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Cedar-Riverside stakeholders commit action, and funding, to quell violence
In the weeks since Augsburg student Ahmednur Ali was shot and killed just feet from Currie Park and the Brian Coyle Community Center, area residents, community organizations and institutions, and police have stepped up efforts on a number of fronts to improve public safety and community relations in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Show Me the Money: Funding Your Small Business
Tanzanians Trade Food for Financial Advice
Setting up a Small Business, What You Need to Know
World Refugee Day Highlights Successes and Challenges of New Americans
Hussein Samatar Appointed to Minneapolis Library Board
The same day Central Connecticut State University in New Britain released a study ranking Minneapolis as the second most literate city in the country, the newly reelected mayor of that city, RT Rybak, appointed Hussein Samatar, a Somali businessman to the Minneapolis Library board on November 29.
Somali Contributions in the Workplace
The Itasca Project, a group of about 40 Twin Cities business leaders, academics and public officials in late October released a report called, "Mind the Gap," that it had commissioned. The report showed the seriousness top business leaders in the area attach to the influx of new immigrants that have come to the area. The report noted that Minnesota has the largest Hmong, Somali, and Liberian communities in the , a fact well known by recent census numbers. Immigrants from 160 countries came to
Minnesota
in 2002, the report noted.