Pacific Rim Coalition of Color is the newly created c(4) that works in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition of Yakima in South Central WA. We serve our Native Indian, AANHPI and BIPOC community in Yakima, Wapato, and Yakima County where we now see some of the highest level of pollution, lack of transportation safety, minimal public transportation, where local leaders do not support all of the community. We educate and partner to build community organizational power across health, environmental, and social assistance networks to increase the opportunity for youth leadership and growth. Education empowers community health and growth.

The Pacific Rim Coalition of color works to find a more permanent location in Wapato WA where we can work with our youth and local schools to create a Wapato Youth Leadership council location, and increase the opportunity for other students that are not Black or Native as these are the only funded groups that exist. Increase education for high school to college education needs, and create events and programs to introduce our local youth of what opportunities they are not aware of. Programs like these do not exist in poor communities due to lack of meeting location.

Building community voice through creating larger and more organized networks with inclusive spaces to assist organizational growth. APIC Yakima and its coalition have assisted in creating many community committees that work across spaces from immigration and raid response, to informational gathering events discussing healthcare policy change, including several environmental justice committees to address pollution, road and sidewalk safety, and environmental damage created by exporting industries that are depleting local resources and damaging water supplies. Work in rural communities has increased in cost and difficulty and industries are pushing back against community. Organizing community creates strength for working with government effectively.