Women of Wise

Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE), Inc. was founded by a group of multi-cultural/national, first-generation immigrant women in 1995 as a vehicle for social, economic and leadership empowerment of Asian, African, and Latina women and girls. Over the past decade, WISE has implemented a number of community-based initiatives aimed at raising consciousness of immigrant issues, developing leadership capacities and promoting self sufficiency of immigrant and refugee women and girls.

WISE fulfills its mission of empowering immigrant women & girls to succeed via four strategies:
• Leadership Development
• Access to Health
• Wealth Creation
• Technical Assistance

With the mission of “empowering immigrant women and girls to succeed”, most of WISE’s constituents are refugee/immigrant women, girls and their families in the Twin-Cities, prominently in the St. Paul area, where the size of the immigrant population has significantly increased.