Research Centers

Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
919 Lafond Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104
Phone: 651.642.4000
Research Focus: Race and Culture, Homelessness & Housing, School Success, Early childhood care and education, Older adult's quality of life, Troubled Youth, Welfare Reform and the Working poor.

Center for Democracy and Citizenship
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue, CB10 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454
Phone: 612.330.1450
E-mail: cdc@augsburg.edu
Research Focus: Collaborates with a variety of partners to promote active citizenship and public work by people of all ages. The center's work is grounded in the belief that a healthy democracy requires everyone's participation, and that each of us has something to contribute.

Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
330 Humbert H. Humphrey Center
301-19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612.624.3326
E-mail: contact@hacer-mn.org
Research Focus: Education, migrant workers, Health, Socio-Demographic profiles, Youth, Economic Development and Housing.

Institute on Race and Poverty
University of Minnesota
N150 Walter Mondale Hall
229 South 19th Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612.625.8071
Fax: 612.624.8890
Research Focus: Education, Housing, Race and Poverty, GIS mapping.

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
650 3rd Ave S, #550
Minneapolis, MN 55402-1940
Phone: 612.341.3302
Fax: 612.341.2971
Research Focus: Human rights.

Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, Inc. (MMEP)
2233 University Ave W Ste 220
Saint Paul MN 55114-1698
Phone: 651.645.7400
E-mail: mmep@mmep.net
Research Focus: Education.

Northwest Area Foundation
60 Plato Boulevard East, Ste 400
St. Paul, MN 55107
Phone: 651.224.9635
Research Focus: Focuses on capacity building — working with and in communities to build consciousness, skills, and knowledge of rural Latinos/as and their fellow community members — to reduce poverty.

The Center for Rural Policy and Development
600 S. Fifth St., Suite 211 St. Peter, Minn. 56082
Phone: 507.934.7700
Toll Free: 877.RURALMN
Fax: 507.934.7704
Research Focus: Technology, Economic Development, Demography and Education.

The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), University of Minnesota
Phone: 612.625.3321
Research Focus: Underserved and disadvantaged groups, Economic Development, Employment, Education, Geographic Information Systems, Health, Human, Social Services and Housing.

The Minneapolis Foundation
800 IDS Center
80 South Eighth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Phone: 612.672.3878
Fax: 612.672.3846
Research Focus: Immigration and Education.

Immigration Policy Center
American Immigrant Law Foundation
1331 G Street NW Suite 200
Washington DC, 20005
Phone: 202.507.7500
Fax: 202.742.5619
Research Focus: Immigration and Education.

Nationwide Center for Immigration Studies
1522 K Street N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005-1202
Phone: 202.466.8185
Fax: 202.466.8076
Research Focus: immigration and policy, Statistical Data and reports.

Julian Samora Research Institute (JSRI)
301 Nisbet Building
1407 S. Harrison
East Lansing, MI 48823-5286
Phone: 517.432.1317
Fax: 517.432.2221
E-mail: info@jsri.msu.edu
Research Focus: Economic development, education, and families and neighborhoods. The Institute is also working to develop a database which can serve as a resource on and for Hispanics.

Pew Hispanic Center (Pew Research Center Project) Minnesota Specific Profile
1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-5610
Tel: 202.419.3600 (202.419.3606 media and information line)
Fax: 202.419.3608 E-mail: info@pewhispanic.org
Research Focus: Demography, Economics, Education, Immigration, Labor and Politics.

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