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.

Minnesota African Womens Association

Also known as MAWA.

5701 SHINGLE CREEK PKWY, BROOKLYN CENTER, MN 55430-2467

Minnesota African Womens Association is a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota that serves immigrants and refugees.

MAWA serves African refugee and immigrant women and girls in the Twin Cities with health education, an after-school leadership/college-access program for girls, financial literacy, workforce training, civic engagement, and cultural programming.

Mission

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Civic engagement: “After school program focusing on environment, civic engagement, college attendance, reproductive health education, financial literacy etc to 120 African immigrant and refugee girls around the Twin Cities.”
  • Cultural programming: “Cultural Advocacy We celebrate African cultures and promote understanding and appreciation in the broader community.”
  • Education / youth: “the need for college attendance programming and health education has increased within the target community”
  • Financial literacy: “financial literacy etc to 120 African immigrant and refugee girls around the Twin Cities.”
  • Health education: “Health Education,pandemic education and vaccination support to African women, men and youth accross the Twin Cities.”
  • Refugee resettlement (R&P)

Website in English only.

Communities served

African.

Service area: Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

Federal recognition and registries

  • ORR refugee resettlement funding
  • ORR unaccompanied children program

Contact

Founded 2003. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $500,000-999,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 48-1259139.

Other organizations in Brooklyn Center

All organizations in Brooklyn Center | All organizations in Minnesota

Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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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).