Chinese Progressive Association

What it reported doing in 2024

The membership of the association includes workers, professionals, elderly and youth, immigrant and american born. Cpa operates various initiatives and conducts social and cultural activities in furtherance of its mission, including the following ongoing programs: chinatown stabilization campaign: the chinatown stabilization campaign is a grassroots neighborhood organizing project focused on safe affordable housing for working class families and community development. The goal of the campaign is to stabilize and grow the chinatown community as both an urban working-class neighborhood and a vital community center. The primary strategy is to combine tenant organizing to help people stay in their homes, support for community-driven planning and development, and to work for policies that stabilize working class neighborhoods and communities of color.chinese youth initiative: the goal of the chinese youth initiative ("cyi") is to develop the organizing skills, leadership capacity, and community awareness of chinese american youth so that they can contribute to improving the community's condition. Cpa involves youth in a seven-week summer internship and academic-year internships for high school aged youth; year-round workshops, discussions, and activities to promote youth awareness; and hands-on community service and organizing projects where youth can make a difference.community service and adult education program: cpa assists individuals and groups with information, referrals, and know-your-rights education in a wide range of areas. Cpa provides u.s. Citizenship instruction and tutoring with an emphasis on the concept and practice of civic participation. Cpa also prepares adult students for the naturalization examination, provides help with chinese document applications and limited translation assistance. In addition to its ongoing activities and programs, cpa holds many programs for the benefit of its members and other individuals in the community as well, including educational workshops, discussions, recreational trips, cultural celebrations, and social events.civic empowerment project: the goal of the civic empowerment project is to develop the civic participation and political clout of ordinary chinese american community members, through a combination of non-partisan grassroots issue-based organizing, voter registration, year-round civic education, and development of community policy agendas.green justice program: cpa organizes and advocates for environmental justice issues that impact the lives and health of our members including issues such as public transit, climate resilience and air pollution. Cpa is a steering committee member of the green justice coalition and is participating in a campaign for affordable and reliable public transit and leading a project to explore the creation of a chinatown microgrid. Cpa is a long-time participant in the community assessment of freeway exposure and health to study the impacts of highway pollution and residents' health and find ways to mitigate detrimental impacts.immigrant worker center collaborative: the immigrant worker center collaborative's ("iwcc") mission is to be a movement building institution that unites and strengthens worker centers to develop the leadership of immigrant workers. The goal of the immigrant worker center collaborative is to create a mass movement of immigrant workers organizing to reshape their work life and society.cpa plays an anchor role for the iwcc to be a collective learning and resource network for immigrant worker centers, a force for building cross-ethnic solidarity and a mass-based immigrant worker rights movement, and a strategy space to develop collective campaigns for greater impact. In addition to cpa, iwcc partners include the brazilian workers center, brazilian women's group, centro comunitario de trabajadores, the chelsea collaborative, fuerza laboral, masscosh, metrowest workers center/casa de trabalhadores, and lynn worker center for econo

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 42.4%; rating input score 42
• Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
• Fundraising efficiency: $37.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 44.7%; rating input score 45; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 39.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.13; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings