesino

Our mission is to improve the lives of migrant workers and rural Latina/os and to create a strong southern Minnesota Latino/a voice.
Owatonna, MN
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Midwest Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR)

Network of organizations promoting human rights in the Midwest region
Minneapolis, MN
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The Advocates for Human Rights

Human rights education and advocacy
St. Paul, MN
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Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MNAP)

Alliance of peace and justice organizations collaborating to achieve common goals
Minneapolis, MN
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The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Legal services for low-income immigrants
St. Paul, MN
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Minneapolis/St. Paul Academic Organizations

The Maya Society of Minnesota

Monthly programming on modern and ancient Maya culture
St. Paul, MN
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La Raza Student Cultural Center - University of Minnesota

La Raza is committed to serving the University of Minnesota, its students, staff, and faculty & surrounding communities with the resources necessary to connect with, share, and learn about the cultures of Central and South America.
Minneapolis, MN
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Chicano Studies - University of Minnesota

Promote critical understanding of Chicana/os and Latina/os of the United States.
Minneapolis, MN
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Human Rights Program - University of Minnesota

Educates students by connecting them with academic and real-world experience in the field of international human rights.
Minneapolis, MN
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HECUA - Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs

HECUA is an organization of 18 liberal arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to education for social justice. Together we shape academically rigorous, study-abroad and off-campus study programs that address the most pressing issues in our neighborhoods, nations and world.
St. Paul, MN
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National Human Rights Organizing & Advocacy

Bike Across America

Promoting healthy, sustainable food culture.
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Detention Watch Network

The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to educate the public and policy makers about the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for humane reform so that all who come to our shores receive fair and humane treatment.
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Dolores Huerta Foundation

Dignidad * Justicia * Respeto * To inspire and motivate people to organize sustainable communities to attain social justice.
Bakersfield, CA
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Latin-American News and Analysis

YES! Magazine

An ad-free non-profit publication supporting people’s active engagement in building a just and sustainable world. The heart of their work is to spotlight practical possiblities for deep shifts in our society.
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North American Congress on Latin-America (NACLA)

NACLA is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression and injustice, and enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, free from economic and political subordination. To that end, our mission is to provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.
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Upside Down World

An online magazine covering activism and politics in Latin-America made up of volunteer writers, activists, artists and regular citizen from around the globe interested in flipping the world upside down…or right side up. Provides concerned global citizens with independent reporting on Latin American social movements and governments that have refused to prostrate themselves to the interests of corporate globalization, and instead have focused their work on addressing the needs of the people.
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Latin-American Advocacy and Accompaniment

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)

Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. FOR’s Task Force of Latin America and the Caribbean (TFLAC) works to protect human rights in the region. USA Website

Peace Brigades International

Send international volunteers to areas of conflict, providing protective accompaniment to human rights defenders threated by political violence.
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U.S. Office on Colombia

The U.S. Office on Colombia is an independent non-profit organization, not affiliated with any political party, that seeks to educate U.S. policymakers, the media and the U.S. public about the impact of U.S. policy on Colombia. The U.S. Office on Colombia strives to shape more informed and humane U.S. policy in Colombia by connecting members of Colombian civil society with U.S. policy makers, and by involving U.S. citizens in the policy-making process.
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Witness for Peace

Supports peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Latin-American Education

Center for Global Education

One to three-week travel seminars bring participants face to face with people of other cultures and communities working for justice and dignity.
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Fair Trade Shopping

Regla de Oro

Fair trade gallery and gifts 1/2 block south of Lake St. on Lyndale Ave. in Minneapolis Website

Etica Fair Trade Wine

Drink like you give a damn.
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Peace Coffee

Fairly traded, farmer-friendly, and a great cup of coffee.
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Ten Thousand Villages

Provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed.
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