CAAAV works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working class Asian immigrant communities in New York City.
Category: Newsletter
Nonprofit Spotlight: SteppingStone Scholars
Urgently combating systemic racial and socioeconomic inequality, Steppingstone Scholars creates access to educational and workforce opportunities for talented, underserved students in the City of Philadelphia.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Teen Line
Teen Line provides personal teen-to-teen education and support before problems become a crisis, using a national hotline, current technologies and community outreach. Our work extends to caregivers and schools and organizations serving teens.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Clean Ocean Action
Clean Ocean Action uses research, education, and citizen action to unite and empower people to protect the ocean. Their mission is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast.
Nonprofit Spotlight: EmbraceRace
EmbraceRace was founded in early 2016 by two parents who set out to create the community and gather the resources they needed (need!) to meet the challenges faced by those raising children in a world where race matters.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Teach Plus
Teach Plus grows and empowers teacher leaders to create an equitable education system for all.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Inside Out Youth Services
Inside Out Youth Services builds access, equity, and power with LGBTQIA2+ young people, through leadership, advocacy, community-building, education, and peer support.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Groundswell
Groundswell builds community power through equitable community solar projects, clean energy programs that reduce energy burdens, and pioneering research initiatives that help light the way to clean energy futures for all. Groundswell has clean energy programs and projects in place in six states, including the District of Columbia, and serves more than 4500 income-qualified customers with more than $1.85 million per year in clean energy savings.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Catapult Greater Pittsburgh
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh engages in emergency resource distribution, peer-to-peer support, wealth building, trauma-informed financial counseling, and policy advocacy to ensure systematically disenfranchised communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice and lead dignified and equitable lives.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Techbridge Girls
Techbridge Girls re-engineers the way BIPOC girls* from marginalized communities experience STEM by catalyzing out-of-school time (OST) STEM educators and STEM professionals into equity educators and advocates through training and curricula that promote access, belonging and persistence.