2011 Asian Youth Center (AYC)
The Asian Youth Center (AYC) is a non-profit, community-based organization serving the social services needs of youth and families, with a focus on Asian immigrants. Its programs enable those they serve to adapt and contribute to a multi-cultural society.
AYC began in 1989 as a project of the United Way after its Asian Task Force found a critical lack of services for Asian youth. In the last ten years, AYC has expanded its scope to serve non-Asian youth and families as well, with culturally appropriate services in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Spanish and English.
2010 Health Justice Network (HJN)
The Health Justice Network (HJN) was created by Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC) in 2005 with two specific goals in mind:
(1) to develop and promote a collaborative voice for the API community around health access, disparity and related issues, and
(2) to develop leadership and build capacity amongst the more than forty members organizations which are mostly smaller grassroots API organizations.
APALC helps to build capacity by providing training, technical assistance and subgrants for Health Justice Network (HJN) members, as well as providing opportunities to participate in broader policy advocacy activities that will create a greater impact.
2009The Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP)
The Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP) was established in 1999 to deliver individual counseling and workshop training to low income Asian immigrant populations in Los Angeles. In 2008, API SBP served more than 2500 entrepreneurs!
API SBP serves its clients in Spanish, English, and six Asian languages, providing free individual business counseling and an extensive array of business workshops and courses. API SBP provides guidance to its clients in business plans, loan applications, and other forms of access to capital, basic business preparation, franchise acquisition, etc. Many of its workshops are presented in alliance with business organizations and other community partners, as a way of strengthening the communities in which API SBP works. All of API SBP's program geographies are focused in low/moderate income census tracts. API SBP also provides an entrepreneurial financial literacy program for low income adults co-sponsored by the United Way of LA, which provides modest financial incentives to program participants.
View API SBP Success Stories.
2008 Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE)
Founded in 1993 as Chinese Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) to promote civic and political participation in the Chinese American communities, CAUSE expanded its mission to serve the larger Asian Pacific American (APA) communities in 2003, thus becoming Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment. CAUSE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the political empowerment of the Asian Pacific American community through non-partisan voter registration and education, community outreach, and leadership development. The only nonprofit organization that consistently outreaches to the immigrant community through voter registration drives, in-language voter assistance, and issues forums, CAUSE has established itself as a prominent APA community-based organization in the Greater Los Angeles area.
2007 VC, CAST, DISKovery, CSC, and APWC
To celebrate the 10th year anniversary of Project by Project, PbP is renewing partnership with organizations from the past 5 years to ensure their success.
2006 Visual Communications
Founded in 1970 by a group of Asian American graphic designers, photographers and independent filmmakers, Visual Communications was created with the understanding that the media and arts should do more than just present pictures
or portraits; they should take an active role in building a more humane, responsible and understanding society. Visual Communications’ mission is to promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Through its programs in video training, production and assistance for artists, public screenings, and preservation of our community’s visual history, Visual Communications strives to connect communities through the media arts.
2005 Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)CAST was established in 1998 to exclusively assist survivors of human trafficking and raise awareness of trafficking issues in the region. To expand its mission, CAST has established the first shelter dedicated to providing clients with training and workshops to help them become self-sufficient and independent individuals. CAST’s programs have assisted over 300 victims of trafficking in some of the most well known cases in the US. CAST has also opened the first shelter for trafficked women in the US, a model for the development of services to victims of trafficking.
2004 The DISKovery Center
The D ISKovery Center was started in 1999 to provide affordable computer access and training to low-income members of the Little Tokyo community and the wider Los Angeles area. Because senior citizens are often left behind in our digital society, the D ISKovery Center offers classes and support that takes into account their special learning needs. The Center also serves as a resource for job seekers and young people seeking to gain and/or improve their computer skills. The non-profit computer center is open to all members of the community.
2003 Chinatown Service Center (CSC)The Chinatown Service Center strives to achieve its vision of Thriving Lives and Empowered Communities through its mission to provide outstanding services and advocacy to promote better quality of life and equal opportunity to immigrants and other communities.
2002 Asian Pacific Women’s Center (APWC)
Founded in 1993, Asian Pacific Women’s Center (APWC) has operated a transitional shelter for domestic violence survivors and their children which is one of the first transitional housing facilities in the United States to focus on the needs of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) domestic violence survivors since 2000. Additionally, in 2005, APWC established the Community Education and Empowerment program to bring awareness of domestic violence in the San Gabriel Valley area which has the highest concentration of APIs and the largest number of linguistically-isolated API households in Los Angeles County.
Furthermore, APWC is partnering with a nonprofit developer to build affordable permanent housing for domestic violence survivors so they can have a safe home to go after their stay at the shelter. Through these culturally and linguistically sensitive and innovative programs, APWC strives to offer domestic violence survivors and their families a safe haven and empower them with self-sufficiency, dignity, and inner peace so they can improve their lives and break the cycle of violence.
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