Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association Inc

Causes: Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Human Services, Immigration

Mission: Promote leadership in the hmong community; promote educational advancement for hmong youth and teens; encourage hmong refugees to be self sufficient and contributing members of their community; and promote and maintain hmong cultural heritage

Programs: New american early education centerhamaa spent $165000 to set up and operate the little star early education project. The above cost was hard cost and operations reserve for the program. This project ended up with a failure due to various reasons such as low turn out enrollment and lack of capacity to run the program as original planned.

minneapolis works (cdbg)hamaa was able to accomplish this grant goal. The city of minneapolis reimbursement to this grant was approximately $ 135000 for fiscal year. The followings are the numbers of job placement:41 placements fromjyly 2012 to june 201323 were from january 2013 to june 201349 plavements from july 2013 to june 201423 were from july 2013 to december 2013

volunteershamaa was able recruited 5 volunteers on a regular working hours fron 8:am to 4:30pm and 6 other volunteers working on and off the clock. They spent more than several thousand volunteer hours to resurrect theorganization from dying status back to its feet. Toward the end of fiscal year 2013 hamaa was able to secure 2 short term pilot job training programs from the mn department of labor and industry and century college which later in 2014 hamaa was granted a $198000 grant packet from the mn department of employment and low income workers to the job market.