CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities (CAAAV)-Bronx, NY
Originally named “Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence”, CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the U.S. to mobilize Asian communities to fight police and other forms of racially motivated violence. Over time, CAAAV has broadened its focus to address the wide array of needs, challenges, and injustices faced by low and no-income New York Asian communities including gentrification, worker exploitation, poverty, the detention and deportation of immigrants, and the criminalization of youth. 
Today, CAAAV builds the power of Asian immigrant and refugee communities in NYC by providing critical social services, developing leadership, creating alternative models of sustainability, and advocating for their needs. CAAAV builds the capacity of those whose voices are most often marginalized to promote community empowerment towards long-term institutional change and the creation of community-based alternatives.
As a Communities Creating Healthy Environments grantee, CAAV will work to achieve increased public recreational space for Chinatown residents along the increasingly gentrified Lower East Side waterfront; a new community recreation facility in the underserved, low-income Southeast Asian community of Northwest Bronx; and the establishment of affordable, healthy food alternatives in the Northwest Bronx.
