This year’s training’s will take place at the following college and universities:
• University of Michigan –  Feb. 18
• Hendrix College – Feb. 25
• Columbia University – March 3
• University of Minnesota – March 17
• University of Arizona – March 24
• American University – March 31
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – April 21
• University of California, Irvine – May 19

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 26, 2012) — The Organization of Chinese Americans has received a  $157,500 grant from State Farm for support of its 2012 APA Youth Leadership Summit, APIA U: Leadership 101 Training, and the upcoming JACL/OCA Leadership Summit.

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Media project students at orientation.

By MAI HOANG
AAP contributing writer

ST. PAUL (Jan. 7, 2011) — A class of Minority Media Training is official opening on Saturday at  Asian Community Technology Center in St. Paul.

Asian Community Media Institute is organizing this 10 day training project with the financial support by the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area Self Development of People Committee. The goal of the project is to help low income and minority adult students to obtain some basic information about operations of four media areas of: Newspaper, Radio, Television and Web.

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The final Student Visas & Citizenship Workshop will be held Oct. 8, from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the main auditorium of Hennepin Technical College — Brooklyn Park Campus, 9000 Brooklyn Boulevard, Brooklyn Park.

Anyone interested in information and processes for receiving F-1 student visas, green cards, and citizenship should attend the forum. Legal permanent residents who want to become US citizens are encouraged to attend the forum. The event is sponsored by Hennepin Technical College’s Multicultural/International Office.

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U.S. – China Business Connections will hold its next Networking and Breakfast Meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the McNamara Center of Dunwoody College, 818 Dunwoody Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55403.

The October topic will be “Navigating Chaos–Creating Effective Relationships with Confucius & His Capitalist Heirs”, with guest presenter, Dr. Peter J. Stark, Assistant Professor, Augsburg College, Managing Principal, Chaos Navigation, Inc.

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Mai Neng Moua (AAP photo)

Fifty Hmong women from Minnesota will convene in southeastern Minnesota for the first ever Hmong women writers’ conference on September 9-11, 2011 at Villa Maria Retreat Center, 29847 Co. 2 Blvd., Frontenac, MN 55026.

The Hmong Women Write Now retreat is being hosted by Hnub Tshiab: Hmong Women Achieving Together, a nonprofit that acts as a catalyst to improve the lives of Hmong women and girls. The conference is being hosted in collaboration with St. Paul-based Hmong Arts Connection (HArC), an arts organization that nurtures and promotes the literary arts in the Hmong community.

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Asian Economic Development Association is presenting the “Branding and Creating a Business District at University Avenue and Western” workshop on Thurs., Aug. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kings Crossing community room at Frogtown Square, 500 North Dale Street, St. Paul. The city has begun creating a marketing and branding plan to support the small businesses along the intersection of University Avenue and Western Avenue. The plan will brand an Asian business district at University Avenue and Western.

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Does the MSP metro area deserve the “F” grade awarded by the Minneapolis Chamber for Minority Business Development? Please join us for a community roundtable on this topic.

The College of Business and Organizational Leadership, Concordia University Community Development, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis will explore these topics with a Community Roundtable on the State of ALANA Businesses in Minnesota, 2011 on August 5, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Concordia University-St. Paul, President’s Conference Room, Dining Hall (Building 2 on Map), 275 N Syndicate Street, St Paul, MN 55104. (http://www.csp.edu/AboutUs/CampusMaps/CSP-Map.pdf)

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By WUA XIONG
AAP staff writer

Saint Paul, Minn. (July 22, 2011) — This past Friday, The University of Minnesota’s Broadband Access Project held a free two part training session on Quick Books for Saint Paul Public Housing at the Asian Community Technology Center.

Barbara Engram, 61, a PEER with the Presidents Council, was one of the many trainees that day.  “I’m real happy with it because right now I am the acting treasurer for two of the high rises and we do all of the paperwork by hand.  With the adding and the subtracting of everything Quick Books is going to make it a lot easier so that we can just enter it and have it put it into the right funds for us.”

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The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) will train over 60 community leaders during its 13th annual Leadership and Advocacy Training on July 24-26 in Washington, DC.

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Brooklyn Park, MN (June 1, 2011) – - The Brooklyn Bridge Alliance for Youth, a newly formed group from the areas of Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center, will be sponsoring a community summit on the importance of after school learning in the fall of 2011.

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