Minnesota International Center - A World Affairs Council
Strategic Partners/Alliances

Key to meeting the community’s increased interest in global issues has been MIC’s ability to stretch limited resources by leveraging community and national networks which complement MIC’s mission. During the 2006-07 program year, MIC cosponsored 26 events with an attendance of 9,763.

MIC's program partners in 2006-07 were:

AFS International

AFSA

Americans for UNFPA

Augsburg College

Augustana College

British Consulate General, Chicago

British-American Business Council

Cara Irish Pubs

Churches for Middle East Peace

College of St. Catherine, Women of Substance Series

Concordia (Moorhead, MN) College

Consulado de Mexico en St. Paul

Consulate General of Canada

Council for Foreign Relations

Czech and Slovak Cultural Center

Czech and Slovak Sokol of Minnesota

Délégation Générale de L’Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis

Fredrikson & Byron

General Mills, Inc.

Guthrie Theater

HAUM Peace and Justice Commissions

Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic

Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs

James Ford Bell Foundation

Luther College

Macalester College, World Press Institute

Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry

Mansfield Foundation

Middle East Peace Now

Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia

Minneapolis-Tours Sister Cities Association

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

Minnesota Orchestra

Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota sur Seine Music Festiva

lMinnesota Trade Office

National Council for International Visitors

Network of Spiritual Progressives

Norse Federation

Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights

Pangea World Theater

Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota

Royal Norwegian Consulate General

Sons of Norway

St. Olaf College

St. Paul-Minneapolis Committee on Foreign Relations

The Network of Spiritual Progressives - Minnesota

U.S. Commercial Service

UNA of Minnesota

University of Minnesota, Human Rights Center

University of Minnesota, Powell Center for Women’s Health

University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

University of St. Thomas, Center for Irish Studies

University of St. Thomas, School of Law

Westminster Town Hall Forum

William Mitchell College of Law

World Affairs Councils of America

World Voices

 

MIC is affiliated with several national organizations: the World Affairs Councils of America; the Foreign Policy Association; NAFSA and the National Council for International Visitors.  Additionally, MIC works with more than 60 schools in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, and taps into both Minnesota’s resident international community and the University of Minnesota’s international student body to recruit speaker resources for MIC’s programs.