CAPI, whose legal name is Centre for Asians and Pacific Islanders, was established in 1982 as a food shelf to serve Southeast Asian food preferences, CAPI’s service orientation has always been multi-cultural, beginning as Pan-Asian, and within the past decade, expanding services to Pan-African immigrants and refugees. Today, CAPI has evolved into a unique, multi-service mutual assistance association that annually assists 3,500 refugees from around the world to become increasingly self-sufficient and contributing members of our community. Of the people served by CAPI, approximately 60% are Southeast Asian and 40% are East African.

CAPI fulfills its mission through three integrated departments—Employment & Training and Social Services & Cultural Education—and a growing number of strategic partnerships. The agency is staffed by 32 diverse employees who collectively speak 10 languages, and offer many valuable services from five different Minneapolis locations. CAPI is governed by a diverse eleven-member board of directors, which has provided capable leadership to a growing $2 million agency budget.

CAPI is a member of National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA), the Minnesota Directors Forum, and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN).

Mission
CAPI's mission is to provide culturally grounded services to communities in transition.

Guiding Values

• Attain program goals and realize the Agency mission.
• Excellent customer relations with clients, funders and the general public.
  
• Proactive public relations, promoting the Agency's mission, accomplishments and potential.
  
• Non-political, Pan-Asian, Pan-African operational philosophy.
  
• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, action-oriented approach to engaging ideas and opportunities.
  
• Workplace environment that is friendly, peaceful, respectful, safe and compassionate.
  
• Industry leader, idea maker, ground breaker and trendsetter.
  
• Reliable source of information and referral and technical assistance for clients, professionals, researchers and the general public.
  
• Teamwork and communication free of gossip or unhealthy interdepartmental competition.
• Cost effective services and stable fiscal operation.
  

Key Organizational Goals

• Continuing to build upon existing partnerships to stretch limited resources and strengthen our capacity to meet the multi-faceted needs of increasingly diverse immigrants and refugees from around the world.
  
• Building the capacity of our Transportation Services in response to expanded training and ELL services to eliminate a key participation barrier, while insuring better attendance and learner outcomes.
  
• Stabalizing and fully integrating Project Regina within CAPI's framework (CAPI and Project Regina merged in December 2004).
  
• Continuing down the path of establishing "satellite sites" to be increasingly accessible to concentrated immigrant and refugee communities.
  
• Making continuous improvements with existing programming, within the context of significant growth in the last year.

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2007 Financial Statements