Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and all communities of color live and thrive equitably and are empowered to collectively shape their neighborhoods.
National CAPACD advances equity and creates vibrant, healthy neighborhoods by mobilizing and strengthening a powerful coalition of community-based organizations working in low-income Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
We are the national leader advancing comprehensive community development and advocating against gentrification in and displacement of low-income AA and NHPI neighborhoods and communities.
Comprehensive community development is a diverse set of holistic strategies designed to embrace a community’s culture and assets as well as address the needs of historically divested and marginalized communities. Comprehensive community development is led by community-based organizations working together to collectively address the interconnected facets of communities such as housing, safety, health, and access to economic opportunity by providing services, community planning, land acquisition or stewardship, and community organizing.
We believe that communities should have the power to influence the decisions and drive the solutions that impact their lives.
We honor people’s lived experiences and places of belonging. We embrace our communities’ cultural roots and shift dominant cultural approaches so that we may live and work authentically.
We are interconnected across identities, cultures, places, abilities, and generations, and through the common structural challenges that we experience. Thus, we must work in collaboration with other communities to bring everyone along in our vision for social and economic justice.
As individuals and as an organization, we value experimentation, play, learning, solutions, reflection, and growth. We act with humility and respect, knowing that we all can give to and learn from each other.
We are committed to creating systems, organizations, and societies that are fair and just. Recognizing that disadvantages and barriers exist for underserved communities, we work to allocate resources and ensure equal access and opportunities for all. The ultimate goal of equity is to work towards a world where everyone has the chance to achieve their full potential and thrive.
We are committed to the inclusion of all people, welcoming and valuing differences in race, ethnicity, faith, gender, ability, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, and other characteristics that make us who we are. We are stronger when we uplift and nurture the richness of our diverse identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences.
We believe that communities should have the power to influence the decisions and drive the solutions that impact their lives.
We honor people’s lived experiences and places of belonging. We embrace our communities’ cultural roots and shift dominant cultural approaches so that we may live and work authentically.
We are interconnected across identities, cultures, places, abilities, and generations, and through the common structural challenges that we experience. Thus, we must work in collaboration with other communities to bring everyone along in our vision for social and economic justice.
As individuals and as an organization, we value experimentation, play, learning, solutions, reflection, and growth. We act with humility and respect, knowing that we all can give to and learn from each other.
We are committed to creating systems, organizations, and societies that are fair and just. Recognizing that disadvantages and barriers exist for underserved communities, we work to allocate resources and ensure equal access and opportunities for all. The ultimate goal of equity is to work towards a world where everyone has the chance to achieve their full potential and thrive.
We are committed to the inclusion of all people, welcoming and valuing differences in race, ethnicity, faith, gender, ability, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, and other characteristics that make us who we are. We are stronger when we uplift and nurture the richness of our diverse identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences.
In order to advance a comprehensive approach to community development, prevent displacement, and increase community engagement of AA and NHPI residents, small businesses, and cultural institutions, we will integrate and expand National CAPACD’s “place-based” or neighborhood-focused programs to include neighborhood organizing, community planning, preservation, creative placemaking and placekeeping, and real estate development strategies.
National CAPACD will establish a national CDFI intermediary in order to expand access to capital in AA and NHPI neighborhoods and communities and among our member organizations. We will develop aligned technical assistance and capacity-building programs to advance place-based strategies and prevent displacement of residents, small businesses, and community and cultural institutions.
We will surface needs and opportunities, as well as document systemic barriers for AA and NHPI communities and neighborhoods in order to counter the model minority myth, increase understanding of AA and NHPI communities, and advance strategic policies, partnerships, and programs.
National CAPACD will resource and establish the operational infrastructure needed for greater engagement with member organizations with clear lines of accountability to a core set of member organizations that are most engaged and driving the advocacy agenda.
National CAPACD will work to develop more robust and consistent systems and processes for program evaluation that can be easily integrated into program implementation. These will capture the impact on community-based organizations, as well as data relevant to impact on individual community members and broader systems change.
We will advance racial and gender equity and make it an explicit part of our work across the organization, from our operations to member engagement, programs, as well as our policy priorities and partnership strategies.
National CAPACD seeks to take a step back and assess where operations could better advance and embody our values. In addition, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is opportunity to reflect on how we approach our work - opening greater possibility to approach daily operations differently and with more flexibility for employees.
Member organizations are aligned and connected, as well as have access to resources and capital to implement strategies among a network of place-based organizations in order to shape the long-term health of their neighborhood and community.
An active coalition with aligned values, shared purpose, and commitment to our mission that reflects the diversity of the AA and NHPI communities.
The realities and experiences of low-income AA and NHPI communities are acknowledged and accounted for in the broader public discourse on social and economic justice for BIPOC communities leading to more inclusive policies, resourcing, and engagement.
Member organizations offer culturally and linguistically responsive/resonant economic security and opportunity programs that improve the lives of low-income AA and NHPI communities.
Member organizations offer culturally and linguistically responsive/resonant economic security and opportunity programs that improve the lives of low-income AA and NHPI communities.
National CAPACD’s impact in advancing equity and comprehensive community development is evident to all its stakeholders and embodied throughout our structure, programs, operations, and workplace.
