CAPAVA

CAPAVA is a nonprofit pan-Asian policy organization created in 2003 to advocate the grassroots issues of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) in Virginia. CAPAVA is supported by volunteers who have strong backgrounds in policy who seek to bring Virginia APA issues to the attention of State and local policy makers and provide vital information on key resources to Virginia's APA communities... CAPAVA played a vital role in bringing important resource information to APA communities and helped northern, central and tidewater APA communities to protect the voting rights of APA voters. CAPAVA continues to leverage resources to stage many first-time APA-targeted Virginia forums and collaborative projects to bring the concerns and issues of APA communities before State and local policy makers, while raising the visibility of the APA community in the Commonwealth... From 2004-2008, CAPAVA worked with the Governor's cabinet and Legislators to propose an APA outreach office in the Office of the..

Primary location: Fairfax United States