African Development Center

For the January Edition of the monthly newsletter, Chamber Advantage, from the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce, ADC and Hussein Samatar were featured in the Member Spotlight. Along with providing a brief history of the organization, the article touched on the need of the community and future aspirations ADC has for its new office and increased presence in the growing area of Rochester.

The African Development Center is extremely proud of the its Executive Director, Hussein Samatar, for admirably filling the role of Keynote Speaker at the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. We Have a Dream Breakfast in Rochester, Minnesota.

Go here to learn more about this wonderful event attended by over 350 community members, including both the local television and newspaper outlets.

The only daily newspaper devoted exclusively to business news in the Twin Cities, Finance & Commerce recently featured a story on the African Development Center of Minnesota. This article, available here, covers the history, current efforts, and future aspirations of ADC.

The largest newspaper in the Willmar region, the West Central Tribune, revisited the African Development Center recently to report on the work and progress that has been made in the short two-month period since ADC held the Grand Opening of its Willmar office.
Visit their website to access the full story that speaks on some of the specific issues ADC intends to address in the West Central region of the state.

Listen to the interview of the new Willmar office manager, Abdrizak Mahboub, on the local Willmar radio station, KWLM.

As part of their Best of the Twin Cities issue, Metro magazine included the African Development Center in the Top 100: Good list of the October Issue.
As a follow up to the published edition, Metro has been providing online supplemental articles to offer more in-depth information for a number of the entities included within the list. ADC was included in these, and a wonderful posting can be found here with extended information on the work and mission of the African Development Center.

Online business magazine, The Line, recently featured the African Development Center in a story highlighting the expansion of ADC’s work into Greater Minnesota. Click here to see the story, and, as always, explore the website to see the ways in which ADC is changing lives across the state.

ADC Executive Director, Hussein Samatar, was asked to be a guest blogger this holiday weekend for American Public Media’s Marketplace Money program. Go here to read his thoughts and perspective of the financial condition and system for new Americans making a new start in this country.

Recent media attention has been given to ADC’s past New Markets Mortgage Program (NMMP). This article is the official ADC response to that attention – to set the record straight on the inception and process of these mortgages.