About the Non-profit

The Chinese Newcomers Service Center (CNSC) provides multilingual services that help Chinese immigrants adapt to life in the United States. CNSC serves as a bridge between the two cultures, enhancing the physical, mental, social and economic well-being of immigrants, thus facilitating their efforts to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.

Most notable milestones / achievements

2004 Chinese Newcomers Service Center celebrates the 35th Anniversary.
2003 Chinese Newcomers Service Center selected by the Telecommunication Consumer Protection Foundation to conduct the Telecommunication Consumer Protect Program.
2002 CNSC designated by the Mayor's Office as a Neighborhood Center.
2001 After 5 years of service, executive director Teresa Wu retired and replaced by Julia Ling, an Attorney from Hong Kong.

What's the niche?

CNSC provides information and referral services to help newcomers adapt to their new home, citizenship services, job preparation workshops, form filling, translation services, and free income tax preparation. We also offer educational classes on such topics as computers, ESL, and citizenship. Through our collaboration with other agencies, we are able to provide workshops and information and referral for Chinese speaking, disabled, seniors and adults and to assist victims of crime.

Who would you like to be contacted by?

"When you provide your time it helps many immigrant Newcomers feel more comfortable in the tasks that would otherwise be difficult for them."

At the Chinese Newcomers Service Center we need your help in providing services to the many Newcomers that arrive everyday. We have a need for people to work during the week on anything from helping people make phone calls in English, to filling out forms, to light clerical work. When you provide your time it helps many immigrant Newcomers feel more comfortable in the tasks that would otherwise be difficult for them.

Would you like to have fun while making new friends and helping the Chinese community?

We are looking for people who are bilingual in English and Chinese and who would be interested in helping people make phone calls in English, filling out forms, doing light clerical work, assisting in our computer lab, teaching computer courses or translating text from English to Chinese on our web site. If you are interested, please give us a call at (415) 421-2111 or complete the Volunteer Registration Form and email to us at cnsc@chinesenewcomers.org.

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