Organization
Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (San Francisco)
For the organization in Tacoma, Washington, see Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI).
Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI) is a nonprofit in San Francisco, founded in 1997, that serves the Cambodian community of the Bay Area.[1][2] It has helped Cambodian Americans with language interpretation, cultural and language education, and legal and medical assistance.[1] Its current programs include mental health outreach and a parents' hotline in Cambodian.[3][4]
History
CCDI was founded in 1997 and has been exempt from federal tax since July 2001.[1][2] In 2008 it introduced dance lessons to the community. From 2009 to 2011, with grants from the Living Cultures Grants Program of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, it ran "Please Don't Stop the Music," a series of traditional music classes for Cambodian youth and middle school teens. The teacher was Nhep Prok, then a 91-year-old local master artist and the main teacher of almost every Cambodian musician in Oakland.[1] In 2010, with support from the alliance's Traditional Arts Development Program, CCDI worked with the web designer Chris Hamamoto to redesign its website.[1]
The Oakland organization CHAA names CCDI as an organization founded by former Cambodian refugees to support the Cambodian community in Oakland, with Sambo Ly as its president. CCDI helped gather photographs and stories for a Cambodian community history exhibit that was on display at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland in December 2011.[5] CCDI also co-led the two-year Cambodian Women's Health Project with CHAA, the Prevention Research Center and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants. Funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health, the project brought together nine Cambodian women of several generations, who used their own experiences to promote healthy habits in their community.[6]
In 2024 CCDI received a mini-grant from San Francisco's Capacity Building Action Team, which it used for technology upgrades, staff and leadership training and strategic planning. Its staff and leaders come from the communities it serves.[7]
Programs
CCDI is one of six community organizations in the Asian and Pacific Islander Mental Health Collaborative in San Francisco, a coalition led with RAMS. It takes part in the Southeast Asian Mental Health Initiative, one of the collaborative's community initiatives.[4][8] The collaborative grew out of a 2012 needs assessment in San Francisco that found Cambodians and other Asian and Pacific Islander communities especially affected by mental health problems.[4] CCDI's outreach urges people facing stress, anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress, and their families and friends, to seek help. Its staff offer help in Cambodian, Lao and Mongolian, and the outreach is funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health.[3]
CCDI hosts the Cambodian-language line of the API Parental Stress Line, a free hotline run by APA Family Support Services, and it is a partner in the Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network.[9] It is also a member of the API Health Parity Coalition.[10]
Finances
In the fiscal year ending December 2025, CCDI reported revenue of $117,829, all from contributions, expenses of $114,250 and net assets of $23,053. Revenue was $102,684 in 2024 and $68,920 in 2021.[2]
Leadership (2025)
Officers and staff listed in the federal filing for the fiscal year ending December 2025.[2]
- Chansothearun Lopez, executive director
- Leang Armstrong, president
- Vynita Kylin, vice president
- Vannay Om, vice president
- Milliam Mour Lay, secretary
- Sitha Yim, staff
See also
- Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI), a separate organization in Tacoma, Washington
- All organizations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Alliance for California Traditional Arts, CCDI profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Cambodian Community Development Incorporated
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 RAMS, CCDI flyer (2024)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 RAMS, Asian and Pacific Islander Mental Health Collaborative
- ↑ CHAA, Rhythm of the Refugee: A Cambodian Journey of Healing museum exhibit (December 2011)
- ↑ CHAA, Community engagement
- ↑ SF.gov, Capacity Building Action Team (CBAT)
- ↑ SF Service Guide, Asian and Pacific Islander Mental Health Collaborative
- ↑ APA Family Support Services, Home Visitation Program
- ↑ API Council, API Health Parity Coalition