CAPE (Community for Advocacy & Political Education)

CAPE, or the Community for Advocacy & Political Education, is an independent, non-partisan, and volunteer-run community bringing together young Singaporeans and students. We were formerly a student organisation based in Yale-NUS College, was founded in 2017 by students from Yale-NUS College and the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore (NUS). As of August 2023, CAPE is now independent of Yale-NUS ahead of the College’s closure in 2025. We examine local and global affairs relating to civil society, and provides avenues for Singaporeans to contribute constructively to our civic life. We envision a Singapore where citizens are politically conscious and are proactively engaged in civil society, policy making and social change. Towards this aim, we are focused on building capacity for political literacy and making civil participation more accessible.