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The Opportunity Site is an approximately 80-acre area west of Highway 100 and east of Shingle Creek Parkway, between Bass Lake Road and Summit Drive. ACER Organizers are working to…
ACER held a series of virtual voter engagement events to inform people about a variety of topics, including Ranked Choice Voting, voter rights, voter registration, and redistricting. Voter Community Meeting…
Our Maps coalition co-leader, Common Cause Minnesota, briefed the media on the filing of community-drawn maps for consideration in this year’s redistricting cycle. The maps were drawn to ensure that…
ACER is convening with the Minnesota Housing Partnership and the Housing Justice Center to better understand the needs of Minnesotans who have been through the process of applying for the…
In September, the ACER Health Equity Team arranged a flu shot and COVID-19 vaccination clinic in partnership with Ebenezer Church. The event was an opportunity for the ACER Health Equity…
Mayor Jacobson Encourages Vaccination for Residents https://youtu.be/_d0gFmMAjwg It's important to get vaccinated to protect ourselves and our community. That's why Brooklyn Park Mayor Lisa Jacobson and ACER are inviting…
Brooklyn Park, MN — On October 5, 2021, members of nonprofit African Career, Education and Resource Inc. (ACER) joined Georgetown Park tenants in solidarity with the tenants’ protest against new…
SUMMARY: With the Eviction Moratorium expiring, millions of Americans are now in greater danger of losing their housing. In late September, ACER Organizer, Fadumo Mohamed, and tenant leader, Awa Dolley,…
—Brooklyn Park’s Healthy Living Hub is Striving for Health Equity- In Brooklyn Park, 85th Street marks the near-invisible division between two different worlds. North of the line, the city’s population…
ACER, Community Organizer, Richard Jennis testifies before House Redistricting Committee On September 13, 2021, the Minnesota House of Representatives held a virtual committee meeting on the redistricting of District 3,…
Published: June 23, 2018 For years, Congress has discussed the need for comprehensive immigration reform, yet there has been little progress in advancing legislation that would protect the millions of…
Last week the folks at Hennepin County came to ACER’s offices to capture small business owner Florence Karp's success story. To support small and micro-businesses ACER, in partnership with Elevate…
Last night, after months of attempting to get in contact with their property manager, residents at Georgetown Park were able to meet with some of their management via zoom. ACER's…
ACER signed on to this letter in collaboration with almost 20 other organizations as we advocated for specific funding for our community's micro-businesses struggling through this pandemic. See the original…
Dear Community, How are you doing in this moment? Today at ACER, we chose to spend our workday checking on each other. The work we were called to today, was…
This was originally posted on Family Housing Fund on May 11, 2020 Nelima Sitati Munene is shifting the housing narrative Nelima Sitati Munene was a college student living in Brooklyn…
For many of us, the COVID-19 crisis has turned our homes into sanctuaries for our health and safety and our community’s safety. As we enter into the second month of…
ACER is a member of the Equity in Place coalition, a diverse group of strategic partners from place-based, housing, and advocacy organizations. We believe that everyone in the Twin Cities…
ACER is a member of the Equity in Place coalition, which challenged a Fair Housing complaint that alleged that the Twin Cities region was using federal housing funding to concentrate…
There is adequate health care in the Healthy Living Hub area thanks to a Hennepin County Medical Clinic (HCMC) located on Zane Avenue, which is both centrally located and accessible…