Our Mission

The mission of AIRC is to empower and prepare African Immigrants and families to achieve their immigration,
employment, Healthcare, and housing potentials to the fullest while building
diversity and actively opposing racial discrimination.
AIRC strives to be an organization that ensures people are financially able to support themselves and their families while building a stable and fulfilling future.
AIRC is guided by the vision that all people will achieve respect, value, and success at home, and
in the workplace. AIRC is determined to help unleash the untapped resources and assets of the
African immigrant community, to overcome systemic and cultural barriers.

Our Great Story

In April 2011, the idea for an individual to single-handily render services to his community was
brought to an end, and an agreement was reached to transform this effort into an organized
body, the African Immigrant Resource Center (AIRC). In June 2014, AIRC was granted an
Employment Identification Number (EIN), with the Internal Revenue Service, and registered
with the Minnesota Secretary of State Office. AIRC’s focus and purpose is to build new
possibilities and opportunities through its programs, referrals, public engagement, and
innovative access to resources for African Immigrants, refugees, and asylum. Following the
reaching of the agreement, and through effective coordination, AIRC undertook an exercise
that restructured its establishment with three unique and culturally appropriate programs:
Immigration and naturalization, employment/job training, Healthcare, and Affordable housing.
AIRC is with the conviction that these efforts will build social capital through more informed
and increased civic participation to close the resource information gaps and eliminate access
disparities that disproportionately affect the capacities of historically disadvantaged African
immigrants to achieve self-advocacy.