Accessible Workforce Development

AWED is established around an improved operational framework in entrepreneurship,employability and leadership development. We aim to fill the gap where Micro-lending organizations with lending priorities alone are not sufficient to assist immigrants entrepreneurial and career pursuits. Therefore, AWED helps to facilitate immigrants long-term socioeconomic success and employment disparity by promoting and developing the existing entrepreneurial culture and skilled expertise in the following:
*Individualized business plans
*Business workshop/seminars
*Resume building & Interviewing
*Job searching training
*Relationship building & mentoring
*Promote Networking skills
*Entrepreneurial training & development
*Financial management
*Personal investment & credit
*Marketing
*Foster business partnership for growth
*Speakers Bureau

AWED's goal is to provide mentorship and networking opportunities for skilled immigrants in career and business development. And to professionalize and formalize business activities within the African community; provide business and career training and services to African immigrants in Minnesota and to encourage them to become self-sufficient. AWED’s program will provide access to a huge network of professionals who are willing to volunteer their time to teach African immigrants in business management, marketing, financial management, business development, etc.AWED is established around an improved operational framework in entrepreneurship, gainful employment, and better career advancement opportunities for those employed or who have obtained a higher education. AWED's goals would forge partnerships within the African business community; it would mobilize African Diaspora for self-sufficiency; bringing together other professionals from the general community to African professionals or aspiring professionals – ultimately, leading to long lasting relationships. Also, the program strives to ensure less frustration for African immigrants by helping them become financially able to support themselves and their families, while also building a stable and fulfilling future