C-CAP TEACH is happy to announce our community based organization (CBO) partners and their projects for the Winter 2025 cohort! The community partners joining us for another year are LibroMobile, VietRISE, and the Second Baptist Church. Learn more about the CBO partners and the amazing projects they have lined up for our student workers below!
LibroMobile Arts Cooperative is a local hybrid non-profit organization that is a literary arts cultural center run by author Sarah Rafael Garcia in Santa Ana. Their purpose is to empower artists of color and culturally enrich residents in Orange County, California. Through social engagement, diverse arts, equitable practices, and direct action, LibroMobile aspires to counter the impact of gentrification on the local community by providing culturally relevant arts education and reinvesting profits in the residents, arts industry, and business economy. Students will establish a “How to Digital Archives” handbook with step-by-step instructions and web resources to use scanners to develop digital archives of familial albums and documents. This content will provide content for a zine or web tutorial to be created by LibroMobile. LibroMobile will also help students take inventory of the organization’s books and equipment and how they can be used.
VietRISE is a community organization dedicated to social justice and building power with working-class Vietnamese communities in Orange County, California. Based in the heart of Orange County’s Little Saigon, home of the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam, VietRISE’s focus is on immigrant rights, housing justices, civic engagement, youth organizing, and preservation of local arts and cultural artifacts. They build leadership and create systemic change through organizing, narrative change, cultural empowerment, and civic engagement. Students will compile newspaper clippings and organizational documents of each campaign and conduct short interviews with residents and organizers involved to gather personal testimonies. Interns will transcribe the oral interviews.
Second Baptist Church is the oldest local historically Black church in Orange County dedicated to serving the entire community and beyond, with focus to Black residents. They are inviting students to support the archiving of their historical records. Students can expect to conduct basic physical rehousing and inventory of historical records and ephemera from the SBC Archives. These records include anniversary documents and brochures; historical photographs; meeting minutes and notes; historical bibles; posters; event programs; and awards.
With such fascinating and impactful projects on the horizon, C-CAP TEACH is excited to see what our students end up learning by the end of Winter 2025! We have already selected the students who will be hired for this cohort, so stay tuned to learn more about them once they are all onboarded.
Written by Rivka Arbetter, C-CAP TEACH Project Coordinator