AACA
Annual Appeal
2024

In 2024, AACA served over 6,000 people by providing education, training, employment assistance, mental health counseling, and a strong case management system. As we look back on this year, we’re incredibly proud of the strides we’ve made at AACA  to support and uplift our community—and we couldn’t have done it without your support. With your help, we can continue expanding these essential services and creating meaningful, lasting change.

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This year, we achieved several milestones:

 

• Cisco Networking Academy Partnership – Through our new partnership, we’re offering tech skills training, opening up new career paths for our clients.

• Haitian Clinic – In response to the recent influx of new immigrants from Haiti coming to Massachusetts,  AACA formed a new department, serving the newly arrived Haitian families with a full continuum of support.

• Community Engagement- Our Sampan community news outlet provides advocacy and representation, highlighting the obstacles and achievements of immigrant communities and keeping people aware of politics that impact their lives and livelihood directly.

• Increased Commitment to the Homeless – We have expanded our partnerships threefold. We’re reaching the most vulnerable populations with critical emergency services. We are working with shelters to help their populations to provide job readiness  workshops, multilingual services, and pathways to employment and stability.  

• New Grant Funding for Diverse Business Owners – Our new program EDGE, Empowering Diverse Growth in Entrepreneurship helps aspiring business owners build their dreams. Angel, from Guatemala, launched a general contracting business with his son, creating new jobs and opportunity throughout Massachusetts. 

• Voyagers Young Adult Center – A refuge for young people who need help navigating their lives and careers,  Voyagers was created to support their journeys through providing  a plethora of specialized services for young adults.  Annie Lee, a founding member of the Voyagers, recently received the ABCD 2024 Community Heroes Award for being a founding member of the Voyagers centered to help other young people grow personally and professionally, saying, “It’s empowering to help others. I am grateful to AACA; they changed my life for the better.”

 

Your support makes these stories possible. Please help us continue this work by making a gift to AACA, so together we can keep transforming lives, one person at a time.