Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment (PACE)

PACE is a community development organization that creates economic solutions to meet the employment, education, housing, environmental, and business development challenges of low income residents in the Pacific Asian and other disadvantaged communities of Los Angeles. PACE was originally formed in 1975 to serve the employment needs of Los Angeles’ growing AAPI refugee community. With an initial grant from the City of Los Angeles, PACE offered job training and placement services, eventually broadening our job creation programs into the San Gabriel Valley and South Bay area. Overtime, we realized that the most fundamental needs of our communities couldn’t be adequately addressed through job training and employment services alone. We decided to expand our services to better address the issues of poverty and inequality faced by Angelenos across all ethnic and racial groups. In 1980, we broadened our programming to include our early childhood education program, followed by our Energy & Environmental Services and Affordable Housing programs in 1981 and 1984. In the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, we became inspired by the needs of minority small business owners and opened our Business Development Center the same year. At PACE, we are continually innovating to meet the evolving needs of our community while fostering a team that reflects the rich ethnic and cultural diversity of the populations we serve. Today, our staff provides linguistically and culturally competent services in over 40 languages and dialects, while our community development work spans across five core programs: Employment, Education, Business, Energy, and Housing.