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About National CAPACD

The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) is a coalition, intermediary, and the nation’s leading organization in advancing community development and advocating against gentrification and displacement of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. We represent and support more than 150 community-based organizations in driving their local strategies, and we back their efforts by advancing progressive national policies.

Mission

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.

Community Need and Opportunity

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities are a vibrant tapestry of people with widely varied ethnicities, identities, and lived experiences. The interconnectedness among them is a strength, but their complexity and diversity are often overlooked, ignored, or misused in policy and philanthropy, which has real-world implications for the health and vitality of neighborhoods and livelihoods.

By working together and building locally led power, communities will have opportunities to shape their own neighborhoods and the future of our country to create a lasting impact for generations to come. 

  • AA and NHPI communities’ challenges are often masked by misrepresented data and inaccurate narratives that exclude them from discourse, policies, and research needed to protect them from marginalization and displacement and achieve economic justice.
  • Economic justice overcomes barriers to accessing credit and capital, including linguistic and cultural barriers to navigating resources and bureaucratic systems, and unlocks opportunity for everyone.
  • Cultural districts in neighborhoods that have been home to communities of color are at risk of being lost because of inequitable access to capital and supportive policies. Comprehensive community-led development that fully embraces a community’s culture and assets can change the course for AA and NHPI communities.
  • This requires holistic strategies that collectively include the complex facets of community development: housing, safety, health, access to economic opportunity by providing services, community planning, land acquisition or stewardship, and community organizing.

Vision

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and all communities of color live and thrive equitably and are empowered to collectively shape their neighborhoods.