January
CAA Strategic Planning Staff Retreat
CAA Annual Membership Meeting and farewell to long
time staff person Isabel Huie
CAA and other Asian American groups meet with Vice
President Al Gore to discuss immigration and welfare reform
Advocates for Census outreach call for funding from
state and local governments in response to Supreme Court decision prohibiting
sampling in the 2000 Census
CAA appointed Co-Chair of Advisory Committee to San
Franciscos First Source hiring program for low-income residents.
February
CAA organizes Chinese New Year Celebration in Visitacion
Valley
CAA Executive Director speaks at California Studies
Conference, at UC Berkeley
CAA and MALDEF form the California Complete Count Coalition,
a statewide coalition of community organizations aimed to improving undercounted
populations in the 2000 Census
March
CAA Strategic Plan Staff and Board Retreat
Youth Perspectives on Affirmative Action & Equality
Panel jointly sponsored by CAA, Television Race Initiative, Intergroup
Clearinghouse and KQED
CAA Executive Director appears on nationally televised
Fred Friendly Seminar, Beyond Black & White. . .
In response to CAA request, State Auditor agrees to
review state and local governments compliance with the Dymally-Allatorre
Bilingual Access law
April
CAA files opposition to NAACP-Ho school desegregation
settlement for failing to meet the needs of language minority students
CAA organizes meetings to respond to Wen Ho Lee allegations
CAA Executive Director on KQED Forum show regarding
citizenship.
A.L.L. coordinates largest career fair to date at Galileo
Academy
CAA staff speaks at Grassroots Immigrant Summit
San Francisco State University establishes program
with CAA to recruit low-income individuals for employment
May
CAA Policy Advocate provides Census 2000 trainings
to School District Language Academy staff serving hardest-to-count populations
CAA staff collaborates with Geneva Valley Development
Corp to ensure equal access to public housing projects
CAA Policy Director provides keynote address at the
California Association of Equal Rights Professionals conference
June
CAA celebrates 30 proud years at Sheraton Palace with
Assemblyman Mike Honda
CAA Executive Director speaks at National Education
Association Conference in Orlando, Florida regarding affirmative action
After months of CAA advocacy, state legislature passes
budget that provides $24.7 million for Census outreach. San Francisco,
Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara agree to provide local funding to community
organizations to increase Census participation
CAA Policy Director addresses national Jewish groups
CAA begins collaborative project with Community Boards
and Intergroup Clearinghouse in Visitacion Valley
July
CAA receives complaint about hate crimes flyer in San
Franciscos Sunset neighborhood, organizes community response
San Francisco agrees to create a Bilingual Election
Coordinator position to increase voting access for Chinese American citizens
at the urging of CAA
CAA organizes events urging the Senate to confirm Bill
Lann Lee
August
CAA co-hosts Bayview community forum on district elections
with San Francisco Foundation, ROSES, Center for Democracy
and Voting, and CAVEC
CAA participates in Sunset Neighborhood Unity Walk
to respond to hate crimes flyer
CAA partners with META to organize opposition to appointment
of Marian Bergeson to State Board of Education
CAA participates in community meetings regarding San
Francisco student assignment plan
CAA leads coordination of 1999 Visitacion Valley Neighborhood
Day, which celebrates diversity
September
CAA publishes Chinese and English brochures on the
importance of Census 2000 and San Francisco District Elections
CAA Executive Director speaks at California Asian Employees
Association Conference
October
CAA works with Supervisor Mabel Teng and Mayor Willie
Brown to introduce Equal Access to Services Act
CAA Executive Director addresses Jewish Community Center
on hate crimes
CAA negotiates agreement with UCSF to use community
organizations to help place workers to build its new Mission Bay campus
to ensure economic opportunities for low-income San Franciscans
November
State audit, requested by CAA, issues report that most
state agencies are not providing services to limited English individuals
as required by the Dymally-Alatorre law
CAA monitors San Francisco election and discovers that
city failed to translate key materials, including absentee ballots, into
Chinese as required by the Voting Rights Act
CAA and Intergroup Clearinghouse honored by Organization
of Chinese Americans for work in Visitacion Valley
CAA facilitates Californians Together, statewide coalition
of educators and activists advocating for quality education for all English
Language Learners
Asian Art Museum designates CAA as the lead community
agency responsible for recruiting workers to renovate its new location
December
CAA hosts Thank You Dinner for Major Donors at The
House, in North Beach
CAA Policy Advocate develops parent survey to gather
data for Asian Pacific Islander Education Summit
CAA Executive Director and Board members attend and
speak at conference in Havana, Cuba hosted by the International Society
for the Study of Chinese Overseas. |