Month: March 2020

March 30, 2020

CAA Economic Justice Work Responding to Slowing COVID-19 Job Market

San Francisco’s Shelter in Place program shifting CAA’s Economic Justice work from in-person direct service to by phone assistance with new challenges.Pictured: CAA’s Hospitality Vocational Training Program Graduation Ceremony. In a downturn economy, CAA’s Limited English Proficient immigrant workforce clients…

March 20, 2020

Fight COVID-19 Xenophobia. Help #StopAAPIHate

Report COVID-19 Related Harassment, Discrimination, and Bigotry. CAA has teamed up with Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON) to launch the STOP AAPI HATE Reporting Center. We are asking all those who have witnessed or experienced micro-aggressions, bullying, harassment,…

March 11, 2020

Statement on the Repeal of Prop 209

Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) was founded in 1969 to address historic and persistent institutional racism that systematically excluded Chinese Americans from major sectors of the labor market, denied us equal access to vital public resources and services, and obstructed…

March 10, 2020

CAA Job Fair Bolsters Language Diversity in Census Staff

Our first job fair of the year was a great success！ For the past two weeks, 22 of our workforce clients dropped in for a Census job fair as part of our weekly computer lab on Tuesday mornings. With the…

March 4, 2020

Hong Mei Pang, CAA Director of Advocacy Honored by SF Board of Supervisors

Hong Mei Pang (center) pictured with her mother (left) and District 11 Supervisor Asha Safai (right). As part of Women’s History Month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has honored CAA’s very own Advocacy of Director Hong Mei Pang in…