Protect Immigrant
Small Businesses

Across the country, immigrant small businesses are under growing pressure. Rising rents, limited access to capital, language barriers, and harmful policies threaten the corridors and cultural districts our communities have built for generations.

These businesses are more than storefronts. They are our neighbors. They create trust, jobs, preserve culture, and open pathways for future generations. When one closes, families lose income, communities lose gathering spaces, and entire corridors weaken.

Thriving immigrant business districts don’t happen by chance. They require intentional policy, public support, and collective action. 

When immigrant-owned small businesses thrive, our neighborhoods thrive.

Steering Committee

National CAPACD’s Protect Immigrant Small Businesses Campaign steering committee refines strategy, deepens outreach, and ensures the campaign reflects the voices and priorities of the communities we serve.

Endorsing Organizations

Through the Protect Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses Campaign, National CAPACD, alongside a steering committee of our members from across the country, elevates the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs, highlights the real impacts of current policies, and advances solutions that ensure our communities can thrive.

We are also bringing together partners and allies to build a strong, unified voice grounded in community experience and collective action – and we invite you to endorse the campaign.  

By endorsing, your organization will:

  • Stand alongside organizations across the country working to protect immigrant-owned small businesses;
  • Be recognized publicly as a supporter of the campaign;
  • Receive a campaign toolkit with messaging, social media assets, and engagement opportunities;
  • Participate in coordinated actions and storytelling efforts that drive visibility and change.
  • Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE)
  • APANO
  • Asian Americans
  • United
  • Asian Business Empowerment Council
  • Asian Community Development Corporation
  • Asian Economic Development Association
  • ASIAN, Inc.
  • CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC)
  • Cambodian American Community Council of WA
  • Chinatown Community Development Center
  • Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)
  • Community Opportunity Alliance
  • EJConsulting
  • Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
  • Filipino Community Development Corporation (FCDC)
  • Free DC
  • Georgia AAPI Hub
  • Inclusive Action for the City
  • Khmer Anti-deportation Advocacy Group of Washington (KhAAG WA)
  • Laos In The House
  • Laotian American National Alliance
  • Little Manila Rising
  • Little Tokyo Community Council
  • MidTown Cleveland, Inc.
  • National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA)
  • National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
  • Our Neighborhoods Capital Fund
  • Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment
  • Pacific Islander Community Partnership
  • Public Counsel
  • Renaissance Economic Development Corporation
  • Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus
  • Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA)
  • Small Business Anti-Displacement Network
  • Small Business Majority
  • South Asian Network
  • United Cambodian Community

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