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| National CAPACD E-Newsletter April 2007 |
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Contents:
1) International District Housing Alliance is Latest Addition to National CAPACD’s ACTION TA Program
2) CAPAC Submits Housing and Community Development Requests to Appropriations Committees
3) Nina Baliga joins the National CAPACD Team!
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1) International District Housing Alliance is Latest Addition to National CAPACD’s ACTION TA Program
The
International District Housing Alliance (IDHA) of Seattle, WA is the
latest addition to National CAPACD’s ACTION TA program, which
will focus on youth programs. Forming a collaborative with Asian
Americans for Equality (AAFE) and Chinatown Community Development
Corporation (Chinatown CDC), the three organizations will share their
experiences, discuss current community development issues from a youth
perspective and design and participate in a skills development workshop
to further develop IDHA’s Wilderness Inner-city Leadership
Development Program (WILD).
Since WILD’s founding, youth leaders have provided thousands of
hours of service to the community through community clean-ups,
provision of multilingual education and outreach, organizing campaigns
that address environmental toxics issues and coordination of community
building events. In 2006, WILD youth organized the first Seattle
night market from scratch - bringing in over 500 people on a Tuesday
night to celebrate together and take a stand against increasing public
safety problems.
The youth programs collaboration will likely focus on developing youth
entrepreneurial opportunities that will allow the program to diversify
its funding streams. Business ideas have included opening a
food-related industry (bubble-tea!), developing and distributing of its
curriculum or building on its current product line “I ♥
ID”.
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2) CAPAC Submits Housing and Community Development Requests to Appropriations Committees
In March, members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
(CAPAC) sent letters to three House Appropriations Subcommittees
requesting increased funding for programs supporting affordable housing
and community development activities in API communities. National
CAPACD compiled this information using input provided by our members
and national partners. (Thank you!)
Additionally, CAPAC members Congressman Al Green and Congressman
Michael Honda submitted recommendations for report language. If
published, the Green/Honda report language would urge HUD to:
1) Better serve the needs of AAPI students and communities through its University Partnerships program,
2) Ensure that HUD uses community-based organizations with
cultural and linguistic expertise for technical assistance programs,
and
3) Ensure that project support provided by national
intermediaries is available to nonprofit organizations with this
expertise.
CAPAC and National CAPACD will continue to advocate for these requests throughout the process.
For more information or to provide us with your input, please contact Ann Surapruik by emailing ann.surapruik@mail.house.gov.
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3) Nina Baliga joins the National CAPACD team!
We are excited to welcome our newest staff
member, Nina Baliga, to the National CAPACD family! As our
Development and Communications Manager, Nina will oversee outreach to
our members, funders, friends and allies.
Prior to National CAPACD, Nina worked as a Research Analyst for SEIU
Local 11, organizing condominium workers in South Florida. She
helped design the electronic communications campaigns to reach targeted
audiences as part of the janitor’s strike at the University of
Miami. In 2004, she worked as the Canvass Director of the Miami office
of America Coming Together, where she mobilized tens of thousands of
voters in the largest voter contact program in history. She
polished her canvass directing skills when she ran a door-to-door
fundraising campaign that raised over $100,000 for Save the Children in
Miami. Nina began her career in research, development,
communications, and advocacy by heading up Florida PIRG's Clean Water
Campaigns.
Nina graduated from New York University with degrees in Sociology and Environmental Studies.
We hope you will help Nina get to know our members and welcome her on
board! Feel free to contact her at
nbaliga@nationalcapacd.org.
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