2024 Building CAPACD Convention

The Building CAPACD Convention is an inimitable gathering of community development practitioners from across the country who serve Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities with low incomes. The biannual convening brings together hundreds of AA and NHPI leaders and their allies to learn, network, and catalyze change locally and nationally. 

This year, National CAPACD will host our Building CAPACD Convention in Chicago, IL, to amplify the stories of AA and NHPI communities in the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area is home to one of the country’s fastest-growing AA and NHPI populations. Despite this, AA and NHPI communities in the Midwest have historically received little representation, their stories untold in mainstream narratives. Our theme, Our Places, Our Stories, will provide the space to explore the different modalities of storytelling, anchored in cultural tradition and practice, that AA and NHPI communities engage in to preserve their histories, highlight the issues that impact them, and create roots that foster places of belonging for generations to come.