Raising funds for immigrant empowerment!
South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS) was founded in 2000 in response to the critical issues and tremendous barriers to social services faced by New York City’s fastest-growing South Asian Community. As a nonprofit community-based organization, our founding and continuing mission is to empower and integrate underserved South Asians and other immigrants into the economic and civic life of New York.
Since we opened over 24 years ago, we have served more than one million immigrants, including immigrant seniors, with healthcare access, counseling, food security, ESL classes, and civic knowledge and engagement. In 2023, SACSS served 250,000+ community members! We have helped 2,950 individuals enroll in health insurance, 1,845 individuals sign up for public benefits, conducted 895 mental health screenings, and provided 16,500 senior services through our Senior Center. Our culturally palatable Food Pantry has distributed 4,000,000lbs of groceries and home-delivered 6,240 grocery bags to chronically ill or disabled and homebound individuals.
Every day, we meet community members striving to feed their families, pay their bills, stay healthy, and prosper in a daunting economic climate with severe and ongoing job losses.
All SACSS’s programs are free and available in 20 languages including Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, French, Haitian Creole and Tagalog.
Thank you for supporting SACSS and our work to empower underserved immigrants!