Chinese Mutual Aid Association
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Non-Profit Community Organization / Service Club
About Us
Our Mission: Proudly founded by ethnic Chinese refugees in 1981, Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) is led by many prominent individuals from the Asian American community. Our purpose is to serve the needs, promote the interests, and enhance the well-being of low-income, diverse immigrant and refugee communities across metropolitan Chicago through social services, advocacy, educational programming and assistance for youth, adults, the elderly and small businesses.
About Us
Chinese Mutual Aid Association is a long-standing social impact organization that has grown to represent clients and participants from over 70 countries. Immigrants and refugees from Vietnam, Myanmar, Venezuela, Ethiopia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina have received services from diverse CMAA staff who speak over twenty languages. We exemplify these values through our multiethnic, Asian American Board including a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines as Executive Director.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) is a community-based organization targeting the low-income immigrant and refugee communities of Chicago. Through Adult Education, Workforce Development, Youth Development, Social Services, and Illinois’ Small Business Development Center, CMAA has assisted generations of immigrants to grow roots as they integrate themselves into Chicago, Elgin and communities in Cook, Kane, Lake and DuPage counties.
