President's message

Dear Community Members,    

Namaste, Hope you are all doing well. Congratulations to all students who recently graduated from High School in Rochester and surrounding areas. We wish you all the best for the future.    

ICAM is going to complete 2 years in June 2022, and I am proud to say that the team has accomplished major work during this time. We are in the process of electing new board members for the next 2-year term; my sincere thanks to outgoing board members.   The board has decided to continue with myself as President and Nisha Kurup as vice President for next 2 years.  Myself & Nisha have accepted these roles to   support and mentor new people for leadership roles for the next term. I would request anyone who has passion to serve the community to consider running for the next board election.   

This year our top priority continued to keep the community healthy and safe. Along with organizing health online seminar, our major accomplishment was to collaborate with various organizations to host a successful covid vaccination clinic sponsored by Minnesota Department of health and diversity council; you will find details on that in separate article in this newsletter.   

Another focus of ICAM this year was to have strong financial support to execute important projects for the community. We received a small grant of $1,000 from United Way in March 2022 for a commitment to action toward racial justice. In May of 2022, ICAM received a grant of $3,000 from Rochester Downtown Alliance for hosting an event downtown.  This will be our summer event - ICAM Utsav 2022 - Festival of Color and Food Mela on July 30th, 2022.  Please see the attached flyer for details. As I am writing this message, I received a note that United way approved grant of $5,000 for increasing our community’s capacity to participate in civic engagement activities.  We will write details in the next newsletter.   

We will continue our search for enthusiastic individuals to join and help us. If you are interested, please reach out to me, or anyone on the ICAM team as we always welcome your ideas and suggestions on how we might better serve the community. 

Thank you to the board, volunteers, and community members for your continuous support. Please visit our website, icamn.org and subscribe to our mailing list for more information and become an ICAM member.     

Best wishes,     

Ajay Singh    

President, ICAM Board.