Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

African Association of Madison

PO BOX 1016, MADISON, WI 53701-1016

African Association of Madison is a nonprofit organization in Madison, Wisconsin that serves immigrants and refugees.

The African Association of Madison serves the African immigrant community in the Greater Madison area with cultural programming (Africa Fest), free immigration counseling clinics, a food pantry, and employment/educational workshops.

Mission

TO PRESERVE EDUCATE CITIZENS ABOUT AFRICAN CULTURE TO PRESERVE & EDUCATE CITIZENS ABOUT AFRICAN CULTURE. AAM ORGANIZES AN ALL-AFRICA PICNIC EVERY JULY (ABOUT 100 ATTEND), AND A NEW YEAR'S EVE GALA EVERY DEC. 31 (ABOUT 100 ATTEND), TO PROVIDE OCCASIONS FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TO SOCALIZE, EXCHANGE INFORMATION, AND PROVIDE MUTUAL SUPPORT. THE ANNUAL MEETING ALSO SERVES THIS PURPOSE. DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, NEITHER THE ALL-AFRICA PICNIC NOR THE NEW YEAR'S EVE GALA WAS HELD DURING 2020.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Cultural programming: “AFRICA FEST, started in Madison in 1998, is a family day of music, dance, and other performing arts.”
  • Employment / job training: “Workshops on preparing new immigrants for the job market, as well as seminars for employers on how to deal with new immigrant workers.”
  • Food assistance
  • Legal / immigration: “AAM members can receive free immigration counseling services. The service is provided by immigration lawyers from the community.”

Website in English only.

Communities served

African.

Service area: Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin.

Contact

Founded 1994. IRS NTEE code Z99Z. Revenue $25,000-99,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 39-1756313.

Other organizations in Madison

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).