Community Change Through Community Engagement
CAPI’s Manufacturing Program
As manufacturing evolves, the focus on job training grows Star Tribune 1 Jan 2017 By DEE DePASS • dee.depass@startribune.com DAVID JOLES • djoles@startribune.com Century College instructor Tieng Vang counseled student Tou Vang while he worked on a circuit board at a CAPI USA course in Minneapolis. Minnesota manufacturers face [...]
CAPI’s Open House
The Adventure has Begun! Thank you to all those who joined us at our Open House and officially opening CAPI Immigrant Opportunity Center to the community. We look forward to working with the community!
CAPI Capital Campaign
CAPI is pleased to announce a Capital Campaign for the Immigrant Opportunity Center! CAPI’s Immigrant Opportunity Center is a game-changer. Immigrants are overwhelmingly hard-working, tax-paying citizens that are a key ingredient of Minnesota’s workforce and have played an increasingly important role in our state’s economic success. Immigrants do however experience [...]
UPDATE: Twin Cities World Refugee Day Cancelled for 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, we at CAPI believe that it is in the community’s best interest to cancel this year’s Twin Cities World Refugee Day (TCWRD) celebration and plan for an even better and bigger event next year. We are disappointed by the cancellation, but given [...]
CAPI March Food and Fund Drive
What started out as an annual fundraiser has changed into a call to action. At CAPI, what keeps us motivated is serving the most vulnerable among us—the elderly, the marginalized, and those determined to find a better way forward while struggling with food insecurity and lacking a livable [...]
Joint Statement: COVID-19 Related Racism
Joint Statement Asian Minnesotan Organizations Urge Communities and Leaders to Be Proactive About COVID-19 Related Racism and Violence Against Asian American and Pacific Islanders Tuesday, March 31, 2020 We are a set of Asian Minnesotan organizations serving our diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population across Minnesota. [...]
CAPI USA – Press Release – MCF Grant Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAPI USA TO PARTNER WITH 4 TWIN CITIES IMMIGRANT-LED NONPROFITS WITH $150,000 GRANT AWARD FROM THE MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS MINNESOTA DISASTER RECOVERY FUND FOR CORONAVIRUS BROOKLYN CENTER, MN – (April 22, 2020) – CAPI USA was awarded a grant in the amount of $150,000 from [...]
An Act of Kindness
“The one thing I can control is kindness.” Because of the awful ways she has seen COVID-19 affect people that she cares about, Emma Tofte wanted to do something. As a runner, she decided to channel that passion into a way to give back to her local community. [...]
CAPI Featured on MPR News
CAPI's CEO Ekta Prakash was interviewed on the MPR News program All Things Considered. Listen to the short interview here, then head to our donation page to help ensure that individuals and families have the resources and food they need to survive and recover. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/22/local-food-shelf-provides-culturally-specific-foods-for-immigrant-communities [...]