Chinese American Planning Council

Address: 150 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012
212.941.0920

Founded in 1965, the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) is one of the largest nonprofit providers of educational, social, and community services for Asian American in the U.S. It now serves over 6,000 people daily through 70+ programs in 28 locations citywide. It administers community services, child care, youth services, employment and training, senior services, housing, cultural services.

CPC’s mission is to improve the quality of life of Chinese Americans in New York City by providing access to services, skills and resources toward the goal of economic self-sufficiency and integration into the American mainstream.

Beginning with Head Start and after-school youth programs, by the early 1970’s CPC had opened 9am-6pm childcare centers for the children of parents working long shifts, and opened its first senior center to serve isolated seniors whose working children could not look after them. Later, CPC began to offer-readiness skills training and ESL to help immigrants find work outside Chinatown.

In the 1980’s, CPC became the first Chinese-American not-for-profit developer in Greater NY, constructing two buildings with 270 subsidized low-income units for seniors, also creating jobs. CPC also began to help youths find summer jobs to explore their career options, and began offering bilingual home care services to senior citizens.

As immigrants began moving into the outer boroughs in the late 1970’s, CPC set up Queens and Brooklyn offices.

In 2000, CPC began to help disadvantaged college-bound youth get into good colleges. After 9/11, CPC launched relief services to help dislocated workers apply for entitlement benefits, serving 3,100 clients, more than any other community program. CPC’s one-stop 9/11 employment assistance program trained 814 workers and placed 52%.

Recently, the employment and training division received business and trade school licenses, and the Chung Pak daycare center was the first in Chinatown to receive accreditation.