Serving Fargo-Moorhead since 1994
We strive to build and empower communities through opportunity, education, and leadership. Thriving communities start with empowered individuals, so we provide the tools, training, and support to turn dreams into action and leaders into change-makers.
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Programs and services
Every program is free or low-cost, open to the whole community, and built to remove barriers for immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC neighbors in Fargo-Moorhead.
An 11-week entrepreneurship training program that teaches new entrepreneurs in the Fargo-Moorhead area how to turn ideas into thriving businesses, with one-on-one coaching and access to capital.
Learn more about Small Business and Entrepreneurship Training
Free financial education workshops that help Fargo-Moorhead community members learn to budget, save, manage credit, and build long-term financial security.
Free one-on-one referral assistance connecting individuals and families in Fargo-Moorhead with food, clothing, transportation, job readiness, health, and social service resources.
Monthly professional development seminars where Fargo-Moorhead peers hold structured conversations on equity and diversity, guided by leaders trained through the National SEED Project.
Learn more about SEED: Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity
Pangea: Cultivate Our Cultures, the Native American Festival and Educational Series, and other celebrations that bring the cultures of Fargo-Moorhead together through performance, food, art, and story.
Tutoring, reading help, after-school activities, and family referrals that close civic engagement and achievement gaps for low-income students and their parents in Fargo-Moorhead.
Leadership and capacity building for ethnic nonprofits and emerging community leaders, plus customized diversity and cultural awareness training for Fargo-Moorhead businesses, schools, and agencies.
Learn more about Multi-Ethnic Community Leadership and Development
Culturally responsive help for older adults from immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC communities in Fargo-Moorhead: referrals, language access, and connection to services for daily stability.
Health and wellness navigation for Fargo-Moorhead families: mental health and crisis resources, health coverage help, nutrition and physical activity, and referrals in your language.
Awards and milestones
Recognition for CDR's work, and the moments that shaped the organization since 1994.
2024
Yoke-Sim Gunaratne, Executive Director
The McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Council on Foundations received 256 submissions from across Minnesota and approved seven honorees, two of them from Clay County, including Yoke-Sim. The honor recognizes her work developing programs in employment, financial literacy, diversity education, bilingual interpreter services, nonprofit management, and entrepreneurship training since 1994.
2023
Cultural Diversity Resources
The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber named CDR the 2023 recipient of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ChamberChoice Award for the organization's work building communities that value diversity.
1994
The Cultural Diversity Project begins
1996
Metro Interpreters Resource Center opens
1998
Incorporated as a 501(c)(3)
2014
Multi-Ethnic Project launches
2019
Pangea draws more than 1,800 attendees
Changing Faces, Changing Futures, Enriching Lives
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