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.

Sierra Leone Community in Minnesota

5701 SHINGLE CREEK PKWY STE 275, BROOKLYN CTR, MN 55430-2339

Sierra Leone Community in Minnesota is a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Sierra Leonean and West African community organization in the Twin Cities providing education support and scholarships, youth leadership and cultural programming, health-prevention education, and food/senior assistance.

Mission

Community Health, Youth Leadership Training, Community Food Security, Education Support...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Cultural programming: “The SLCM Youth Ensemble includes community youth from 10 to 20 years.”
  • Education / youth: “Scholarships for college-bound students in Minnesota, and schools supplies for K-12 students”
  • Food assistance: “Our volunteers work with cities and communities to provide critical services such as food donations for the needy.”
  • Health education: “SLCM offers various levels of training in commercial tobacco products prevention and”

Website in English only.

Communities served

Sierra Leonean.

Contact

Founded 2011. IRS NTEE code P84. Revenue $100,000-499,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 26-0322740.

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).