Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Chicago

The Association sponsors several programs including community affairs programs, including senior citizens care, and the new year's day chinatown parade (5000 - 8000 participants ). The Association maintained a number of free social services to the public , including library, free health clinic; Chinese and english language training for youth and new immigrants (400 - 500 students); health care workshop. The Association also organizes classes for citizenship application, food sanitation, etc

Oversee the preservation of historical and cultural Chinese cemetery for the Chinese american community, including: (1) provision of interment rights; (2) conducting ancestor-worship ceremonies and community festivals to honor deceased; (3) working with families to advise on Chinese burial traditions, translate and prepare grave monuments and markers, and coordinate and perform Chinese burial customs; and (4) arranging volunteers to provide transportation to families and elders to regularly visit cemetery to honor deceased and conduct religious/ cultural traditions.

Lunch program; the Association prepares and distributes subsidized lunches to 300 - 400 elderly and handicapped citizens six days a week throughout the year.

Other programs and services