MinKwon Center for Community Action, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Advocacy & Organizing
The MinKwon Center believes fostering community action at the heart of what we do. MinKwon’s Advocacy & Community Organizing’s two-fold approach represents our community’s needs on the federal, state and local levels of government and provides our community the platform to engage in grassroots organizing and activism.
Civic Participation
Despite comprising of 15% of New York City's population, only 6.9% of the Asian-American community votes. In 2015, MinKwon will lead the APA VOICE (Voting and Organizing for Increased Civic Engagement) – a twelve-member collaborative dedicated to demonstrating both the power and needs of the Asian-American immigrant population through voter turnout and education. Since 2004, MinKwon has registered over 60,000 people to vote and continues to empower Korean-American, Asian-American, and immigrant voters through a non-partisan, comprehensive set of efforts—voter registration, education, mobilization, protection, assistance, and research.
Social & Legal Services
The MinKwon Center's Social Services program offers a comprehensive range of free social and legal services to more than 8,000 low-income community members. Providing all of our services in Korean and Chinese, the MinKwon Center assists mainly limited English proficient immigrants who often face difficultly gaining to potential available resources.
Youth
At the MinKwon Center, we see the potential in youth as leaders of today and tomorrow. YEP provides Asian-American high school youth the opportunity to learn new skills outside of an academic setting through education, service, and interpersonal development/team-building.
Where we work
Awards
The Beautiful Foundation Award 2010
The Beautiful Foundation
Community Justice Award 2010
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
Union Square Awards 2011
Union Square Awards
External reviews
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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MinKwon Center for Community Action, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 03/18/2020
Yu Soung Mun
MinKwon Center for Community Action
Jennifer Heejin Kim, Esq.
City Bar Justice Center
Yu Soung Mun
Activist, Former Executive Director of MinKwon Center. Former National Organizing Director of Young Koreans United of USA.
Mee Eun Chang
Congregation of Beth Elomim Senior Center
Byung Ho Kang
Founding member of YKASEC
Hee Sook Kim, CPA
Ernst & Young LLP
Sungok Lee
Community Organizing, Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church
Yong Chun Rim
Design Construction
Yangsun Park
Former member of Young Koreans United (Philadelphia and New York chapters)
Chul Pak, Esq.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Kapsong Kim
Korea Daily
Marianne Yang
Immigrant Justice Project at Center for Appellate Litigation
Kevin Kang
Popular Education Project