The Chinese version is available as a PDF.

We thank God for allowing ACCESS to serve our community for the last 19 years. The 2011 Annual Dinner was successfully held on 5/14/2011 at the Empire Garden in Boston Chinatown. Close to 160 people came at 5:00 pm to browse around the program displays, auction and raffle items; and attended the dinner at 6:00 pm.

Rev. Jacob Fung, Pastor Emeritus of Boston Chinese Evangelical Church, prayed for our community. James Lam, President of our Board of Directors, announced the agency’s renewed focus on the family, and the recruitment of three full-time directors: The Adult Basic Education Director, the Director of Children and Families, and the Executive Director. He also honored Dorcas Sung, our volunteer accountant for the last 12 years, the Paul Fellowship of BCEC (Boston Chinese Evangelical Church), which has voluntarily taken on the renovation of our computer lab upon ACCESS’s being awarded a grant for this purpose. He also honored two former volunteers who could not be at the banquet: Cliff Chuang, who had served on our board 2005 to 2010, five of which being our President, and Anita Chow, who volunteered for 7 years as office assistant and served 2009 to 2010 on our Board. David and Joyce Wong, owners of Empire Garden, were also thanked for their generous contribution to ACCESS.

The dinner raised a total of $17,266. Funds will be used for general support of ACCESS except for those specifically designated. We thank all the donors and participants for making this event a success.

Adult Basic Education Director
The Adult Basic Education (ABE) director is a full-time position, providing leadership for program development, daily operations, supervision of several part-time staff members, and fundraising for all ABE programming, ensuring a high quality education for students and a positive work environment for staff and volunteers. This is a newly created position and ACCESS seeks a mature leader who fully supports our mission and core values, with ABE experience and an entrepreneurial spirit to help expand the agency’s established adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program and further develop the nascent adult Computer Literacy (CL) program. Salary and benefits commensurate with education and experience. A detailed job description is available upon an e-mail request to search@chinatownaccess.org

Director of Children and Families
The Director of Children and Families (C & F) is a full-time position providing leadership for program development, daily operations, supervision of several part-time staff members, fundraising for all C & F programming, ensuring a high quality education for students, support for their families, and a positive work environment for staff and volunteers. This is a newly created position and ACCESS seeks a mature leader who fully supports our mission and core values, with children and family life education experience and an entrepreneurial spirit to help expand the agency’s established Enrichment Program (EP) for children K2-5 and further develop its nascent family life ministry. Salary and benefits commensurate with education and experience. A detailed job description is available upon an e-mail request to search@chinatownaccess.org

Executive Director
The Executive Director (ED) is the chief executive officer of ACCESS, Inc. ACCESS seeks a mature leader who fully supports our mission and core values, and able to provide overall leadership for the strategic direction and daily operations, ensuring high quality education and social services for students and their families and a positive work environment for staff and volunteers. Responsibilities include program planning and development, fundraising, program management, communication with supporters and networking with outside organizations, and staff development. The ED supervises the Adult Basic Education Director, the Director of Children & Families, and the office manager. This is a full-time position. Salary and benefits commensurate with education and experience. A detailed job description is available upon an e-mail request to search@chinatownaccess.org

Interested applicants should submit online a letter of application, resume, and contact information for 3 references to search@chinatownaccess.org. Educational transcripts may be sent by regular mail to

ACCESS Search Committee
244 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02111

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis starting June 4 until the position is filled.

Technology Support
We need volunteers to do technology planning, network and website maintenance. Contact Connie Yeh at

Family Life Education
We need volunteers to convert audiocassettes & VHS to CDs and DVDs (to be done at home), help clients fill out forms or translate documents (at ACCESS), provide child care in occasional evening meetings (at ACCESS) Contact

If you can donate any of the following, please contact ACCESS ()

Immediate Needs

• A portable flannel board for telling Bible Stories

Ongoing Needs

• School supplies such as dry erase markers, glue sticks
• Gift Cards to Staples and/or OfficeMax for stationery and office supplies
• Gift Cards to COSTCO, or STOP & SHOP to help purchase healthy snacks and ingredients for cooking classes
• Gift Card to Michaels to help with the purchase of craft supplies
• Gift Card to Target to help purchase enrichment supplies
• Gift Card to CBD to buy Bible and other spiritual resources