Established in 1940, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) unites and advocates in the name of nearly 30 fraternal educational, religious, cultural, veterans and humanitarian organizations in the Ukrainian American community. UCCA maintains local, all-volunteer chapters across the United States, with a national office in New York City, as well as a Washington, D.C. bureau, the Ukrainian National Information Service. UCCA is also a founding member of the Ukrainian World Congress (ukrainianworldcongress.org), the international assembly of Ukrainian public organizations representing over 20 million people, as well as a founding member of the Central and East European Coalition in the United States (ceecoalition.us), which coordinates the efforts of national ethnic organizations representing nearly 20 million Americans.